Ferreira, José Gomes [The Wonderful Adventures of Fearless John / Aventuras Maravilhosas de João Sem Medo]. Chudesnye priklyucheniya Zhoana-Smel’chaka.

Translation from Portuguese by E. Riauzova.
Foreword by Ia. Svet.
Book design by S. Pozharskii.

Moskva, Khudozhestvennaya literatura, 1971.
12mo, 303 pp.

In original hardcover and pictorial dust jacket.
Near very good condition, with only the minimal restoration to dj edges.

The only edition with these illustrations. 

The first Russian translation of the 1963 novel by Portuguese poet and fiction writer José Gomes Ferreira (1900-1985) features exquisite illustrations by the renowned master of book illustration, Sergey Pozharskii (1900-1970), who studied under the Ukrainian graphic artist Georgy Narbut.

Vek Russkogo Knizhnogo Iskusstva, p. 343.

OCLC locates no copies in USA, only one copy in Germany.