Milano: Emme Edizioni, (1974). First edition. A beautiful and rather mysterious colouring book printed on glossy paper showing a vintage red and blue car with silver wheels travelling through town and country scenes ( somewhat surreal ones) with three young passengers. The artist, Paola Pallottino, has been a prolific writer and illustrator of children’s fiction and of popular scientific texts. She was also a lyricist for contemporary music and theatre. As a scholar, Pallottino helped develop a new approach to the history of illustration, producing the HISTORY OF ITALIAN ILLUSTRATION - STORIA DELL ILLUSTRAZIONE ITALIANO- in 1988. Pallottino taught the history of contemporary illustration at DAMS in Bologna and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. Not found in Library Hub, Princeton or Toronto; on OCLC we have so far located 2 copies in Italy; 2 in the US; 1 in Australia and 1 in Switzerland. Ref. 17056 In a red, blue, and silver car. Square 8vo (21 x 21 cm); glued and sewn; half title + 10 ff. with no text apart from lettering on buildings, but with illustrations in black and white and in red, blue and silver.