In his foreword, Nobel Prize-winner John Galsworthy declares, "For delicacy of perception and essential truth I can hardly know any story of animals that can stand beside this study of a forest deer." This is all the more remarkable since the author was a city boy: a Hungarian Jew by birth, Salten (1869-1945) grew up in Vienna, where he lived and worked until forced by the Nazis to flee to Switzerland in 1936. First published in German in 1923, and offered here in its first English printing, this is the story of a young male deer whose experiences of life in the forest and unfortunate contacts with humans comprise what is considered to be one of the first environmental novels. 61, otherwise in pristine condition inside and out. Spine very lightly sunned, small half-inch marginal repair at bottom of p. With 26 full-page illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Very pretty light green morocco (stamp-signed "Asprey" on rear turn-in), upper corner of covers with concentration of gilt leaves extending outward, raised bands, compartments with gilt leaves and lettering, pictorial endpapers bound in at rear, gilt tooled turn-ins, all edges gilt. 293, (ads) pp.Translated by Whittaker Chambers.
Salten also included himself as the responsible and humane hunter in the novel.Ģ23 x 132 mm. The models for Geno and Gurri were Felix Salten's own children, Paul who was careful and timid, and Anna Katharina, who was merry and optimistic. Perri, a squirrel character from one of Salten's earlier novels, makes several appearances in the book. It was not published in German until the following year. Written in German, the novel was first published in English in the United States in 1939 by Bobbs-Merrill. Salten wrote the sequel while living in exile in Switzerland after being forced to flee Nazi-occupied Austria as he was of Jewish heritage. The sequel to Bambi follows the lives of the twin children of Bambi and his mate Faline as they grow from fawns to young adults. Books signed by Salten are exceptionally rare. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, bookplate of the recipient. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Charles Felix Salten." The recipient, Charles Austin Perry, was an Episcopal clergyman and longtime Provost of the Washington National Cathedral. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Erna Pinner. First edition of this classic work, the sequel to Bambi.
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