London: Collins Harwill, 1989. A review copy, with the Collins stamp on half-title page. Trade paperback, a solid, tightly bound and clean copy, lightly rubbed on edges. We quickly respond to requests for scanned images and promptly answer any questions, supply further information on this title. Novels written by good writers (and Bulgakov certainly belongs here) in Russia during the communist regime, inevitably bore some hidden meaning, usually a satire or parable of the political system. This perhaps is not immediately obvious to the Western reader, but was quite transparent to an average Russian reader (this ability might have been lost in more recent times). Such is this story of a Moscow professor who transplants some vital organs of a male human into a dog.. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Small Octavo (8vo), approx. 8" (200mm) tall..