Hailed universally as Russia's finest comic writer, and by many as its greatest writer of prose, Nikolai creates a unique Ukrainian world, from the darkest Gothic to folkloric levity. 

Foreign Languages Publishing House, n.d.
Lovely decorative edition. 
Hardcover. Good+. 
A few small tears in edge of jacket. Edges rubbed as well. Some marks to front and back jacket covers. Jacket remains bright, however.
Library envelope on back endpaper.