Bambi's Children.

UK,8vo HB,minus dw/dj,1st thus.[An early reprint by this publisher,as originally published and copyrighted to The Bobbs-Merrill Company,Indianapolis,1939.] NFINE/VG+.Two previous owner's handwritten names, one crossed through,and a modern(?) colour illustrated bookplate of an anthropomorphic squirrel reading a book,pasted below the names,to the front free endpaper.Publisher's original and reasonably bright and clean,green cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked,brown ink lettered title+author to upper board with a similar coloured fawn in grass illustration to board's centre,a bright,spine/backstrip with blocked,brown lettered title,author and publisher to same,rear board without decoration or text/lettering. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - corner's tips' with minimal bumping and gentle pushing/curl - no nicks.tears or splits present. Top edges coloured - aged red(?) now appears brown, fore-edges aged/toned but without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread apart from my own collation.Monochrome illustrated endpapers. UK, 8vo HB,minus dw/dj,1st thus,1-246pp [paginated] includes and immaculate repeated illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, [paginated] includes XXXIV (34) chapters,each with a b/w illustrated headpiece,with other profuse b/w illustrations by Kurt Wiese and Erna Pinner, throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] b/w stag vignette illustrated half-title with b/w illustrated frntis to its reverse,another b/w stag vignetted title page,a repeated half-title page but as a title separator page,and to the rear 4pp blanks. Visually the exterior appearance is more than acceptable,and even internally,the book is also in an acceptable condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its age and nature, i.e. a child's book. It really is an acceptable copy for its cleanliness and brightness. The sequel to 'BAMBI.' Twin fawns,Geno and Gurri learn the pleasures as well as downsides of nature and their forest home, as their mother Faline raises them to adulthood. Their father, Bambi, watches over them and, at times, takes care of them while their mother is busy. During their lives, they interact with Lana and Boso, twin fawns of their Aunt Rolla, and the orphaned siblings Nello and Membo. The deer also interact with a variety of humans including hunters seeking to kill them and forest rangers wishing to protect them. Born Siegmund Salzmann September 6th,1869 in Budapest,Austria -Hungary to a Jewish family. His family moved to Vienna four weeks later as that city had granted full citizenship to Jewish people in 1867, prompting many Jewish families to move there. In 1890, young Salzmann became part of the "Young Vienna" movement,a group of young authors that met at a café. It was around this time that he began writing stories using the pseudonym Felix Salten.He received full-time work as an art and theater critic for Vienna's press soon after. He published his first collection of short stories in 1900. In 1922,as Felix Salten,he wrote' Bambi: A Life in the Woods',which was initially released in serialized form and was later published as a novel in 1923.The book was a success,and Salten later wrote three set in the same forest, 'Perri: The Youth of a Squirrel', 'Fifteen Rabbits', and 'A Forest World', and a direct sequel,'Bambi's Children'. In 1936,he sold the film rights to Bambi to Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer producer Sidney Franklin,who later gave the same rights to the creator of Mickey Mouse,Walt Disney,thus leading to the release of the 1942 animated film, Bambi. Please contact seller for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded, after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **