407 pages. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. Includes an Appendix: Comparative Table of Russian and Japanese Fleets, plus five battle maps. A clean, unmarked and solid copy, though obviously second hand. "Aleksey Silych Novikov-Priboi (Russian: ??????? ????? ???????-?????? 12 March 1877 - 29 April 1944) was the pen-name of A. S. Novikov, an ethnic Russian writer in the Soviet Union, noted for his stories with a nautical theme.