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Little Toot
by Hardie Gramatky
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0399247130
- ISBN 13
- 9780399247132
- Seller
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Rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2007. Book. Illus. by Author. Very Good. Pictorial Hard Cover. Reissued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall Square. Unmarked, clean, bright and solid copy. Minor shelfwear. Clean and bright, not price clipped dust jacket.
Synopsis
Hardie Gramatky was born in Dallas, TX, in 1907 but moved to California as a small boy after his father died of tuberculosis. He attended Stanford University (earning the tuition by working as a logger and a bank teller) and Chouinard Art Institute before becoming one of Disney’s early animators in 1929. In the 1920s and 30s, he helped start the California Watercolor movement. In 1936, after a 6-year Disney contract expired, he left the company (earning $150 a week, a huge sum in the Depression) to move to New York City with his wife, artist Dorothea Cooke, to become illustrators. It was there, in his studio on Pearl Street, that Gramatky saw a Moran tugboat out his window that obviously didn’t want to work and kept making figure 8s on the East River. So in 1939 after painting many watercolors of the busy harbor, Gramatky wondered what would happen if a “tug didn’t want to tug” and wrote the story. The book got immediate attention and has been a favorite picture book ever since, and Gramatky’s fine art watercolors and giclée prints continue to be prized. He died of cancer of the ileum in Westport, Connecticut, on April 29, 1979.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Small World Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 075050
- Title
- Little Toot
- Author
- Hardie Gramatky
- Illustrator
- Author
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Reissued
- ISBN 10
- 0399247130
- ISBN 13
- 9780399247132
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
- Place of Publication
- New York City, New York, Usa
- Date Published
- 2007
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall Square
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Small World Books, LLC
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Rochester, New York
About Small World Books, LLC
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Glossary
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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