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Hundred and One Dalmations, The
London: Heinemann, 1936. Item #06272
First Edition of Dodie Smith's 'The Hundred and One Dalmatians'
SMITH, Dodie. The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Illustrated by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone.
London: Heinemann, [1956].
First edition of Smith’s beloved children’s classic.
Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 216 x 140 mm). [ii, blank], [iii–viii], 190, [198], [1, blank] pp. Illustrated with numerous drawings by the Grahame-Johnstone twins.
Publisher’s blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, pictorial endpapers, some scattered marginal stains. Covers with faint white speckling. Pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped), spine slightly darkened, light rubbing to extremities. A very good copy.
Smith’s modern fairy tale, first serialized in Woman’s Day under the title The Great Dog Robbery, follows Pongo and Missis on their perilous quest to rescue their fifteen stolen puppies from the villainous Cruella de Vil. It was followed by a sequel, The Starlight Barking (1967).
Disney’s 1961 animated adaptation One Hundred and One Dalmatians became one of the studio’s most successful films of the decade, later re-issued several times and remade in live action in 1996.
Dodie Smith (1896-1990) is best remembered for I Capture the Castle (1948) and this enduring canine adventure.
Price: $850.00