Erscheinungsdatum: 1939
Anbieter: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, USA
Zustand: VG. Moscow 1939 first edition. Dyetskoy Literturi. Hardcover. square octavo. Drawings by P. Staranosova. Bolding blue and green color fully pictorial end papers showing two native Africans and a white bird deep in a forest. Color frontispiece and 2 more fullpage color plates in text. 87p. Line drawings in text. Fictional biography of an explorer named Miklukho-Maklai and his adventures, written for young readers. Entirely in Russian. Text evenly toned. VG, delicate, lightly worn; light toning to text; no tears ; all hinges intact and unbroken; no ownership marks. Chumachenko, 1887-1954, was a Ukrainian-born poet and playwright. After the Bolshevik revolution "she took refuge in writing for children" (Dictionary of Russian Women Writers). RARE.