The Amalgamated Press Ltd, London, Date: 1955. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/N/A. Magazine/Periodical black titles spine; 10 brilliant short stories by: John Dickson Carr - (first publication of the first part of "Black Sabre"); Edmund Crispin - ("The Perfect Criminal"); Walter De La Mare; Jim Phelan; Islwyn Williams; Thomas Firbank; David Walker; Robert Sheckley - ("Shape" - first printing); John Inglis Hall; Ogden Nash; Richard Ferber; & Graham Wood plus the prize crossword (not filled in); a tight & neat copy with the slightest of edge-wear & some browning to page edges & covers; 144 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Item Type: Magazine/Periodical. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; Short Stories; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: SST00009. . 1955. The Amalgamated Press Ltd [GB]

Moskva [Moscow]: "Shtrom"-oysgabe, Date: 1924. Hardcover. 1st edition of author's second book. Period boards with original modernist wrappers mounted front and back. 12mo, 62 pages; 22 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as "Hard Reality." Beautiful modernist typographical title and author on front cover, signed by artist in the print (illegible). Moyshe Khashtshevatski (1897 - 1943) "was born in Buky, near Uman, Ukraine. He father was a teacher in the local Talmud-Torah. He studied in religious elementary school and in a Talmud-Torah, and in 1916 he graduated from the commercial school in Uman. In the last years of WWI and the first years of the Russian Revolution, he was studying at the Universities of Petrograd and Ekaterinburg. In 1918 (April 6) he debuted in print with a poem, entitled "Friling kumt" (Spring comes), in Di naye tsayt (The new times) in Kiev—using the pen name M. Mishal. In 1921 he moved to Kiev, where he forged a strong bond with the local Yiddish writers (Dobrushin, Hofshteyn, Dis Nister, and others), and from that point he enhanced ever more his reputation as a creator and builder of Soviet Yiddish literature. In the Soviet Yiddish periodicals of Kiev, Kharkov, Minsk, and Moscow, he published poetry and ballads. He also translated from the Russian and Ukrainian classics, as well as from other languages. From 1923 over the course of three years, he contributed intensively to Emes (Truth) in Moscow, and he actively took part in the Soviet community an ...