The Story Of Little Black Sambo

London: Grant Richards, 1899. Rare First Edition. Illustrated in color throughout with twenty-seven full-page illustrations by the author, engraved on wood and color-printed by Edmund Evans. 16mo, publisher’s original light green cloth lettered and decorated in dark green, the upper cover and spine with ruled borders and vertical stripes and author and title… Read more

First Edition of ìThe Story of Little Black Samboî BANNERMAN, Helen. The Story of Little Black Sambo. London: Grant Richards, 1899. First edition. Sixteenmo (4 7/8 x 3 inches; 124 x 75 mm). viii, 57, [1, blank], [1, printerís imprint], [1, blank] pp. Twenty-seven full-page illustrations by the author, engraved on wood… Read more

London: Grant Richards, 1899. First edition. Illustrated with 27 full-page engravings after drawings by the author, printed in color by Edmund Evans. 1 vols. 16mo. Original light green cloth ruled and lettered in dark green. Contemporary owner's signature dated Nov 1 1899 on title. Front hinge repaired, some rubbing and soiling of covers, a few spots in margins. Overall,… Read more

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 wonderful colored illustrations. The well-known - and controversial -- children's classic. Written in… Read more

London: Grant Richards, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 57pp. Vicesimo-quarto [13 cm]. Expertly recased in original pale green cloth with black ink. Complete with 27 full-page color engravings after illustrations by the author. Light wear. Above-average copy of the controversial children's classic featuring the original and often pirated title character. Scarce.

Garden City Publishing , 1933. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated in color with twenty-seven full page illustrations, plus endpaper illustrations, by Kurt Wiese. These includes 4 movable plates with jointed characters operated by tabs. These "animations" were created by A. V. Warren. This book is in remarkably well preserved condition. There is an inscription to Paul… Read more

1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Rare 1st edn with all key points, stains and wear to cover esp. along edges but reasonably good internal condition, 27 lovely drawings, blue titles and kids' trousers, tan spine binding, 12mo, v + 56pps, a few short open tears that can easily be repaired. Date is a guess as no copyright… Read more

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1918. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. A VERY EARLY EDITION IN ITS ORIGINAL PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET(!!). Published by Henry Altemus of Philadelphia as part of its "Wee Books for Wee Folks" series, the publication date can be pinned down conclusively between 1918-1921 but not more specifically than that. Dustwrappers earlier than this on editions of "Little… Read more

Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Co Inc, 1933. Clean with light soiling to the covers. Mustard colored boards with a full color paste-down of Little Black Sambo and the tiger on the front. Shaken. Spine is worn and cover has a cut mark Small name stamp on the inside of the front cover and on the… Read more

New York: Frederick A. Stokes. 1901. F First Edition; Second State Collectible. H Hardcover. Good. First american edition (second state) of the llustrated and controversial classic. In quarter green cloth over pictorial upper cover board, titling in black (second state). 16mo, 56pp. Illustrated with 27 color illustrations. (light shelfwear and rubbing to outer board extremities, toning/browning… Read more

Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co, 1905. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. 2nd U.S. edition, 1905. The "Christmas Stocking Series". INTRODUCTION BY L. FRANK BAUM!! 64mo (miniature), 56 pgs. plus publisher's ads. A clean, well-preserved, VG+ copy in its original red cloth with decorative holly-border and "Sambo" illustration to front panel. Text on the versos, vivid color illustrations on… Read more

NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company; (no date) Second issue of the first US edition, published in 1901. According to Barton, The Pictus Orbis Sambo, pages 116 - 118, the first US edition had the title and author lettering on the front cover in blue, matching the color of Sambo's pants in the illustration on the front board. The second issue… Read more

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1904. 2nd Amer. ed. Hardcover. Very Good. color illustrations, v, 55p. Original cloth-backed boards with oval color illustration mounted on front cover inside a black oval with title and author printed in black above and below illustration. 15cm. Text and illustrations printed on one side only; text generally on right side (except for… Read more

NY: Frederick A. Stokes. Near Fine with no dust jacket. Second Edition; First Printing. Original Cloth. The scarce second U. S. Edition, with all the required criteria (pagination, blank pages, illustrations, etc. ) , oval picture on the front, framed in black, with black lettering and gold colored spine. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall .… Read more

London, Grant Richards, 1903.. EIGHTH EDITION 1903, The Dumpy Books for Children, No 4, small format, 125 x 80 mm, 5 x 3¼ inches, 27 coloured illustrations, text and plates printed 1 side only, pages: 7 prelims plus 5-113, (1), numbered on printed pages only, text begins on page 5, last page states London, Engraved & printed at the… Read more

New York: Frederick A. Stokes. Yellow cloth spine on decorated boards, blue title, cover art shows Sambo without the oval, no date written in book, 56 pages (blank pages between written pages not counted), all artwork is very good except next to last picture has light pencil markings, all other pages are clean, there are two small edge tears on… Read more

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London: Grant Richards, 1901.. Sixth edition, 32mo, (xiv), 113, (3) pp with the majority of the leaves printed on one side only. 27 coloured illustrations, brief contemporary inscription, small blind stamp and a small closed tear to the fly leaf. Original cloth, spine browned, some slight wear to top. No. 4 in "The Dumpy Books for Children"… Read more

Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co., 1939. Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co, 1939 8vo, 63 pages Original blue cloth with a pastedown illustration on the front cover, red line border around the outside edges, title on spine and front cover lettered in red Illustrated endpapers, color illustrations througout the text by Cobb X Shinn -- Moderate… Read more

Chicago: M. A. Donohue, 1919. 1st illust thus. Hardcover. Good/None. 24 color plates with copy opposite. Artist or author not credited. Red Cloth covers with color illustrated label on front - Sambo holding a green umbrella. Both hinges cracked and the endpaper drawings have been neatly colored in with crayon. Internally the pages are clean, one page with… Read more

London: Grant Richards, 1904. Early Octavo Edition of the Children's Classic adventueres of the African Boy and the Tigers. Illustrations Chromolithographed by Thos. N. Storer Sons & Co, Nottingham & London. The Full-Page illustrations printed on one side of the paper. Text in large font size. Buff cloth cover with Colour illustration of Sambo walking off into the jungle with… Read more

New York, NY: Frederick A. Stokes Co.. G/No Dustjacket. Early American Edition. Cloth/Boards. 16mo., 56pp., Binding worn and stained; hinges shaken and cracked, soiled throughout; ownership .

London: Chatto & Windus, 1908. Engraved and printed at the Racouet Court Press by Edmund Evans. 27 full-page color illustrations. Front cover pictorial in orange and black. Small closed fore-edge tear of front free endpaper repaired with archival tape. Front joint weakened with small nick in cloth. Offset from newspaper clippings on endpapers (clippings enclosed). Occasional and minor page stains… Read more

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Chatto & Windus. London.,1935. Reprint. Small 4to.(9.3 x 7 inches). 27 full colour plates, each with a page of text opposite. Small area of loss to the bottom corner of one page and a few pages with tears into the margins, without any loss to the page. Overall a very good clean copy which has recently been finely bound… Read more

David McKay. First edition thus. Introduction by George C. Harvey. Wear along edges of picture wrap and to outer corners. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1931.

(Berkeley): Poole Press, 1983. Adams, Maryline Poole. (iv), 25pp. One of 100 copies signed by the printer/illustrator, Maryline Poole Adams. Illustrated throughout with full-page hand-colored linoleum cuts depicting young Sambo's encounter with the tigers deep in the jungle. A clever tale, unfortunately reliant on racist stereotypes. Fine in black boards with printed paper labels. (Bradbury, p. 183). (2 1/2… Read more

New York: Platt and Munk Co, no date. Hard Cover. vg+/vg+. 24mo (5 3/4" x 4 1/2") 63pp Orange cloth with color pictorial dust jacket. With 27 color illustrations. "Wee Books for Wee Folks"

New York: The Platt & Munk Co. Inc, 1930. Hard Cover. vg/vg. 12mo. 27 color illustrations by author and illustrator. Color pictorial dust jacket. Small closed tear to bottom edge of dj. Stain to back dj cover. Protected with a brodart wrapper.

Philadelphia, PA: David Mckay Company, 1931. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. Illustrated by Author. Told and Pictured by Author. Boards have edgewear and rubbing, a few pages have been professionally repaired. Boards soiled with light spotting on rear board. Red spine ends and board edges are worn. Back flypage has ink free form scribble. Color Illustrations12mo 7"… Read more

Newark: Charles E. Graham, 1927. Boards. Good. L. S.. Wide 12mo, pp. unnumbered, color plates, b/w illus. Covers heavily rubbed and worn with some loss at edges and corners, previous owner name and ink stamp to front free endpaper and title page, a few faint pencil scribbles to front pastedown, finger marks to a few page margins.

Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co.. Very Good. 1908. Hardcover. Hardcover in light green cloth boards with pastedown picture on front of Sambo with umbrella and palm trees. No dust jacket. Later printing (circa 1925) . Book is generally crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Green cloth is faded on rear and at spine.… Read more

, 108 pp with colour illustrations engraved and printed at the Racquet Court Press by Edmund Evans

Lippincott This an earlier edition, circa 1936, bound in red cloth with black decorations, "The only authorized American edition". Back flap of jacket advertises Sambo and the Twins with blurb describing this as "this new Little Black Sambo story". This book ex-college library rare book room, has no external markings, evidence of book pocket removal on first endpaper and… Read more

New York: Platt & Munk. N.D.. blue cloth, black stamp "Wee Books for Wee Folks", very good; blank endpapers front both front & back are missing else clean, bright & unworn .

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New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1923. "The Only Authorized American Edition " on title page, indicating it was publshed in 1923 after the unauthorized editions. In pictorial front cover on top of maroon cloth covers. Pictorial of Little Black Sambo in blue pants and orange shirt carrying a green umbrella. Square and intact binding. Unmarked endpapers and text pages.Moderate shelf… Read more

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London: Grant Richards. Good tight condition hardback moderate edgewear. 1917. Very Scarce early printing of this classic 13th edition .

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Philadelphia: David McKay, 1931. Book. Very Good (Book condition). Hardcover. A nice little story fully illustrated by the author. Sunning to rear cover, wear to extremities, light toning to pages. Illustrations bright and fresh including that on front cover. Text clean, binding strong. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.].

First written by Helen Bannerman in 1899, it is the story of Sambo, a young boy in India, whose mother gives him a beautiful new set of clothes which four tigers take from him. Sambo then tricks the tigers into chasing each other around a tree until they turn into butter which his mother uses to make pancakes for breakfast.… Read more

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