A Treasury of Russian life and humor / edited with an introduction by John Cournos. [1943]

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A Treasury of Russian life and humor / edited with an introduction by John Cournos. [1943]

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Typescripts with holograph notations and printer's marks, printed material cut fom books or magazines with holograph corrections, for his anthology: A Treasury of Russian life and humor. New York : Coward-McCann, 1943.

1134 leaves ; 28 cm.

Dartmouth College Library

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Cournos, John, 1881-1966

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John Cournos, born Ivan Grigorievich Korshun (Иван Григорьевич Коршун; he himself used the form Johann Gregorevich for his original name) (6 March 1881 – 27 August 1966), was a writer and translator of Russian-Jewish background who spent his later life in exile. Cournos was born in Zhitomir, Russian Empire, and his first language was Yiddish; he studied Russian, German and Hebrew, with a tutor at home. When he was ten years old his family emigrated to Philadelphia, where he learned English. ...