The Book of the Bear: Being Twenty-One Tales Newly Translated from the Russian

107, [1] pp. Brown cloth spine, gilt and orange floral paper over boards, gilt titles. A collection of Russian short stories, fables, and folk tales about bears, including contributions by Pushkin and Tolstoy, translated by Jane Harrison and Hope Mirrlees, with two-color illustrations by Ray Garnett. Includes: Preface; The Bear and the Crane and the Horse; Her Star-Bear by Remizov; The Bear's Dinner-Party by Krylov; The Bears by Garshin; Fragment of a Bylina by Pushkin; The Bear and the Dog; The Bear's Lullaby; The Hermit and the Bear by Krylov; The Bear and the Cock; The Industrious Bear by Krylov; The Peasant and the Bear; The Two Friends; Colonel Bruin by Nekrasov; The Dancing Bear by Chemnitzer; The Three Bears by Tolstoy; The Bear and the Bees by Krylov; The Bear-Prince by Tolstoy; The Bear; The Bear in the Troika by Tolstoy; The Hare as Nurse to the Bear-Cubs by Remizov; Hare Ivanich by Remizov; Epilogue.