Il'f and Petrov

[Charles Gribble]

At 07:00 AM 11/26/2004, Steven P Hill (Univ. of Illinois, USA) wrote:
>Dear colleagues:
>
>Any specialists in Il'f and Petrov out there might know the answer to two
>little
>mysteries.
>
>1.  In Il'f and Petrov's "Sobranie sochinenii" (ed. Dement'ev, Kataev,
>Simonov, Galanov;
>5 vols., izd. GIKhL,  1961- ), volume 4 contains "Odnoetazhnaia Amerika"
>and related
>texts.   In at least one library copy of  volume 4, it LACKS
>pages  529-564 (i.e., 36
>consecutive pages).

@Such binding errors are not restricted to Russian books -- the same thing
turned up occasionally in Slavica's books during the 30 years that I ran
it.  The machine that stacks up the signatures (gatherings) simply fails to
get a copy of one individual  signature.  It's random.

>

Charles E. Gribble
Professor of Slavic Languages
The Ohio State University, Columbus
1841 Millikin Rd., #232
Columbus OH 43210
e-mail: gribble.3 at osu.edu

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