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BRUNHOFF (JEAN DE) Le voyage de Babar, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, WITH FULL-PAGE PEN AND INK DRAWING OF BABAR IN A HAT SHOP opposite the title-page, Paris, Editions du Jardin des Modes, [1932] image 1
BRUNHOFF (JEAN DE) Le voyage de Babar, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, WITH FULL-PAGE PEN AND INK DRAWING OF BABAR IN A HAT SHOP opposite the title-page, Paris, Editions du Jardin des Modes, [1932] image 2
BRUNHOFF (JEAN DE) Le voyage de Babar, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, WITH FULL-PAGE PEN AND INK DRAWING OF BABAR IN A HAT SHOP opposite the title-page, Paris, Editions du Jardin des Modes, [1932] image 3
BRUNHOFF (JEAN DE) Le voyage de Babar, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, WITH FULL-PAGE PEN AND INK DRAWING OF BABAR IN A HAT SHOP opposite the title-page, Paris, Editions du Jardin des Modes, [1932] image 4
BRUNHOFF (JEAN DE) Le voyage de Babar, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, WITH FULL-PAGE PEN AND INK DRAWING OF BABAR IN A HAT SHOP opposite the title-page, Paris, Editions du Jardin des Modes, [1932] image 5
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BRUNHOFF (JEAN DE)
Le voyage de Babar, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY WITH FULL-PAGE PEN AND INK DRAWING OF BABAR, Paris, Editions du Jardin des Modes, [1932]

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BRUNHOFF (JEAN DE)

Le voyage de Babar, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, WITH FULL-PAGE PEN AND INK DRAWING OF BABAR IN A HAT SHOP opposite the title-page, and inscribed on title "A monsieur et madame Gregory/en souvenir de Montana et de leur excellent traduction/hommage respectueux de l'auteur/Jean de Brunhoff", the original pen and ink illustration (image approx. 190 x 250mm.) depicting Babar in an overcoat talking to a shopkeeper holding up a hat, with 4-line caption below in distinctive cursive script ("Babar - Je voudrais un chapeau pour Mr. Gregory./Le vendeur - Voilà un modèle que je vous recommande./Babar - Très joli! Vous l'enverrez aujourd'hui/de ma part à Mr. Gregory au Chalet La Fenière.-", colour illustrations throughout, pictorial endpapers, contents shaken, occasional light foxing or toning, publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, worn and soiled with some abrasions, tears to spine with minor losses, folio, Paris, Editions du Jardin des Modes, [1932]

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RARE ORIGINAL PEN AND INK DRAWING OF BABAR IN A PRESENTATION COPY OF LE VOYAGE DE BABAR, the second in the series of Babar books.

The illustration depicts Babar smartly dressed in overcoat, kerchief and hat in the interior of a milliner's, buying a hat from the shop assistant and requesting it be sent to "Mr. Gregory au chalet La Fenière".

The book was gifted by Jean de Brunhoff (1899-1937) to the recipients as a souvenir of their meeting at Montana, Switzerland. From an early age de Brunhoff suffered from tuberculosis, and spent much of his time (and eventually dying aged thirty-seven) receiving treatment at a sanatorium in Crans-Montana. In Le voyage de Brunhoff depicts a resort based on the town (with "Hotel Suisse") where Babar, Celeste and the Old Lady go for "le bon air des montagnes et faire un peu de ski".

Provenance: Monsieur and Madame Gregory, gift inscription from the author; later inscription ("To my darlingest Winkie, with all my love, Bernard, 1971") beneath a tipped-in bookplate on the verso of the title-page.

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