Bambi
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [c. 1930s]. Early reprint. Publisher's full tan buckram, illustratively stamped in green, in dust jacket. Gently rubbed and pressed corners and tips, still near fine, in very good dust jacket with moderate wear to extremities, in mylar cover. Item #241015
THE ALLEGORICAL BAMBI
Felix Salten's Bambi is a childhood classic, brought into many imaginations through the wholesome Disney movie. However, banned by the Nazis in 1935 and burned as Jewish propaganda, Salten originally imagined Bambi as a prophetic and parabolic affront to the dangers of Jewish persecution.
Not only does Salten's story serve as a political allegory, this edition's translator, Whittaker Chambers, published this first work in translation in 1928 and was then ordered underground by the Communist party as a Soviet spy.
This early 1930s reprint allows us to revisit the story that many of us only knew as children with a new perspective.
Price: $125.00