{"product_id":"chukovsky-k-the-crocodile-an-old-tale-krokodil-staraya-skazka-illustrated-by-re-mi-nikolai-remizov-1941-in-russian","title":"Chukovsky, K. The Crocodile: An Old Tale (Krokodil: staraya skazka) \/ illustrated by Re-Mi [Nikolai Remizov]. 1941. In Russian.","description":"\u003cp\u003eЧуковский, Корней Иванович. Крокодил : старая сказка, 1916 \/ рис. Ре-Ми. \u003cbr\u003eМосква ; Ленинград : Детиздат ЦК ВЛКСМ, 1941. 40 с., ил. ; 25,2×19,6 см.\u003cbr\u003eИздательская цветная иллюстрированная обложка. Для дошкольного возраста.\u003cbr\u003eОтветственный редактор В. Завьен. Тираж 100 000 экз. \u003cbr\u003eПереплет плохой: обложка с крупными разрывами и утратами бумаги у всех углов и краёв; задняя обложка с глубокими трещинами и сильным замятием по всей поверхности; корешок расшатан. Блок удовлетворительный: бумага пожелтела, отдельные листы с надрывами по краям; текст и иллюстрации разборчивы.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eChukovsky, Kornei Ivanovich. Krokodil: staraya skazka [The Crocodile: An Old Tale], 1916 \/ illustrated by Re-Mi [Nikolai Vladimirovich Remizov]. \u003cbr\u003eMoscow ; Leningrad : Detizdat TsK VLKSM (Children's Publishing House of the Central Committee of the Komsomol), 1941. 40 pp., illustrated ; 25.2×19.6 cm.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher's color illustrated wrappers. For pre-school age.\u003cbr\u003eExecutive editor V. Zavyen. Print run 100,000. \u003cbr\u003eBinding poor: covers with major tears and paper loss at all corners and edges; rear cover with deep cracks and heavy creasing throughout; spine weakened. Text block fair: paper age-yellowed; occasional tears at page edges; text and illustrations legible throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Crocodile\" — written in 1916 and first published in serial form in the family magazine \"Niva\" — is the founding work of Kornei Ivanovich Chukovsky's celebrated cycle of children's poems and, by the poet's own account, the beginning of a new Russian children's literature. The poem, a comic epic about a crocodile who walks the streets of Petersburg smoking cigarettes and speaking Turkish, escapes to Africa, and returns for a utopian peace between humans and animals, was illustrated from the outset by Nikolai Vladimirovich Remizov (1887-1975), who signed his work Re-Mi — a major pre-revolutionary caricaturist celebrated for his work in \"Satirikon\" magazine. Remizov emigrated to France after the revolution and spent the rest of his life in Paris; his illustrations for \"Krokodil,\" however, continued to accompany Soviet editions of the poem for decades, making this book a quiet artifact of the cultural entanglements of the émigré and Soviet worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44369780670506,"sku":null,"price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_3309.jpg?v=1778853359","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/products\/chukovsky-k-the-crocodile-an-old-tale-krokodil-staraya-skazka-illustrated-by-re-mi-nikolai-remizov-1941-in-russian","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}