Zia Carla
Rirì e Rorò, c. 1930
(Milan: Antonio Vallardi)
2572
Octavo. 5ff. With four full-page color pull-tab movable illustrations, and five small black-and-white text figures from line drawings. The text chronicles the mischievous lives of Rinaldo and Romolo - brothers...
Octavo. 5ff. With four full-page color pull-tab movable illustrations, and five small black-and-white text figures from line drawings. The text chronicles the mischievous lives of Rinaldo and Romolo - brothers "sono proprio senza testa e senza cuore." After receiving punishment for sawing the legs off their teacher's chair, breaking a shopkeeper's window, meddling with the cobbler's work after breaking into his shop, and painting devils on a wall, the story concludes with the pair surreptitiously stealing bites of sausage from a young girl's basket and getting a stomach ache. The simple movable elements are functional, without restoration. In publisher's glossy pictorial boards backed in gray paper showing little wear to lower spine, contemporary ink gift inscription to inside front cover, top corner of upper front cover creased. Overall a very good or better copy of an uncommon movable.


