SOLOGBUB, Fedor Kuz’mich, pseud. [i.e. Fedor Teternikov], translator. BALZAC, Honoré de.
Ozornye skazki [Contes drolatiques]…
Petersburg, “Poliarnaia Zvezda”, 1922.
8vo, pp. 56, with woodcut head- and tailpieces by Favorskii; pale stain to head of title-page, slightly toned throughout, but a very good copy in the original illustrated paper wrappers by Favorskii, spine with a few horizontal splits, small bookseller’s stamp to rear cover.
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Ozornye skazki [Contes drolatiques]…
First edition, very rare, of Sologub’s translation of two of Balzac’s satirical Contes drolatiques, ‘The fair Imperia’ and ‘The fair Imperia married’.
OCLC records a single copy, at the British Library.
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