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Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors.
by NELSON, Christine, with essay by Adam Gopnik & foreword by William M. Griswold
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Morgan Library & Museum, (2008). First edition. Small folio, xi, 150 pp, illustrated throughout mostly in color. Gilt-lettered light brown cloth, in pictorial dust jacket
A fine copy in fine dust jacket.
"A comprehensive study of the composition of the first book by each of Babar's two authors - father and son Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff - complete with over two hundred color photographs of manuscript drafts ad drawings, transcriptions of all preliminary and final French text along with English translations, and two illustrated essays that provide the cultural context of one of the most successful children's series of all time." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1110
- Title
- Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors.
- Author
- NELSON, Christine, with essay by Adam Gopnik & foreword by William M. Griswold
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Morgan Library & Museum
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (2008)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Reference, Children's Illustrated, French Literature, Jean de Brunhoff , Babar, Elephant
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature, Fiction, Poetry; Reference; Children's, Illustrated;
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