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PIELGRZYMI.
Cover designed by T. Rożankowski.
Poznan [br., before 1925], R. Wegner's Polish Publishing House ; pp.229; format 12x19.5 cm
PUBLISHER'S SOFTCOVER
Teodor Stepanovich Rožankovskiy (pronounced Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский; also encountered is the spelling "Różankovskiy", pseud. Rojan, born December 24, 1891 in Kurlandsk Mitava (now Yelgava, Latvia), died October 12, 1970 in Bronxville, New York, United States - Russian graphic artist, book illustrator.
He probably came to Poznan from Lviv in 1920 with Rudolf Wegner's Polish Publishing House, for which he did cover designs and illustrations.
He was the author of a series of 17 watercolors depicting the most charming places of Torun's old town, which were published in 1924 by the Polish Railway Bookshop Society "Ruch" as a series of postcards. Postcards with his watercolors illustrating other Polish cities of Grudziądz and Poznań have also survived[2]. In addition to the aforementioned postcards, he also drew caricatures and designed posters.
In 1925 he moved to Paris, where he continued to work as an illustrator for a number of different publishing houses. World War II found him in France, from where he emigrated to the United States in October 1940, where he took American citizenship.
In 1952, he wrote The Great Big Animal Book. In 1956 he was awarded the Caldecott Medal by the American Library Association for his illustrations for John Langstaff's book Frog Went A-Courtin. Despite his success in the West, he retained a fondness for his native country and visited Russia several times in the 1960s.
BDB-/ condition, minor discoloration and edgewear to the covers, A NICE piece.
