Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.
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De Brunhoff’s son Laurent published the book following his father’s death, and continued the Babar tales thereafter.
In fact, the real benefactor in this book-Jean de Brunhoff himself-would never return again” (Weber, 87). In this “engrossing story,” first serialized in the London Daily Sketch in 1936 but seen here for the first time with color illustrations, the Elephant King seeks out Father Christmas “to arrange for baby elephants to receive presents just like the ones that human children get? promises to come back. Slim folio, original half yellow cloth, pictorial boards and endpapers, original dust jacket.įirst book edition, preceding the French, of the seventh and last of Brunhoff’s original Babar books. “WHY SHOULDN’T WE WRITE TO HIM AND ASK HIM TO COME HERE TOO?”: FIRST EDITION OF BABAR AND FATHER CHRISTMASīRUNHOFF, Jean de.
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