Maurois, AndreBiblio.com
MAUROIS, AndreBiblio.com
Fatapoufs & Thinifers.
1940185911New York: Henry Holt and Company 1940. First edition in English of this vividly illustrated anti-war satire for children first published in France in 1930. Maurois was an interpreter for Winston Churchill during the First World War and with the outbreak of the Second World War was appointed the French Official Observer attached to the British General Headquarters. He went on to write Why France Fell 1941. Fatapoufs & Thinifers which concerns the fantastical world of two countries on the brink of war is strikingly illustrated by Jean Bruller who joined the Resistance during the Second World War and published under the pseudonym Vercors. Quarto. Colour illustrations throughout. Original blue cloth spine lettered in dark blue titles and illustration in dark blue relief on front cover. With dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. Spine ends and corners rubbed faint mottling to covers; jacket unclipped chips and closed tears to creased extremities: a very good copy in like jacket. hardcover
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