Salias de Tournemire, Evgeny Andreyevich (1840-1908)

Izbushka na kurikh nozhkakh [The hut on chicken's legs]

Moscow: Tipografiia M. N. Lavrova & Co., 1876. Lifetime edition. Dark paper-covered boards; leather spine. Good condition. Item #109

204 pages. Small octavo (12.5 x 17). Dark paper-covered boards with leather spine. Text in Russian. Inventory stamp No. 78 to half title. Foxing. Edges of boards lightly rubbed. Light wear to spine.

The tale of the fate of the orphan boy. Unjustly expelled from his native village, he found a new home in the forest and turned into a self-sufficient diligent man.

Count Evgeny Andreyevich Salias de Tournemire (Russian: Евгений Андреевич Салиас-де-Турнемир, 25 April 1840 – 18 December 1908) was a Russian writer, best known for his adventure novels based upon various episodes of Russian history of the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Lifetime edition, 1876. No copies in OCLC, KVK.

Price: $200.00