Author: Jean de Brunhoff:
Title: Histoire de Babar le petit elephant [The Story of Babar]; Sketches and Maquette, Commentary.
Description: London: The Folio Society, 2020. First Folio Society edition, limited to 750 sets (this is set number 507), complete in three hardback volumes in a solander box. Each volume is folio (37cm by 27cm), and is bound in quarter cloth with illustrated boards. The solander box is quarter green coth, illustrated boards, red side panels. Volume 1 (48 pages) is a facsimile of the first editon (with text in French); Volume 2 is a portfolio containing 61 sketches and a facsimile of the author's maquette, and volume 3 (129 pages) is a commentary volume, including an introduction by Faiza Guene and essays by Adam Gopnik and Christine Nelson. This is a mint set, still in the publisher's wrapping.

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