Item #21879 30 Chantefables a chanter sur n'importe quel air. Robert Desnos.
30 Chantefables a chanter sur n'importe quel air.
30 Chantefables a chanter sur n'importe quel air.
30 Chantefables a chanter sur n'importe quel air.
30 Chantefables a chanter sur n'importe quel air.
30 Chantefables a chanter sur n'importe quel air.
30 Chantefables a chanter sur n'importe quel air.
30 Chantefables a chanter sur n'importe quel air.
/Olga Kowalewsky, illustrator.

30 Chantefables a chanter sur n'importe quel air.

Paris: Librairie Gründ; Collection Les Enfants Sages, dirigée par René Poirier, 1944, probably 1st, Chantefables the most recent title listed; covers of illustrated heavy card flat trimmed with delicate pictures of animals under the sun and moon, stapled, about 8x22.5cm, 7x9", np. French language hardback. medium.

Robert Desnos, the famous surrealist poet in the 20s, later joined the Resistance while working as a journalist in Paris. He forged papers and passed along information, but also wrote humorous and lyrical animal poems to cheer little children, though they often had a double meaning. This is his last book, published in 1944. In February of that year, he was deported to Auschwitz and later Treblinka. He died of typhus soon after the liberation.

Soft litho crayon pictures of animals on each page.We also have the Rondes and interesting Lanterne in similar condition as well as the original slipcase but do not have Arithmetique. Box to first person who buys all.

CONDITION: Very Good Plus; no names or other marks, straight, clean, unwrinkled, Wartime paper has darkened, side margin of cover a bit rubbed, and extrems bumped. The printer stapled the text block low in covers. Item #21879

Price: $160.00

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