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THE NEWEST BORZOI BOOKS
- ASPHALT
By Orrick Johns - BACKWATER
By Dorothy Richardson - CENTRAL EUROPE
By Friedrich Naumann - CRIMES OF CHARITY
Konrad Bercovici - RUSSIA’S MESSAGE
By William English Walling - THE BOOK OF SELF
By James Oppenheim - THE BOOK OF CAMPING
By A. Hyatt Verrill - MODERN RUSSIAN HISTORY
By Alexander Kornilov - THE RUSSIAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING
By Alexandre Benois - THE JOURNAL OF LEO TOLSTOI (1895–1899)
- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SUPER-TRAMP
By William H. Davies
With a Preface by Bernard Shaw
"Borzoi" stands for the best in literature in all its branches—drama and fiction, poetry and art. "Borzoi" also stands for unusually pleasing book-making.
Borzoi Books are good books and there is one for every taste worthy of the name. A few are briefly described on the next page. Mr. Knopf will be glad to see that you are notified regularly of new and forthcoming Borzoi Books if you will send him your name and address for that purpose. He will also see that your local dealer is supplied.
Address THE BORZOI
220 West Forty-Second Street
New York
THE BORZOI RUSSIAN TRANSLATIONS
The following volumes in this admirable series are now ready. Additional works have been arranged for and are in preparation. One or two will be issued each season. The books are attractively bound in cloth, stamped in gold with coloured tops. They are uniform in style but the work of each author is bound in a distinctive colour.
| I | TARAS BULBA: A Tale of the Cossacks by Nicolay V. Gogol. A great prose romance. Second edition. $1.35
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| II | THE SIGNAL: Presenting for the first time the work of a very important Russian, W. M. Garshin. Third ed. $1.50
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| III | CHELKASH: By Maxim Gorky. A selection of the best of all of Gorky's short stories. Third edition. $1.25
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| IV | THE LITTLE ANGEL: By Leonid Andreyev. The fifth edition, now ready, contains an additional story. $1.35
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| V | THE PRECIPICE: A Novel from the Russian of Ivan Goncharov. A picture of country life in the old leisurely Russia of the first half of the nineteenth century. $1.50
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| VI | A HERO OF OUR TIME: A Novel from the Russian of M. Y. Lermontov. A great romantic story. $1.50
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| VII | THE OLD HOUSE: From the Russian of Feodor Sologub. A novelette and ten striking stories. Second edition. $1.50
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| VIII | THE LITTLE DEMON: A Novel from the Russian of Feodor Sologub. The authorized English version, with a special preface, of this writer's most famous book. $1.50
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| IX | THE MEMOIRS OF A PHYSICIAN: From the Russian of Vikenty Veressayev. A work (non-fiction) known the world over, which has placed its author in the first rank of Russian writers. It is of great importance to-day to any one who ever has to do in any way with doctors. $1.50
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| X | THE CRUSHED FLOWER: From the Russian of Leonid Andreyev. Three novelettes and some great short stories by this most popular of contemporary Russians. $1.50
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| XI | THE CONFESSIONS OF A LITTLE MAN DURING GREAT DAYS: By Leonid Andreyev. Andreyev's latest book; this tells about Russia in war time. $1.35
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| XII | THE JOURNAL OF LEO TOLSTOI: An intimate diary, never before published, that this greatest of all the Russians kept from 1895 to 1899.$2.00
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All prices are net.
ALFRED A. KNOPF, Publisher
220 West Forty-Second Street NEW YORK
Speaking About Russia—
brings one inevitably to Borzoi Books. Here are listed some which are bound to interest you.
- THE RUSSIAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING. From the Russian of Alexandre Benois, with an introduction by Christian Brinton, and thirty-two full page plates. The only survey in English. An unusually beautiful book. $5.00
- MODERN RUSSIAN HISTORY. From the Russian of Alexander Kornilov. The only work in English that comes right down to the present day, and the most complete history of modern Russia in any language but Russian. Two volumes with maps, boxed, per set $5.00
- THE SHIELD. Edited by Gorky, Sologub, and Andreyev. Issued in Russia by the Society for the Study of Jewish Life (to which only pure blooded Russians are allowed membership), this book is a remarkable plea for the abrogation of the Jewish disabilities. Russia's best writers, scientists and publicists have contributed to it. Foreword by William English Wallling. $1.25
- GREAT RUSSIA. By Charles Sarolea, author of "The Anglo-German Problem," etc. A brilliant and sympathetic survey of the country and its people. With maps. $1.25
- IDEALS AND REALITIES IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE. By P. Kropotkin. Generally considered the best history of Russian literature available in English. Third edition. $2.00
- RUSSIA'S GIFT TO THE WORLD. By J. W. Mackail, Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. A concise and informing survey of just what Russia has contributed to the art, science and culture of the world. 50c.
- IN THE RUSSIAN RANKS. By John Morse (Englishman.) Ten months fighting in Poland. "The most notable piece of war literature the war has yet produced."—The London Times. $1.50
- RUSSIA'S MESSAGE. By William English Walling. A new, revised and cheaper edition of the only book in English that tells the truth about the Russian peasant and explains the recent Revolution. With over twenty hitherto unpublished illustrations. $1.50
All prices are net.
ALFRED A. KNOPF, Publisher
220 West Forty-Second Street NEW YORK