{"product_id":"rozov-b-toward-the-unseen-sun-k-nezrimomu-solntsu-1939-in-russian","title":"Rozov, B. Toward the Unseen Sun (K Nezrimomu Solntsu), 1939. In Russian.","description":"\u003cp\u003eРозов, Б. К незримому солнцу: Повесть.\u003cbr\u003eЛенинград: Советский писатель, 1939.\u003cbr\u003e86 с.; обычный формат.\u003cbr\u003eОтветственный редактор Г. Сорокин. Технический редактор А. Кирнарская. Корректор Р. Бекетова. Художник А. Ушин.\u003cbr\u003eТираж 10 000 экз.\u003cbr\u003eНабрано в типографии \"Печатный Двор\" им. А. М. Горького, отпечатано в типографии \"Ленинградская Правда\".\u003cbr\u003eВ издательском коленкоровом переплёте чёрного цвета с орнаментальной блинтовой рамкой, тиснёным именем автора и красным названием на верхней крышке. \u003cbr\u003eСостояние: 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.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eRozov, B. K Nezrimomu Solntsu [Toward the Unseen Sun]: A Novella.\u003cbr\u003eLeningrad: Sovetsky Pisatel' (Soviet Writer), 1939.\u003cbr\u003e86 pp.; standard format.\u003cbr\u003eEditor G. Sorokin. Technical editor A. Kirnarskaia. Proofreader R. Beketova. Cover artist A. Ushin.\u003cbr\u003ePrint run: 10,000 copies.\u003cbr\u003eTypeset at the \"Pechatny Dvor\" Printing House named after A. M. Gorky; printed at the \"Leningradskaia Pravda\" press, Leningrad.\u003cbr\u003eIn publisher's black cloth binding with blind-stamped ornamental border, blind-stamped author's name and red-stamped title on the upper cover. \u003cbr\u003eCondition: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44288734101546,"sku":null,"price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_1355.jpg?v=1777198453","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/products\/rozov-b-toward-the-unseen-sun-k-nezrimomu-solntsu-1939-in-russian","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}