Felix Salten. First U.S edition, second state. Dust Jacket: Very Good+ A beautiful, unclipped jacket with a mylar protective wrapper. Jacket has a piece missing from top of spine otherwise solid. Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1929. Originally published by Simon and Shuster who sold the rights to a few publishing houses including Grosset and Dunlap. Pages have toned and are browned. Former owner's signature on flyleaf, otherwise, no markings in the book, 293 pp. Translated by Whittaker Chambers and illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Foreword written by John Galsworthy.
Originally published by Simon and Shuster, the previous year, in 1928.
Bambi, a Life in the Woods, originally published in Austria as Bambi: Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde is a 1923 Austrian novel written by Felix Salten and published by Ullstein Verlag. The Story of Bambi: The death of Bambi's mother is many children's first encounter with death.
In 1936, Bambi was banned by the ruling Nazi party because of its "political allegory on the treatment of Jews in Europe." Burnings of the book were organized across Germany.
