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REMIZOV, Aleksey Mikhailovich (1877-1957). [Autograph letter, in Russian, signed (“A. Remizov”) to Miss Elizabeth Hill], Paris, 21 February 1936. [offered with:] VINAVER, Eugène (1899-1979). Two autograph letters signed (“E. Vinaver”) to Miss Elizabeth Hill, Manchester, 8 February and 1 March 1938; [and] HILL, Elizabeth (1900-1996), typed and unsigned letter to E. Vinaver, [n.p.], 11 February 1938. [and] Autograph letter, in Russian, indistinct signature, to Elizabeth Hill, Oxford, 28 February 1936. REMIZOV, Aleksey Mikhailovich (1877-1957), and Mathilde RITTER, illustrator . Runzel-Punzel. Berlin-Grunewalkd: Pestalozzi Verlags-Anstalt, [1928]. [and with] DONALDSON, Lois, transl., and Mathilde RITTER, illustrator. Runzel-Punzel. Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co., 1933. A revealing correspondence, conjuring the ebbs and flows of Remizov’s career in the 1930s, as he had ‘practically nothing to live on’. Prof. Eugène Vinaver, who was acquainted with Remizov, sought to find an English publisher for Runzel-Punzel ; Elizabeth Hill (later Professor Dame), his correspondent, had once entertained the idea of translating the story. Remizov also contacted Hill to request her opinion on two of his works. Runzel-Punzel is one of Remizov’s best children’s stories – here offered in the German and English editions. This beautifully-illustrated short work brought together Remizov’s two main interests: the fabulistic tradition of Russian folklore and illustrated books. Remizov wrote it during his years of exile in Paris, after a few spent in Berlin, due to his political opposition. One page, 267 x 210mm single sheet (slight toning, vertical and horizontal folds). With the original stamped envelope addressed in Remizov’s hand. [With:] 1-3: One page, 258 x 200mm single sheets (slight age yellowing, rust burn left by paper clip, the odd spot). 4: One page, 177 x 103mm bifolium (slight toning) [With:] 2 volumes, quarto (1: 240 x 194mm and 2: 238 x 195mm). With black-and-white and colour lithographed illustrations (uniform slight toning, the odd spot, 2: imprint ‘Germany’ crossed out, ‘U.S.A.’ pencilled below). In the original publisher’s pictorial boards (extremities a bit rubbed).