Chukovskii k (5 Ergebnisse)

Board book. Zustand: Fair. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung; Starke Gebrauchsspuren.

Zustand: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Quarto 23.5x16 cm., wrappers, 167pp. Sixth edition. Kornei Chukovskii (1882-1969) translated these poems of Walt Whitman before he achieved renown as a writer and poet for children. Celebratory cover by Evgenii Dimitrievich Belukha (1889-1943) who from 1918 exhibited with Tatlin, Larionov and Filonov in Petrograd, later in Paris with Kandinsky in the early avant-garde; after 1926 he is known for his graphic design and more conventional work. Eight library holdings for different editions of this work in North America.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Quarto 29x22 cm., wrappers, 14pp. 1500 copies. This well-known tale to English readers is retold under the mastery of Kornei Chukovskii into a contemporary St. Petersburg setting with artwork by Viktor Zamirailo. This first edition found in six North American institutions. A fine copy.…

Zustand: Very good plus to near fine. First edition thus, the first printing of graphic artist Konashevich's illustrated edition of the cheerful, musical poem about "the most famous fly in Soviet children's literature" - known for its veiled anti-Stalin message. First published in 1924 as MUKHINA SVAD'BA, in this book a simple fly is captured and almost killed by a spider, which has traditionally been read as an allusion to Stalin. While some demanded the book be banned, Chukovsky's reputation as a central figure in the field kept the book in circulation. Called "the greatest innovator and pathfinder in Soviet children's literature" (Maria Nikolajeva), Chukovsky tried to help threatened artists under Stalin by providing them with work and connections. Svetlana Boym describes the connection between children's literature and avant-garde artists in the Soviet era: "Children's literature had a unique function in the Soviet tradition: from the 1930s through the 1970s it served as the last refuge of the Soviet avant-garde. In the 1930s, many experimental poets, including Oleinikov and Kharms, later killed in Stalin's camps, were given work by Kornei Chukovsky [.] Thus, memories of childhood, the history of the oppression of alternative art and compromised strategies of survival are closely linked for an ex-Soviet artist." All early editions of this book are scarce. 8.75'' x 7''. Original side-stapled color printed wrappers designed by Konashevich. Illustrated by Konashevich in black and white throughout. [16] pages. "Printed in Soviet Union" faintly stamped on title page. A couple small nicks to wrapper edges, crease in one corner from former bend. Light marginal toning to text, overall quite clean.…