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This is one of five known, and two possible, books in Hodder & Stoughton's Great Russian Fiction
Series. They are listed on the rear cover of the jacket, below. Two of these novels have not been seen with a jacket, so the design by Blampied is assumed. The novel The Abyss was actually issued as The Precipice. The jackets of four of the novels have drawings in black pen and ink by Blampied and were printed on thick orange paper, like the jacket shown below
Maxim Gorky was a Russian writer and political activist. This is a book of short stories, one of which is called Chelkash (1895), the name of the person in the story.
First edition, thus
Bibliography code: HOD-15.7
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Series: Great Russian Fiction
Year: 1915
Format: 8vo
Pages: ix, 244
Binding: Red decorated cloth with large black Imperial Russian eagle impressed in black with small shield of St. George and Dragon within; title above and author below in black. Spine in black from top: Great Russian Fiction, title, author, Imperial crest, publisher
Size: 195 x 134 mm
Dust jacket signed: signed Blampied, lower centre left
Internal illustrations: none
Price: 2 shillings 6 pence
Printing history: other book in series states Printed in 1915
Printed by: not known
Image of dust jacket (click to enlarge)