Set of Seven Matchboxes

This set of seven matchboxes features original cover designs of books published in tamizdat in the 1960-1980s. Smoking is what these books' characters do, or what these titles are warning against, while manuscripts, according to Bulgakov, don't burn.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Odin' den' Ivana Denisovicha [One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]. London: Flegon Press, 1963.
Mikhail Bulgakov. Master i Margarita [The Master and Margarita]. Paris: YMCA-Press, 1967.
Vasily Aksenov. Ozhog [The Burn]. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1980.
Nikolai Erdman. Samoubiitsa [The Suicide]. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1980.
Sergei Dovlatov. Zona [The Zone]. Ann Arbor, MI: Hermitage, 1982.
Aleksandr Galich. Pesni [Songs]. Frankfurt am/Main: Posev, 1969.
Abram Tertz. Fantasticheskii mir Abrama Tertza [The Fantastic World of Abram Tertz]. Washington DC: Inter-Language Literary Associates, 1967.

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