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Moscow: Zemlya i Fabrika (ZiF), 1928
Cover illustration by L. Voronov and M. Evstafiev

Riga: Kniga dlya vsekh, 1928

Moscow: Zemlya i Fabrika (ZiF), 1929

Moscow: Zemlya i Fabrika (ZiF), 1930

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo khudozhestvennoy literatury (GIKHL), 1931

Moscow: Federatsiya, 1933

Moscow: Sovetskaya literatura, 1934
Cover illustration and interior illustrations by Kukryniksy

Moscow: Sovetskiy pisatel, 1934
Cover illustration by L. Smolyansky; interior illustrations by A. Makeev

Moscow: Sovetskiy pisatel, 1935
Design by artist S. Miringof

Moscow: Sovetskiy pisatel, 1938
Cover illustration and interior illustrations by Konstantin Rotov

Kharkiv: Literatura i mystetstvo, 1934

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