THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN

Tesnohlidek, Rudolf

Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1985

About this Item

Boards (HB) in very good condition with slight brown stain edge of first 10 pages and slight waviness to page edges. This affects neither the text nor illustrations which are clear and bright. Dust jacket has several enclosed tears and edgewear.Translated by Tatiana Firkusny, Maritza Morgan & Robert T. Jones, afterword by Robert T. Jones. Yveta Graff Rudolf Tesnohlidek, a journalist in the Moravia city of Brno, wrote "The Cunning Little Vixen" as a newspaper serial, fitting it to student sketches by the artist Stanislav Lolek. The illustrated serial ran in the Brno newspaper "Lidove Noviny [People's News] in the spring of 1920 and made such a stir that it came out in book form a year later. . never before been translated into another language, despite the international fame of the opera that Leos Janacek based it on. This edition of "The Cunning Little Vixen "is lavishly illustrated by Maurice Sendak, who designed the New York City Opera's celebrated production of the Janacek opera. 186 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN
• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 1985
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Sendak, Maurice
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good