Item #2806 [ARMENIAN CLASSICS] Shunn u katun [i.e. The Dog and the Cat]. O. Tumanyan.
[ARMENIAN CLASSICS] Shunn u katun [i.e. The Dog and the Cat]
[ARMENIAN CLASSICS] Shunn u katun [i.e. The Dog and the Cat]
[ARMENIAN CLASSICS] Shunn u katun [i.e. The Dog and the Cat]
[ARMENIAN CLASSICS] Shunn u katun [i.e. The Dog and the Cat]
[ARMENIAN CLASSICS] Shunn u katun [i.e. The Dog and the Cat]

[ARMENIAN CLASSICS] Shunn u katun [i.e. The Dog and the Cat]

Item #2806

Yerevan: GIZ SSR Armenii, 1935. 16 pp.: ill. 26x19 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine repaired with tape, some soiling, otherwise very good.

Early Soviet Armenian edition of Tumanyan’s classic story “Շունն ու կատուն”. Illustrated throughout by G. Yeritsyan.

Ovanes Tumanyan (1869-1923) was the first Armenian author of children’s stories of the time. Books like this are considered classics, ‘Shunn and katun’ was reprinted several times afterwards. The translation of this fairy-tale to Russian was done by Vladislav Khodasevich. Three cartoons (1938, 1955, 1975) were based on this story.

Tumanyan is known as the founder of the literary circle ‘Vernatun’ (founded in 1899 in Tbilisi) which united the prominent Armenian writers of the time. During the years of genocide he helped a lot of Armenians for what he was awarded the title ‘The poet of all Armenians’.

Worldcat shows the only copy at University of California Berkeley.

Price: $750.00

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