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Little Toot
by Gramatky, Hardie
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0399201440
- ISBN 13
- 9780399201448
- Seller
-
Simi Valley, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Putnam Juvenile, 8/1/1959 12:00:01 AM. hardcover. Acceptable. . 1967 full-color reprint. Cover shows minor wear and rubbing, loose hinges, pages clean.
Synopsis
Hardie Gramatky was born in Dallas, TX, in 1907 but moved to California as a small boy after his father died of tuberculosis. He attended Stanford University (earning the tuition by working as a logger and a bank teller) and Chouinard Art Institute before becoming one of Disney’s early animators in 1929. In the 1920s and 30s, he helped start the California Watercolor movement. In 1936, after a 6-year Disney contract expired, he left the company (earning $150 a week, a huge sum in the Depression) to move to New York City with his wife, artist Dorothea Cooke, to become illustrators. It was there, in his studio on Pearl Street, that Gramatky saw a Moran tugboat out his window that obviously didn’t want to work and kept making figure 8s on the East River. So in 1939 after painting many watercolors of the busy harbor, Gramatky wondered what would happen if a “tug didn’t want to tug” and wrote the story. The book got immediate attention and has been a favorite picture book ever since, and Gramatky’s fine art watercolors and giclée prints continue to be prized. He died of cancer of the ileum in Westport, Connecticut, on April 29, 1979.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Schwabe Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0003250994
- Title
- Little Toot
- Author
- Gramatky, Hardie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0399201440
- ISBN 13
- 9780399201448
- Publisher
- Putnam Juvenile
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- Date Published
- 8/1/1959 12:00:01 AM
- Size
- Bookseller catalogs
- Book;
- X weight
- 20.0000 lb
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Schwabe Books
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Simi Valley, California
About Schwabe Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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