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1937 Black Sambo Helen Bannerman “Little Black Quasha” browse these categories for related items... Directory: Archives:Collectibles:Memorabilia:Pre 1940: item # 390533 Please refer to our stock # B218 when inquiring.
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This first edition, miniature, hard cover book , "The Story of Little Black Quasha" was written and illustrated by Helen Bannerman, an Englishwoman living in India at the turn of the 20th century who wrote this and a series of six other SAMBO stories to amuse her two little daughters. These subsequent stories are much more rarely found as fewer were published, because at that time, none ever reached the popularity of the original “Little Black Sambo”. "The Story of Little Black Quasha" is one of these stories! To the collector of Helen Bannerman books, no collection is considered complete without a copy of each of the “Sambo” books: Sambo and the Twins The Story of Little Black Mingo The Story of Little Black Quasha The Story of Little Black Quibba and in French, Histoire du Petit Negre Sambo. All are quite difficult to find in any condition! This 1937 copy of “Little Black Quasha” published by Frederick A. Stokes of New York, is in quite fine condition with tight binding, tight pages, no rips or tears! Despite the very tight binding, it appears that the first 14 pages, which would include blank, preface and title pages, are missing. Only a very few pages of the actual story itself are absent, as this book begins with the page in which Quasha is given an earned coin and she runs off to see what she can purchase with it-- with the grisly adventures unfolding from there! Please view all photos for condition representation. The story itself is truly quite violent and frightening in both text and in drawings involving animal drownings and animal death, replete with explicit red, bloody pictures to accompany the tale! And this was bedtime reading for children!!!! A very, very RARE book despite the absent pages- and the only copy available in my extensive stock of Black Memorabilia!!! Please peruse my website for other rare, vintage, "Little Black Sambo" books! |
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