VOVA LETIT V KOSMOS Vova Travels into Space

by Antonin Chistyakov

$750 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

First edition

Kalinin: Kalininskoe kniznoe izdatel'stvo, 1961. First edition of this rocket picture book for Soviet children — issued about a month before Yuri Gagarin would become the first person to journey into outer space. Very good. Item #39485 The little boy Vova builds his own spaceship from a barrel and a tricycle so he can take his sister and their dog to the moon. Each page is lavishly illustrated, with realistic

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