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[MUROCHKA CHUKOVSKAYA] Solnechnaya [i.e. The Sunny One]

Chukovsky, K.

Item #2276

2nd edition. Moscow: OGIZ; Molodaya Gvardiya, 1933. 112 pp., ill. 17x12 cm. Original illustrated cardboards. The spine is slightly restored, otherwise very good. With four full-page illustrations in colour by S. Kizelvater, illustrations in text.

Rare second edition of one of the most personal works by Korney Chukovsky (1882-1969), dedicated to the disease of his favorite child, Murochka Chukovskaya (1920-1931).
The book describes the tuberculosis sanatorium, ironically called ‘The Sunny One’. The similar sanatorium attended Murochka, before passing away at the age of 11.
According to Marina Chukovskaya, she fell ill with tuberculosis at the end of 1929 - almost simultaneously with the publication of Korney Chukovsky’s renunciation of his works in Literaturnaya Gazeta. Until his death, the writer considered his daughter’s fatal illness to be a retribution. The disease developed rapidly: first the leg began to hurt, then the eye.
In the fall of 1930, Maria Chukovskaya was taken to the Crimea, to a children's bone-tuberculosis sanatorium, described in a book. She died next year and was buried in Alupka.

Worldcat locates 4 paper copies of this edition.

Price: $950.00