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Little Toot by Gramatky, Hardie
by Hardie Gramatky
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good - Collectible/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0399201440
- ISBN 13
- 9780399201448
- Seller
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Stamford, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Putnam Juvenile, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good - Collectible/Very Good. Author inscribed (personalized with drawing of Little Toot) 25th impression G P. Putnam's Sons. Jacket shows short tears and rub at spine (price intact). Tight binding text unmarked. Also includes note and doodle signed by author. Please email for photos.
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
- Griffin Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20494
- Title
- Little Toot by Gramatky, Hardie
- Author
- Hardie Gramatky
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good - Collectible
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0399201440
- ISBN 13
- 9780399201448
- Publisher
- Putnam Juvenile
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- LITTLE TOOT|
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens#;
- X weight
- 320 oz
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Griffin Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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