Item #18637 The Embezzlers. Valentine Kataev.

The Embezzlers

New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press, 1929. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 300; burgundy cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained blue. spine darkened else a clean tight very good copy. Item #18637

Valentine Petrovich Kataev was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright who managed to create penetrating works discussing post-revolutionary social conditions without running afoul of the demands of official Soviet style. The Embezzlers was his first novel, a humorous work set in Moscow, translated by Leonide Zarine.

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