Krakow 1943/ Bookstore Powszechna/ first edition/16x23cm/s.24/ seven color, signed illustrations on separate pages/ publisher's binding, booklet/ good condition, rubbing, binding dust, title page missing, minor soiling of single pages. Infrequent.
The adventures of a small carpet merchant Shah-Sharah and his love for Princess Lumperponi.
Drawn by Wojciech Has
, "Similar accusations (à propos sloppiness of language) can be leveled at many publications by Jadwiga Hoesick-Hendrichowa (Lalki 1942,Myszka mała co rodziców nie słuchała 1942, ArabianFairy Tale 1943,Kwiaty i kwiatki 1943, Miś 1943, Owocowe baśnie 1943, Świergoty ptaszęce 1944), who does not make as many linguistic errors as Zechenter, but who is also capable of carelessly sacrificing correctness of grammatical structures and meaning for the sake of rhyme. At the same time, Hoesick-Hendrichowa had a taste for infantile tenderness, talkative moralizing, and cloying religious accents. [source: Krzysztof Woźniakowski; Cracow 's Contribution to the "Literature of the General Government "1939 - 1945 (Contribution to the History of the Open Literary and Publishing Movement of the Times of the Nazi Occupation), p.170].
A good illustration for the author's words will be the example from page fifteen, where the main character named Shah-Sharah is called Shah-Shah to maintain the rhyme.
Jadwiga Hoesick-Hendrichowa-Podolska (born as Jadwiga Hoesick on January 26, 1905 in Warsaw, died.May 13, 1968 in Lanckorona) - Polish poet and author of books for children and young people, which were widely read by young readers.