Feodor Rojankowsky Rojan (2 results)

Hardcover. dj. First Edition. Green, blue, black and white pictorial boards, with just a bit of rubbing to extremities. Lovely brushed endpaper design. $1.00 price intact to front dustjacket flap. Black and white and (fabulous!) color illustrations by Rojan. Lovely, clean copy. Protected in mylar. ".Paul Faucher, a bookseller in the 1920s became interested and immersed in the European educational movement led by Frantisek Bakule and Jean Piaget. In 1929 he founded the French section of the International Education Office and began working with Bakule, who ran an experimental orphanage in Prague. The orphanage accepted healthy children, as well as children who became handicapped during World War I. He successfully integrated both classes of children in independent and creative activities. Bakule's assistant was a Czech children's book author Lida Durdikova. She may have had something to do with Faucher's interest in children's literature and helped him launch the Père Castor albums in 1931. She was the main author of the series, working under the pseudonym Lida, and married Faucher in 1933." (Masha Stepanova, writing for Miami University's Walter Havighurst's Special Collections). Very Good Minus in Good Plus Dustjacket. Feodor Rojankowsky (illustrator). …

dj. First American Edition, preceded by the First French Edition. A charming children's book about a wild baby rabbit. Gift inscription on the front endpaper, else about Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket.