1940 TRUE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, BABAR AND FATHER CHRISTMAS BY JEAN DE BRUNHOFF

Description: 1940 TRUE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, BABAR AND FATHER CHRISTMAS BY JEAN DE BRUNHOFF. Original illustrated red boards. The book is original and unrestored. Overall in good condition. Solid spine and boards, no loose pages and no coloring. Please 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 titles that should be listed on the copyright page are the six titles preceding this one. If any additional title(s) are listed, it means it is a later edition because being the seventh book of the Babar series to ever be released, any additional titles would have been printed after 1940. Also beware of copies been listed as first editions when they are in fact editions from the 1950's. Pay attention to the color of the binding and the order and list of which the titles appear on the copyright page. The color of the binding on a true first is yellow in color. “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: 110 USD

Location: Woodside, New York

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