The rarest Penza edition of Korney Chukovsky's "Let's overcome Barmaley!"

The rarest Penza edition. Chukovsky, K. Let's defeat Barmaley! A military tale / fig. by B. Lebedeva. 2nd ed. Penza: Publishing house of gas. "Stalin's banner", 1943. 11 l. ill. 20×14 cm.

It needs restoration, pages are cropped, pencil inscriptions, dirt, falling blocks, lost pages. The cover is pasted with an illustration, pages 1-4 are lost.

Drawings by the artist B.I. Lebedev. They are made on stone by the artist A.I. Konstantinov, the lithographer is I.M. Belyakov.

Very rare.

The tale was first published in Pionerskaya Pravda in 1942, excerpts were published in Pravda Vostoka (1942). In 1943, it was published in separate editions in Yerevan, Tashkent and Penza.

"Let's overcome Barmaley!" is a fairy tale in verse by K. I. Chukovsky, the last of a series of poetic and prose works about the good doctor Aibolit and the evil robber Barmaley. The hero of Chukovsky's earliest fairy tale, the valiant Vanya Vasilchikov, also appears in the tale. The fairy tale "Let's overcome Barmaley!" was written in the first half of 1942, at the most dramatic time for The Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War. However, from the middle of 1943, when a turning point in the course of the war was marked, persecution began on the fairy tale, and then on its author. As a result, after several regional editions in 1943, the tale was tacitly banned and was not republished for more than 50 years. But even after the censorship on the publication of the tale was lifted, critics admit that "Let's Overcome Barmaley!" is a clear creative failure by Korney Chukovsky.