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Lot 35

MARSHAK, SAMUIL YAKOVLEVICH, trans.
Robert Berns v perevodakh [Robert Burns in Translation]. Moscow: Khudozhestvenoi Literatury, 1950.

4 June 2014, 13:00 EDT
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MARSHAK, SAMUIL YAKOVLEVICH, trans.

Robert Berns v perevodakh [Robert Burns in Translation]. Moscow: Khudozhestvenoi Literatury, 1950.
8vo. 232 pp. Wood engravings by V. A. Favorskii. Original red leatherette covers within the rare dust wrapper. A bit shaken; wrappers chipped and soiled.
Provenance: Vladimir Glotser Archive, Moscow.

PRESENTATION COPY, warmly inscribed to Mael Isaevna and Ilya Lvovich Feinberg on the front free endpaper and dated April 14, 1951. Marshak was not only the father of the Soviet children's book, but he was also a distinguished translator. He learned English while studying in London where he became familiar with the nursery rhymes that so profoundly influenced his own work for young readers. He founded the state children's publishing house, but he turned primarily to translating English poetry when it became too dangerous to work as a Soviet children's book editor. He translated into Russian everyone from Shakespeare to Lewis Carroll, Robert Burns to W. B. Yeats.

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