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VOLF, M. O. Kalendar dlya molodykh druzei M. O. V

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St. Petersburg and Moscow: M. O. Wolf, 1867 [1866]. 84 pp. Tall 8vo (260 x 175 mm). With 70 wood engravings Contemporary half black cloth over marbled boards. Condition: joints starting, boards rubbed, scuffing to extremities; rubber stamps to endpapers, some internal thumbsoiling. well-illustrated early russian children's book. This anthology of poetry and prose opens with a "calendar" of the first twelve years of a child's life in verse. M. O. Volf was a highly prolific Russian children's book publisher of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although Martin's mother in Vladimir Nabokov's Glory (1932) deplores the journal, Volf's conservative children's magazine Zadushevnoe slovo [Cordial Word] had an unusually healthy run from 1877 to 1918.