Author: Pop, Simion
Title: The Merry Cemetery : A Sentimental Monograph
Description: [Bucharest], Publishing House of Tourism, 1972. orig. cloth. 27x20cm, 40,(60) pp. With photos by Ion Miclea-Mihale. Translated from the Romanian by Mary Lazarescu and Leon Levitchi. Weighs 800 grams. 60pp photoplates. Minor wear. Light stain to binding. VG. ¶ Photographic study of the "Merry Cemetery" in Sapânta village. Maramures, district, Romania, famous for its carved wooden tombstones adorned with naïve paintings. Consists of 40pp text + 60pp photoplates, some colored.

Keywords: Romanian Folk Art, Romania, Naive Painting, Wood Carving, Polychromy, Ethnology, Graveposts, Epitaphs, Cemetery