A pair of softcover books published by Chekhov Publishing House, an American publisher that carried out the publication of works that could not be issued in the USSR, based in New York from 1952 to 1956. Terrestrial Rainbow by Nadezhda Teffi, 1952. Portable immortality by Vasily Yanovsky, 1953. The lot also includes The Elysian Fields by Vasily Yanovsky, published by Silver Age, New York, 1983. Vasily Yanovsky, 1906 to 1989, was a Russian emigre writer and literary critic who lived in New York since the end of the WWII. Nadezhda Teffi, 1872 to 1952, was a Russian humorist writer who settled in Paris after the October Revolution. Antiquarian Librarian Books For Collectors, Russian Emigre Publications.

Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. All measurements are approximate.