Yambo. - Ciuffettino. - 1937

Yambo. Ciuffettino. Vallecchi Editore, Florence 1937. Famous and rare luxury first edition for Italian children of the Mussolini era. Ciuffettino is considered Enrico Novelli's masterpiece, under the pen name Yambo. The great Pisano writer and journalist invents a character vaguely Pinocchio-like that will accompany him for life. Binding in colored decorative cloth. Title on the spine. Illustrated with color plates by Yambo. Many illustrations in the text and full-page plates by the same Yambo. Size 24 x 17 cm, 276 pages. Excellent condition.