Smert posle poludnja [Death in the Afternoon]

[The writer's first book published in the USSR] Hemingway, E. Death in the Afternoon / trans. First translation team; comp., ed. and entry Art. I. Kashkina. M.: Goslitizdat, 1934. 266, [6] p., 1 p. portrait 19.5×13.5 cm. Publisher's cardboard. Small tears along the edges of the spine, the block is clean.
The collection includes excerpts from four books by Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961): "In Our Time," "Men Without Women," "Death in the Afternoon" and "The Winner Takes Nothing." The stories in the collection are a kind of creative autobiography of the writer, a story about his wanderings along the war fronts, in the cities and in the outbacks of America.
Hemingway's first stories appeared translated into Russian in 1934 in the magazines "30 Days", "Abroad" and "International Literature". Then the writer's first collection, published in the USSR, "Death in the Afternoon," came out. The compiler, editor and author of the introductory speech is Ivan Kashkin, who became Hemingway's first propagandist in the USSR. Although Kashkin called Hemingway "a gentleman with a crack," he established personal contact with him and decisively began to move him "to the masses." Hemingway soon became the most popular American writer in the USSR.