Russian Fairy-Tale in the art of Yu A Vasnetsov
Leningrad, [Kandozhniki], 1971, 15x11"; white cloth boards with a silver and gold gilt cartouche picturing Baba Yaga's house and a rabbit; on the bottom board a singing bird in sprays of flowers, orange white and yellow endpapers with little animals and people; a red heavy paper jacket with a bear in a blue tunic among red flowers carrying a balalaika on the front, All this is carefully designed using what appears to be the artist's work; 11x15"; 139 pp on heavy paper. Russian language hardback tall.
A feast of Yuri Vasnetsov's masterful illustrations of fairy tales, closely tied to colourful Russian folk art, yet always surprising and original. With an English essay and abbreviated index with the source of the paintings and illustrations. Laid in is a Fine 1957 paperback copy of Magpie; one of the illustrations appears as #79 in the book itself.
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CONDITION: Fine in Good Plus jacket; bright, clean, no names, in a jacket with very rubbed spine creases and a pulled surface tear at spine top, but with no loss of paper or tears, which has protected the book well The Magpie quarto paperback is Fine, as new. Item #22790
$150