The Golden Cockerel
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Overview:
- Title: The Golden Cockerel
- Author: Alexander Pushkin, Elaine Pogány
- Year: 1938
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson & Sons
- Price: $2.00
- Pages: [48]
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Chapter Book
- Title Reference: The Golden Cockerel
- Notes:
Illustrated title page and endpapers {{OCLC|123223258}}: -- New York: T. Nelson -- "from the original Russian fairy tale of Alexander Pushkin, with pictures by Willy Pogány." {{OCLC|774442726}}: -- New York: Nelson -- "from the original Russian fairy tale of Alexander Puškin by Elaine Pogány. With pictures by Willy Pogány."
Price from reviews 1938-10-02 NY Times p108 "Le Coq d'Or" (New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons), NY Herald Tribune pH6 (New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons)- The fairy tale was previously adapted as the libretto of the opera Le Coq d'Or or Coq D'Or.
- Willy Pogány "designed the setting" [sets?] for its Metropolitan Opera House production 20 years ago. --NYT
- "Pogany has illustrated it in colors bright as those we remember from the old days of the Moscow Art Theater, and with much the same decor, only of course with the robust and violent exaggeration of the fairy tale." 12 large color plates, b/w illustrations every other page --NYHT