IVAN BILIBIN (1876-1942) Contes de l'Isba Ed. Boivin et Cie, Paris, 1931

First edition, in a colourful publisher's cardboard binding, with 8 tipped-in colour plates (some damaged), nine full-page woodcut engravings in black translated from the Russian by H. Isserlis and B. Ayroy The collection includes Russian fairy tales: ‘Vasilisa the Wise’, ‘Morozko’, ‘Ivan Tsarevich and the Firebird’, ‘Finist the Bright Falcon's Feather’, The Seven Simeons’, ‘Salt’, ‘The Frog Princess’, ‘Go There, I Don't Know Where’, ‘Zorka Bogatyr’ 160 pp. In French 29 x 23 cm The famous French edition of the Russian folk tales Tales of the Abyss, which Bilibin first illustrated in Russian in the early 20th century. A master of depicting Russian folklore, Bilibin continued to create charming children's books after emigrating to Paris in 1925