Библиотека «Огонёк»; № 12
Избранные стихи.
Автор: Александр Трифонович Твардовский.
Москва: Правда, 1940 (типография издательства «Правда»).
48 с. Формат: 15 × 11 см. Мягкая обложка.
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Ogonyok Library; No. 12
Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky.
Selected Poems.
Moscow: Pravda, 1940 (Pravda Publishing House Printing Press).
48 pp. Format: 15 × 11 cm. Softcover.
This is a 1940 pre-war edition of selected poems by the renowned Soviet poet Alexander Tvardovsky, published as part of the popular mass-market "Ogonyok Library" series. This small, softcover booklet represents an early collection of his work, characteristic of the Soviet effort to make literature widely accessible, and is a notable item for collectors of 20th-century Russian poetry and Ogonyok publications.