AFANAS'EV ????????? (trans. by Norbert GUTERMAN, comm. Roman JAKOBSON)

Russian Fairy Tales: Translated by Norbert Guterman from the Collections of Aleksandr Afanas'Ev. Illustrations by Alexander Alexeieff. Folkloristic Commentary by Roman Jakobson. Reprint.

London, Sheldon Press, 1976. Original orange cloth, gilt lettered and ruled spine, decoration to upper board stamped in red, original printed dust-wrapper unclipped, 662pp. with many stylised 'Lubok' or folk style b/w in-text illustrations. Book in very good condition. Tight and clean. Usual browning of paper, dust-wrapper very good but a little chipped at edges. A nice copy. The Russian language's most dearly loved folk tales collected by Alexander Afanasyev ????????? (1826-1871). Here translated and with commentary by influential Russian born linguist Roman Jakobson. Originally published in the U.S. in 1945. Wonderfully illustrated by ????????? ???????? Alexander Alexeieff also known for his work in animation and as inventor of the 'pin-screen'.

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Book number: 38210

Catalogue: Children's, Folk & Illustrated

Keywords: Slavonic|Slavs|Featured|Folk|Literature|Linguistics |Russian|Russia|Illustrated

ALDERSON, Brian (Edward Ardizzone)

Edward Ardizzone. A Bibliographic Commentary.

Pinner, U.K. Oak Knoll Press, Private Libraries Association. The British Library, 2003. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Unused. No dust-wrapper. Colour frontis. b/w Ardizzone illustrations throughout. Used; Very Good . Hardback.

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Book number: 36146

Catalogue: Children's, Folk & Illustrated

Keywords: Children's|Reference|Bibliography|Ilustrated|Featured|Special Collection|Ardizzone

ANDERSEN, H. Christian (JARMOLINSKA, T. - arranged by)

Ikstite [Latvian Transalation of Däumelinchen]

Riga, Latvijas Valsts Izdevnieciba, 1957. Colour illustrated card covers, stapled, 23 x 29 cm, 30 p.p General light wear to covers, owner inscription inside otherwise tight and clean. No tears no scribbles. Andersen's Thumbelina in Latvian.

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Book number: 37411

Catalogue: Children's, Folk & Illustrated

Keywords: Russian Children's Books|Children's|Illustrated

Anon. Illus. by Frank Hampson.

A First Ladybird Book of Nursery Rhymes: With Illustrations by Frank Hampson. A Ladybird Book Series 413.

Loughborough, Ladybird Books Ltd. n.d. Decorated boards, 51pp. Price to back 24p. With ISBN. A very good clean and tight copy with bruised spine ends. First published 1965. This copy probably 1970s.

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Book number: 38691

Catalogue: Children's, Folk & Illustrated

Keywords: Featured|Folk|Poetry|Children's|Illustrated

ANON

De Tous Les Coins Du Monde.

Paris, Geneva, Belgium, Maison de l'éclaireuse, Henn, 1942. Attractively bound in yellow cloth illustrated in blue. 96pp. No title page, few publication details. Used; Very Good French children's international song-book. Appears to have been published during the war. Starts with "The International" . Hardback.

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Book number: 33746

Catalogue: Children's, Folk & Illustrated

Keywords: French|Song|World War II|Children's|Featured

AVENARIUS, V. P. (1839-1923) ?.?. ?????????.

Tri Ventsa: Izdanie Vtoroye. Second Edition. With 12 Illustrations.

St. Petersburg,?????-?????????, P. V. Lukovnikov. ??. ???. ?.?. ???????????, [1905]. Original coloured pictorial boards and decorated endpapers. Publisher's wrappers bound in. M.O. Volf bookseller's label to f.e.p. verso, V. V. Baratchevsky's 'Russian Book Shop, London'cancelled stamps to endpapers. Owner name dated 1922 to f.e.p. 364[iv]pp. 12 full page b/w illustrations as called for, decorative head and tail pieces. In good condition. No loss, internally clean - no annotations. Spine and edges rubbed, erasure to paste-down, minor foxing throughout, small neat repair to first illustration. Vasily Avenarius. ??????? ???????? ?????????, born Wilhelm Heinrich Appolonius Avenarius, Russian writer born in Tsarskoye Selo to a Lutheran pastor. His first published works were considered reactionary and from then on, he restricted himself to writing books for children. ??? ?????: ???. ??????? ?? ?????? ??????? ??????????. (???????. ??? ????????? ?? ?????? ???? ?? ????????) .

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Book number: 38768

Catalogue: Russian Children's Books

Keywords: Russian|Literature|Featured|Antiquarian

BAGRITSKII, E. Bagritsky (E. Dzyubin)

Zvezda Mordvina. Poemi. (the Star Mordvina)

Moscow Moskva, Detskaia Literatura, 1972. Colour illustrated paper wrappers, in excellent condition. Upper cover a little sunned. Owner name inside. 32pp. b/w illustrations. Used; Very Good First published in 1931. Paperback.

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Book number: 34142

Catalogue: Russian Children's Books

Keywords: Poetry|Avant Garde|Russian|Featured

BARKER, Eric J. and MAYLAND, Alec

Oil: Our Everyday Needs 3

London, Evans Brothers, 1959. A good copy but with school marks to covers and school library markings inside. Used; Good Striking colourful 'retro' graphics to covers with very fifties illustrations inside. Paperback.

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Book number: 35049

Catalogue: Children's, Folk & Illustrated

Keywords: Children's|Illustrated|Featured

BIANKI, Vitaly Vitali

The Doughnut from the Wood with a Prickly Hood. Soviet Children's Library for Tiny Tots.

Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, n.d. Not dated. Illustrated stapled paper covers, 22 x 28 cm. unpaginated [8 pp.]. Colour throughout. In very good condition. [Lesnoi Kolobok - Kolyuchi Bok]. Translated from the Russian by Dorian Rottenberg. Drawings by G. Nikolsky.

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Book number: 37406

Catalogue: Russian Children's Books

Keywords: Children's|Illustrated|Russian Children's Books|Featured

BIANKI, Vitaly Vitali

The First Hunt Soviet Children's Library for Tiny Tots.

Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, n.d. Not dated. Illustrated stapled paper covers, 22 x 28 cm. unpaginated [12 pp.]. Colour throughout. Light wear to covers, no tears or scribbles, internally very good. Prvaya okhota translated from the Russian by Ronald Vroon. Drawings by V I Kirillov.

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Book number: 37414

Catalogue: Russian Children's Books

Keywords: Children's|Illustrated|Russian Children's Books|Featured

BIANKI, Vitaly Vitali Illus. by Nikolai Tyrsa

Snezhnaya Kniga [the Snow Book] Vitali Bianki and Nikolai Tyrsa.

Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1981. Publisher's printed covers to the outside with facsimile of original 16pp book inside on good quality cream-coloured paper. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Used; Very Good Nicely produced facsimile of 1926 Leningrad LenGiz Edition. An introduction to the artist inside cover by V Servbryanya. Paperback.

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Book number: 36091

Catalogue: Russian Children's Books

Keywords: Children's|Book-Cover Design|Illustrated|Russian|Special Collection|Russian Avant Garde|Featured

BLAGININA, Elena. ????? ?????????.

Nauchus'-Ka Ya Chitat' ???????-?? ? ??????. [I'm Learning to Read]. Khudozhniki B. Markevich I V. Andriyevich. ????????? ?. ???????? ? ?. ?????????.

Moscow Moskva ??????. Izdatelstvo Malish, ???????????? ?????. 1964. Quarto, cloth backed, colour illustrated boards, long-playing 33 1/3 RPM record in sleeve. 32 pp. each page delightfully colour illustrated. One page per letter. Small tear to record pocket else very good.

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Book number: 38815

Catalogue: Russian Children's Books

Keywords: Featured|Children's|Illustrated|Alphabets and Scripts|Russian|Record

BLOK, A. A..

Zaichik. Khudozhnik T Vasilieva. [a Selection of Poems by Aleksandr Blok].

Moscow Moskva, Sovetskaya Rossiya, 1989. Colour illustrated paper covers, stapled, unpaginated [16 pp.]. illustrated throughout in colour. In very good condition, probably unused. Text in Russian, poems by one of the greatest Russian symbolists,Alexander Blok. Comprising: Vorona, Na Lugy, Groza proshla.. Letni vecer, Zaichik, Uchitel, Sneg na Sneg, Vetkhaya izbushka. Illustrated for children by T Vasilieva.

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Book number: 37431

Catalogue: Russian Children's Books

Keywords: Featured|Children's|Russian Children's Books|Illustrated|Poetry

BLYTON, Enid

Summer Time. Round the Year with Enid Blyton. Nature Books

London, Evans Brothers Limited, n.d. Not dated. No edition/printing. Original orange limp cloth decorated in half tones. B/w in-text illustrations. Ex school library with neat stamps to endpapers. Very mild threading to edges but a good clean copy. Used; Good c. 1948. Paperback.

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Book number: 33793

Catalogue: Children's, Folk & Illustrated

Keywords: Children's|Reader|Enid Blyton|Featured|Children

BOWOOD, Richard

The Story of Railways. With Illustrations by Robert Ayton. A Ladybird 'Achievements' Book Series 601.

London, Ladybird Books Ltd, n.d. Not dated. A good, clean, tight copy. Spine torn along lower edge. Used; Good . Hardback.

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Book number: 36502

Catalogue: Children's, Folk & Illustrated

Keywords: Book-Cover Design|Children's|Ladybird|Featured|Railways|Trains