Anton Chekhov
Selected Short Stories.
Oxford University Press, 1959. Edited, with an introduction by, G. A. Birkett and Gleb Struve. 235 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 7.5", is bound in dark blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is like new. Price-clipped dust jacket exhibits sunning and spotting to spine, with the latter displaying minor loss at top/bottom. Off-setting appears on front panel. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
Texts are in Russian, with accentuation present in all. This edition has sections offering notes, selected idioms and difficult constructions, and vocabulary.
"This volume is one of a new series of Readers designed to provide an introduction to Russian literature both for fairly elementary and for more advanced students of Russian."