Конек-Горбунек / Konek-Gorbunek

Leningrad: Гос. изд-во детской лит-ры / Gos. izd-vo detskoĭ lit-ry, 1964. Quarto with red cloth spine and green/blue pictorial boards; 133 pages;color illustrations; 29cm Very good (-); edges of boards a bit rubbed; corners bumped; small ink owner inscription on second page; binding solid; pages clean and illustrations bright. Hardcover.

Scarce thus, with full color illus by MIlashevsky. 1964 Russian edition of Конёк-Горбунок (The Little Humpbacked Horse), a classic Russian fairy tale in verse written by Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov (P. P. Ershov). The book features color illustrations by V. M. Milashevsky (В. М. Милашевский), a notable Soviet artist known for his work in children’s literature.Published by the State Publishing House for Children’s Literature (Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo detskoi literatury) in Leningrad, the physical volume comprises 133 pages and is richly illustrated in color, suggesting a high-quality edition intended for younger readers.

// Children's literature, Russian, Littérature de jeunesse russe