Walter Trier — 8192 Crazy People in One Book

London, Atrium Press, c1950. Hardback. A charming children's juvenile work from Czech-German illustrator Walter Krier, with movable pieces designed to be combined to make amusing characters. Illustrated with a total of forty-eight double-sided colour pieces; with sixteen sets of double sided legs, bodies and heads. Each page is divided into three parts, designed to interchange with other pages to form different combinations of characters.Collated, complete.The work of anti-fascist illustrator Walter Trier, who emigrated to London in 1936 due to the opposition he faced by the Nazi's due to his illustrations condemning them.During the war, Trier helped the British Ministry of Information produce anti-Nazi leaflets and political propaganda. In the publisher's original pictorial paper covered boards. Light handling marks to front board, with minor loss of paper to board perimeters. Spotting to rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Walter Trier. Very Good .