Little Toot
by Hardie Gramatky
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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San Diego, California, United States
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About This Item
Dent, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Clean, tight & unmarked text. P.O. inscription neatly written half title page dated Xmas 1946. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering and outline of little toot on front cover. Protected in clear archival mylar cover. Trust an experienced independent bookseller since 1988. Orders are shipped daily via USPS with delivery confirmation.
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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- Bookseller
- The Prince and Pauper
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 103546
- Title
- Little Toot
- Author
- Hardie Gramatky
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dent
- Date Published
- 1946
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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