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Lot 39
Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
Dec 5, 2024
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$2,000 -
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$3,810
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Lot Description
Brunhoff, Jean de. Le Voyage de Babar
Paris: Editions du Jardin des Modes, (1932). First edition, advance proof copy, inscribed by the author on title-page: "Maquette en noir- L'ouvrage definitif sera en couleurs et se presentera exactement comme l'Historie de Babr." Folio. 48 pp. Publisher's quarter yellow cloth over printed pictorial boards, splitting in spine, extremities rubbed; later hand-coloring to three leaves.
Rare advance proof copy of the second title in the Babar the Elephant series, with Brunhoff's handwritten inscription on title-page.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.

