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Tula: Tulskoe Knizhnoe Izdatelstvo, 1961. Hardcover. Good. Second Russian edition; 8vo; pp. [2], 3-174, [2]; original pictorial boards in bright orange and yellow, depicting Bambi in mid-leap; cloth spine; b & W illustrations; relatively minor rubbing and fading to boards and edges, mostly to margins; slight uniform age-toning to text, else pages clean; good or better condition. Subtitled: "Lesnaia Skazka (Easy Reading)." Bambi was first published in Austria in 1923. Since then, the story of the little fawn has been translated into many languages and adapted into numerous films and theatrical productions.

Stavropol': Stavropol'skoe Knizhnoe Izdatel'stvo, 1973. Soft cover. First edition thus; 7 3/4 x 10 1/4; unpaginated (pp. 21); some wear to spine; two small cuts to bottom edge of front cover; minor spot to upper margin of front cover; pages mostly very clean; illustrated with full-page and in-line color illustrations; very good.A charming edition of Tolstoy’s book about his beloved bulldog Bul’ka.

Moscow/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1948. Hardcover. First edition (presumed - OCLC lists only a later 1962 edition); 7 x 8 3/4; pp. [2], 3-219; [5]; clothe-backed pictorial boards; some wear and rubbing along edges and a few spots to margins of covers; foxing to first and last page only, else clean; small personal stamp and a number to endpaper and title page; illustrated in b&w by B. Vinokurova; overall in good to very good condition.Published in a relatively small run (30 000 copies), the book tells the story of little Varia who is visiting her grandparents in the village of Saigatka. When the Great War breaks out and the peace is shattered, Varia decides to run back to Moscow and her parents. Whom will she meet on the road and will she ever manage, on her own, to find her way home?

Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1953. First edition in this format; 9" x 11 1/4"; pp. 3-23 including text to first and last page; original pictorial wraps; wear and rubbing to spine and corners; pages mostly very clean; illustrated; good."Kids in a Cage" - an adorable book about baby animals in the zoo. Profusely illustrated by Evgenii Charushin - an acclaimed Russian artist and a prolific children's books illustrator. The author, Samuil Marshak, was proclaimed by Maxim Gorky to be "the founder of Russia's children's literature." He was also a talented translator among whose beautiful translations were those of Shakespeare, Robert Burns, and Rudyard Kipling.

Sofia: Bulgarski Pisatel, 1949. First edition (limited to 8000 copies); 7 x 9; [2], 5-173, [1]; red pictorial wraps; 1/2" loss of paper to tail of spine and two chips to fore-edge of front cover; few small tears around staples on first free page, else clean and well preserved; small signature to upper corner of first and second page; few penciled-in numbers to margins; illustrated by artist Georgi Kovachev (Grishata); very good condition.The title of the book literally translates as "Dimitrov's Fire" and refers to the name of Georgi Dimitrov - the leader of the Third Comintern from 1934 to 1943 and the first Communist leader of Bulgaria from 1946 to 1949. A compilation of typical children's propaganda poems by one of the most beloved Bulgarian authors of children's literature in the 20th century, this edition was, nevertheless, printed in an extremely small run as most other children's works from the period numbered in the hundreds of thousands. The book won the… Read More

Moskva/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Khudozhestvennoi Literatury, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition in this format; 5 1/2" x 8"; pp. [4], iii-xxvi, [4], 3-357, [3]; original yellow pictorial boards, embossed in red and black; minor wear to edges; a few small pen marks to lower margin of front cover; very good. Full-page color frontis; full-page b & w illustrations throughout; lettrines at beginning of each chapter. A charming compilation of old tales, translated from the original French. What makes the book that much more interesting is the beautiful art in it by Dmitrii Isidorovich Mitrokhin - a brilliant and well-known Russian artist and illustrator.

Zagreb: Nasha Deca, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition; board book; pp. 6; original pictorial boards; heavy stiff pages; cloth spine; minor wear along edges; very good or better. Garov the dog and his friends.

Sofiia: Narodna Mladezh, 1983. Hardcover. Fine. Second edition; 7" x 9"; pp. [9], 10-54, [2]; original brown boards with gilt title; pictorial DJ; illustrated; fine. Jacket with a few small nicks to head and tail of spine and corners, very good. What first grabs the attention in this book are the striking full-page sepia tone illustrations by Olga Paskaleva - an award winning Bulgarian artist. In a typical Communist propaganda way, the poem commemorates the heroism of 7 members of 'Georgi Benkovski' Partisan Squad during WWII. Surrounded and far outnumbered by the Germans In the winter of 1944, they run out of ammunition and instead of falling into the enemy's hands they save the last bomb for themselves.

Moskva: Detskaia Literatura, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition in this format; 5 3/4" x 8"; pp. [2], 3-143, [1]; original pictorial boards; cloth spine; some rubbing mostly to lower edge of covers; illustrated from original drawings by Thackeray; very good or better. A beautiful children's edition of William Thackeray's 'The Rose and the Ring,' in which he subtly criticizes the monarchy and the twisted views of beauty of the nobility.

Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1953. First edition in this format; 8 3/4" x 11"; pp. 3-16 including text to last page; original pictorial wraps; small closed cuts to head and tail of spine; faint age-toning to margins, else bright and clean; illustrated; very good or better."Peasant Children" is a wonderful reflection on both the author and the illustrator's love for peasant Russia. Nekrasov was one of the foremost figures in Russia's liberal and radical circles of the Russian intelligentsia in the second half of the 19th century. Alexsei Pakhomov was one of the biggest names of Russian avant garde in the early to mid-1900s.

Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1956. Soft cover. First edition; staple-bound 8 ¾†x 11; pp. 3-14, [2] including text to last page; original pictorial wraps; wear along spine with a small vertical cut to tail; crease line to tip of upper corner of front cover; b & w illustrations; very good.A charming story describing of the critters living in the river.

Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1954. First edition in this format; 8 3/4" x 11"; pp. 2-18 including text to first and last page; original pictorial wraps; closed cut to tail of spine; minor wear to covers; illustrated; good to very good."Mother's Trolley" - a delightful book, written in rhymes, about a little boy and his mom, the driver of a trolley car. Beautiful full-page and in-line illustrations.

Cheboksary: Chuvashskoe Knizhnoe Izdatel'stvo, 1974. Softcover. First edition thus; 5 x 8; pp. [2], 5-60, [2]; illustrated wraps; small nicks to tips of spine; lower corners a bit bent; light uniform age-toning to pages; illustrated by I. Astapova; very good or better.A beautiful edition of Turgenev's short story about a deaf/mute peasant and his dog Mumu.

Moscow / Leningrad: Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1938. Softcover. First edition thus; 6" x 8 1/2"; pp. 31; illustrated blue wraps; rubbing along spine and corners; a few small nicks and a slight ripple to fore-edge; b & w illustrations by P. Korovin; good or better condition.Part of the series "Kniga za Knigoi," the book is a beautiful young and middle-school aged children's edition of Lermontov's romantic poem of merchant Kalashnikov who is put to death by Tsar Ivan the Terrible.

Moscow/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1952. Hardcover. First edition; 5 x 8; pp. [2], 3-173, [3]; cloth-backed pictorial boards; some rubbing mostly along extreme edges of covers; few small nicks to fore-edge; illustrated in b&w by artist V. Ermolov; very good or better.Sergei Sartakov was born in 1908 in Omsk and grew up in the Siberian taiga after his family fled his hometown in the turmoil of the Revolution where he was unable to attend public school and was home-schooled by his mother. He began his literary career publishing articles and short stories in various journals. The plots of most of his historical novels and children's adventure stories revolve around Siberia and his unfailing love for the wilderness of Northern Russia and its people.

Berlin: Ladyzhnikov, I., 1922. Hardcover. First edition; oblong 8 3/4 x 11 1/2; pp. [25]; cloth-backed, illustrated paper over boards; paper along edges rubbed; some foxing and age-toning mostly contained to title page and margins of pages; illustrated with full-page chromolithographed plates and in-line silhouettes; overall in very good condition.A scarce Russian emigre children's poetry publication, it would most probably be author, poet, and playwright Vladimir Korvin-Piotrovskii's (1891 - 1966) very first book. Before emigrating, he served in the White Army and was captured by the Bolsheviks and shot, but he survived and escaped to Germany through Poland in 1920. In Berlin, he met Vladimir Sirin (Nabokov) and Iurii Ofrosimov and became heavily involved in the Russian literary community. He was an active member of the Berlin Poets' Club - a society of Russian emigre poets - together with Vera and Vladimir Nabokov, Raisa Blokh, Mikhail Gorlin, Sofiia Pregel, etc. While in Germany,… Read More

Moskva/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo detskoi literatury, 1948. Hardcover. First edition; 11 1/4" x 8 3/4"; pp. [2], 3-48, [4]; cloth-backed, illustrated paper over boards; light age-toning; several closed cuts and nicks to edges of boards; a few leaves with brittle and chipped corners; illustrated in black & white by Dmitrii Moor; bookplate of Lieutenant Colonel Victor de Guinzbourg to front board verso; overall in very good condition.A remarkable and quite uncommon children's book of proverbs and riddles, it was published in the aftermath of the Second World War and illustrated by a true master of graphic art and one of the pioneers of the Soviet political poster. Dmitrii Stakhievich Orlov - Moor (1883 - 1946) did not have a formal art education. He began his career as a caricaturist for several liberal journals, including the satirical magazine Budilnik. Eventually, his striking posters of the Revolution,Civil War, and later, the Second World War, usually rendered as… Read More

Moscow: Detskaia Literatura, 1970. Hardcover. Forth edition; 6 x 8; pp. [2], 3-239, [1]; vloth-backed pictorial boards; some rubbing to corners; mild uniform age-toning to pages; very good or better.Aleksandr Radishchev (1749-1802) was a Russian social critic and author who was said to have brought radicalism to Russian literature. The first edition of his current book, describing the socio-economic conditions in Russia and criticizing serfdom, was published in 1790 and immediately condemned by Catherine the Great. The Queen ordered the entire printing to be confiscated and destroyed and of the 650 copies 17 survived (they were smuggled to England and reprinted in 1840). For daring to write it, the author was sentenced to death. The sentence was later reversed to exile in Siberia after Radishchev begged forgiveness of Catherine the Great and publicly disowning his book. A second edition was not published until 1905.

Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1955. Hardcover. 6†x 8 ¾†; pp. [4], 5-158, [2]; original pictorial boards; cloth spine; rubbing to edges of covers and corners; slight discoloration to fore-edge of back cover; pages uniformly tanned; profusely illustrated in b & w; small signature and a minor rubbed spot to first free page, else clean; very good.

Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition; 9" x 11"; pp. [2], 3-38, [2]; original pictorial boards; cloth spine; mild to moderate wear along edges and corners of covers; beautiful full-page and in-line color illustrations; very good. Ivan Michurin was a renowned Russian academician and scientist (1855-1935). He made major contributions in the fields of agricultural research and genetics and in 1923 his own fruit garden was recognized by Lenin and Council of People's Commissars as an institution of state importance.