Bambi Felix Salten First Edition
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.About this Item: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1928, 1928. Original green vertical-ribbed cloth, spine lettered gilt and with thick gilt rule at head and tail, front cover with deer motif in gilt in central panel, pictorial endpapers, top edge yellow. Spines dulled and slightly rolled.
A very good copy. Frontispiece and 25 plates by Kurt Wiese, vignette title page printed in black and green.
First edition in English, first printing (July 1928); originally published in German (Berlin: Ullstein Verlag, 1923). With an excellent photographic portrait of Salten mounted opposite the title page and inscribed: 'for Mr Nelson Craig cordially Felix Salten, 1935'. The portrait is the same as that used by Salten on his press card for the Union of Foreign Correspondents in Vienna (issued December 1932). Inscribed photographs of Salten are extremely uncommon. Seller Inventory # 107906 1.
Bambi Felix Salten First Edition Book
Within U.S.A.About this Item: Simon & Schuster, New York, 1928. 223 x 132 mm. (8 x 5 1/4'). 293, 1 (ads) pp.Translated by Whittaker Chambers. Foreword by John Galsworthy. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, First Printing (July, 1928).
Very pretty light green morocco (stamp-signed 'Asprey' on rear turn-in), upper corner of covers with concentration of gilt leaves extending outward, raised bands, compartments with gilt leaves and lettering, pictorial endpapers bound in at rear, gilt tooled turn-ins, all edges gilt. With 26 full-page illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Spine very lightly sunned, small half-inch marginal repair at bottom of p. 61, otherwise in pristine condition inside and out. First published in German in 1923, and offered here in its first English printing, this is the story of a young male deer whose experiences of life in the forest and unfortunate contacts with humans comprise what is considered to be one of the first environmental novels. In his foreword, Nobel Prize-winner John Galsworthy declares, 'For delicacy of perception and essential truth I can hardly know any story of animals that can stand beside this study of a forest deer.'
This is all the more remarkable since the author was a city boy: a Hungarian Jew by birth, Salten (1869-1945) grew up in Vienna, where he lived and worked until forced by the Nazis to flee to Switzerland in 1936. He wrote prolifically, but 'Bambi' is by far his best-known work. It has been translated into 30 languages, and although written for adults, was memorably made into an animated film by Disney in 1942.
'Bambi' is difficult to find in fine condition, and the beautiful binding here makes this an especially agreeable copy. The high-end New Bond Street emporium Asprey has been a London fixture since 1781, serving as jewellers to a long line of British monarchs, and it sells a range of luxury goods, including finely bound books (for a short time, it even owned the merged firms of Zaehnsdorf and Sangorski & Sutcliffe). First published in German in 1923, and offered here in its first English printing, this is the story of a young male deer whose experiences of life in the forest and unfortunate contacts with humans comprise what is considered to be one of the first environmental novels. In his foreword, Nobel Prize-winner John Galsworthy declares, 'For delicacy of perception and essential truth I can hardly know any story of animals that can stand beside this study of a forest deer.'
Bambi 1st Edition
This is all the more remarkable since the author was a city boy: a Hungarian Jew by birth, Salten (1869-1945) grew up in Vienna, where he lived and worked until forced by the Nazis to flee to Switzerland in 1936. He wrote prolifically, but 'Bambi' is by far his best-known work. It has been translated into 30 languages, and although written for adults, was memorably made into an animated film by Disney in 1942. 'Bambi' is difficult to find in fine condition, and the beautiful binding here makes this an especially agreeable copy. The high-end New Bond Street emporium Asprey has been a London fixture since 1781, serving as jewellers to a long line of British monarchs, and it sells a range of luxury goods, including finely bound books (for a short time, it even owned the merged firms of Zaehnsdorf and Sangorski & Sutcliffe).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, First Printing (July, 1928). Seller Inventory # ST15500 2. From United Kingdom to U.S.A.About this Item: Verlag Ullstein, Berlin, Germany, 1923. Condition: Very Good. H/B 187 pages, Plus 4 pages of publishers advertisements. Text in German.
Illustrated initial letter to each chapter. Condition - A very good copy of this extremely RARE book. Corners and top and bottom of spine slightly bumped, pages slightly tanned around edges, minor spotting to paper covered boards. A small inscription to the top of the flyleaf, (see photo).
The first edition of this work was issued in Germany shortly after the end of the First World War on very poor, brittle paper in a cloth spine and paper covered boards. Born Siegmund Salzmann on 6th September, 1869, died 8th October, 1945. A Hungarian Jew who's family moved to Austria. First published in Germany in 1923 as 'Bambi. Eine Lebengeschichte aus dem Walde, (Bambi - A life history from the forest).
Banned in 1936 by Hitler, many copies were burned. Salzmann fled to Switzerland.
The book was republished in 1926 with copyright notices. Seller Inventory # 054759 3. Within U.S.A.About this Item: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1928. First edition.
Octavo, original green cloth, pictorial endpapers. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Also laid in is the original leaflet from publication about the author and the inside story of Bambi's publication. Foreword by John Galsworthy.
Bambi Felix Salten First Edition Full
Translated from the German by Whittaker Chambers. A very attractive example of this work. 'Using the pseudonym Felix Salten, journalist Siegmund Salzmann wrote several anthropomorphic animal tales, including the novel Bambi This story of life in the forest is written with integrity, emotion and great skill Bambi remains Salten s best-known work, and it is a classic in the genre of animal stories' (Silvey, 571-72). Walt Disney famously adapted the book to the screen in his 1942 animated film.
Seller Inventory # 4373 5.