Russian Wonder Tales

Containing Twelve of the Famous Bilibin Illustrations in Colour. First edition. Publisher’s original pictorial boards. Black top-stain. [xvi] + 334pp. Includes twelve col. illustrations [incl. frontispiece] by I.A. Bilibin. Collated. Boards a little rubbed; spine slightly sunned. Off-setting to endpapers. A few spots of foxing to edges. Tissue guard to frontispiece age-toned and with a tiny hole near gutter. A more than very good copy of this collection of Russian folk tales (‘skazki’). Leaves and illustrations bright and unmarked. Scarce first UK printing. (Printed in the same year in the US The Century Co.)