Chaliapin: An Autobiography as told to Maxim Gorky. First British edition.

Chaliapin: An Autobiography as told to Maxim Gorky. With supplementary correspondence and notes, translated from the Russian, compiled and edited by Nina Froud and James Hanley. London, MacDonald, [1968].8vo, port., 320 pp., ill. In original red cloth. With pictorial dust jacket in fair condition.In good condition, rubbed dj, small losses and tears to dj edges, reenforced with tape to dj spine. First British edition. Chaliapin's autobiography was co-written with his friend, the prominent writer Maxim Gorky, in 1916, with the first part published in 1917. It was later published in English under the title 'Pages from My Life' (New York, 1927). This release was followed by legal action from Chaliapin against the USSR for selling the rights to his book to other countries. The complete version of the autobiography was eventually published in Russian, based on Gorky's original manuscript, in the first volume of a two-volume edition by the Iskusstvo publishing house between 1957 and 1958. It