![DOBUZHINSKII, Mstislav Valerianovich (1875-1957; illustrator) and OLESHA, Iurii Karlovich (1899-1960). Tri Tolstiaka. [Three Fat Men.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Zemlia i Fabrika, 1928. 8° (215 x 147mm). 25 colour-printed vignettes mounted in the text. (Faint dampstain in the bottom margin.) Original leather-backed illustrated boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt (damptain on spine, some wear at spine foot, boards bowing). Provenance: Iurii Olesha (inscription).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_06237_0413_000(dobuzhinskii_mstislav_valerianovich_and_olesha_iurii_karlovich_tri_tol093930).jpg?w=1)
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DOBUZHINSKII, Mstislav Valerianovich (1875-1957; illustrator) and OLESHA, Iurii Karlovich (1899-1960). Tri Tolstiaka. [Three Fat Men.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Zemlia i Fabrika, 1928. 8° (215 x 147mm). 25 colour-printed vignettes mounted in the text. (Faint dampstain in the bottom margin.) Original leather-backed illustrated boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt (damptain on spine, some wear at spine foot, boards bowing). Provenance: Iurii Olesha (inscription).
FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S BEST-LOVED WORK, INSCRIBED BY OLESHA, in Russian: 'the author salutes the reader on the day of the tenth anniversary of the Soviet book. Long live Culture and her main guide -- the book! The Soviet book creates a new literature, and we will make it great! Iurii Olesha. 25 May 1929, Moscow'. This copy may be from a deluxe issue -- whereas copies are normally backed in cloth, this one is backed in leather. WorldCat locates only one copy in the USA, in the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton; no copy in the UK. Rats Collection 236 & pl. 11; Grafica russa 1917-1930, 395.
FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S BEST-LOVED WORK, INSCRIBED BY OLESHA, in Russian: 'the author salutes the reader on the day of the tenth anniversary of the Soviet book. Long live Culture and her main guide -- the book! The Soviet book creates a new literature, and we will make it great! Iurii Olesha. 25 May 1929, Moscow'. This copy may be from a deluxe issue -- whereas copies are normally backed in cloth, this one is backed in leather. WorldCat locates only one copy in the USA, in the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton; no copy in the UK. Rats Collection 236 & pl. 11; Grafica russa 1917-1930, 395.