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Little Black Sambo: The Enlarged Picture Edition
by Bannerman, Helen
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Albert Whitman & Company. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Poor ; No jacket. Albert Whitman & Company. No date, ca. 1920s-30s. The Enlarged Picture Edition of A "Just Right" Book. (The "Just right" edition). Color drawings by Cobb X. Shinn. Hardcover has dark brown cloth-covered boards with gold cover lettering and a paper paste-on of Sambo & a tiger. Decorative endpapers. Hinges cracked, webbing showing, not broken. Corners bumped & worn, with fraying at tips. A one-inch section of the spine is missing at the middle, ends frayed. No spine lettering remains. Covers worn, with scratches, smudges, & nicks. Cover picture rubbed. Front free endpaper torn with a 1.5 inch piece missing at fore edge. Half-title page has bookplate with name in pencil, a tear at the bottom inch at binding, & nicks at fore edge. Name in pencil on rear free endpaper. Text & pictures intact & clear. Page 25-26 has a large closed tear. Most pages have handling smudges, some have small edge nicks & tears. Color illustrations with text opposite. 63 pages. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2773
- Title
- Little Black Sambo: The Enlarged Picture Edition
- Author
- Bannerman, Helen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Albert Whitman & Company
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Children's Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
SmarterRat Books
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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