DMITRIEV T.P. (1893-1963), AUTOGRAPH Puti-dorozhki: Sbornik rasskazov [Paths and Byways: A Collection of Stories]. [Moscow]: Moscow Writers’ Association, 1927.

178 pp.; 18 x 13.5 cm. Print run of 4,150 copies. In the publisher’s illustrated wrapper. In good condition. Minor soiling, light creasing to the pages, small tears along the edges. Author’s inscription on the title page: ‘To Mikhail Porfirievich Sokolnikov - so that he does not waste money buying bad books. (See the review in ‘Mol. Gv.’) T. Dmitriev 2 IV - 28’. Mikhail Porfirievich Sokolnikov (1898-1979) was a Russian Soviet art historian, man of letters and journalist, one of the founders of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR, art editor of the ‘Academia’ publishing house and Honoured Worker of Culture of the RSFSR. Under his editorship the unique 1934 edition of ‘The Tale of Igor’s Campaign’ appeared, with expressive illustrations by the famous Palekh miniaturist Ivan Golikov.