Flow mikhail5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I arranged two receptions for him one for journalists who interviewed him (the interview was poorly covered in the press) and the other for writers.” ![]() He spent about a fortnight in London with his wife. In Ivan Maisky’s diaries dated the 17.1.35 Maisky records: Low mentions his friendship with Maisky in his autobiography and writes of spending time with him at the Soviet Embassy. Low was a friend of Ivan Maisky notable for being Soviet Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1932 to 1943. *Low was a political cartoonist and creator of Colonel Blimp. Dust jacket: Very good, unclipped with some rubbing to the spine of dust jacket. Volume 2 is a very good tight, clean copy. Tape to verso some time again fixing tear. Chip at head of the spine with shallow chips – elsewhere creasing. Black cloth boards, minor bumping and slight tear to cloth at the bottom of spine. Volume 1 is in very good condition, internally very good. Previously owned by David Low* who has placed his signature and address at the top of the page. The first translation into English and in any other language other than Russian is the Putnam’s edition. 'And Quiet Flows The Don' is signed and dated (15.1.35) by Mikhail Sholohov on first front free end paper. ‘The Don Flows Home To The Sea’, (Volume 2), first edition, first print. ‘And quiet Flows the Don’, (Volume 1), first edition, fifth print. ![]()
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