| Summary: | This book seems closely related to a shorter book catalogued as published in 1955. That edition uses three of this book's translators and the same publisher and part of this title but is only some 20 pages long, whereas this book has 132 pages and uses A. Laptev as the artist throughout. Did the publisher take this 1952 work, make selections, and hire other artists to illustrate them? The T of C at the end gives the translators: M. Raud, J. Semper, J. Kärner -- familiar to me from the 1955 book -- and several others. Mart Raud signs the foreword. I find Laptev's full-page black-and-white illustrations -- usually signed in 1947 -- good! Among his best are WL (27); The Young Horse (57); The Ass and the Nightingale (63); Missing the Elephant in the Museum (93); and WC (103). The cover seems terribly familiar: four scenes are arranged in silhouette around a central silhouette of Quartet. These illustrations are black and green on a gray background with a white title. M. Raud, J. Semper, J. Kärner, et al Language note: Estonian This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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