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Signed and inscribed by the illustrator: "Dorogomu Yuriyu Nikolaevichu Polivanovu na pamyat' / T. Mavrina / 5.V.69" [To dear Yuriy Nikolaevich Polivanov to remember from T. Mavrina 5.V.69 ].First edition. Large-sized edition.Tatyana Lebedeva (1900/1902–1996), better known by her mother's surname, which she used as a pseudonym—Mavrina. She studied at VKhUTEMAS under Robert Falk. Mavrina was a member of 'Group 13', an association of graphic artists created in 1929. In the same year, the first children's book with her illustrations was issued. As well as some others Russian avant-garde artists, she illustrated children's books since 1930s because it was the only way to stay away from repressions during the Stalin era. After the WWII, Mavrina created her own unique and easily recognizable style — 'method, combining the traditions of Russian primitivism with the painterly quests of the first decades of the early XXth century'. She also traveled through the ancient Russian cities, where she made… Read More

This book includes the ABC verse in which letters represent through professions. The verse is accompanied by the illustration with the ABC city. Each profession from the verse has a pair at the illustration. It's interesting that this illustration was created in the Wimmelbook style. The author of the verse, Irina Tokmakova (1929-2018), was a talented writer of children's books, poet, playwright and wife of the illustrator Lev Tokmakov. She also was a member of the Hans Christian Andersen Award and served on the IBBY Executive Committee. The book was illustrated by May Miturich (Miturich-Khlebnikov, 1925–2008), an artist, nephew of futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov and son of avant-garde artist Vera Khlebnikova. He studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, where later he taught. In 2005 Mirutich was awarded the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun.Rare.We couldn't trace any copy of this edition in the USA or European libraries via OCLC.