Pinocchio: Romanzo dei Bimbi Italiani / Fiction of the Italian Children

Italy (perhaps Sicily), c. 1921. Paperback. Very Good+. Student's notebook, "Quaderno le Regioni d'Italia," with illustrated wraps and a full-color images of Palermo mounted to front cover; 156 x 210 mm; approx. pp. 50, lined paper, nearly full with handwritten text in English and Italian, and original illustrations in pencil and ink, some of them colored. A charming volume, it includes the story of Pinocchio (handwritten in black ink, and with nicely accomplished illustrations in black ink or pencil) and an original story "Spettacolo di Gala" (handwritten in black ink in a different hand, and illustrated, perhaps by a child, in colored pencil). "Spettacolo" is about circuses, primarily clowns. Both stories are translated into English on the facing page or below, handwritten in blue ink -- some flaws in the translation suggest that this may be the work of Italian students of English.