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ZOSHCHENKO, MIKHAIL MIKHAILOVICH. 1895 - 1958.
Smeshnye rasskazy [Funny Stories]. Detizdat, 1937.

4 June 2014, 13:00 EDT
New York

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ZOSHCHENKO, MIKHAIL MIKHAILOVICH. 1895 - 1958.

Smeshnye rasskazy [Funny Stories]. Detizdat, 1937.
4to. 12 pp. Illustrated by N. Shabanov. Original color lithographed wrappers. Central fold with some tears; a piece missing from front wrappers.
Provenance: R. V. Zelenaya, Moscow.

RARE SIGNED CHILDREN'S BOOK inscribed by the author on the verso of the title page to Rina (Ekaterina) Vasilevich Zelenaya, April 22, 1938. The Ukrainian-born satirist spent most of his adult life in St. Petersberg, later Leningrad. He was enormously popular. "I write very compactly," he explained. "My sentences are short. Accessible to the poor. Maybe that's the reason why I have so many readers." It was no wonder he wrote so well for children. His most famous work for young readers was a series of ironic short stories about Lenin. Not everyone was amused: he along with Anna Akhmatova were denounced by the Zhdanov Doctrine as being "bourgeois" in 1946. That virtually put an end to his career and he lived in abject poverty until he was awarded a small pension shortly before his death.

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