Grosset & Dunlap, 1993-04-21. Board book. Very Good. 000-250: Very Fine. Shaped board book. Tiny bit of edgewear. Very small, light surface blemishes on covers. No marks or defects on inside boards. A beautiful, clean copy. Published 1993 by Grosset and Dunlap.

Synopsis

Hardie Gramatky was born in Dallas, TX, in 1907 but moved to California as a small boy after his father died of tuberculosis. He attended Stanford University (earning the tuition by working as a logger and a bank teller) and Chouinard Art Institute before becoming one of Disney’s early animators in 1929. In the 1920s and 30s, he helped start the California Watercolor movement. In 1936, after a 6-year Disney contract expired, he left the company (earning $150 a week, a huge sum in the Depression) to move to New York City with his wife, artist Dorothea Cooke, to become illustrators. It was there, in his studio on Pearl Street, that Gramatky saw a Moran tugboat out his window that obviously didn’t want to work and kept making figure 8s on the East River. So in 1939 after painting many watercolors of the busy harbor, Gramatky wondered what would happen if a “tug didn’t want to tug” and wrote the story. The book got immediate attention and has been a favorite picture book ever since, and Gramatky’s fine art watercolors and giclée prints continue to be prized. He died of cancer of the ileum in Westport, Connecticut, on April 29, 1979.

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Bookseller: Sklubooks (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 43007
Title: Little toot board book
Author: Gramatky, Hardie
Format/Binding: Board book
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Unknown
ISBN 10: 0448405857
ISBN 13: 9780448405858
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1993-04-21
Bookseller catalogs: Children's;
X weight: 6 oz

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