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Little Toot
by Gramatky, Hardie
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. Twentieth printing, copyright 1939, this copy most likely from the 1950s or early 1960s. Near fine in good to very good dustjacket. blue hardcover, illustrated endpapers, color illustrations throughout, illustrated dustjacket. The book looks and feels about new and unread, with tight binding, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [3.50] and has an old tape repair along the outer edge of the front panel, very light edgewear to rear panel, otherwise very good.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 038787
- Title
- Little Toot
- Author
- Gramatky, Hardie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- CHILDRENS TUGBOAT STORY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Tight
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