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LITTLE BLACK SAMBO

by BANNERMAN, HELEN

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  • Hardcover
Condition
Moderate Wear and Soiling/No Jacket
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About This Item

Chicago, New York: M.A. Donohue and Company With 24 full-page color illustrations. Colorful endpapers. Quite clean throughout. Undated but circa 1945. Gift inscription on preliminary page dated Dec. 25, 1946. Part of "The Peter Rabbit Series" , titles listed at end of the book. . Later Reprint Edition. Orange Cloth. Moderate Wear and Soiling/No Jacket. Square Octavo.

Synopsis

The Story of Little Black Sambo, a children's book by Helen Bannerman, a Scot who lived for 30 years in Madras in southern India, was first published in London in 1899. (An American edition of the book was illustrated by Florence White Williams. ) In the tale, an Indian boy named Sambo prevails over a group of hungry tigers. The little boy has to give his colourful new clothes, shoes, and umbrella to four tigers so they will not eat him.

Reviews

On Jan 14 2015, a reader said:
When I was a young I thought this was a great book. I never considered this book racist. But back then I didn't know what racism was. Sambo could have pink with yellow polka dots I would never have known the difference. Only when the grown ups made it racist did this ever enter my mind.

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Details

Bookseller
Glenn Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
012980
Title
LITTLE BLACK SAMBO
Author
BANNERMAN, HELEN
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Moderate Wear and Soiling
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Edition
Later Reprint Edition
Publisher
M.A. Donohue and Company
Place of Publication
Chicago, New York
Size
Square Octavo
Keywords
Black Interest, Children's

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About Glenn Books

We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.

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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...
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
New
A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Reprint
Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Octavo
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