Square octavo. (8)ff. Illustrated with eight pop-up illustrations, two of which have movable elements. These illustrations were engineered by Viktor Andrievitch. The text is a Russian folk-tale, translated here into Dutch by Nikolai Trofimow. The tale follows a hare whose wood house is taken over by a cunning fox after the latter's own ice house melts during a spring thaw. Two attempts to remove the fox are made by a dog and a bear, but it is finally a cowboy-boot wearing, scythe toting rooster who succeeds in ridding the hare of this invasive houseguest. Sunning and shallow creases along spine, two motes of soiling to upper cover, else very good in stiff blue wrappers.