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Picture Tales from the Russian. Valery Carrick. Translated by Nevill Forbes. 11 charmingly illustrated fairy and folk tales. The Gold Egg, The Little House, The Cock, the Cat, and the Fox, The Fox and the Pot, The Crane and the Heron, Snowflake, The Bun, The Lame Duck, Mr. Samsons Cat, The Dog and the Wolf, The Crow and the Lobster.
Valerian Viliamovich Carrik (Валериан Вильямович Каррик) (1869-1943) was a Russian illustrator, caricaturist and satirical journalist who fled after the October Revolution in 1917 to Norway. His father, William Carrick, was a pioneering photographer of 19th century Russian peasants and workers on the streets of St. Petersburg.
NY: Frederick A. Stokes, no date (1913). 120 pages. Vertical 12mo with red cloth binding. About good condition. Soil to white areas of front cover, sticker pull top right. Cloth spine binding is sound, black letters of title fully visible. Plenty of soil marks in the book, as well as some wrinkled pages that are mostly at the back, as behooves a book that was in a child's hands a century ago. Gift inscription on first page in English. 1 copy only.
