PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich, and illustrators N. A. Bartram and Granilshchikov. Skazka o zopotom petuske. [The Tale of the golden cockerel]. [Moscow: Sytin, 1918]. [with:]. Skazka o pope i o rabotnike ego Balde . [The Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda]. Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1925. Two first editions of illustrated Pushkin tales. Nikolai Bartram was a major contributor to the arts and crafts in early 20th-century Russia, and a fine connoisseur of toys, curator of the Toy Museum – a role in which he further expressed his aesthetic views uniting peasant art with childhood imagination. Granilshchikov’s vivid interpretation of ‘The Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda’ was only one of the earliest of many, for a tale of such popularity that it became an animated movie in the 1930s. Octavo (210 x 180mm). With many illustrations throughout. Original pictorial wrappers (light wear at extremities). Octavo (355 x 272mm). With many illustrations throughout. Original pictorial wrappers (spine and edges lightly worn).
PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich, and illustrators N. A. Bartram and Granilshchikov. Skazka o zopotom petuske. [The Tale of the golden cockerel]. [Moscow: Sytin, 1918]. [with:]. Skazka o pope i o rabotnike ego Balde . [The Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda]. Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1925. Two first editions of illustrated Pushkin tales. Nikolai Bartram was a major contributor to the arts and crafts in early 20th-century Russia, and a fine connoisseur of toys, curator of the Toy Museum – a role in which he further expressed his aesthetic views uniting peasant art with childhood imagination. Granilshchikov’s vivid interpretation of ‘The Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda’ was only one of the earliest of many, for a tale of such popularity that it became an animated movie in the 1930s. Octavo (210 x 180mm). With many illustrations throughout. Original pictorial wrappers (light wear at extremities). Octavo (355 x 272mm). With many illustrations throughout. Original pictorial wrappers (spine and edges lightly worn).
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