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THE STORY OF FERDINAND
de Leaf, Munro
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- Near fine in very good dust jacket.
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1937. Near fine in very good dust jacket.. First English edition of the pacifist children's classic, banned in Franco's Spain at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. The first collaboration of Lawson and Leaf, FERDINAND was a hit with children but caused controversy among adults: the story of the bull who would rather smell the flowers than fight with the other bulls was read politically in the context of the Spanish Civil War. Although he hadn't meant for the book to carry an ideological message, Leaf received angry letters claiming he was "deliberately corrupting children of an impressionable age" (quoted in Davis). A wonderful work, in which the beauty of nonconformity still reads as subversive. Quarto. 8'' x 6.75''. Original quarter tan cloth, red pictorial paper boards. In original price-clipped dust jacket. Yellow pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white line drawings by Lawson. [64] pages. Faint soiling to boards, some bumping to corners. Jacket with several closed tears, including a long closed tear on front panel near spine, many repaired with tape on verso, some chipping to spine ends and corners. Red of jacket entirely unfaded.
Sinopsis
A true classic with a timeless message, The Story of Ferdinand has enchanted readers since it was first published in 1936. All the other bulls would run and jump and butt their heads together. But Ferdinand would rather sit and smell the flowers. So what will happen when our pacifist hero is picked for the bullfights in Madrid? The first print run by Viking Press sold 14,000 copies at $1 each. The following year sales increased to 68,000, and by 1938 it was selling 3,000 copies a week - outselling Gone with the Wind (which had won the Pulitzer in 1937). The story is often seen as a political symbol, and was banned in many countries including Spain. Hitler ordered it to be burned in Germany, and after the Germans were defeated in WWII 30,000 copies were printed and handed out to German children as symbols of peace. -
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- Librería
- Type Punch Matrix
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 15986
- Título
- THE STORY OF FERDINAND
- Autor
- Leaf, Munro
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near fine in very good dust jacket.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Hamish Hamilton
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1937
- Palabras clave
- Banned,20th century,American,Picture Book
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- Verso
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- Quarto
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