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Author: Brunhoff, Jean de
Title: Histoire de Babar: le petit éléphant
Place Published: Paris
Publisher:Jardin des Modes
Date Published: [1931]
Description:

47, [1] pp. Illustrated in color throughout. 36x26.6 cm (14½x10½"), cloth backed orange pictorial boards. First Edition. Also included is the First American Edition. Both housed in custom made clamshell box.

Two first editions of the first book in the series about Babar and his elephant kingdom. Maurice Sendak praised Brunhoff for his new take on children's literature: "Like an extravagant piece of poetry, the interplay between few words and many pictures, commonly called the picture book, is a difficult, exquisite, and most easily collapsible form that few have mastered....Jean de Brunhoff was a master of this form. Between 1931 and 1937 he completed a body of work that forever changed the face of the illustrated book." (Homage to Babar...,1981)

Some wear to covers, spine sunned on the American Edition; interior clean and clear; near fine.