Red Cavalry

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Translated by Nadia Helstein. Very Good, lacking the jacket. Orange buckram toned and lightly rubbed, with a black ink panel on the spine and design and lettering on the front board. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, toned page, former owner's name and contemporary date on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. A scarce first edition of Babel's stories about the Polish campaign of Budyenny's army of wild Cossacks.