A Harvest of Russian Children's Literature
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1967. Favorsky, Vladimir. First American Edition. Large Hardcover. Good / Good. Item #2352691
ISBN: 0520008863
First American edition. Light stain along jacket base and fore edge and bottom margin of a few pages (does not affect text), a few chips and closed tears along jacket edges.
xiv, 474 pp. An anthology of favorite Russian poems, stories and folk tales for children, arranged in sections for three different age groups and a collection of folklore. Edited, with an introduction, by Miriam Morton, who also translated a collection of Leo Tolstoy's children's stories into English. This anthology also includes contributions by Leo Tolstoy, as well as Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, and many others, with a foreword by Ruth Hill Viguers (editor of The Horn Book Magazine), and woodcut illustrations by Vladimir Favorsky.
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