![]() He wrote prolifically, but "Bambi" is by far his best-known work. In his foreword, Nobel Prize-winner John Galsworthy declares, "For delicacy of perception and essential truth I can hardly know any story of animals that can stand beside this study of a forest deer." This is all the more remarkable since the author was a city boy: a Hungarian Jew by birth, Salten (1869-1945) grew up in Vienna, where he lived and worked until forced by the Nazis to flee to Switzerland in 1936. ![]() First published in German in 1923, and offered here in its first English printing, this is the story of a young male deer whose experiences of life in the forest and unfortunate contacts with humans comprise what is considered to be one of the first environmental novels. 61, otherwise in pristine condition inside and out. Spine very lightly sunned, small half-inch marginal repair at bottom of p. With 26 full-page illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Very pretty light green morocco (stamp-signed "Asprey" on rear turn-in), upper corner of covers with concentration of gilt leaves extending outward, raised bands, compartments with gilt leaves and lettering, pictorial endpapers bound in at rear, gilt tooled turn-ins, all edges gilt. ![]() First Edition in English, First Printing (July, 1928). ![]() ![]() 293, (ads) pp.Translated by Whittaker Chambers. ![]()
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