V li︠u︡di︠a︡kh
By: M. Gorkiĭ ; illi︠u︡strat︠s︡ii B. Dekhtereva
Contributors: Dekhterev, B. (Boris), 1908-1993, illustrator
Publisher: Gosudarstvennoe izdatelʹstvo detskoĭ literatury
Published: 1949
Place of publication: Moskva; Leningrad
Language: rus
Number of pages: 273
Notes: LC copy:  includes a provenance letter by Douglas M. Perry.  In 1974, when Perry was a graduate student in Slavic studies at the University of Michigan, he carried some personal items from Joseph Brodsky, who had arrived in Ann Arbor earlier that year, to Brodsky's family in Leningrad.  After Perry contacted Brodsky's parents to deliver the gifts, he was invited to their apartment, warmly welcomed, and given this book in memory of his visit to Leningrad.  It bears the inscription:  Dunkanu na pami︠a︡t o Leningrade, 1974, AB."

Provenance letter inserted inserted in a pocket of cover page 3.