Marshak, Samuil. Mister Twister / illustrations and cover by V. Lebedev, 1948. In Russian.

Маршак, Самуил Яковлевич. Мистер Твистер / рисунки и обложка В. Лебедева.
Москва : Издательство Красногвардейского райпромтреста ММП РСФСР, 1948 (Фабрика детской книги Детгиза). 48 с. : ил. ; увеличенный формат.
Мягкая иллюстрированная издательская обложка, скрепление скобами. Тираж 100 000 экз. 
Состояние: очень хорошее. Обложка — яркая, красочная иллюстрация сохранена полностью, без потёртостей красочного слоя; лёгкие потёртости и заломы по кромкам, уголки слегка примяты; скобы скрепления в порядке, незначительное окисление в местах скоб. Блок — хороший: бумага равномерно потемнела (обычно для послевоенной бумаги низкого качества), без утрат и надрывов листов.
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Marshak, Samuil. Mister Twister / illustrations and cover by V. Lebedev. Postwar revised-text edition.
Moscow: Krasnogvardeisky Raypromtrest Press (Ministry of Local Industry, RSFSR), 1948 (printed at the Detgiz children's book factory). 48 pp., illustrated ; oversized format.
Illustrated publisher's wrappers, staple-bound. Print run of 100,000 copies. Price per title page: 3 rub. 30 kop.; bound — 4 rub.
Condition very good. Cover: bright color illustration fully intact with no loss to the pigment layer; light edge wear and creasing, corners slightly bumped; staples sound with minor oxidation staining around the staple points. Text block good: paper evenly toned (typical of low-grade postwar stock), no losses or tears to any leaf.

A satirical children's poem by Samuil Marshak (1887-1964), one of the most celebrated works of Soviet children's literature, telling of an American millionaire, Mister Twister, who refuses to share a hotel with Black guests and is consequently refused lodging himself — a pointed anti-racist satire that Marshak, by his own account, was able to publish only thanks to the intervention of Maxim Gorky. The illustrations are by Vladimir Lebedev (1891-1967), the founding figure of the Leningrad school of book graphics and longtime head of the art department of the children's division of Gosizdat; Lebedev illustrated six lifetime editions of the poem, revising his artwork each time, and this 1948 printing reflects the postwar redaction of the text, from which the original episode depicting a telephoned "conspiracy of doormen" across rival hotels was removed at the insistence of contemporary editors. Unusually, this edition was issued not by the main state children's publisher (Detgiz) but by the Krasnogvardeisky District Industrial Trust of the RSFSR Ministry of Local Industry — an atypical imprint for a work of this stature, making complete, well-preserved copies of this particular printing less commonly encountered than the standard Detgiz editions of the period.