NMLP P-045474 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19
Red Cavalry
Isaac Babel · Gosizdat (State Publishing House), Moscow · 1926
The first English-language edition was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1929, simultaneously in London and New York from the same setting and translation; binding is smooth deep orange cloth lettered and decorated in black, top edge stained red, with a red-and-black pictorial title page and (when present) a red-and-black pictorial dust jacket, collating roughly pp. [2], i–ix, [1], 1–213, [3]. The two 1929 issues differ only in the translator credited — John Harland on the London issue (Knopf Ltd., printed in the British Isles at Guernsey by the Star and Gazette) and Nadia Helstein on the New York issue
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-045474 for "Red Cavalry" by Isaac Babel (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045474, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).