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Bannerman, Helen. Little Black Sambo. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1943.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Hardcover. Brightly-colored illustrated covers, with a red plastic spiral binding; black, red and blue lettering on the front cover. No date listed on title page; copyright page dated 1943. Unpaginated; approximately 25 pages. Covers are rubbed. Edges and corners are worn; corners are bumped. Front cover has detached from the binding. Writing in ink on inside front cover; pages are otherwise free from unwanted markings. Illustrated throughout in full color; some illustrations have pull-tab animations. Colorfully-illustrated edition of a children's classic.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Bannerman, Helen. LITTLE BLACK SAMBO. E.P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1943.
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 8.625" X 6.75" in illustrated boards with plastic comb binding. Covers are soiled, scuffed; scraped; heavy wear at all corners and along spine; a few stray smudges inside: FAIR PLUS. This is an "animated" version of Little Black Sambo. Some of the pages have cute illustrations with a tab, which when moved makes a part of the picture move. Some of the tabs are a little dogeared, but they work. [BD053]
Seller: THE BOOK VAULT, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Helen Bannerman. Little Black Sambo (Animated). E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1943.
Price: US$190.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. No jacket. In pictorial front cover and blue back cover. Square, intact binding. Red spiral bound with all spirals intact and functioning. Seven animations are intact and working. No tears on tabs or moveable parts. No writing anywhere. Light soiling to pages. Head and tail of spine are partially split. Rubbing through on corners. Moderate shelf rubbing although front cover pictorial is still bright as are illustrations. Pictures upon request. Thank you for your patronage. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Quaker House Books, Catawissa, PA, U.S.A.
Bannerman, Helen / Animatins By Julian Wehr. Little Black Sambo. E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc., 1943.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hard Cover - Good - No dust jacket if issued - Other than spine repaired and minor damage to a couple of moving parts book is tight with light wear - Illustrated - Animations by Julian Wehr
Seller: gigabooks, Spokane, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. HB NO DJ Issued, spiral Bound,Rare,1st edition of this version, 1943, NF-/VG+, AS-IS, WATER MARKS INSIDE CVR blank endpaper affecting former owner inscription, & next page, Beautiful Color pictorial Boards light rub, wear Scuff, Interior nice condition, light FoX wear, Unpaginated, few small spots Cover Backside, 8vo - over 734" - 934" tall, Blue Hard Board Covers with yellow, All Animations Work & There Are NO Tears, Red Sprial is great condition, NODJ
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
BANNERMAN, Helen (Julian WEHR). Little Black Sambo. E. P. Dutton and Co, New York, 1943.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Tall octavo. Fantastic pop-up book with six animations in color by Julian Wehr, publisher's spiral-bound illustrated boards in dust jacket. Very Good, some rubbing at spine ends, tab activated moveables are all in clean and working condition, in Good dustjacket, chipped at flap corners, two inch deep chip at lower spine end, one inch of loss at top spine end.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Helen Bannerman (1862 Ð 1946) wrote The Story of Little Black Sambo in 1898 to entertain her daughters while traveling in India, where the family lived for thirty years while BannermanÕs husband worked in the Indian Medical Service. The original Sambo story portrayed its protagonist as a South Indian boy, and BannermanÕs follow-up books (including Little Black Mingo) also reference the landscape of the Indian subcontinent (Jeyathurai). Controversy surrounding the depiction of Sambo grew in the 1930s as American editions of the book proliferated: ÒIn various editions of the book, Sambo is depicted as having very dark skin that is juxtaposed against the whites of his eyes and teeth, a broad nose, and a wide smile. While set in India and about an Indian protagonist, the illustrations matched what African Americans such as Langston Hughes recognized immediately to be the ÔpickaninnyÕÓ racist caricature (Jeyathurai). Some critics saw Sambo as a relatively positive depiction of a dark-skinned protagonist, however, and the character has appeared in modern editions like The Story of Little Babaji (1996) and The Boy and the Tigers (2004). Julian Wehr (1898 Ð 1970) patented his own style of ÒanimatedÓ childrenÕs books in the early 1940s. While previous designs utilized a tab at the bottom edge of the page that could only be pulled up and down, WehrÕs designs were more flexible, sometimes featuring multiple tabs that could be moved both back-and-forth and up-and-down. Wehr created over forty animated books, including versions of classic childrenÕs stories like Alice in Wonderland and Cinderella (both 1945). Wehr, who was also a sculptor, was trained at the Art Students League in New York City, where he studied under John French Sloan (1871 Ð 1951). 6 x 8 in. [24] pp. With seven full-page color illustrations by Wehr, each with movable, tab-activated elements. This copy has all seven movables (in contrast to later editions with fewer). Spiral-bound pages in original color-illustrated pictorial boards. A fine copy, scarce in this condition. First edition with the Julian Wehr illustrations. The Story of Little Black Sambo was first published in 1899 as part of the Dumpy Books for Children from the publisher Grant Richards. Jeyathurai, Dashini. ÒThe complicated racial politics of Little Black Sambo.Ó Tides Magazine, April 4, 2012 (accessed on the South Asian American Digital Archive).
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Bannerman, Helen. Little Black Sambo. E. P. Dutton and Co. , Duenewald Printing Corp, 1943.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Minor scuffing on front cover. Red spiral binding very good. There are seven movables all intact
Seller: Hammonds Antiques & Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.