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LOT 819:
IVAN BILIBIN (1876-1942) Contes de l'Isba Ed. Boivin et Cie, Paris, 1931
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IVAN BILIBIN (1876-1942) Contes de l'Isba Ed. Boivin et Cie, Paris, 1931
First edition, in a colourful publisher's cardboard binding, with 8 tipped-in colour plates (some damaged), nine full-page woodcut engravings in black
translated from the Russian by H. Isserlis and B. Ayroy
The collection includes Russian fairy tales: ‘Vasilisa the Wise’,
‘Morozko’, ‘Ivan Tsarevich and the Firebird’, ‘Finist the Bright Falcon's Feather’, The Seven Simeons’, ‘Salt’, ‘The Frog Princess’, ‘Go There, I Don't Know Where’, ‘Zorka Bogatyr’
160 pp.
In French
29 x 23 cm
The famous French edition of the Russian folk tales Tales of the Abyss, which Bilibin first illustrated in Russian in the early 20th century.
A master of depicting Russian folklore, Bilibin continued to create charming children's books after emigrating to Paris in 1925
