France, Anatole. Last Pages (Posledniye stranitsy), published by Michel Corday. Ogonek Library, No. 104, 1926. In Russian.

Франс, Анатоль (1844-1924). Последние страницы : опубликованные Мишелем Корде / обработка и перевод Ал. Дейча.
Москва : Издательство "Огонек", 1926. 56 страниц.
Серия: Библиотека "Огонек", № 104. Тираж 50 000 экземпляров.
Издательская мягкая обложка с фотографическим портретом Анатоля Франса в полный рост, уменьшенный формат.
На задней обложке - нечитаемые пометы прежнего владельца красным карандашом.
Состояние удовлетворительное: обложка потерта и загрязнена, надрыв и утрата фрагмента по левому краю передней обложки, корешок ослаблен. Блок хорошее: страницы равномерно пожелтевшие, текст полностью сохранен и читается свободно.
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France, Anatole (1844-1924). Last Pages : published by Michel Corday / adapted and translated from the French by Al. Deich.
Moscow : "Ogonek" Publishing House, 1926. 56 pp.
Series: "Ogonek" Library, No. 104. Print run of 50,000 copies.
Publisher's illustrated paper wrappers with a full-length photographic portrait of Anatole France, small format.
Rear wrapper bearing an illegible former owner's annotation in red pencil.
Binding fair: wrappers worn and soiled, tear and small loss at the left edge of the front wrapper, spine weakened. Text block good: leaves evenly toned, text fully preserved and legible throughout.

A slender but historically telling piece of Soviet publishing from the year after Anatole France's death: a Russian translation of "Dernieres pages inedites d'Anatole France", the volume assembled from the writer's unpublished papers and notebooks by his longtime secretary Michel Corday and issued in Paris by Calmann-Levy in 1925. France (1844-1924), the 1921 Nobel laureate and one of the most widely read French authors in the early Soviet Union, had died only two years before this pamphlet appeared, and the book presents his posthumous drafts, notes, and reflections from his final years, opening with the essay "Under the Rose" on the intimate memoir literature that sprang up around France after his death. The Russian adaptation and translation are the work of Alexander Iosifovich Deich (1893-1972), a leading Soviet literary historian, critic, and translator specializing in French and German literature, whose scholarly career would later encompass major work on Heine and on nineteenth-century European theatre. The book appeared in the "Ogonek" Library, the mass-circulation pamphlet series launched by the magazine "Ogonek" in 1925 to bring recent Russian and foreign literature to a broad Soviet readership at a nominal price; this copy's advertisement leaves list contemporaneous issues devoted to authors including Maxim Gorky, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and Isaac Babel. Early "Ogonek" Library issues devoted to major foreign authors, printed in large runs on cheap paper and rarely preserved with wrappers intact, are seldom found today in complete, legible condition.