Dust jacket with mild rubbing, minor loss to spine ends and bottom edge. This American edition is the true first book edition World War II delayed the printing of the French edition.īoards with minor soiling and bumping to spine ends, slight rubbing to edges. De Brunhoff’s son Laurent published the book following his father’s death, and continued the Babar tales thereafter. In fact, the real benefactor in this book-Jean de Brunhoff himself-would never return again” (Weber, 87). In this “engrossing story,” first serialized in the London Daily Sketch in 1936 but seen here for the first time with color illustrations, the Elephant King seeks out Father Christmas “to arrange for baby elephants to receive presents just like the ones that human children get? promises to come back. Slim folio, original half yellow cloth, pictorial boards and endpapers, original dust jacket.įirst book edition, preceding the French, of the seventh and last of Brunhoff’s original Babar books. “WHY SHOULDN’T WE WRITE TO HIM AND ASK HIM TO COME HERE TOO?”: FIRST EDITION OF BABAR AND FATHER CHRISTMASīRUNHOFF, Jean de.
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