SMITH, Dodie.
The Hundred and One Dalmatians.
“Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them": First Edition of The Hundred and One Dalmatians; inscribed by Dodie Smith to her Aunt
London: Heinemann, 1956.
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Item Number: RRB-148439
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First edition of the author's beloved children's classic, adapted into the 1961 animated film produced by Walt Disney Studios. Octavo, original blue cloth, pictorial endpapers, with 58 illustrations by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone. Association copy, inscribed by the author to her Aunt in the year of publication on the second free endpaper, "To Aunt Elsie with love from Dodie. Finchingfield, Essex, November 1956." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone. An exceptional association, rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Originally serialized in Woman's Day as The Great Dog Robbery, Dodie Smith's The Hundred and One Dalmatians details the adventures of two Dalmatians named Pongo and Missis who must rescue their puppies from the fur-obsessed villain Cruella de Vil. The book was adapted into the 1961 animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians produced by Walt Disney Studios. It became the tenth highest-grossing film of 1961, and one of the studio's most popular films of the decade.
The Hundred and One Dalmatians.
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