Sholokhov, M. Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don). A Novel. Complete text in one volume. Artist Ye. Krshizhanovsky. Leningrad, 1945. In Russian.

Шолохов, Михаил Александрович (1905-1984). Тихий Дон : роман / художник Е. Кржижановский ; редактор Ю. Лукин.
Ленинград : ОГИЗ, Государственное издательство художественной литературы, 1945. 704 страницы ; 26 x 20 сантиметров.
Полный текст в одном томе: книга первая (части первая-третья), книга вторая (части четвертая-пятая), книга третья (часть шестая), книга четвертая (части седьмая-восьмая); словарь местных слов и оборотов речи.
Составной переплет. Тираж 125 000 экземпляров.
Переплет хорошее: на задней крышке - небольшие разводы от залития; передняя крышка чистая, легкая потертость и залом уголка. Блок хорошее: бумага равномерно потемневшая (типична для военного и первого послевоенного времени), текст полностью сохранен и читается свободно.
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Sholokhov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich (1905-1984). Quiet Flows the Don : a novel / artist Ye. Krshizhanovsky ; editor Yu. Lukin.
Leningrad : OGIZ, State Publishing House of Fiction, 1945. 704 pp. ; 26 x 20 cm.
Complete text in one volume: Book One (Parts One-Three), Book Two (Parts Four-Five), Book Three (Part Six), Book Four (Parts Seven-Eight); with a glossary of local Don dialect words and expressions.
Publisher's half-binding. Print run of 125,000 copies.
Binding good: moisture staining to the rear board; front board clean, light wear and a crease to the corner. Text block good: paper evenly toned (typical of wartime and immediate postwar production), text fully preserved and legible throughout.

The first postwar one-volume edition of Mikhail Sholokhov's epic novel of Don Cossack life through the First World War, Revolution, and Civil War, printed in Leningrad within months of the city's liberation from the wartime blockade and Germany's surrender. Sholokhov (1905-1984) worked on "Quiet Flows the Don" from 1925 to 1940, and the completed four-book, eight-part novel would eventually bring him the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature; this compact single-volume format, gathering the entire epic under one binding rather than the multi-volume sets more typical of the prewar years, reflects the paper and production constraints as well as the symbolic ambitions of Soviet publishing in the months immediately following victory. The edition is equipped with a glossary of Don Cossack dialect terms compiled by editor Yuri Lukin, an aid for readers unfamiliar with Sholokhov's dense regional speech, and its chapter divisions are marked by decorative headpieces from artist Ye. Krshizhanovsky, including a woodcut-style portrait vignette of the novel's central lovers, Grigory Melekhov and Aksinya, opening Book One. Printed in a run of 125,000 copies on the rough, toned paper characteristic of the period, this edition holds interest for collectors of Soviet wartime and immediate postwar book production alongside admirers of Sholokhov's novel itself.