Histoire de Babar
Wear to boards and corners; the final gathering is fragile and must not be forced.
Chosen · Described · Sold with care
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 family group and offered only as an indivisible 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
Price
CHF 4’200Status
Available only as a setThree fragile albums sold together. Viewing is strongly recommended before acquisition.
Request the three-album setBibliographical description
Three formative monuments of modern children’s illustration.
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.
The copy in detail
A faithful presentation of the object.
The main view has been isolated on an ivory background for a consistent presentation. The unedited documentary photographs remain the reference for the text, condition, defects and structure.
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The original views show the item exactly as photographed, including hands used to support certain leaves.
Condition and checks
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.
FOLIA MUNDI · Documented expertise
An indivisible group with strong visual and family coherence.
Additional condition photographs and an in-person examination can be arranged before any decision.
Request the three-album set