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Little Toot
by Gramatky, Hardie
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0399201440
- ISBN 13
- 9780399201448
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
N Y: G.P. Putman's Sons. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full blue cloth boards. 7""w x 8""h. Edge wear and small tears to dust jacket. Later printing; circa 1970's.
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
- Bookseller
- Pistil Books Online
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 154979
- Title
- Little Toot
- Author
- Gramatky, Hardie
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0399201440
- ISBN 13
- 9780399201448
- Publisher
- G.P. Putman's Sons
- Place of Publication
- N Y
- This edition first published
- August 1, 1959
- Keywords
- River Thames, London, Tugboat, Boat, River, Sixties, Harbor, Foghorn, Little Toot
- Bookseller catalogs
- CHILDREN'S;
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
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