Elachich, Evgenii (188? - after1930?)
Samoilov, I[van?] (187? - after1930?), artist
Sil´nye dukhom. Razskazy. Belgrade, 1930. [88 p.], ill., [bibliography]
(Biblioteka dlia iunoshestva, Kniga 2)
€75,00
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8 vo, publisher´s covers designed by I.Samoilov. Front cover soiled, slight traces of aging, very small loss of paper at upper right corner. Internally a very clean copy. Printed on high quality TCF paper.
GOOD TO VERY GOOD. 1000 copies printed only.

Collection of stories by one of the major Russia´s XX century educators, a bibliographer of Russian émigré children literature and archivist. Illustrations and vignettes by I.Samoilov (not in Leikind).

Evgenii Elachich started his career as early as 1904.He authored his major work 'Sbornik statei po voprosam dietskago chteniia' in 1914 (St.Petersburg, Tovarishchestvo Khudozhestvennoi pechati). Published numerous articles on Russian, soviet and Russian émigré children literature in émigré journals in 1920s and 1930s.
Valuable bibliographical data on 'Russkaia Biblioteka Series printed on inner back cover.

NOT IN OCLC