The Book of The Bear: Being Twenty-One Tales.
TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY JANE HARRISON AND HOPE MIRRLEES,.
The Book of The Bear: Being Twenty-One Tales.
"The bear is a shaggy, slothful, wild beast, in all respects like a man": First edition of The Book of The Bear: Being Twenty-One Tales Finely Bound
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926.
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First edition of this Nonesuch Press collection of Bear tales. Small octavo, original cloth over marbled boards, engraved colored frontispiece and other illustrations by Ray Garnett. In very good condition.
Founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell, his second wife Vera Mendel, and their mutual friend David Garnett, The Nonesuch Press was established in the basement of Garnett's bookshop in Soho. Nonesuch was unusual among private presses in that it used a small hand press to design books and then had them printed by commercial printers. Among the press's best-known editions were the collected works of William Congreve and William Wycherley and translations of Cervantes and Dante.
