Histoire de Babar
Wear to boards and corners; the final gathering is fragile and must not be forced.
Chosen · Described · Sold with care
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The copy in detail
A faithful presentation of the object.
Photographs of the piece offered; only the backgrounds have been standardised. Text, colours, structure and visible condition remain unchanged.
Every view shows the piece being offered. A supporting hand remains visible only where it helps show the structure safely.
The Reserve · FM 0002
Three early Babar albumsHistoire de Babar · Le Voyage de Babar · Le Roi Babar
The first three Babar stories in early French issues, preserved as a coherent family group and offered only as an indivisible set. A first-state Histoire de Babar from 1931 opens this vivid sequence of journey and coronation.
Price
CHF 4’200Status
Available through The Reserve · indivisible setThe three fragile albums are offered together. Their colours, family provenance and binding condition are photographed in detail.
An enquiry opens a personal exchange. It is neither an automatic reservation nor a sale.Request the three-album set- Albums
- Histoire de Babar · Le Voyage de Babar · Le Roi Babar
- Publishers
- Éditions du Jardin des Modes · Paris
- Format
- Approximately 37 × 27 cm each
- Thickness
- 1.9 cm · 1.7 cm · 1.2 cm
- Categories
- The Reserve · Also in Collections
Bibliographical description
Three formative monuments of modern children’s illustration.
Their bibliographical coherence and shared family provenance give this group a presence that the three volumes could no longer tell if dispersed.
Histoire de Babar is the first state of the 1931 original edition, identified by the absence of the small elephant logo on the copyright page. Le Voyage de Babar is a later issue of the 1932 original edition and bears an inscription dated 2 September 1938. Le Roi Babar is the 1933 French original edition, very probably an early printing.
The colourful boards and elephant-pattern endpapers are present. The set remains visually powerful, but the bindings must be handled with great care.
Condition of the piece
Three original albums, each with its own vulnerabilities.
Le Voyage de Babar
Blue and yellow boards, family inscription dated 1938; binding weakened.
Le Roi Babar
Yellow boards and blue endpapers; the binding is extremely fragile with partially detached sections.
The Reserve · Also in Collections
Three volumes, one family story.
The group belongs to The Reserve and is also presented in Collections. Further photographs or a private viewing can be arranged before any decision.
Request the three-album set