Kuznetsov (Anatoly) Babi Yar, first English uncensored edition, translated by David Floyd, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Mr M. G. Millard - with very best wishes for the invaluable help he has given me. A Anatoli. 14/xii 1970 London" to half-title, a few spots to endpapers, original boards, some light fading and slight bowing to covers, dust-jacket, very light fading to spine, slight rubbing to spine tips and corners, very short nick to foot of upper panel, an excellent example, 8vo, 1970.

⁂ An inscribed copy of the soviet writer Kuznetsov's most acclaimed work in its complete, unredacted form. We can trace no other signed examples. Kuznetsov grew up Kiev district of Kurenivka in modern-day Ukraine near the large Babi Yar ravine which would become infamous as the site of a number of massacres carried out by the Nazi regime. Ultimately between 100,000 and 150,000 people were murdered at the ravine and buried there in mass graves. Kuznetsov's novel was born out of the notes he began taking while a child growing up in the area and hearing rumours of the killings. The novel was first published in Yunost magazine in 1966 and then in shortened form in 1967. It was not until Kuznetsov's defection to the UK in 1968 that he could publish he preferred, unredacted, edition in book form complete with passages that were highly-critical of the Soviet regime.