Ivanov, Ivan. Friendship Campfire: Poems for Children (Kostyor druzhby: stikhi). Design by S. Alyukhin. Chelyabinsk, 1953. In Russian.

Иванов, Иван Петрович. Костёр дружбы : стихи : для детей. Художественное оформление С. С. Алюхина.
Челябинск : Челябинское книжное издательство, 1953. 32 страницы : иллюстрации.
Издательская бумажная обложка, на скрепках, 22 см. Тираж 30 000 экземпляров.
Обложка - хорошее: заломы и потёртости, сколы и утраты бумаги по корешковому краю, надрывы по переднему краю, светлые пятна на внутренней стороне. Блок - хорошее: мелкие надрывы по переднему краю.
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Ivanov, Ivan Petrovich. Friendship Campfire: Poems for Children. Design by S. S. Alyukhin. Edited by R. M. Usherenko.
Chelyabinsk: Chelyabinskoe knizhnoe izdatelstvo, 1953 (printed at the 10th printing house of the Rospoligrafprom trust, Chelyabinsk). 32 pp.: illustrations.
Publisher's paper wrappers, stapled, 22 cm. Print run 30,000 copies.
Wrappers: Good: creases and rubbing, chips and small losses of paper along the spine edge, tears at the fore-edge, light spots on the inside. Text block: Good: small tears at the fore-edge.

Ivan Petrovich Ivanov was a regional author whose three known books were all issued in Chelyabinsk, Alenushka (1948), Severyanka (1951) and this collection of fourteen poems for children (1953). The title poem, which opens the book, is addressed to Soviet schoolchildren who correspond with Czech pupils in the town of Lovosice on the Elbe, and so belongs to the early 1950s campaign of friendship between Soviet and Czechoslovak youth. The remaining poems follow the usual themes of the Young Pioneer verse of the time: school compositions and a bad mark, skiing and skating, a spring thaw, the river Yuryuzan, and encounters with a hedgehog, a bear, a watering place for deer and young golden eagles that close the book. The design is credited to S. S. Alyukhin. The wrappers are printed in orange, brown and cream with a campfire circle of pioneers, the title page prints the title in red, and the pages are decorated with black line drawings. A note on the verso of the title page invites young readers to send their opinions to the publisher's address in Chelyabinsk, a typical feature of Soviet children's publishing. The book was signed to print on 31 August 1953 in an edition of 30,000 copies, edited by R. M. Usherenko. Provincial paper-wrapper children's books of this kind were read hard and are seldom found complete and clean.