Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.

Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.

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  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
  • Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.
Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.

Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.

$70.00

Розов, Б. К незримому солнцу: Повесть.
Ленинград: Советский писатель, 1939.
86 с.; обычный формат.
Ответственный редактор Г. Сорокин. Технический редактор А. Кирнарская. Корректор Р. Бекетова. Художник А. Ушин.
Тираж 10 000 экз.
Набрано в типографии "Печатный Двор" им. А. М. Горького, отпечатано в типографии "Ленинградская Правда".
В издательском коленкоровом переплёте чёрного цвета с орнаментальной блинтовой рамкой, тиснёным именем автора и красным названием на верхней крышке. 
Состояние: хорошее. Переплёт сохраняет крепость, но сильно потёрт по краям и углам с обнажением картона; корешок и углы потрёпаны. Блок чистый, страницы со слабой возрастной желтизной, текст ясный.
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Rozov, B. K Nezrimomu Solntsu [Toward the Unseen Sun]: A Novella.
Leningrad: Sovetsky Pisatel' (Soviet Writer), 1939.
86 pp.; standard format.
Editor G. Sorokin. Technical editor A. Kirnarskaia. Proofreader R. Beketova. Cover artist A. Ushin.
Print run: 10,000 copies.
Typeset at the "Pechatny Dvor" Printing House named after A. M. Gorky; printed at the "Leningradskaia Pravda" press, Leningrad.
In publisher's black cloth binding with blind-stamped ornamental border, blind-stamped author's name and red-stamped title on the upper cover. 
Condition: good. Binding remains firm but heavily rubbed at edges and corners, with cloth fraying and underlying boards exposed at the spine ends and corners. Text block clean, pages lightly age-toned, text crisp throughout.

A scarce pre-war Leningrad novella based on the biography of the Russian/Soviet artist Vasily Nechaev (Vasilii Nechaev), who continued to paint after losing his sight — a fact reinforced by the Beethoven epigraph from the "Heiligenstadt Testament", the composer's anguished 1802 confession of his encroaching deafness. The two-part structure ("Painting in Darkness" / "Artist of Life") moves the protagonist from late-Imperial Petersburg — the opening scene places the artist Protanov on Nevsky Prospect at the Kazan Cathedral amid a student demonstration, with student caps and "kursistka" hats and a watchful pristav's assistant in white gloves — through the catastrophe of blindness and into the affirmative Soviet ethos of overcoming disability through creative labour, a theme heavily promoted in late-1930s Soviet literature. Issued by Sovetsky Pisatel' on the very eve of the Second World War (set 1 April 1939, signed for printing 20 June 1939), the volume is the work of a small group of Leningrad professionals: cover artist A. Ushin (Aleksei Ushin, of the celebrated dynasty of Leningrad book designers), editor G. Sorokin, and technical editor A. Kirnarskaia. With a modest print run of 10,000 — most of which would be lost during the Siege of Leningrad two years later — surviving copies of this Leningrad imprint are uncommon, particularly in their original publisher's cloth.

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