Slavic Literature:Children from ZH BOOKS

Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1953. First edition in this format; 8 3/4" x 11"; pp. 3-16 including text to last page; original pictorial wraps; small closed cuts to head and tail of spine; faint age-toning to margins, else bright and clean; illustrated; very good or better."Peasant Children" is a wonderful reflection on both the author and the illustrator's love… Read more about this item

Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1954. First edition in this format; 8 3/4" x 11"; pp. 2-18 including text to first and last page; original pictorial wraps; closed cut to tail of spine; minor wear to covers; illustrated; good to very good."Mother's Trolley" - a delightful book, written in rhymes, about a little boy and his mom, the driver of… Read more about this item

Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1953. First edition in this format; 9" x 11 1/4"; pp. 3-23 including text to first and last page; original pictorial wraps; wear and rubbing to spine and corners; pages mostly very clean; illustrated; good."Kids in a Cage" - an adorable book about baby animals in the zoo. Profusely illustrated by Evgenii Charushin - an… Read more about this item

Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition; 9" x 11"; pp. [2], 3-38, [2]; original pictorial boards; cloth spine; mild to moderate wear along edges and corners of covers; beautiful full-page and in-line color illustrations; front hinge slightly weak; very good. Ivan Michurin was a renowned Russian academician and scientist (1855-1935). He made major… Read more about this item

Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1955. Hardcover. 6†x 8 ¾†; pp. [4], 5-158, [2]; original pictorial boards; cloth spine; rubbing to edges of covers and corners; slight discoloration to fore-edge of back cover; pages uniformly tanned; profusely illustrated in b & w; small signature and a minor rubbed spot to first free page, else clean; very… Read more about this item

Moskva: Detskaia Literatura, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition in this format; 5 3/4" x 8"; pp. [2], 3-143, [1]; original pictorial boards; cloth spine; some rubbing mostly to lower edge of covers; illustrated from original drawings by Thackeray; very good or better. A beautiful children's edition of William Thackeray's 'The Rose and the Ring,' in which he… Read more about this item

Moskva: Detgiz, 1954. Soft cover. First edition; staple-bound 8 ½†x 11’ pp. 1-15, [1] including text to first and last page; original pictorial wraps; wear along spine with small cuts to head and tail; slight curl to upper right corner; full-page and in-line color illustrations; good or better.The story of Russian peasant children and a beautiful blue… Read more about this item

Moskva/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Khudozhestvennoi Literatury, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition in this format; 5 1/2" x 8"; pp. [4], iii-xxvi, [4], 3-357, [3]; original yellow pictorial boards, embossed in red and black; minor wear to edges; a few small pen marks to lower margin of front cover; very good. Full-page color frontis; full-page b & w illustrations… Read more about this item

Stavropol': Stavropol'skoe Knizhnoe Izdatel'stvo, 1973. Soft cover. First edition thus; 7 3/4 x 10 1/4; unpaginated (pp. 21); some wear to spine; two small cuts to bottom edge of front cover; minor spot to upper margin of front cover; pages mostly very clean; illustrated with full-page and in-line color illustrations; very good.A charming edition of Tolstoy’s book about… Read more about this item

Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1956. Soft cover. First edition; staple-bound 8 ¾†x 11; pp. 3-14, [2] including text to last page; original pictorial wraps; wear along spine with a small vertical cut to tail; crease line to tip of upper corner of front cover; b & w illustrations; very good.A charming story describing of the critters… Read more about this item

Sofiia: Narodna Mladezh, 1983. Hardcover. Fine. Second edition; 7" x 9"; pp. [9], 10-54, [2]; original brown boards with gilt title; pictorial DJ; illustrated; fine. Jacket with a few small nicks to head and tail of spine and corners, very good. What first grabs the attention in this book are the striking full-page sepia tone illustrations by Olga… Read more about this item

Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition; 9" x 11"; pp. [2], 3-38, [2]; original pictorial boards; cloth spine; mild to moderate wear along edges and corners of covers; beautiful full-page and in-line color illustrations; very good. Ivan Michurin was a renowned Russian academician and scientist (1855-1935). He made major contributions in the fields… Read more about this item

Moskva: Detskoi Literatury (TSK VLKSM), 1938. Soft cover. First edition, staple-bound 5 ½†x 7 ½†; pp. [2], 5-29, [3] including index to last page; original pictorial wraps; minor wear along edges, else near fine; portrait frontis; illustrated from paintings of notable Russian artists (full-page and in-line).

Tula: Tulskoe Knizhnoe Izdatelstvo, 1961. Hardcover. Good. Second Russian edition; 8vo; pp. [2], 3-174, [2]; original pictorial boards in bright orange and yellow, depicting Bambi in mid-leap; cloth spine; b & W illustrations; relatively minor rubbing and fading to boards and edges, mostly to margins; slight uniform age-toning to text, else pages clean; good or better condition. … Read more about this item

Zagreb: Nasha Deca, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition; board book; pp. 6; original pictorial boards; heavy stiff pages; cloth spine; minor wear along edges; very good or better. Garov the dog and his friends.