Context: I recently chatted with a postdoc from russia, and we somehow got on the topic of learning mathematics and textbooks, and he told me about a wonderful textbook by Yuri Manin, on algebraic geometry which was written at the beginning of the seventies and wildely used for a long time in the former SU. He was so full of praise that I decided to check it out.


Now the problem I checked our library catalog and amazon.com and can't find anything that I can identify as this AG-textbook. 


Question:
So does this book exists? What's it's title? Was it maybe not translated?.
Q2:
If anyone has anything interesting to say about the book this would also be appreciated.


PS: I also speak german so if you know a german translation please also post.



Manin's algebraic geometry textbook?
Do you mean these:


* [Lectures on algebraic geometry. Part I: Affine schemes](http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=284434) (Russian)
* [Lectures in algebraic geometry. Part II: The $K$-functor in algebraic geometry](http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=422277) (Russian, [English version](http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=265355))


Apparently the second is based on *Théorie globale des intersections et théorème de Riemann-Roch* SGA 6, Exp. 0.


Here are some djvu scans of the Russian versions:


* [Лекции по алгебраической геометрии. Часть 1. Аффинные схемы](http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru/ru/library/books/Manin_ch1_1970ru.djvu),
* [Лекции по алгебраической геометрии. Часть 2. К-функтор в алгебраической геометрии](http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru/ru/library/books/Manin_ch2_1971ru.djvu)


