Lot 1095: SHTERENBERG, DAVID PETROVICH. 1881-1948.- KIPLING, RUDYARD.- 40 nord 50 vest [Forty North and Fifty West]. Leningrad and Moscow: GIZ, 1931.

KIPLING, RUDYARD. 40 nord 50 vest [Forty North and Fifty West]. Leningrad and Moscow: GIZ, 1931. 8vo. 22pp. Illustrated with wood engravings. Original decorated wrappers. Wrappers restored and soiled. RARE COLLECTION OF POEMS FOR CHILDREN by the great British writer and rendered into Russian by Samuil Marshak. The translator took some liberties with the originals mostly from Just So Stories (1900). For example, the title poem, was originally "Fifty North and Forty West" in "How the Whale Got His Throat." in Just So Stories . Always experimenting, Shterenberg tried black on white wood engraving, his only children's book to be illustrated in this manner. He expressed his low opinion of the British Empire in his dramatic designs for "Pekhota v Afrike" [The Infantry in Africa]. Despite his imperialistic bombast, Rudyard Kipling was enormously popular in the USSR.