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Hardcover, bright red cloth lettered in black, sans dust-jacket. 317pp. Marjorie Smith was a journalist who travelled to the Soviet Union in the early nineteen thirties as the wife of American communist and cartoonist Ryan Walker. While he busied himself with the official duties of a delegate, she turned her trained eye towards discovering the average Russian as the lived their daily lives. A very uncommon travel book and one of the few from the peroiod that were written by someone other than a convert to the Soviet system. Very neat former owner’s name dated Feb. 4, 1934 on fly. Top edge stained red, as issued. A very nice copy with only a touch of finger soiling to cloth.