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BRUNHOFF, Jean de.

Babar At Home.

Babar At Home.

Stock Code 115356

London, Methuen & Co., 1938

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Originally a character in a bedtime story told by the author's wife Cécile to their young children, Jean de Brunhoff (1899-1937) turned the story of the orphaned elephant Babar into a picture book before elaborating on the character in a further six works. One of his sons, Laurent (1925-2024), continued the series, continuing with the richly illustrated with large eye-catching colour plates, the series proved immensely popular from the start.

First U.K. edition; folio (365 x 270 mm); stunning colour illustrations throughout, including some double-page, the occasional marginal mark or light finger-soiling but still very bright; publisher's blue cloth-backed pictorial maroon boards, illustrated endpapers, rubbed and chipped on extremities, worn, light soiling, inner hinge starting but otherwise still a good copy.

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