Efim Etkind Stikhi i lyudi: rasskazy o stikhotvoreniyakh. Tenafly, New Jersey: Hermitage, 1988. First edition. 0938920960 158 pages. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.5", is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. A collection of seven studies by the renowned Russian philologist and translation theorist, each based on a poem by a nineteenth-century Russian author, including such canonical writers as Pushkin, Griboyedov and Nekrasov.