Item #1676 The Story of Little Black Sambo. Helen BANNERMAN.
The Story of Little Black Sambo
The Story of Little Black Sambo
The Story of Little Black Sambo
The Story of Little Black Sambo

The Story of Little Black Sambo

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, No date [c. 1900]. Boards. [WOMAN AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR] [RACIST CARICATURES]. American edition of the Dumpy Book. 24mo (5 ¾” x 4 1/8”); 56pp; illustrated boards, Sambo holding an umbrella inside an oval on front, lettering in black; green cloth shelf back; printer’s error on last page of Preface “exactly”; fp + 26 full page color illustrations; tight binding; wear to boards, light staining, light fingermarks on pages, some cracking of hinge paper; very good minus. Very good. Item #1676

The Preface announces that this is a Dumpy Book, and the “pictures copied as exatcly [sic] as possible.” An uncorrected printer’s error in this copy published around 1900, the first Dumpy Book in which color illustrations by electrotype accompanied the text. Barton p108 & 116.

The illustrations are reproductions of Bannerman’s original primitive-style sketches of Black Indians, many with exaggerated lips, wooly hair, and large eyes.

Price: $175.00

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