Skazki, Tales and Legends of Old Russia
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926.
First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a very good dust jacket. 10.25" x 7", 335 pp, with 24 tipped-in plates -- 12 in full color, and twelve in black and white on gold. A very fine copy with one tiny nick in the cloth along the front joint, in a lovely example of the scarce dust jacket, which has rubbing at front corners and some creasing and short tears at the head of the spine. "A collection of twelve wonder-tales of native origin, gathered from various sources and told here, in most cases for the first time, in a setting of rhythmic prose....Mr. Nadejen's illustrations hold the very core and spirit of the tales, as only a Russian could know them. Brilliant in color and design, his work combined the fantasy and strangeness of his strange country with the essential simplicity that underlies all beauty" (jacket), Stories include Kyrilo the Tanner; Tsar Saltan; the Soldier and the Demons; Ivan Tsarevitch and the Gray Wolf; the Golden Cock; All-Wise Helen; Ruslan and Lyudmila; Sadko the Merchant; Kostchei the Deathless; Whither no one Knows; the Sleeping Tsarevna and the Seven Giants; the Snake-Tsarevna; and How the Bogatirs were destroyed in Holy Russia.
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Price: $200.00