158pp. Black cloth-covered boards, titles on silver front and spine labels. 8vo. Lightly rubbed spine ends. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges starting to tan and fox. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has shelf wear, minor loss, closed tears, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped. Selection of Gorky's critical writings ranging from 1896 until shortly before his death; divided into five sections:- The Writer's Craft; Russian Writers especially Tolstoy and Chekhov; European and American Writers; the Problems of Aesthetics and Cultural History; and the Specific Tasks of Socialist Literature and Culture.
