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The Story of Little Black Sambo by [Racism] [Imperialism] Bannerman, Helen - 1899

by [Racism] [Imperialism] Bannerman, Helen

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The Story of Little Black Sambo by [Racism] [Imperialism] Bannerman, Helen - 1899

The Story of Little Black Sambo

by [Racism] [Imperialism] Bannerman, Helen

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London: Grant Richards, 1899. First edition. Very Good +. A Very Good + copy of the book. It has been carefully recased, but presents well. Some soiling to the pages and a contemporary gift inscription on the front end paper. Complete with all pages and the brightly colored illustrations.

Written by a Scottish author to pass the time on a train with her daughters, Little Black Sambo has deservedly gained its reputation for packaging racism and imperialism for a juvenile audience. Originally set in India, the slew of copycat works that followed easily adapted the premise and characters for Jim Crow America. Because the book "belittled dark-skinned people from India, it served as a boilerplate" and within a year the book was released in the US; replacing Sambo's Indian family with Black American caricatures, "it was even more successful than it had been in England" (Ferris). Admittedly, the racism of the later American versions was heightened. "Bannerman's version did not have characters using bastardized English, for example" and it featured a protagonist who was "a clever little boy who outwitted several tigers"; nevertheless, her inspiration emerged out of her privileged, imperialist position as the wife of a surgeon "serving in the British Army of India," where she lived for 30 years (Ferris). Like the minstrelsy and anti-Black works it inspired, the original text was created for the entertainment of privileged white people occupying "a position of elitism based on their husband and father's occupational status and on their white skins in a colonized nation of dark-skinned people" (Ferris). Today, its value rests in teaching us about racism and colorism across cultures, in urging us to consider how children are indoctrinated into white supremacy from an early age, and in admitting how many of these attitudes persist today. Very Good +.
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  • Book Condition Used - Very Good +
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  • Publisher Grant Richards
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1899

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The Story of Little Black Sambo

by Bannerman, Helen

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HarperCollins, 1923. No Stated Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 4x0x5. No wear. HarperCollins, 1923. Hardcover No Stated Edition. The book condition is Fine.
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The Story of Little Black Sambo (Wee Books for Wee Folk) by Helen Bannerman (1996-04-01)

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Springfield, Mass.: McLoughlin Brothers Inc., 1931 Book. Illus. by Colour Illustrations by Hildegard Lupprian. Very Good Minus. Original Wraps. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Original pictorial wraps with Art Deco illustrations by Hildegard Lupprian (no lettering on covers). First Thus. Minor corner wear. 1" vertical tears at top and bottom of spine. Small blue mark on one page (crayon? - not affecting text). Unpaginated (18 pages). Scarce edition of this controversial book. .
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Philadellphia: Henry Altemus Company. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. N.D.. Hardcover. Blue/gray paper over boards. Contains 27 full color illustrations. Red cloth spine with black lettering. Front cover has gold lettering and design to the side of a full color pastedown of Sambo. Spine and cover lightly faded. FFEP has light bleeding from DJ. Very little wear to edges and no marks. DJ, now in Brodart, has pieces missing from top and bottom of spine and front upper corner with additional nicks and tears along edges. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 63 pages .
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The Story of Little Black Sambo

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Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company; (1919). First Thus . Hardcover. A title in the publisher's Peter Rabbit Series (9 titles listed on recto of half title page; colored endpapers show scenes from various fairy tales), very good- in the original cloth boards. There are eight small holes along the length of the red cloth spine, the largest being slightly larger than the eraser on a No. 2 pencil. Internal pages have some sporadic soiling; signatures are a little separated at the middle of the book. Color illustration covers entire front board (Sambo with a green umbrella startled by a tiger), with just slight wear at edges. 24 full page color illustrations, including frontispiece. No names or other markings in book.
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The Story of Little Black Sambo

by Cook, G. (though not listed on title page)

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NY: The Platt & Munk Co.. Wee Books for Wee Folks . Hard Binding. Very Good +/No Jacket. 16 mo. With 27 Color Illustrations. Wee Books for Wee Folks. Blue boards with image of 'Black Sambo' with umbrella. Cover bright and with very minimal wear. Hinges tight. Owner name on 'This book belongs to Harvey Good - only marking. An uncommonly nice copy.
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The Story of Little Black Sambo

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Samuel Lowe Company, 1941. Trade Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Shaped book in brightly illustrated wraps, with two holes punched, presumably for ribbon or string. Some wear to spine and punched holes but no tears. The story, originally written by Helen Bannerman about a little boy and some tigers in India, has been slightly abridged. The illustrations are very bright and rich. Extremely scarce in this edition.Voigt, Margot.
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The Story of Little Black Sambo

The Story of Little Black Sambo

by [Bannerman, Helen]

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Chicago. Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1919. Hardcover. Brief inscription to former owner written inside front cover. On second free endpage the book is identified as being in the Peter Rabbit series, including Peter Rabbit, The Little Small Red Hen, Cinderella, Three Little Pigs, Chicken Little, The Selfish Fox, and The Three Bears. No publication date, only a copyright date of 1919. Endpages have a red ine drawing of a high-stepping Sambo with his umbrella. Orange/brown cloth cover, a little rubbed at extremities. Cover has an illustration of Sambo holding a green umbrella pasted on. Paste-on is brightly colored, slightly rubbed, Pages are yellowed but clean and unmarked. Includes 24 full-page full-color illustrations that are all present, bright and colorful. The illustrator is not named. There are three or four short tears on pages. Book is tight and solid with sewn binding, hinges are not cracked. A beautiful copy of an early edition of Little… Read More
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