Fables from Russia, Ivan Krilov, vintage Russian folk and order fairy tales, Oxford University Press, 1943.

order Fables from Russia
Ivan Krilov
Adapted by Stella Mead
Illustrated by Grace Huxtable
Oxford University Press, London, 1943.
Pictorial cover with matching dust jacket, a slim book of 64 pages. Dust jacket is very tanned to apine and torn to rear. Some tanning to text block edges but otherwise holding firm.
This is a collection of fables by a renowned Russian author named Ivan Krilov who lived in the early nineteenth century. Russian writers have often said, in 'If you want to understand our people, read Krilov,' and certainly these fables show a wonderful knowledge of the ways and thoughts of the Russian people. Yet at the same time they are good stories, worth telling for their own sakes.
Stella Mead has adapted these fables for children, but readers young and old will enjoy reading them and discovering the truth wrapped up in them. Mead believed that the fables helped with understanding Russian culture.