Author: Ilin, M.
Title: Black on White: The Story of Books. Translated by Beatrice Kincead.
Description: Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1932). (1932). - Octavo, maroon cloth titled in black on spine & in maroon within black rectangle on front cover, in red & white dw. The covers are very lightly bumped with light rubbing to the rear cover. The dw is lightly soiled & somewhat darkened with a piece out of the front panel. 135 pp. B&W textual illustrations & vignettes by N. Lapshin. Very good in good dw.

Eighth printing.

"M. Ilin..is a young Russian engineer, brother of Marschak, the famous Russian poet and story-teller. Both brothers belong to a group of writers who are studying science and history and Soviet life and writing books not only for Russian children but for workers in factories and for peasants..All of them work together trying to make simple stories about the real world we live in."--From the publisher's note. Very good .

Keywords: CHILDREN'S; ILLUSTRATED; RUSSIAN; SOVIET UNION; BOOKS; BOOK-MAKING; BOOKS-ON-BOOKS; M. ILIN; ILLUSTRATOR; N. LAPSHIN.

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