A Soviet Heretic: Essays

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. Very Good/Very Good. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1970]. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket, yellow topstain; xix,[1],322pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout. Minor edge wear to jacket extremities, slightly later (1986) ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Very Good copy, internally clean and sound.

Collected essays divided into five sections: autobiography, Russian literature, the writer's craft, biographical sketches (Chekhov, Gorky, H.G. Wells, etc.), and two letters, one of resignation from the Soviet Writers' Union (1929) and one to Stalin (1931).