FUNNY FOLK FABLES -

McLoughlin Brothers, Inc, 1936. Softcover. Good. Early-century, large format children's picture book, Funny-folk fables. Full page color Priscilla Pointer illustrations throughout. Twelve stories. Scarce. 24 pp. 14 1/2" x 9 3/4". Tight, unmarked copy with faint creasing near spine on front panel. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

Folio (14 1/2" x 10"), stiff paper illustrated covers, contents illustrated. Some edgewear couple of corner folds, upper spine split a little, contents with normal aging and browning; otherwise very good. Priscilla Pointer attractively illustrates this work, and most of the illustrations are in color. There are about a dozen short stories, including The Pig in the Parlor, The Angry Monkey, and the Forest Trees.

Springfield, Massachusetts: McLoughlin Brothers, Inc, 1936. Very good.. Uncommon 1930s book of period "funny" fables in large format, and printed for easy use by young children. Original fables with morals like the "Pig In the Parlor," "The Bees and the Drones," "The Raven and the Cock" are presented in large type, accompanied by lush full-bleed color illustrations with great visual impact in this large format. 14.5'' x 9.5''. Original pictorial card wrappers. Illustrated by Pointer with eleven incredible full page color illustrations and with smaller black and whites in text. [12 pages]. Spine with some minor repair. Slight creasing to wrappers.

Kyiv, Vydannia I.T. Gubanova, 1913. . First edition, 8vo (19.5 x 13 cm); 47pp., soiling to lower margin of preliminary leaves; in the original illustrated wrappers, water stains to inside of covers, spine glued, some loss to spine and upper cover, tears, otherwise a good copy. An extremely rare collection of Ukrainian prose and poetry compiled by the writer Klym Polishchuk (1891-1937). In includes little known works by K. Zhurlyvyi, T. Kobzarenko, P. Koval'chuk, M. Kovalenko, M. Bandurist and V. Perebyinis. Polishchuk made his debut in 1909 with his first prose publication in the Lviv magazine 'Dzvinok'. In 1912, he came back to Zhytomyr, traveled across Volhynia and recorded folklore. Soon after 1914, he headed the first Ukrainian bookstore in St. Petersburg that was later transformed into the Drukar publishing house. In the early post-revolutionary period, he lived in Kyiv, edited local periodicals and took part in literary events. Together with the UNR army, he emigrated to Galicia in 1920,… Read More