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The Great Gatsby. Tender Is the night. First edition of The Great Gatsby in Ukrainian.

The Great Gatsby. Tender Is the night. First edition of The Great Gatsby in Ukrainian.

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Fitzgerald F. Scott [The Great Gatsby. Tender Is the Night]. Velykyi Getsbi. Nich Lahidna. The novels.

Translation by Mar Pinchevski.
Afterword by Volodimir Kukhalashvili.
Book design by Iu. Chekan'uk.

Kyïv, Dnipro, 1982.
8vo, 472 pp., 4 pp.ill.

In original illustrated hardback.
In good condition, edges slightly bumped.

First edition of 'The Great Gatsby' in the Ukrainian language. 'Tender Is the Night' was published in Ukrainian in 1975 for the first time.

Novels were translated by Mar Pinchevskii (1925-1983), a journalist and writer. He was the son of Jewish poet Moishe Pinchevskii. Mar Pinchevskii also translated into Ukrainian novels by Ernest Hemingway, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, James Aldridge, Somerset Maugham, William Faulkner, and Edgar Doctorow.
The book design was prepared by Iurii Chekan'uk (1938-2001), an artist and architect.

OCLC locates only one copy of this edition: in the British Library.

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