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Weitere BilderDetskii Ostrov / Children's Island
Chernii, (Chorny or Cherny), Sasha [pseud. of Alexander Mikhailovich Glikberg]; Grigoriev, Boris Dmitrievich (illustrator)
Verlag: Slovo Publishers [Ullstein & Co], 1921
- Hardcover
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, USAArundel Books
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Zustand: Gebraucht - Gut
EUR 1.507,14
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. A nice copy of this scarce Russian children's book. First Edition, later reprinted by the Soviets in 1928 with different illustrations. 10 1/4 x 12 3/8 in. 158, [1] pp. Text in Russian. Poems by Sasha Chernyi. Mounted color cover Lithograph, and b/w lithograph title page and 19 addit…ional full-page lithographs by Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev. Original quarter red cloth over paper covered boards. // A collection of poems for children by the exiled Russian-Jewish poet, satirist, and children's author Alexander Mikhailovich Glikberg (Alieksandr Mikhailovich Glikbiergh; 1880-1932), known by the pen name Sasha Chorny. The book, which describes an imaginary world full of adventures, games, and colorful characters. // Children's Island was released at the end of 1920. The poet's widow wrote in her memoirs: "I met by chance one of my students at the Higher Women's Courses in St. Petersburg, who was married to the lawyer B. I. Elkin, who now held a prominent position in the large Ulstein publishing house in Berlin ('Ulstein and Co' - a newspaper and book publisher in Berlin, which published 'Slovo' and several other emigrant publications. He immediately arranged for the publication of a collection of Sasha's children's poems 'Children's Island', which was illustrated by our close acquaintance from St. Petersburg, the artist Boris Grigoriev. Despite its rather high price, this book sold out rather quickly in two editions. (Glikberg M. I. From memoirs // Russian literary magazine. ., 1993. Vol. 2. ? 242) // Condition: cover has been nicely colored by a previous owner accenting the titles in yellow, with additional coloring to the lithograph in yellow and green; wear to the spine, and some fraying to the spine ends, corners rubbed and bumped, else Very Good.
