**Intact Gift Giving Condition book**

Kiselev's Elementary Algebra sat next to his Arithmetic in every Soviet classroom, and stayed there — the officially approved algebra text for grades 6–10 through the 1950s. For nearly 90 years, this single textbook trained a generation of Russian and Soviet secondary-school students in algebra. Now, for the first time, the complete English translation of its first half is available. Originally published in 1888 by Andrey Kiselev, and reworked by A.N.