[PARAIN, Nathalie, nee Natacha TCHELPANOVA] (illustrator). Faites Votre Marche. Jeux et Loto. Albums du Pere Castor. Paris; Flammarion-Editeur. 1935.
4to.; publisher's glazed cream pictorial card covers with designs by Parain to both covers, stapled; pp. [32] including covers, printed thick stock; with 8 striking full-page plates of shop fronts in colour lithography, printed on the versos with a captioned grid template, and 4 full-page plates comprising a total of 117 individual colour-lithographed images of the various items of merchandise which would be available at the relevant shops, each captioned to the reverse, on cards divided into perforated squares for excision, intact and undamaged; a very good copy of an enormously scarce book, externally toned as usual with some darkening to edges of upper cover, corner triangular forecorner losses to upper and lower edge of upper cover, internally very good, clean and sound throughout.
First edition. One of the most successful, and attractive, of Pere Castor's playbooks of the period and one of the most popular and sought-after by Nathalie Parain (Kiev, 1897-1958) who is now regarded as a major artist and recognised for her lasting influence on children's book illustration.
The volume is seldom found in collector's condition due to the status of the volume as a game book. The reader is invited to excise the labels of merchandise and glue them into the grids provided and most copies have been destroyed. Shops featured comprise: Boulangerie; Boucherie; Poisonnerie; Legumes, Primeurs; Fruits; Cremerie; Bazar-Coleurs and Mercerie.
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