Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller
Item #43998 Разные звери Raznye Zveri (Different Animals). Yevgeny Ivanovich Charushin, by.
Разные звери Raznye Zveri (Different Animals)
Разные звери Raznye Zveri (Different Animals)
Разные звери Raznye Zveri (Different Animals)
Разные звери Raznye Zveri (Different Animals)

Разные звери Raznye Zveri (Different Animals)

Leningrad: Огиз-Молодая ГВардия (Ogiz-Molodaya Gvardiya), 1931. Second edition. Softcover. Octavo. Unpaginated. [8]. Illustrated stapled wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover. This work is a delightful picture book for children, with illustrations throughout by Yevgeny Charushin, depicting various types of animals. Charushin's images are printed lithographically in earthy hues of orange, brown, tan, black and grey. Animals include rabbits, moose, foxes, boar, snow leopard, rain deer, and wolves, among others. Each image is captioned with the name of the animal in Russian. This scarce second edition follows an ever scarcer first edition from 1929. Wrappers with some rippling and creasing. Stapled binding loose. Residue from previous protective lamination on the interior front and back covers. Interior front cover with pasted on typed English description. Age toning to the edges of pages. Light smudges to pages throughout. Images unaffected overall. Wrappers in good-, interior in good condition overall. Scarce. Protected by modern mylar. g- to g+. Item #43998

Yevgeny Ivanovich Charushin (1901-1965) was a Russian illustrator and author of children's literature. He graduated from the Russian Academy of Arts in Petrograd in 1926. Starting in 1928, he started to illustrate books by various acclaimed Russian authors as well as his own children's books.

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