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They Still Draw Pictures! With 60 Illustrations of Drawings Made by Spanish Children During the War
1938rif. 63527New York: Spanish Child Welfare Association 1938. First Trade Edition. Octavo 23cm; printed sheets rectos spiral bound into red and blue pictorial card wrappers; 34-711pp with 60 captioned illustrations. Light wear to cover extremities with a few of the faint inevitable stress creases to same and a small bump to crown; contents fresh; Near Fine. The first exhibition of children's drawings of the Spanish Civil War was held in 1937 in Valencia; it was organized by the Ministry of Education and included over 3000 drawings. Subsequently 118 of those drawings were selected for showing in England and the United States to raise funds for children's relief efforts in Spain. Of these the sixty best were selected for publication in the exhibition catalog for which Aldous Huxley agreed to write the introduction; the catalog went through three printings in 1938-1939 ref. Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives online. A well-preserved copy of a notoriously wear-prone title. BROMER B54.1. 63527. Spanish Child Welfare Association unknown books
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