Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Illustrations by May Miturich.

Carroll, Lewis [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There]. Prikliucheniia Alisy v Strane Chudes. Zazerkal'e (pro To, chto Uvidela Tam Alisa).

Translation by A. Scherbakov.
Foreword by Ju. Kagarlicky.
Illustrations by M. Miturich.

Moskva, Khudozhestvennaya literatura, 1977.
12mo, 303 pp., ill.

In publisher’s hardback, top-stained in yellow.
Near very good condition.

The only edition with beautiful illustrations by May Miturich. First book edition of this translation of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. The translation of 'Through the Looking-Glass' firstly appeared in the juvenile journal 'Koster' (Bonfire) in 1969 (# 3-7). One of 30 000 copies published.

Aleksander Scherbakov (1932-1994) was an engineer by profession, but the translator and writer on calling. He also translated books by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, and Edgar Poe into Russian. He was awarded the 1983 Eurocon (European SF Awards) for his book 'Shift' and the 1996 Eurocon as the best translator.
May Miturich (Miturich-Khlebnikov, 1925-2008) was a Russian artist and book illustrator, nephew of futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov and son of avant-garde artist Vera Khlebnikova. He studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute (later Moscow State University of Printing Arts), where later he taught. Miturich illustrated about a hundred books, including stories by Rudyard Kipling and James Barrie. In 2005 Mirutich was awarded the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun.