Skazka o Zolotom Pietushkie [The Tale of the Golden Cockerel] Advertising - Original artwork Central City Colo

Central City Colo

The fragile paper wrappers remain entirely intact and structurally sound

natural toning isolated along the spine fold

A current global sweep of the OCLC/WorldCat database locates only one specimen matching a similar configuration preserved in institutional special collections worldwide: a structurally related ten costume overlay variant held securely within the permanent archives of the Morgan Library & Museum

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Skazka o Zolotom Pietushkie [The Tale of the Golden Cockerel] Advertising - Original artwork Central City Colo(Bilibin, Ivan) illustrator. SKAZKA O ZOLOTOM PIETUSHKIE [THE TALE OF THE GOLDEN COCKEREL] by Alexander Pushkin. [St. Petersburg]: [Ekspeditsiia Zagotovleniia Gosudarstvennykh Bumag], 1907. FIRST EDITION. Oblong folio 10 1 16" X 12 7 8". Color pictorial beige stiff paper wrappers with the spine covered with light brown paper as issued, with titles printed in black, and decorative border and five medallions printed in black, purple, green, yellow, blue