MISS TWISTY ADVENTURES IN THE COUNTRY STORY IN ILLUSTRATIONS BY ...

Paris & New York: [Privately Printed for the Author at the Imp. Union], 1948. Quarto (31 x 25.5 cm). Pictorial boards. 35 plates, with opposing captions. Lower edge and fore-tips shelf worn, otherwise very good or better in edgeworn, faintly soiled dust jacket with 3 cm. closed tear at top of front flapfold. First and only edition, trade issue. Two hundred copies were numbered and signed by the author. This copy is not numbered, but bears the author/artist's signed 1979 presentation inscription. The illustrations follow the adventures of the slightly grotesque "Miss Twisty" as she visits the country from the city. The author/artist is reputed to have been the daughter of V.N. Bashkiroff, a member of Kerensky's Provisional Government, and emigrated with her family after the Bolshevik Revolution. The front jacket flap bears a long statement signed "N. Gontcharova." (Inventory #: WRCLIT81866)