Skazki [Fairy Tales].
St. Petersburg]: Ekspeditsiya zagotovleniya gosudarstvennykh bumag, 1901-1903. 4 vols.: Skazka ob Ivane Tsareviche, Zhar-ptitse i o serom volke [The Tale of Ivan Tsarevich, the Fire Bird and the Grey Wolf] ; Tsarevna Lyagyushka [The Frog Princess] ; Sestritsa Alenushka i bratetse Ivanushka; Belaya utochka [Little Sister Alena and Little Brother Ivan; and The Little White Duck]; and Marya Morevna . Chromolithographs after I. Ya. Bilibin. Folio (320 x 255 mm). Three with original decorated wrappers; one in cloth-backed boards. Condition: discolored, soiled and some foxing; one book rebacked with pages loose. I. Ya. Bilibin established his reputation as the greatest illustrator of Russian fairy tales with this elegant series. The environment he created for these beautifully printed picture books derived from artist’s studies of old provincial Russian architecture and folk arts. [With:] CARPENTER, Frances. Tales of a Russian Grandmother . Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1934. Illustrated in color and black and white by I. Ya. Bilibin. 8vo (220 x 160 mm).Original blue boards with the pictorial dust wrapper designed by I. Ya. Bilibin (chipped, rubbed). Condition: some foxing with former owner’s name on front free endpaper. Bilibin reworked pictures from the earlier skazki series specifically for this collection. (5).
Skazki [Fairy Tales].
St. Petersburg]: Ekspeditsiya zagotovleniya gosudarstvennykh bumag, 1901-1903. 4 vols.: Skazka ob Ivane Tsareviche, Zhar-ptitse i o serom volke [The Tale of Ivan Tsarevich, the Fire Bird and the Grey Wolf] ; Tsarevna Lyagyushka [The Frog Princess] ; Sestritsa Alenushka i bratetse Ivanushka; Belaya utochka [Little Sister Alena and Little Brother Ivan; and The Little White Duck]; and Marya Morevna . Chromolithographs after I. Ya. Bilibin. Folio (320 x 255 mm). Three with original decorated wrappers; one in cloth-backed boards. Condition: discolored, soiled and some foxing; one book rebacked with pages loose. I. Ya. Bilibin established his reputation as the greatest illustrator of Russian fairy tales with this elegant series. The environment he created for these beautifully printed picture books derived from artist’s studies of old provincial Russian architecture and folk arts. [With:] CARPENTER, Frances. Tales of a Russian Grandmother . Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1934. Illustrated in color and black and white by I. Ya. Bilibin. 8vo (220 x 160 mm).Original blue boards with the pictorial dust wrapper designed by I. Ya. Bilibin (chipped, rubbed). Condition: some foxing with former owner’s name on front free endpaper. Bilibin reworked pictures from the earlier skazki series specifically for this collection. (5).
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