SHOLOKHOV MIKHAIL: (1905-1984) Russian novelist, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1965. A signed printed slim oblong 8vo photograph booklet entitled Veshenkie Encounters, issued in 1965 in honour of Sholokhov´s 60th birthday, featuring eleven different monochrome images, each with brief printed captions in Cyrillic to the versos, including the house where Sholokhov lived; the residents of Vyoshenskaya welcoming a delegation of workers from the Kirov Plant in Leningrad; Sholokhov engaged in conversation with M. G. Alekseev, the oldest worker at the Kirov Plant; the writer being presented with the badge of an udarnik of communist labor; the Nobel Laureate meeting other writers including Zakrutkin, Sofronov, and the English novelist C. P. Snow etc. Signed by Sholokhov to the front cover, alongside his portrait, and dated 24th October 1968 in his hand. Loosely contained within the original green presentation folder. Some light age wear, about VG