The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Valya NEOBYKNOVENNYE PRIKLIUCHENIIA KARIKA I VALI

by Ia Larri, S. Petrovich, Yan Larry

$3,500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

Moscow: Izdatel'stvo detskoi literatury Detizdat , 1937. Rare first edition of this subversive fantasy children's book, featuring surrealist photomontages of children interacting with insects after turning smaller than ant size. Very good. Item #44573 At the beginning of the Soviet era, fairy tales and fantasy books were renounced in favor of more ideologically suitable and didactic works, which the government

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