bambi a life in the woods by felix salten

In 1901 he founded Vienna's first, short-lived literary cabaret. He became part of the Young Vienna movement (Jung Wien) and soon received work as a full-time art and theater critic in the Vienna press. He also began submitting poems and book reviews to journals. When his father went bankrupt, Felix had to quit school and begin working in an insurance agency. Many Jews were immigrating into the city in the late 19th century because Vienna had finally granted full citizenship to Jews in 1867. When he was three weeks old, his family moved to Vienna, Austria. He was born Siegmund Salzmann in Budapest, Hungary. The high-end New Bond Street emporium Asprey has been a London fixture since 1781, serving as jewellers to a long line of British monarchs, and it sells a range of luxury goods, including finely bound books (for a short time, it even owned the merged firms of Zaehnsdorf and Sangorski & Sutcliffe).There is more than one author with this Name.įelix Salten was an Austrian writer.

'Bambi' is difficult to find in fine condition, and the beautiful binding here makes this an especially agreeable copy. It has been translated into 30 languages, and although written for adults, was memorably made into an animated film by Disney in 1942. 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.

Bambi a life in the woods by felix salten