Gregory And Lady Turtle In The Valley of the Music Trees

New York: Pantheon Books. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1971. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning rubbing to the spine joints of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The bottom spine end of the text block has a faint red marker mark (Not a remainder mark). A couple of pages have some crease / dog-eared pages. "Cautiously, Lady Turtle sticks her head out from under her shell and sneezes twice. Then she nibbles a little piece of lettuce leaf and sets out, without hurrying, on her way. Every day, after her nap, she pays a visit to her friend Gregory the rabbit." "Laurent de Brunhoff (born August 30, 1925, Paris, France) is an author and illustrator, known primarily for continuing the Babar the Elephant series of children's books, created by his father, Jean de Brunhoff. The children’s classic, Babar, began as a bedtime story that Cécile de Brunhoff told her young sons, Laurent and Mathieu, in 1930, when they were five and four years old, respectively. They loved the story about the little elephant so much that they asked their father, who was an artist, to draw pictures for them of the elephant world their mother had described. He did and eventually created a book, Histoire de Babar: le petit éléphant (The Story of Babar) , which was published by Jardin des Modes, a family-run publishing house." .