1936 TRUE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, A.B.C. OF BABAR, BY JEAN DE BRUNHOFF WITH DJ

Description: 1936 TRUE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, A.B.C. OF BABAR, BY JEAN DE BRUNHOFF WITH ITS ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED EXTREMELY RARE DUST JACKET PRICED AT $1.00. Overall in very good condition with no loose pages, no tears and no coloring. A picture of every sing page has been listed. Please use the additional detailed pictures as reference for condition. Beware of the many first edition listings that are not in fact first editions. There can only be four titles on the "other books" page as this one would be the fifth title. Any additional title on that page would make the book itself a later printing. “If there is a universal symbol for childhood, Babar the elephant is probably it… The inspiration for Babar came from Madame de Brunhoff, Jean’s wife, who told stories about a little elephant to amuse her young children. Their enthusiasm for the tales encouraged their artist father to shape them into illustrated books… The original Babar books were oversized in format, with the text printed in script. Subsequent editions have taken every imaginable shape and form, but the luxuriously large volumes are still the best way to fully appreciate Jean de Brunhoff’s mastery of the picture-book form. His books, as Maurice Sendak once observed, ‘have a freedom and charm, a freshness of vision, that captivates and takes the breath away… Between 1931 and 1937, he completed a body of work that forever changed the face of the illustrated book”

Price: 375 USD

Location: Woodside, New York

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