Potapov, L. Essays on the History of Shoria (Ocherki po istorii Shorii). First edition, 1936. In Russian.

Потапов, Л. П. Очерки по истории Шории / редактор издания П. И. Воробьёв. Первое издание.
Академия наук СССР. Труды Института востоковедения. XV.
Москва ; Ленинград : Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1936. 260 с., ил., 1 л. карт. ; немного увеличенный формат.
Твёрдый владельческий переплёт, наклеена оригинальная издательская обложка. Тираж 2 200 экз.
Библиотечные пометы: овальные штампы (титул, оглавление, оборот колофона, карта), шифр чернилами на титуле, инвентарные номера, остатки ярлыка.
Переплёт хороший: потёртости корешка и углов, пятна на наклеенной обложке, надрыв и небольшие утраты по нижнему краю. Блок очень хороший: крепкий, текст полный.
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Potapov, L. P. Essays on the History of Shoria / edited by P. I. Vorobyov. First edition.
Series: Transactions of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, vol. XV.
Moscow ; Leningrad : Academy of Sciences of the USSR Press, 1936. 260 pp., illustrated, 1 folding map ; slightly enlarged format.
Owner's hardcover binding with the original printed publisher's wrapper pasted onto the front board. Print run of 2,200 copies.
Library marks: oval institutional stamps (title page, contents page, verso of colophon, folding map), ink shelfmark on the title page, inventory numbers, remains of a label.
Binding good: rubbed spine and corners, stains on the pasted wrapper, tear and small losses along the lower edge. Text block very good: firm and complete.

Leonid Pavlovich Potapov (1905-2000) became the foremost Soviet ethnographer of the peoples of the Altai and Sayan highlands, and this is his first large monograph, the foundation of the historical ethnography of the Shors, a small Turkic-speaking people of the Kuznetsk Alatau and the Mrassa and Kondoma valleys. The work grew out of his fieldwork in Gornaya Shoria in 1927 and 1934. In the foreword, dated 1935, he explains that it fills a gap in both general historical and ethnographic literature, and it appeared on the tenth anniversary of Gornaya Shoria as a separate national district of the West Siberian Territory. Its three essays treat the traditional economy, including hunting, hoe cultivation with the abyl digging tool, fishing, cedar-nut gathering and bee-keeping, then survivals of matrilineal kinship and the formation and breakup of the patrilineal clan, and finally tsarist colonization, yasak tribute, merchant-usurious exploitation, missionary activity and the social order before the reform of 1912. The twenty-seven illustrations show hunters, tools, dwellings and settlements, and a folding map plots the resettlement allotments of the Kondoma basin. The text is framed in the Marxist vocabulary of its day, which is part of its interest as a document of Soviet nationalities scholarship. The print run was 2,200 copies. It is sought by collectors of Siberian and Turkic ethnography, Altai studies and Soviet academic publishing. This copy retains its original printed wrapper, pasted on a later owner's binding, and carries institutional stamps.