Bannerman (Helen) The Story of Little Black Sambo
£300
London, Grant Richards, 1903.
Early edition. Small 4to. Original pictorial brown cloth.
Helen Bannerman (1862-1946) wrote this story during a long railway journey in India, and sent it to her two small daughters whom she had just left to be educated in her native Scotland. It was eventually published as the fourth title in the “Dumpy Books” series, in 1899, and its success apparently inspired the format of Beatrix Potter’s “Peter Rabbit” books. It is today quite a controversial juvenile, but since the original publication it has gone through countless printings and translations as well as sequels, imitations, and parodies.
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Some minor marking, bookplate to front pastedown; minor bumping to edge but overall a very good copy.
Illustrations by the author.
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