Life and Work of Walt Whitman: A Soviet View [Inscribed to Alvah Bessie, Hollywood Ten]

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); white cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in black, navy blue, and gilt on spine and front cover; [6],7-347,[5]pp; black and white photograph (halftone) frontispiece. Inscribed by Mendelson on half title, "For Alvah Bessie / as a most talented American writer and a faithful friend of the late Lars Lawrence with my deepest respect and best wishes / Cordially, / M. Mendelson / May 25, 1977". Errata slip tipped in. Lacking dustjacket. Lightly nudged spine ends, with faint residue to lower edge of textblock; Near Fine.

Concludes with Russian bibliography of Whitman's works, and name index section. The inscribed copy of Alvah Bessie, one of the Hollywood Ten, whose writing focused on Spain and the Soviet Union. Mendelson's works uncommon signed. [82388].