AELITA

by Alexei N. Tolstoi

$350 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, n.d. 1957 . Small octavo, cloth. First edition in English. Translated by Lucy Flaxman. First published in Russian in 1922-1923 as a serial in RED VIRGIN SOIL. Two Russians fly to Mars and one of them, Gusev, places himself at the head of a worker's revolution against the tyrannical Martian ruling caste, and the other, Los, engineer, inventor and dreamer, falls in love Aelita, a

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