Lot 114: BRUNHOFF, Jean de (1899-1937). Histoire de Babar le petit éléphant. Paris: Jardins des

BRUNHOFF, Jean de (1899-1937). Histoire de Babar le petit éléphant. Paris: Jardins des Modes, 1931.

2 o. Color illustrations throughout. (Front hinge cracked.) Original cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers decorated with elephants (slightly scuffed, very minor fading along board edges).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with no elephant logo on the verso of the title-page) of the first Babar book.

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BRUNHOFF. A.B.C. de Babar. Paris: Jardin des Modes, 1934.

8 o. Color illustrations throughout, alphabetical list of words to find in each each of the illustrated letters at end. (Page with the letter "E" with small marginal tear not affecting illustration.) Original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers (small split along front joint, some slight wear at ends of spine, a few small areas of retouching).

FIRST EDITION, with charming illustrations corresponding to each letter of the alphabet. (2)