KUBASTA, Vojt ch.

[Cinderella in Arabic]

Algeria: The National Company for Publishing and Distribution, 1981. Vojt ch Kubašta. Boards. [MOVABLE BOOK] [TOY BOOK]. The National Company for Publishing and Distribution 3, Zerout Youssef Street, 1981. Illustration copyright by V. Kubasta 1976, Artia, Prague in 1981. Printed in Czechoslovakia.

Small 8vo oblong (7 13/16” x 10 ¼”); [12]pp, 6 pop-ups; glazed color pictorial boards; color illustrated throughout; light red Czech tax stamp on rear pastedown; old minor glue drip from front paste down with some small paper loss on left side of pop-up edges; near fine. Near fine. Item #1578

Bright, colorful illustrations, title on front board and text in Arabic. Kubašta presents this version of Cinderella as sweet and glamorous.

Vojt ch Kubašta (1914-1992) was a paper engineer and artist who was born in Vienna but moved with his family to Prague in 1918. Educated as an architect and civil engineer, his love was illustration and book design. Under Communism the publishing industry was nationalized and Kubašta found work in advertising Czech products abroad. Artia, the Prague-based Czech national publishing company, published Little Red Riding Hood, his first pop-up children’s book in 1956.

Price: $150.00