BRUNHOFF, Jean de.

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Babar's Travels. First British edition of the second Babar story. The Babar books began as bedtime tales told to Jean de Brunhoff's sons Mathieu and Laurent who asked their father, a trained artist, to illustrate them. De Brunhoff obliged and six Babar titles were subsequently published in French before his death in 1937.Babar's Travels was published in French in 1932. It first appeared in English in America in 1934.

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