OSTROVSKY, Nikolai. Николай Островский.

Two volumes, small 8vo., 11x17cm., usual Soviet cloth in grey, lettered gilt and red, illustration in relief to upper boards. 311, 351pp.. Red silk markers, b/w full-page illustrations. In very good condition although a little age-darkened at edges. Clean and tight. No dust-wrappers. Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky [Николай Алексеевич Островский, Микола Олексійович Островський, Mykola Oleksiiovych Ostrovsky]1904 - 1936. Soviet socialist realist writer, whose novel ”How the Steel Was Tempered” is considered one of the most influential works of Communist literature. An invalid fromchildhood, he died at only 32.