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Methuen and Co London 1965 G (yellow pictorial boards with black backstrip, 2" splits each side bottom of backstrip with taped repair and one similar split at top, bump head of spine and bottom corners rubbed, paper only split at front hinge, textblock binding firm, no inscriptions, pages clean and bright with few grubby marks to last few bottom margins) quarto unpaginated.
Picnic at Babar's by De Brunhoff, Laurent - 1950
by De Brunhoff, Laurent
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Picnic at Babar's
by De Brunhoff, Laurent
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
London: Methuen, 1950. Hardcover. SIGNED. First UK edition. Very Good hardcover with black cloth to the spine with wear to the tips and light shelf wear including some small scratches and a short pen mark to the back; the interior is clean and bright; lacking dj but including a custom-made acetate jacket. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. The second Babar book by Jean de Brunhoff's son, Laurent, out of print since the 1960s due to its caricatured depiction of Africans as "savages." Written and illustrated by Laurent de Brunhoff. SIGNED BY DE BRUNHOFF on the title page; no inscription. 40 pages; color illustrations throughout + decorated endpapers; 10.5 x 14.5 inches.
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- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Methuen
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1950
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PICNIC AT BABAR'S
by Laurent de Brunhoff:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used
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- Hardcover
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theberton suffolk, United Kingdom
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PICNIC AT BABAR'S
by De Brunhoff, Laurent
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- Hardcover
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- Used
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- Hardcover
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Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada
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London; Methuen, (1950).. Folio. 40 pp. Black linen tape over red pictorial paper boards. Several pages have a 1" tear at the bottom edge close to the spine and two pp have a small chip removed. Many are repaired with archival tape. First signature at bottom is starting. to loosen. All edges rubbd, still a good copy, bright and clean..
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Picnic at Babar's
by De Brunhoff, Laurent
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- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Fair
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- Hardcover
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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$64.50
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Hardcover. Fair. [FIRST EDITION] London: Methuen, 1950. Tall hardcover in red pictorial boards with cloth spine strip. 14-1/4" x 10-1/2"; 40 pages, illustrated throughout with color block-printed plates. Stated first (UK) edition, following the 1949 US edition (later withdrawn due to objections of the caricatures of black natives in the book). Complete book with no owner marking, but with edge-wear and scuffing to covers and short tears, a few wrinkled pages, weak binding, etc. to text-block. NOT EX-LIBRARY. (shelf4)
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Picnic at Babar's
by Laurent De Brunhoff
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
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- 1st Edition
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- Hardcover
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Matlock, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
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$50.82
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Methuen & Co Ltd, 1950. 1st Edition . Book Hardcover. Very Good. Card cover edges scuffed. head of spine torn 1cm. Clean copy. No inscriptions.
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