BAMBI; A Life in the Woods / Felix Salten / Illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher / Translated from the German by Whittaker Chambers

New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1999. First Edition Thus Illustrated. Pictorial boards. Fine. Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher. Signed by the illustrators Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher on the title page; small quarto (9 1/4" x 7 1/4" x 1"); publisher's original purple & gold-accented boards with inset color photo of Bambi as a faun on front cover; Foreword by John Galsworthy, illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher with glossy color double-spread frontispiece of Bambi & his mother + 16 full-page color plates of deer & woodland creatures + color endpapers expanding the scope of the cover art; 185 pages + [186] About the Illustrators + [4] double-spread artwork. ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S CLASSIC by Felix Salten (1869 - 1945) SIGNED BY BOTH ILLUSTRATORS. <br /> <br /> BAMBI was first published in America in 1928 by Simon & Schuster just before the market crashed and Great Depression began! This splendidly produced edition preserves the Galsworthy Foreword, Whittaker Chamber's translation, and adds the superb new artwork by Johnson and Fancher.<br /> <br /> Highly collectible edition of this richly imagined and vividly illustrated masterpiece that inspired the beloved Disney film. <br /> <br /> Bambi lives in a thicket in the forest. From his kind and caring mother, to all the friends he makes among the forest's inhabitants, to his twin cousins Faline and Gobo, he is surrounded by animals who wish him well. But there are dangers within and surrounding the forest, and all too soon they will make themselves known. A beautifully written and critically acclaimed classic!<br /> <br /> FINE: Solid, tight, very bright copy; no internal markings or entries by previous readers. Plates are bright and without foxing. Minute rubbing to corners. No previous owner or remainder marks.