TRUE FIRST FRENCH EDITION & ISSUE 1932, LE VOYAGE DE BABAR BY JEAN DE BRUNHOFF,

Description: TRUE FIRST FRENCH EDITION & ISSUE 1932, LE VOYAGE DE BABAR, BY JEAN DE BRUNHOFF. Original illustrated boards, red cloth spine in overall good condition with its original glassine dust jacket cover. The glassine cover still has the original stickers from John G. Kidd & Son who were famous book sellers from Cincinnati. Please refer to the last picture for additional details. Please also use the additional detailed pictures as reference for the condition of the book. Beware of the many listings indicating a first edition when in fact it is not. To better assist you in your quest in obtaining a true first edition, please use the below first edition Identification point as a guide. The only title that should be listed on the copyright page is "Histoire De Babar" issued a year earlier in 1931. If any other titles are listed, it means it is a later edition because being the second book of the Babar series to ever be released, any additional titles would have been printed after 1932. “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: 599 USD

Location: Woodside, New York

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