Living Water

A Novel in Four Parts. Translated from the Russian by Bernard Isaacs. Illustrated by D. Piatkin. 605pp. + [x] plates, incl. author’s portrait. First English edition, published in Moscow, 1954. Hardback in dust jacket. Publisher’s green boards; blue title labels inlaid to front and spine, with gilt lettering and blind-embossed decorations to spine. Green top-stain. Light blue place ribbon. Slight rubbing to cloth, off-setting to endpapers.Jacket chipped with loss to edges; slight chipping to spine with one small patch of loss. *** A socio-realist novel set on a farm in Siberia. Winner of the 1950 Stalin Prize for literature.