Lot 172
  • 172

Russian children's books

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • A collection of nine illustrated volumes, all with original wrappers, comprising:
  • Paper
LEBEDEV, Vladimir. Okhota [The hunt]. Moscow: Raduga, 1925 [but later]
MARSHAK and LEBEDEV. Kak rubanok sdelal rubanok [How the plane made a plane]. Leningrad: Raduga, 1927 [but later]
CHUKOVSKY and ANNENKOV. Moidodyr [Wash 'em clean]. Moscow-Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1928, covers repaired
CHUKOVSKY and RUDAKOV. Solntse [Sun]. Leningrad-Moscow: Raduga, [1927?]
CHUKOVSKY and RE-MI. Krokodil [Crocodile]. Petrograd, c. 1919, worn
KIPLING (translated by Marshak) and LEBEDEV. Slonenok [The Elephant's Child]. [Moscow]: Gosizdat, 1930
BIANKI and CHARUSHIN. Pervaya okhota [First hunt]. Leningrad: Ogiz, 1933, library stamps, wrappers slightly worn with new backstrip
KONASHEVICH and MARSHAK. Pozhar [Fire]. Leningrad: Ogiz, 1935, eleventh edition, wrappers repaired with loss
MIKHAILOV and PAKHOMOV. Tak. Leningrad: Ogiz, 1940, water-damaged

Condition

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