by Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne.

New York: A.W.W. Norton Book published by Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., (1970).

 First edition, first printing.

SIGNED, dated 1971, and warmly inscribed by the author, "To my dear 'Comrade' Alice Baca, who was a mid-wife to my 'Shurik', With affection, Kyra Wayne", to the front end-paper.

Illustrated with photographs and maps.

Introduction by Harrison E. Salisbury.

The actress and author's fictionalized memoir of her time as a teenage Russian nurse helping a homeless orphan boy during the three-year siege of Leningrad in WWII.

 Mildly bumped to upper corners, else near fine in slate-gray linen boards with red embossed titles and decorations to the front cover and to the spine; in a lightly rubbed dust jacket illustrated by Richard Cuffari; original printed $5.95 price codes 21395 and 1014 still intact to the front inner flap.

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