Bonch-Bruyevich, V. (Velichkina). The Eternal Prisoner: The Life and Activity of Louis-Auguste Blanqui (Vechnyi Uznik). 1927. In Russian.

Бонч-Бруевич, Вера (Величкина В. М.). Вечный узник : жизнь и деятельность Луи-Огюста Бланки / предисловие Влад. Бонч-Бруевича.
Москва : Кооперативное издательство "Жизнь и Знание", нотопечатня Госиздата, 1927. 110, [2] с., [1] л. ил. (портрет Бланки) ; 23 см.
Серия: Библиотека для юношества, кн. 9-я. Мягкая издательская иллюстрированная обложка. Тираж 10 000 экз.
Обложка - удовлетворительная: сильное общее загрязнение и пожелтение; углы потёрты и замяты. Блок - хороший: возрастное пожелтение, портретный лист в наличии. На внутренней рекламной странице и титульном листе - чернильные разводы.
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Bonch-Bruyevich, Vera (Velichkina V. M.). The Eternal Prisoner: The Life and Activity of Louis-Auguste Blanqui / preface by Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich.
Moscow : Cooperative Publishing House "Zhizn i Znanie" [Life and Knowledge], printed at the Gosizdat Music Press, 1927. 110, [2] pp. ; [1] leaf of plates (portrait of Blanqui) ; 23 cm.
Series: Library for Youth, Book 9. Original illustrated paper wrappers. Print run of 10,000 copies.
Wrappers fair: overall soiling and toning; corners heavily worn and bumped. Text block good: age-toning throughout; portrait plate present; text complete and legible. Ink stains on the inside advertising page and title page.

A popular biography of Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881), the preeminent figure of nineteenth-century French revolutionary socialism, composed by Vera Mikhailovna Velichkina-Bonch-Bruyevich (1868-1918), Bolshevik activist, physician, and member of the Iskra generation, who died of typhus in September 1918. Velichkina served on the Board of the People's Commissariat for Health, was a close collaborator of Lenin, and had been an active underground worker for the RSDLP since the 1890s. Her biography traces Blanqui's life from his Carbonarist youth through the July Monarchy, the revolutions of 1848, the Paris Commune, and his final decade of agitation, framing him as a direct precursor of the Bolshevik revolutionary tradition. The book was published posthumously by the Cooperative Publishing House "Zhizn i Znanie" - a press closely associated with the Bonch-Bruyevich publishing circle of the NEP era - with a preface by her husband, Vladimir Dmitriyevich Bonch-Bruyevich (1873-1955), Lenin's personal secretary and one of the most influential figures of early Soviet cultural policy. The volume's particular visual interest lies in its illustrated paper wrappers: a striking multi-color design in yellow, blue, red, and black, depicting a stylized fortified castle guarded by soldiers with fixed bayonets - a characteristic and representative specimen of early Soviet popular political book design from the transitional period before constructivism became the dominant idiom of Soviet mass publishing. Blanqui's sobriquet "l'Enfermé" (the Eternal Prisoner), reflecting his nearly four decades of imprisonment, made him a natural subject for Soviet political biography.