Drawing Babar : early drafts and watercolors
New York: Morgan Library & Museum, 2008. Hardcover. Illutrated dj; brown cloth covers. (xi), 150 pages : illustrations (some color). VG. Item #180199
ISBN: 9780875981512
"A comprehensive study of the composition of the first book by each of Babar's two authors - father and son Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff - complete with over two hundred color photographs of manuscript drafts and drawings, transcriptions of all preliminary and final French text along with English translations, and two illustrated essays that provide the cultural context of one of the most successful children's series of all time."--Inside front cover. Contents as follows: Freeing the elephants: Babar between the exotic and the domestic imagination of France / Adam Gopnik -- Babar in progress: the earliest drafts by Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff / Christine Nelson -- Catalogue: Jean de Brunhoff's Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant -- Laurent de Brunhoff's Babar et ce coquin d'Arthur.
OCLC: 232256856
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