ALEXANDRE IACOVLEFF (1887-1938) Pierre M Féli et M’bala l’éléphant; Illustrated by A. Jacovleff Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1938.

(Collection pour nos enfants). [Collection for Our Children] In French. In the publisher's illustrated cover. Minor rubbing and soiling on the cover. The last book illustrated by Alexander Yakovlev; published in the year of his death. Alexander Yevgenyevich Yakovlev (1887-1938) was a Russian painter, graphic artist, master of drawing, theatrical decorator, and one of the leading painters and draftsmen in Russian art of the first third of the 20th century, representing neoclassical tendencies within the modernist movement. He lived in Paris from 1919.