first edition
1931 · Boston and New York
by ILIN, M. (text); COUNTS, George S. and Nucia P. Lodge (translation)
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); red cloth, titled in black on spine and front cover; map endpapers; black topstain; [iv],v-xiv,161,[1]pp; illus. A few spots of residue from an old jacket protector along the lower board edges, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped, spine-sunned and a bit edgeworn, with a few small nicks and closed tears; Very Good or better. Story of the Five-Year Plan, written by a Russian engineer "intimately concerned with the whole undertaking," and written not as "propaganda for the outside world, but for the Russian people themselves" (from front flap). (Inventory #: 83700)