Author: Исаак Бабель [Isaac Babel] (Russian, 1894–1940)
Title: Гюи де-Мопассан [Guy de Maupassant]
Publication: Иллюстрированный ежемесячник 30 дней (30 Dnei), No. 6, 1932, pp. 34–38
Publisher: Государственное издательство художественной литературы (ГИХЛ, State Publishing House of Fiction)
Print Run: 60,250 copies
Edition: First appearance of Babel’s story in print.
Description: Soviet illustrated literary and art magazine. Softcover, 255 × 180 mm. Original publisher’s orange and cream wrappers with black lettering; printed sketch Сиротка (Sirotka — “The Orphan”) by Григорий Иванович Гуркин [Grigorii Ivanovich Gurkin] (Russian, 1870–1937) at the lower right corner of the front wrapper. Pages 1–80.
Includes a caricature portrait of Isaac Babel (“Скупой литературный рыцарь”) by Вениамин Маркович Брискин [Veniamin Markovich Briskin] (Jewish-Ukrainian, 1906–1982) on p. 26; two illustrations by Дмитрий Стахиевич Орлов [Dmitry Stakhievich Orlov], known as Д. Моор [D. Moor] (Russian, 1883–1946); and a theatrical review Что на афише (“What’s on the Playbill”) on pp. 78–80 by Д. Кальм [D. Kalm], pen name of Дмитрий Самойлович Кальмейер [Dmitri Samoilovich Kalmeier] (Russian, 1904–c. 1994), a distant relative of the collector (Serge Varshavsky).
Provenance: Private library stamp “ДОМАШНЯЯ БИБЛИОТЕКА ГРЮНТАЛЬ В. П.” to front wrapper and p. 1.
Typewritten inscription along the right margin of the front wrapper: “Личная библиотека Грюнталь В. П. Тихвинск., ул. 5 кв. 4”.
Note: Владимир Теобальдович Грюнталь [Vladimir Teobaldovich Gryuntal] (Russian, 1898–1963) collaborated with 30 дней as an illustrator. Грюнталь В. П. was presumably his wife.

Contributors

• Исаак Бабель [Isaac Babel] (Jewish-Ukrainian, 1894–1940) — author of Гюи де-Мопассан (Guy de Maupassant); arrested in 1939, murdered during the Great Terror (1940).

• Григорий Иванович Гуркин [Grigorii Ivanovich Gurkin] (Russian, 1870–1937) — artist of Сиротка (Sirotka, “The Orphan”) on the front wrapper; painter from the Altai region; murdered during the Great Terror (1937).

• Вениамин Маркович Брискин [Veniamin Markovich Briskin] (Jewish-Ukrainian, 1906–1982) — caricaturist; author of the satirical portrait “Скупой литературный рыцарь” (“The Stingy Literary Knight”) on p. 26.

• Дмитрий Стахиевич Орлов [Dmitry Stakhievich Orlov], known as Д. Моор [D. Moor] (Russian, 1883–1946) — prominent Soviet graphic artist and poster designer; contributed two illustrations to this issue.

• Дмитрий Самойлович Кальмейер [Dmitry Samoilovich Kalmeier], pen name Д. Кальм (D. Kalm) (Soviet-Jewish, 1904–c. 1994) — author of the theatrical review Что на афише (“What’s on the Playbill”) on pp. 78–80; a distant relative of the cataloguer.

• Владимир Теобальдович Грюнталь [Vladimir Teobaldovich Gryuntal] (Russian, 1898–1963) — illustrator collaborating with 30 дней; presumed husband of the private library owner Грюнталь В. П.

• Guy de Maupassant (French, 1850-1893)