Vladimir Konashevich (17 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Light handling wear and rubbing to stapled wraps. Text and images unmarked. 4to.

Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Very Good minus hardcover with light wear at the extremities and some small spots of laminate loss to the back cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. The stories of Alexander Pushkin, illustrated by Vladimir Konashevich. 136 pages; 8.75 x 11.25 inches.

Pictorial Hardcover. Vladimir Mikhailovich Konashevich (illustrator). Unstated. Includes 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of his son, the glorious and mighty Knight Prince Guidon Saltanovich and of the fair Swan-Princess'; 'The tale of the fisherman and the golden fish'; 'The tale of the dead princess and the seven knights'; & 'The tale of the golden cockerel'. English translation text. 136 pages with colour illustrations. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Near fine condition except for inscription on inside front page and a small stain on bottom page ends.

Softcover. Condition: Very good. [8 p.]. 28 cm. Colour illustrations. Stapled paper covers. Label residue on top front corners. A little wear to spines. Printed in the USSR.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. (24) pp., including cover, stiff paper, stapled. Wear on covers, age toning, small stamp on back cover, some small spots, fingered, folded, but solid and more than acceptable copy. 19 x 22 cm. Lemmens and Stommels, pp. 100-102.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First in this edition, (16) pp. stapled in pictorial paper wrappers. Split on head spine (1 cm.) and tail spine (4 cm.), dog-eared and very small chips missing from wrappers and all pages, age toning. But in all a more than acceptable copy for the wonderful illustrations in black/white and the coloured wrappers and the hidden (?) anti-Stalin message in this children's book. More photo's on request. 22 x 17 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Vladimir Konashevich (illustrator). Later Printing. 136 p. 29 cm. Sound and square binding in orange, cloth-covered boards, with gilt stamped titles. Minor wear to the corners. A few tiny spots to upper board. Light crease mark across spine near bottom. Dustjacket has some edge and folds wear and creases, moreso at the spine ends. One large crease mark on rear panel. A selection of six Russian fairy tales by Alexander Pushkin. The text is in Russian. The tales are illustrated with colourful and rich watercolours by Vladimir Konashevich.

Broschur. Condition: Sehr gut. 2. Auflage. mit leichten altersgemäßen Gebrauchsspuren! Eine Rarität! In englischer Sprache. 10 pages. 23 x 28 cm.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. (24) pp., including cover, stiff paper, stapled. Wear on covers, age toning, small stamp on back cover, some small spots, fingered, folded, dog eared, but solid and more than acceptable copy. 19 x 22 cm. Lemmens and Stommels, pp. 100-102.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Volksrijmpjes [Folk Rhymes] 8 pages. Measuring 22 cms x 19 cms approx. Mild, grubbiness to covers. Couple of spots of mild, pale foxing within. Stales rusted but very little 'bleed'. One tidy ownership name to first page. A very good example of this very scarce title. In the 1920's Soviet books were on put on exhibition by the USSR Society for Cultural Relations outside Russia. An exhibition was held in Amsterdam in 1929 and 8 Soviet children's books were published in Dutch in 1930. I have four of these titles at the moment, please do view the others. French editions did not appear until 1935.

Hardcover. Condition: vg- to near fine. Second edition. Large quarto. 16pp. Tan cloth over illustrated tan paper boards, with black lettering on the front cover. A delightful illustrated children's edition of the classic Russian fairy tale by Alexander Pushkin, with images by acclaimed artist Vladimir Konashevich (1888-1963). Each image is vibrantly printed in large multi-colored lithographs. The work was published by the well known Soviet publishing house for children's literature Detizdat (now known as Detskaya Literatura). Text in Russian. Covers with some age toning and minor smudges. Light rubbing to extremities. Small stain on the spine. Interior text and images quite clean, save for some minor sporadic smudges and minor rippling. Binding in very good-, interior in very good+ to near fine condition overall. Protected in modern mylar. Scarce. This is the second edition of Konashevich's illustrations for Pushkin's Tale of the Fisherman. The first edition was published in Berlin in 1922, by the Grzhebin publishing house.

4to. Pp. 16. With colour illustrations. Publisher's pictorial boards, rubbed. Old inscriptions on front end paper and old library marking on title. Second edition (first 1922) of this famous Russian children book illustrated by Konashevich. It was written by Pushkin in 1833, and published multiple times.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Fire Horse by Vladimir Mayakovsky illustrated by Vladimir Mikhailovich Konashevich published by Children's Literature Publishing, Moscow, 1940. First Edition. A Boy wants a toy horse big enough to ride, but where can his father find it? Not in the shops, which means it has to be built from scratch. How? with the help of expert workers, from the carpenter to the painter, working together as one. And now the bold boy is ready to ride off in defence of the future! "Horse-and-Fire" is a poem about professions. Mayakovsky himself spoke of it like this: " Let's say a story about a horse on wheels. I take the opportunity to explain to the child how many people worked to make such a horse. Thus, the child gets an idea of the social nature of labour" The Illustrator Konashevich (1888-1963) along with Lebedev, were the most important Russian picture book artists of their generation. Unlike Lebedev who championed Cubism and Constructivism, Konashevich belonged to the "world of Art" tradition in which the line was the basis of all art. A very good clean copy of this fragile and rare survivor of 1940 Soviet Russia. 12 pp housed in soft card wraps held together with a staple. Remarkably, the staple has not rusted as they usually do. The wraps are rubbed and a little chipped around the extremities. On the upper panel the lower RH corner has a chip of a few mm missing. A couple of areas of darkening. Inside the pages are evenly toned, but clean without blemish.

ABC for the new regime - a rarity --- One of the earliest primers with new orthography, explaining the changes. An attractive example of this fragile first and only edition, published in the aftermath of the Russian revolution. Very rare in the West: OCLC locates only one copy (Miami University); we could trace only an incomplete copy at auction in recent decades. The Soviet government's decrees of 23 December 1917 and 10 October 1918 announced the transition to a new spelling system, creating an urgent need to reprint alphabet books and literacy aids for the nation. One of the first primers to adopt the new spelling was this Rose ABC, where the author Evgeniia Soloveva (18701945) clarifies the shift by listing the letters removed from the alphabet and providing comparative texts in both the old and new spelling. This particularity may explain the scarcity of this ABC, a short-lasting publication as soon only the new orthography had to be taught. Illustrated by the artist and book illustrator Vladimir Konashevich (18881963), the Rose ABC closely follows his other, famous ABC book, Azbuka v risunkakh Konashevicha, published just a few months earlier in 1918. The chromolithograph covers of both works are very similar, the Rose ABC showing another central vignette, where a bouquet of flowers in a basket filled with letters replaces the earlier design featuring a bundle of animals with letters. The contents and internal designs are however completely different, showing Konashevich's versatility. Unlike, and possibly thanks to, Konashevich's first ABC, which only featured large images paired with single words, Rose ABC was designed for children already familiar with letters: individual words at the beginning gradually expand into short texts, becoming more advanced towards the end of the book. It shows Soloveva's experience: she was a prolific Russian educator and author of manuals on speech development, reading, and primers, including editions for the blind. Her widely used textbooks remained in print until 1970. For the almost 40 illustrations, Konashevich chose here soft pencil drawings, which are lively and expressive, showing animals and plants, rural landscapes, daily life at home and school, and children's games, all integrated into the text. Some images depict proverbs, sayings, and fables. The first fifteen pages of text were skilfully hand-lettered. Much like the orthographic changes, the illustrations in Rose ABC serve as a striking reflection of the social shifts in Russia. On one hand, they are clear and direct, in keeping with Konashevich's guiding principle that a child should understand an image at first glance. At the same time, they still depict 'pre-revolutionary' clothing and a way of life set in comparatively spacious surroundingsinhabited by single families (rather than the communal flats that became common later). The illustrations also reflect the elegance of works by artists from the World of Art group, whose aesthetic influenced Konashevich, and which he officially joined in 1922. Konashevich's two ABCs mark his first venture into book illustration and children's literature. For the important and once high-quality publisher Golike and Vilborg, however, they were among the last productions, as the publishing house was nationalised that same year, in 1918. Provenance: Physical description:Large 4to (31.3 x 23.1 cm). Title and [54] pp. Publisher's illustrated wrappers. Condition:Cover slightly faded, spine restored; light edgewear overall due to low paper quality, very light staining on title, small bookseller's marks to last page, a lovely copy. Bibliography:

Condition: Very good plus to near fine. First edition thus, the first printing of graphic artist Konashevich's illustrated edition of the cheerful, musical poem about "the most famous fly in Soviet children's literature" ? known for its veiled anti-Stalin message. First published in 1924 as MUKHINA SVAD'BA, in this book a simple fly is captured and almost killed by a spider, which has traditionally been read as an allusion to Stalin. While some demanded the book be banned, Chukovsky's reputation as a central figure in the field kept the book in circulation. Called "the greatest innovator and pathfinder in Soviet children's literature" (Maria Nikolajeva), Chukovsky tried to help threatened artists under Stalin by providing them with work and connections. Svetlana Boym describes the connection between children's literature and avant-garde artists in the Soviet era: "Children's literature had a unique function in the Soviet tradition: from the 1930s through the 1970s it served as the last refuge of the Soviet avant-garde. In the 1930s, many experimental poets, including Oleinikov and Kharms, later killed in Stalin's camps, were given work by Kornei Chukovsky [.] Thus, memories of childhood, the history of the oppression of alternative art and compromised strategies of survival are closely linked for an ex-Soviet artist." All early editions of this book are scarce. 8.75'' x 7''. Original side-stapled color printed wrappers designed by Konashevich. Illustrated by Konashevich in black and white throughout. [16] pages. "Printed in Soviet Union" faintly stamped on title page. A couple small nicks to wrapper edges, crease in one corner from former bend. Light marginal toning to text, overall quite clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 4to. 12pp. Original colour decorated boards, full-page and vignette colour and monochrome illustrations. Covers worn and marked, crude paper repairs to spine. Paper yellowed and acidic, thumbed and fraying, with marginal loss to edges, tear to one plate image.

8° (21,5 x 14 cm). 45 S. mit 14 ganzseitigen Illustrationen von Vladimir Konashevich. Original-Broschur mit Umrahmung und 4 Vignetten sowie schwarzer Typographie. Erste Ausgabe mit diesen Illustrationen. Eins von 1000 Exemplaren auf Büttenpapier. In kyrillischer Schrift. Konashevich suchte sich die Gedichte Fets für seine Zeichnungen selber aus. Die hervorragenden zweifarbigen Illustrationen konkurrieren in der Ausdrucksstärke mit den Versen des Dichters. Gilt als eine der besten Werke des Künstlers. - Rücken erneuert und Deckel fachmännisch restauriert. Wohlerhaltenes Exemplar.