[Tales for Frank]. Skazki dlia Frenka.

Retold based on African American folktales by I. Sergich.
Illustrations by B. Vlasov.
Art editor: E. Bulatov.

Leningrad, Detskaia literatura, 1990.
8vo, 28, [4] pp., ill. 

In original pictorial wrappers. Signed and inscribed to title.
Near very good condition. 

Signed and inscribed by the adaptor, philologist and translator Il’ia Sergich: ‘Eta knizhka / vyshla pochti / 30 let nazad. / Vy znakomye / s Cherkashinym, so / mnoi i dazhe s V.P. / No delo ne v nas. / Nik.Nik. tozhe liubil / inogda risovat. / Risovat po-svoemu. / Na pamiat ob / etom. IS’ [This book was published almost 30 years ago. You are familiar with Cherkashin, with me, and even with V.P. But it’s not about us. Nik. Nik. also sometimes enjoyed drawing. Drawing in his own way. In memory of that. I.S.].
Second edition.

This collection presents stories about African American life, highlighting the struggle for freedom and clever trickster tales in which enslaved characters outsmart their oppressors.
The book features illustrations by Boris Vlasov (1936–1981), a graphic artist and book illustrator from a prominent family of artists who studied at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin. Notably, the art editor of this book was Erik Bulatov (b. 1933), an influential conceptual artist and prominent figure in Sots Art. In the 1960s, Bulatov helped form the Sretensky Boulevard Group, alongside artists Ilya Kabakov, Edik Steinberg, Oleg Vassiliev, Vladimir Yankilevsky, and Viktor Pivovarov. Through this collective, Bulatov became a leading member of the loosely affiliated Moscow Conceptualists.

We couldn’t trace any copy of this or first edition via OCLC.