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CHILDREN'S BOOKS (lots 21-25)
CHARSKAIA, Lidiia Aleks'eevna (1875-1938). Dzhavakhovskoe gniezdo. [The Nest of Dzhavakha.] St. Petersburg: M.O. Vol'f, 1912.
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CHARSKAIA, Lidiia Aleks'eevna (1875-1938). Dzhavakhovskoe gniezdo. [The Nest of Dzhavakha.] St. Petersburg: M.O. Vol'f, 1912.
8° (225 x 165mm). Frontispiece and 9 full-page illustrations after I. Gur'ev, these coloured in a contemporary hand. (Margins browned.) Publisher's pictorial cloth, printed illustration mounted on the upper side within gilt border, marbled edges, blue coated endpapers (light wear at the extremities). Provenance: Grand Duchess Anastasiia Nikolaevna (1901-1918; signature, manuscript label of the classroom of the younger Grand Duchesses at Alexander Palace) -- Plaza Book Auction, New York (sold, 13 April 1934, lot 253).
FIRST EDITION. ANASTASIIA NIKOLAEVNA'S COPY, YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF TSAR NICHOLAS II, WITH HER OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE AND WITH THE PLATES COLOURED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND, possibly the Grand Duchess herself. Charskaia's many novels were hugely popular with young girls in Russia at the time, who could relate to the central characters, usually young women in search of adventure, or important women in history. The present novel continues the adventures of the young Georgian Princess Nina, begun in Charskaia's most beloved book, Princess Dzhavakha (1903). (See also lot 25.)
8° (225 x 165mm). Frontispiece and 9 full-page illustrations after I. Gur'ev, these coloured in a contemporary hand. (Margins browned.) Publisher's pictorial cloth, printed illustration mounted on the upper side within gilt border, marbled edges, blue coated endpapers (light wear at the extremities). Provenance: Grand Duchess Anastasiia Nikolaevna (1901-1918; signature, manuscript label of the classroom of the younger Grand Duchesses at Alexander Palace) -- Plaza Book Auction, New York (sold, 13 April 1934, lot 253).
FIRST EDITION. ANASTASIIA NIKOLAEVNA'S COPY, YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF TSAR NICHOLAS II, WITH HER OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE AND WITH THE PLATES COLOURED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND, possibly the Grand Duchess herself. Charskaia's many novels were hugely popular with young girls in Russia at the time, who could relate to the central characters, usually young women in search of adventure, or important women in history. The present novel continues the adventures of the young Georgian Princess Nina, begun in Charskaia's most beloved book, Princess Dzhavakha (1903). (See also lot 25.)
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