London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1961. Small octavo, 208 pp. Red boards. Light yellowing to page edges, else fine. Orange price-clipped jacket has minor rubbing, dust soiling; VG+, bright attractive. A novel of Soviet Russia by one of the leading Soviet writers of the time, translated by Humphrey Higgins from its 1956 appearance in the Moscow magazine "Znamya".