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Boris Zakhoder
Отшельник и роза
The hermit and the rose
Moscow: Goppe, 2000
292 x 210 mm. 16 pages
Edition: 15, copy № 5/15 with an autograph both by the
author and the artist
Boris Zakhoder (1918-2000), poet and children’s author, is best known
for his Russian translations of ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ and ‘Alice’s adventures
in Wonderland’. One of his own children’s books is ‘The hermit and the
Rose’, a collection of stories. For this book Goppe choose old maps to
print on the text and his etchings, in all four pages. In 199, not long before
Zakhoder’s death,, during a visit Goppe had a photograph taken after
the author had written a dedication in the book. On the back of the title
page of this copy this photo is mounted. Adding the photograph to the
autograph gives the book a more personal character, which is typical for
Goppe’s relations with the authors he prints and illustrates.
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