Little Toot
by Gramatky, Hardie
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Craftsbury Common, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. Book. Illus. by also Gramatky, delightful color lithographs of the famous little tug boat. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Presumed first edition, with no later printings mentioned, and definitely NOT the common Weekly Reader Book Club edition. Original ble cloth binding, protected in a clear, mylar sleeve. A crack in the internal front hinge, but still solid. A couple small page tears along the bottom edges, and a bit of age toning. But still a rare gem of this classic Little Toot tale. And a child has printed his name on the reverse of the front endpaper. .
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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Details
- Seller
- Craftsbury Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 079401
- Title
- Little Toot
- Author
- Gramatky, Hardie
- Illustrator
- also Gramatky, delightful color lithographs of the famous little tug boat
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- childrens
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens;
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