Cooper, James Fenimore. The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path (Zveroboi, ili pervaia tropa voiny). Biblioteka prikliuchenii, 1949. In Russian.

Купер, Джеймс Фенимор. Зверобой, или Первая тропа войны / Д. Фенимор Купер ; перевод с английского Т. Грица ; рисунки Б. Брока.
Москва ; Ленинград : Государственное издательство детской литературы Министерства просвещения РСФСР (Детгиз), 1949. 640 с. : ил. ; 18 см.
Серии: Библиотека приключений ; Школьная библиотека. Издательский переплёт. Для семилетней школы.
Переплёт в хорошем состоянии: ткань незначительно загрязнена, лёгкий износ по головке корешка и верхнему левому углу; художественное оформление серии сохранилось. Блок в хорошем состоянии: следы влаги на углах нескольких листов; бумага равномерно пожелтела; текст полный и читаемый.
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Cooper, James Fenimore. Zveroboi, ili pervaia tropa voiny [The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path] / translated from the English by T. Gritsa ; illustrations by B. Brok.
Moscow ; Leningrad : State Publishing House of Children's Literature (Detgiz), Ministry of Education RSFSR, 1949. 640 pp. : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Series: Biblioteka prikliuchenii (Adventure Library); School Library. Publisher's decorated binding. For the seven-year school.
Binding good: cloth lightly soiled; minor wear at spine head and upper left corner; series decorative design intact and clear. Text block good: moisture staining at corners of some leaves; text uniformly toned but complete and legible.

One of the most beloved volumes in the "Biblioteka prikliuchenii" (Adventure Library) series - the iconic Soviet children's adventure series published by Detgiz in Moscow and Leningrad during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The series is recognized by its characteristic small format, ornamental frame cover design with elaborate gold botanical borders, and central illustrative vignette - a graphic identity that has made these volumes among the most sought-after Soviet children's book designs for collectors. The present volume presents "The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path" (1841) by James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851): the first novel in the Leatherstocking Tales sequence by narrative chronology and the last written, introducing the young Natty Bumppo as yet untested in combat and his Mohican companion Chingachgook. Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales have been continuously popular in Russia since the nineteenth century, and Natty Bumppo - Deerslayer, Pathfinder, Hawkeye, the Trapper - became a central fixture of the Soviet childhood reading experience. The translation by Teodor Gritsa and the illustrations by B. Brok were the standard Soviet presentation of the novel for the postwar school library readership. The Biblioteka prikliuchenii volumes, though published in very large print runs for a mass school audience, have long been collected as design objects by adults, and are regularly found only in heavily read condition; the decorative cover of this volume, which shows the ornamental frame design intact, is its primary collector interest.