Brunhoff laurent de 1925 (5 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. Fine copy in the original color printed boards. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Description: unpaginated : col. Ill. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Seasons --Fiction. Elephants --Fiction. Series: A Just right book 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine copy in the original color printed boards. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Description: unpaginated : col. Ill. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Seasons --Fiction. Elephants --Fiction. Series: A Just right book 1 Kg.…

[Children's Illustrated] PROOF COPY. Large octavo (28 x 21cm), pp.[28]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's colour-illustrated card covers, with flaps and pink illustrated endpapers. A label on the back cover lists the prospective price as 16s. Gently toned throughout, with a little light handling to covers. A nice crisp copy. Near fine. A Babar story in English, including the French for all the key phrases in the text, imparting some language skills by stealth. …

304:495 mm. Signed at lower left: "Laur de Brunhoff". A charming, large-format watercolour showing Celesteville, the capital of "Le pays des Éléphants", Babar's Kingdom. The illustration was used as a double-page spread in "Babar à la fête de Célesteville" (1954) and thus bears a few pencilled marks by the printer in the blank margins. - The children's classic, Babar, began as a bedtime story that Cécile de Brunhoff told her young sons, Laurent and Mathieu, in 1930, when they were five and four years old, respectively. They loved the story about the little elephant so much that they asked their father, who was an artist, to draw pictures for them of the elephant world their mother had described. He did and eventually created a book, Histoire de Babar: le petit éléphant (The Story of Babar), which was published by Jardin des Modes, a family-run publishing house. Jean de Brunhoff created six more Babar books. - De Brunhoff, who holds both French and American citizenship, was made an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur. - Perfectly preserved.…

On two sheets, each signed "LB" or "Laur de Brunhoff". 305:210 mm. The first of the charming watercolours shows Babar preparing for his trip by changing his crown to a black hat and packing his suitcases. The others show Babar boarding his plane and the famous elephant visiting a jazz club and an antique store in New York after his arrival in the United States. Prefectly preserved, from the Ralph Esmerian Collection, New York.…