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LITTLE BLACK SAMBO
by BANNERMAN, HELEN
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Moderate Wear and Soiling/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
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)
- 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
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- New
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- Reprint
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- Octavo
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