Makuszyński Kornel - Wesoły zwierzyniec [illustrations by Kazimierz Grus][first edition, 1923].

Warsaw 1923/ Instytut Wydawnicza Bibljoteka Polska/23x30cm/s.160/ thirty illustrations outside of the text/ publisher's binding/ good condition-,soiling of the binding, staining of the back cover, significant rubbing of the binding edges, loss of the side edge of the back cover, loss of the corner of one of the pages, small trace of flooding of the corners of four pages, individual pages a little dirty. Rare

Written by Kornel Makuszyński

Illustrated by Kazimierz Grus

First edition

Rare pre-war edition of , "The Merry Zoo" by Kornel Makuszyński. Published in 1923, the book is decorated with excellent illustrations by Kazimierz Grus.

, "Grus had a wide range of artistic interests, as he created caricatures, drawings, book illustrations and posters. He specialized in socio-political and moral caricatures. Grus was known for his masterful ability to portray the character of individual animals, and his skills in this area were especially revealed in drawings intended for children and young people. Grus became known as the illustrator of popular books for children and young people: Maria Kownacka's "O szewczykiem Łukaszku co szył buty dla ptaszków"; Kornel Makuszyński's "Wesoły zwierzyniec"; Bronisława Ostrowska's "Szklana Góra"; "O małpce Kiki i słońiach" (Grus also wrote the rhymed text for this booklet), and Jan Żabiński's books: "How the elephant's trunk was made"; "How to win"; "Who would have guessed?... This and that about animals"; "On the harsh lion"; "This and that about snakes". He also created a series of drawings illustrating phraseologisms as seen through the eyes of a child - a collection of parts of these drawings was published in a book entitled. "250 times Little Kazio" (Lodz 1957).'' (Wikipedia)