Lot 1073: KONASHEVICH, VLADIMIR MIKHAILOVICH. 1888-1963.- Azbuka v risunkakh [An Alphabet in Pictures]. Petrograd: R. Golike and A. Vilborg, 1918.

Azbuka v risunkakh [An Alphabet in Pictures]. Petrograd: R. Golike and A. Vilborg, 1918. 4to. 39 pp. Two-color lithographs. Original decorated wrappers. Wrappers restored, minor internal soiling. V. M. Konashevich was one of the greatest modern Russian children's book illustrators, second only to V.V. Lebedev. He illustrated works by S. Marshak, K. ChuKovsky, Alexandre Pushkin, Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen and many others. His first masterpiece, Azbuka v kartinkah , was his affectionate homage to Alexandre Benois' 1904 picture book of the same name. It demonstrates the artist's mastery of line and color in the in the tradition of the Mir Iskusstva [World of Art] group of artists whom he joined in their twilight years.