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Kārlis Kraujiņš "Lāča Smēde". Vāks Niklava Strunkes. Autora Izdevums, Riga (1933). Spiestuve "Latvija", Riga.

"Bear's Smithy" Collection of Children's Shot Stories by Kārlis Kraujiņš with Avant-Garde Constructivist Cover Design by Niklāvs Strunke, Riga ND(1933). 
Authors edition, Riga ND(1933). 88 pages. Size 135 x 195 mm. Weight 95 gr. Latvian language. Original soft cover publishing. Full complete copy. 
Please note that book is 100% original, which printed 84 years ago, but not modern reprint or more late re-edition. 
Near Fine condition, clean copy without any remarks, registrations and library stamps, singles lt. brown stains, repaired border at right on front cover, 
pasted top part on the title, traces of the time (please see scans) .
NB! It is REALLY RARE book.

Present author's self-published stories and depictions collection devoted to youth (teenagers) is written through
the keen observations on life and peculiar portraits, with using his original imagery language. 

Kārlis Kraujiņš (1879 – 1975) - Latvian writer, journalist and translator. 
Worked in different literary styles - poems, stories, plays, satirical verses, fables, fairy tales. 
His main contribution to literature is stories for children and youth, which brought him popularity. 

Niklāvs Strunke (1894–1966) one of the most original artists of Latvian modernist generation. 
In addition to the influences of Constructivism, Cubism, and Russian Modernism, his works attest to his interest 
in Italian art and Latvian folk art. Participant in exhibitions of the Riga Artists' Group. Painter of still-lifes, portraits, landscapes. 
A prominent book illustrator and press graphic artist. His works feature refined stylization, decorativeness, preference to 
everything exotic, ornateness and simplicity of forms, clarity, purity, and primitivism. Present writer's third book "Six poems" 
is intriguing modernist poetry collection describing his travel impressions. 

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