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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo 15x13 cm., wrappers, 15pp. The story of the inventions of a balloon and a bathyscope, retold from the original by A. Piccard. Mikhail Gershenzon (1869-1925) was a scholar, essayist, and author. As a jew, he was unable to obtain an academic position from the time he graduated until the 1917 revolution. He was the first chair of the Moscow Writers Union from 1918, a leader of Narkompros, and Head of the Moscow Academy of Literary Sciences. Andrei Andreevich Brei (1902-1979) was a graphic artist and illustrator He is particularly known as a filmstrip artist. OCLC locates two holdings in North America (CA State U Fresno, Univ Chicago). A fine copy.…