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[YULIY GANF] Konduit I Shvambraniya [i.e. Conduct and Shvambrania] / illustrations by Yu. Ganf.

Kassil, L.

Item #2662

Moscow: Detizdat, 1936. 272 pp., 8 leaves of ill.: ill. 22,7 × 17,2 cm. In the publisher’s calico binding. Scuffs on the spine, slight soiling of the binding, a break in the endpaper has been glued on, minor soiling of the pages from turning the pages.

“This edition is the author’s adaptation for older children of two books by L. Kassil: ‘Conduct’ and ‘Shvambrania.’” The first edition of ‘Conduct’ appeared in 1930, in 1933 ‘Shvambrania’ was published as a separate book, and in 1936 edition, combining the two stories, appeared. In the 1940s and 1950s. the text of the book underwent significant changes: almost everything reminiscent of the Germans living in Pokrovsk was removed, pages devoted to state-run school anti-Semitism and wartime Germanophobia were removed, the words “Jew” and “Jew” were eliminated in many places, and the role of the Communist Party, represented by Commissar Chubarkov, who in early editions was portrayed almost as a popular character, was significantly strengthened. This edition is unedited. This is the first joint publication of Lev Kassil’s first two children’s books.
Lev Abramovich Kassil (1905—1970) was one of the most important Soviet children’s authors. From 1928 to 1937, he was an essayist, columnist, and special correspondent for the newspaper Izvestia. In 1937, and again from 1941 to 1942, he served as editor-in-chief of the magazine Murzilka. During the Great Patriotic War, L. A. Kassil spoke on the radio, in schools, military units, and at factories in Moscow and the Urals. From 1947 to 1948, he served as chairman of the Children’s Literature Commission of the Writers’ Union of the USSR. From 1947 to 1949, he directed the children’s literature seminar at the A. M. Gorky Literary Institute.

Yuliy Ganf (1898—1973) was a Soviet graphic artist especially known for his satirical cartoons in the Krokodil [i.e. Crocodile] magazine. Born in the city of Poltava, Ganf studied in the Art Shop of Eduard Steinberg in 1917–1920 and in VKhUTEMAS (The Higher Artistic and Technical Shops) in 1922–1924. In 1920s, he produced political caricatures for Moscow-based magazines and newspapers: Krasny Perets [i.e. Red Pepper], Bezbozhnik [i.e. Godless], Krokodil, Pravda [i.e. The Truth] and illustrated books published for Detgiz Yuliy participated in the seventh exhibition of the group L’Agraignee at the Galerie Devambe in Paris in 1925 and was included in the major exhibition in Moscow in 1927 marking the tenth anniversary of the Revolution.

Price: $950.00