Brunhoff Laurent 1925 (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Unhappy because she is the smallest in the family, Isabelle discovers that being little has its advantages when she is asked to perform in the circus. Former library book. Minimal shelfwear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.…

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.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, OVER 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. No DJ; Lovely unsoiled large book with pictorial cover, 8 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches; small lamination wrinkle with shelfwear on front and back. An original with all the lovely color tones and heavy off white paper. Light wear on corner tips and top and bottom spine edges. FLYER OF SIGNING EVENT INCLUDED. Laurent DeBrunhoff (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, OVER 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. Story: Discord between the elephants and the rhinoceroses threatens to lead to war, but King Babar has a plan of his own. One of Maurice Sendak's favorite artists. No DJ as Issued. Laminated Blue Boards.…

[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. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL OVER 20 YEARS IN BUSINESS. Book is covered in laminated pictorial scene of Babar and his Little Girl on a pink background; light shelfwear. Lovely illustrations throughout this clean book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, OVER 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. SIGNED BY BRUNHOFF. RARE, RARE, RARE. Very Collectible. No DJ. Book has bright yellow background with light wear on corner tips and top and bottom spine edges. When this book was released in 1949 some of the pictures of the natives were thought to be RACIST so there was quite a flap about it. A controversial book due to its stereotypical portrayal of Africans. The book was then taken out of print in the 1960s, after Toni Morrison (a future Nobel Prize in Literature), an editor at Random House, protested the depiction of "savages". RACIST CONTENT. FLYER OF SIGNING EVENT INCLUDED. Signed by Illustrator(s).…

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.…