Vladimir Lebedev     (1891 - 1967)

16445

Samuil Marshak

Мистер Твистер

Mister Twister

Leningrad: Ogiz, 1935

145 x 112 mm. 36 pages

Edition: 250,325.

First edition with 4 illustrations not published in the second edition. A children's picture-book in verses about an American tourist in Leningrad who refuses to sleep in the same hotel as a black man.  

References:

Startsev 1941, no. 2132

Demosfenova 1957, p. 106

Tarasenkov 1966, p. 231

Petrov 1972, p. 286

Leveque 1997, p. 163

Moscow 1997, no. 472

Vienna 2004, p. 58

Blinov 2005, p. 187

Semenikhin 2009, pp. II 50-51

Palma 2012, nr. 99