Moscow, 1962. RUSSIAN TEXT throughout (including title, which I have had translated).---Hardcover with dust jacket; 12-page introduction plus 87 plates of which 24 are in colour. Book is 20 x 26 cm (approximately 8 x 10 in), constructed of poor material.---text in Russian---Yellow/tan/brown boards with like lettering and decoration (front cover only) are well worn along edges and at corners; small rubber stamp, in Russian, near top of back cover; text block exhibits some looseness with minimal light pencil markings; interior otherwise clean and unmarked except for rubber stamp on title page stating, in English, "Printed in the Soviet Union"; book overall Fair to Good.---Brightly coloured folk picture covers both panels of dust jacket which is torn in half vertically at the front hinge with several other lengthy vertical tears and seveval chips missing; DJ overall Poor to Fair..

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Bookseller: Eric James (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 002347
Title: RUSSIAN FOLK PICTURES: 17th to 19th Century
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: Moscow
Date Published: 1962
Keywords: USSR RUSSIA ART RUSSIAN FOLK FOLKLORE PEASANT LORE MYTHS MYTHOLOGY
Bookseller catalogs: Art; Mythology; Rare Books;

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Poor: A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...