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PARAIN, Nathalie (1897-1958) (illustrator). Bab

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Paris: YMCA Press, 1932. Folio (320 x 280 mm). Adapted by Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Teffi. Lithographic colored illustrations after Nathalie Parain. Original thin card wrappers, the upper cover with the title and an illustration lithographed in colors. Condition: light general toning to text block; light general toning to covers, the upper cover with the outer corners creased, the lower corner with small section torn away. First edition, issued simultaneously in Russian and French. [With:] N. PARAIN (illustrator) and Marcel AYMÉ (1902-1967). Autres Contes du Chat Perché. Paris: Gallimard, 1950. Small 4to (240 x 180 mm). 11 colored plates, 34 uncolored illustrations, all after Parain. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Condition: overall toning to text, ink inscription dated 1976; spine faded, light toning to covers. [And:] REITLINGER, Joanna (1898-1988) (illustrator) and Edmée ARMA (1904-1987). Sept Contes Finnois tirées du Kalevala. Paris: Librairie Montjoie, 1946. 4to (267 x 205 mm). Title in red and black. Illustrations, some colored, after Reitlinger. Original pictorial boards. Condition: slight toning to book block, ink signature to title; extremities scuffed. The first two works are illustrated by Russian-born Nathalie Parain: one of the most inventive picture book artists working in Paris during the 1930s. She studied at Vkhutemas and belonged to the Constructivists. After marrying Brice Parain, a philosopher and essayist working at the French embassy in Moscow, she returned with him to Paris in 1928. Mon chat (1930) was a masterpiece of juvenile Cubism and she illustrated a good number of "Albums du Père Castor" (1931-1940) for Paul Faucher of Flammarion as well as many of Marcel Aymé's "Contes du Chat perché" (1937-1948) for Gallimard. Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lokhvitskaya (1872-1952) was a popular Russian author of humorous short stories who wrote under the name "Teffi." She is considered one of the great chroniclers of émigré life after the Revolution and one of the few to be published in the Soviet Union. This book was also issued in French with the fairy tale retold by "Rose Celli" (Rose Brua). The last was illustrated by Russian-born Sister Joanna (Julia) Reitlinger, the only book ilustrated by her. (3)

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