V Sadu Michurina

Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition; 9" x 11"; pp. [2], 3-38, [2]; original pictorial boards; cloth spine; mild to moderate wear along edges and corners of covers; beautiful full-page and in-line color illustrations; front hinge slightly weak; very good. Ivan Michurin was a renowned Russian academician and scientist (1855-1935). He made major contributions in the fields of agricultural research and genetics and in 1923 his own fruit garden was recognized by Lenin and Council of People's Commissars as an institution of state importance.