A GROUP OF SIX RUSSIAN FOLK CLAY TOYS AND TWO BOOKS BY A. DENSHIN comprising:
a) a group of six molded clay toys from Vyatka, featuring figures of a lion, a horse, a ram, a man in a boat, a soldier, a fancy lady b) DENSHIN, Aleksey Ivanovich (Russian 1893-1948), VYATSKAYA GLINYANNAYA IGRUSHKA V RISUNKAKH [Molded Clay Toy from Vyatka in Drawings], Moscow: self-published by the author, 1917. Square 8vo (220 x 220 mm). 21 lithographic pages with author`s handwritten text and 51 hand-colored illustrations. Artist`s signature on the first page and a further note on the table of contents. From an edition of 300 c) DENSHIN, Aleksey Ivanovich (Russian 1893-1948), RUSSKAYA NARODNAYA VYATSKAYA LEPNAYA GLINYANNAYA IGRUSHKA. VYPUSK I [Russian Folk Molded Clay Toy from Vyatka. Issue 1], Moscow: Moskovskoe Khudozhestvennoe Izdatel`stvo, 1929. Oblong 4to (240 x 326 mm). 38 pages with 16 color lithographs. Original decorated color wrappers designed by Sergey Chekhonin. Includes introductory essays by Sergey Abramov and Anatoliy Bakushinskiy.