Salt; or, The Education of Griffith Adams. Recommended by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Norris, Charles Gilman [Salt; or, The Education of Griffith Adams: A novel]. Sol' Zemli: Roman.  Translation from English by T. Timiriazeva and M. Titova. Leningrad, Izdatelstvo "Mysl'", 1929.12mo, 377, [1] pp., [2] pp.of cat. In original minimalistic wrappers.In good condition, light overall wear, very faint stains to wrapper, losses to spine, repaired, small loss to p. 25-26. Rare first and only Russian edition of Norris’s 'Salt'. One of 5 100 copies published. F. Scott Fitzgerald advised young women to read 'Salt' (1919) by Charles Gilman Norris (1881-1945), an American novelist and playwright, so that they could gain insight into life. Furthermore, it is known that Fitzgerald sent a copy of 'This Side of Paradise' to Norris with the inscription: 'For Charles G. Norris, who in "Salt," wrote the best American novel since "Vandover the Brute," with the sincere admiration of F. Scott Fitzgerald'.In December 1924, in a letter to Maxwell Perkins, Fitzgerald stated that the three most rem