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THE STORY OF FERDINAND
by Leaf, Munro; Lawson, Robert
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Fine in very good plus jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking, 1936. First edition. Fine in very good plus jacket.. First printing of the pacifist children's classic, soon to be banned in Franco's Spain at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. The first collaboration of Lawson and Leaf, FERDINAND was a hit with children but caused controversy among adults: the story of the bull who would rather smell the flowers than fight with the other bulls was read politically in the context of the Spanish Civil War. Although he hadn't meant for the book to carry an ideological message, Leaf received angry letters claiming he was "deliberately corrupting children of an impressionable age" (quoted in Davis). A wonderful work, in which the beauty of nonconformity still reads as subversive. A nice copy in jacket, and scarce as such. 8.25'' x 7.25''. Original quarter tan cloth, red pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($1.00) red pictorial dust jacket. Yellow pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white line drawings by Lawson. [72] pages. Jacket spine sunned, chipping to spine ends and corners.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33915
- Title
- THE STORY OF FERDINAND
- Author
- Leaf, Munro; Lawson, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in very good plus jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- 20th century,American,Picture Book,Banned
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About the Seller
Type Punch Matrix
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Silver Spring, Maryland
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- Fine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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