Little Toot
by Gramatky, Hardie
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Altamonte Springs, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1939 An unattractive reading copy with numerous flaws.
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
- Hastings of Coral Springs
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19872
- Title
- Little Toot
- Author
- Gramatky, Hardie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- CHILDREN'S BOOK
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Hastings of Coral Springs
Biblio member since 2010
Altamonte Springs, Florida
About Hastings of Coral Springs
Independent internet bookstore since 2001. I offer a wide variety of unusual and out of print offerings. I strive for accuracy in descriptions and will do my utmost for customer satisfaction.
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