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MITROKHIN, Dmitri (1883-1973, illustrator) and Viktor Borisovich SHKLOVSKY (1893-1984). Puteshestvie v stranu Kino [Journey to the Land of the Movies]. Moscow and Leningrad: Zemlya i Fabrika, 1926. First edition, rare, of the only fruit of the cooperation between the great ‘Mir Iskusstva’ artist Mitrokhin and the influential Soviet literary and cinema critic Shklovsky. An illustrated children’s picture book of great charm, this story imagines the journey of a little Russian boy to Hollywood, with iconic vignettes of such stars as Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Harold Lloyd, and Mary Pickford. It was published as part of the’ Detskaia bibliotheca’ project. Worldcat locates only copies at Harvard, NYPL, Getty and British Library. Quarto (229 x 123mm.). Color lithographs. Original color lithographed wrappers (spine repaired, somewhat soiled).