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Title: Russian Fairy Tales by Gillian Avery, Ivan Bilibin ISBN: 0-679-43641-3 Publisher: Everyman's Library Pub. Date: 21 November, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Bad reproductions!
Comment: Luxurious? I don't think so! This book is far too small to do justice to Ivan Bilibin's wonderful illustrations, which I could have accepted if their reproduction quality wasn't so poor! Most have white flecks through them, and some are even fuzzy and off-register. Ivan Bilibin's beautiful colors have also died on this paper stock, with a considerable loss of detail - don't be fooled by the picture sample here! This is a very disappointing and unworthy production.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Lovely Book
Comment: Very nice gift book,I ordered this book after coming back from Russia as a present for my nieces and nephews to give them a taste of the wonder of this wild country...and thoroughly enjoyed it myelf. I disagree with a previous reviewer over the illustrations: the pictures by Bilibin are great.. they're not dingy: just turn of the century Russian in a beautiful style-moderne style that was all the rage in St Petersburg.
Russian Folktales typically have charming rhymed couplets sprinkled throughout the stories and unfortunately, in this translation, these have been flattened to strict prose, but the stories are still well told.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great book, poor execution...
Comment: Among my treasured childhood books are N.C. Wyeth illustrated '"Treasure Island," and "Robin Hood" illustrated by Godwin. Scribners did most of these in hardcover, with color plates.
The book here is pretty, the stories great, and I bought it because I love the Bilibin illustrations - but they are not printed on separate plates, and if you have seen them reproduced elsewhere, these appear dim and dingy. The publisher could have done better.
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Title: Favorite Russian Fairy Tales by Arthur Ransome ISBN: 0486286320 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 29 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $1.00 |
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Title: Russian Fairy Tales by Aleksandr Afanas'ev ISBN: 0394730909 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 12 September, 1976 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Russian Folk-Tales by James Riordan, Andrew Breakspeare ISBN: 0192745360 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr Childrens Books Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: First Thousand Words in Russian (Picture Word Books) by Heather Amery, Katrina Kirilenko, Stephen Cartwright ISBN: 0860207692 Publisher: E D C Publications Pub. Date: February, 1985 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Russian Phrasebook: With Two-Way Dictionary (Russian Phrasebook, 3rd Ed) by James Jenkin, Inna Zaitseva ISBN: 1864501065 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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