Alright listen.

Kodi found this tucked in a library that smelled like dust and big ideas.

1930.

Leningrad.

State printed.

Early Soviet children’s literature.

This isn’t just a kids’ book. This is early USSR print culture. Bright, expressive illustrations. Swallows, river cliffs, little forest homes. It’s got that raw pre-war Soviet art energy before everything tightened up in the late 30s.

Vitaly Bianki was a major Soviet nature writer. This is a 2nd edition printed in Leningrad with a 10,000 copy run. Original cover art still bold despite age. 60 kopeks printed price on cover.

Yes — it’s worn.

Yes — it shows its age.

But it’s 95 years old and survived the 20th century.

Collectors of:

• Early Soviet children’s books

• Interwar Russian print culture

• Constructivist-era illustration

• Leningrad publishing history

This one hits.

Pulled from the estate library of a longtime academic. Sold as found.

Kodi says: not free table energy. This one deserves a new shelf.

Softcover copy in worn vintage condition.

Heavy surface staining and foxing throughout.

Edge wear, corner loss, paper toning.

Interior pages intact with illustrations present.

No loose pages observed.

Sold as found from estate library