Item Summary

The central co-op building, the circus pavilion, the hospital and the newspaper office all brag about themselves to determine which is the best of the buildings.

Descriptive Information

Title
Spor mezhdu domami / N. Agnivt︠s︡ev ; [risunki N.N. Kuprei︠a︡nova].
Call Number
Pams / NR 20 / Cyrillic / Box 26A 46144
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/47429c88r
Publisher
[Ri︠a︡zanʹ : Druzʹi︠a︡ deteĭ, 1925].
Language
Russian
Date Created
1926
Extent
14, [2] p. : color lithographic ill. ; 27 cm.
References
GANKINA p. 221.
SDP, p. 8.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Translated title: A Fight Between Buildings.
Cover title. Wrappers included in pagination.
Buildings illustrated on the cover are Glavkoop (Central Co-op), T︠S︡irk (Circus pavilion), Balʹnit︠s︡a (Hospital), Redakt︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Newspaper office) and Shkola (the finally triumphant school).
The author seemed to have a long career ahead of himself until he was accused of spreading bourgeois propaganda and condemned as counter revolutionary. He was forbidden to publish any more and his work was confiscated.
The illustrator was a versatile Soviet graphic artist. He designed propaganda posters for ROSTA during the Revolution and contributed to various satirical magazines. He took up children's books after the war. His promising career was tragically cut short when he drowned while swimming in a river. He illustrated the hand-lettered Spor mezhdu domami in the loose graphic manner of his ROSTA posters.
Cotsen copy: Lower wrap lacking, restorations to back folds.
Binding Note
Pub. white pictorial self wrappers printed in black, red and brown.

Discovery Information

Subject
Stories in rhyme
Humorous stories, Russian
Quarreling—Juvenile fiction
Buildings—Soviet Union—Juvenile fiction
Fiction

Physical Characteristics

File Count
16

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton Slavic Collections
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/35dc9062-76ad-4b9a-88c3-8c8da53977d9/manifest