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Published by Junior Deluxe Editions, Garden City, NY, 1956
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Girard Goodenow (Illustrator) (illustrator). Junior Deluxe Editions, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW. Vintage 1956 Book Club Edition. Illustrated boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/discoloration to inner surface. Illustrated endpapers. Gift inscription to first title page. Woodland life of Bambi by Austro-Hungarian author Felix Salten (1869 - 1945). First published 1923, and propelled to international fame by Walt Disney in 1942. Felix Salten was the pen name of Siegmund Salzmann; a Jewish writer whose books Hitler banned. Originally written in German; English translation by Whittaker Chambers was published 1928 by Simon & Schuster. This printing carries a foreword by John Galsworthy (dated March 16th, 1926), 1932 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and, w/line drawings from Girard Goodenow (1912 - 1988). A magical fable for young and old, and known to many. 191 pgs in 25 chapters.
Published by Simon and Schuster
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.99.
Published by Cape, 1956
Seller: Parrot Books, Hemel Hempstead, HERT, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 6th impression 1961.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Wiese, Kurt (illustrator). Earlier printing with "85th-95th Thousand" on front panel of jacket below Galsworthy, hardcover, has very slight skew to binding with a hint of very faint bowing to boards, slight bumps to spine ends, and very slight shelfwear to edges and corners of boards, otherwise a solid, clean VG copy in like dust jacket which has small chips to top of spine and front corners, tiny chips to base of spine and rear corners, sunning to spine, tiny tear to base of front panel, and very faint rubbing to panels.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 209 pages. The true American first edition, limited to 1,000 copies "for distribution among friends of The Inner Sanctum in advance of publication." No jacket, as issued. Includes, laid-in, the wrap-around strip issued at printing which describes its publication plans; this is very toned, with light edgewear and minor chipping at creases. Green cloth with gilt spine titles, gilt sharp and bright at title, a little darkened for the subtitle, author, and publisher. Few faint stains to cloth, light edgewear to corners and spine tips. Spine square. There is a loose signature which spans the one-page foreword and pages 1-4 of the text; binding else intact, with the signature still laid-in, and no missing pages. Pictorial endsheets. Pages lightly toned, interior else clean and unmarked.
Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1928
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Octavo, 293 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Full binding of green cloth with black lettering on spine and gilt decoration on front cover. Mild shelfwear. Soiling to spine. Some staining to front and rear covers. Age-toning and light foxing to textblock. Spine slightly cocked. Features illustrations throughout by Kurt Wiese. Shelved in Case 14. 1371015. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. First English Language Edition, First Printing.
Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1928
Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The first US edition, first printing. Green cloth hard covers, with gilt titling to spine and deer cameo to front, in unclipped dust jacket. Jacket toned, with some shallow loss to extremities. Spine titles tarnished, with moderate fading to edges of covers; edges and endpapers toned. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Illustrated endpapers Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First US edition (stated w/SD), hardcover, has a slight lean with a few thin cracks and pulls to the binding, very moderate bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, some sun fading to the spine and edges, a few small smudges and spots to the edges of the text block, one of which barely seeps to the head of several pages near the back, as well as areas of effaced bookseller marks on the first couple pages, mild age toning to the pages, a toned paper offset to p. 142-3, and a few very sparse and brief pencil marks to the margins. Otherwise, this is a solid, bright, Near Very Good copy in an unclipped, Good only dust jacket, which has sunning to the spine, a meandering creased tear starting from the tail of the front hinge and ending near the center of the front cover, a second closed tear extending from the tail of the front fold onto the front cover, bumps with chipping to the spine ends and corners, and areas of soiling near the tail of the front cover. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar, and additional images are available upon request.