The Pavilion on the Links. The only edition with illustrations by Mavrina.

Stevenson, R.L. [The Pavilion on the Links]. Pavil'on na Diunakh.  Series Biblioteka nauchnoi fantastiki i prikluchenii.  Translation and foreword by Iv. Kashkin.Illustrations by T. Mavrina.  Moskva-Leningrad, Detgiz, 1946.12mo, 79 pp., ill. In original pictorial wrappers.Near very good condition, very light wear to wrappers. The first edition of this translation and the first edition of the novel in the new orthography. The only publication of these illustrations. Rare post-war edition, especially in this condition. Ivan Kashkin (1899-1963) was one of the masters of the Soviet school of translation and a founder of literary translation in Russia. He translated works by James Joyce, Thomas Hardy, O. Henry, Gilbert Chesterton, Geoffrey Chaucer, Oscar Wilde, and was the first to introduce Russian readers to the books of Ernest Hemingway.In the foreword, Kashkin cited poems by Stevenson from the collection 'A Child's Garden of Verses', translated by the prominent poet and leading figure o