Benjamin Rabier - Les Malheurs de Caraco - 1932





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Les Malheurs de Caraco, an illustrated hardback by Benjamin Rabier, 48 pages, French, original edition published in 1932 by Jules Tallandier.
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Exciting illustrated edition notably featuring beautiful color plates from this work by Benjamin Rabier, which creates a particularly endearing hero in the person of Caraco, a lively, curious, and well-intentioned young monkey who works in a circus and a traveling music-hall called Pandovani -
The work follows the incessant tribulations of this character, whose every initiative, even when inspired by the best intentions, seems to provoke a succession of comic catastrophes and unforeseen situations -
Wanting to be useful, to impress those around him, or simply to satisfy his natural curiosity, Caraco is constantly drawn into adventures where clumsiness, misunderstandings, and accidents multiply -
The backstage area of the traveling show constitutes the main setting of the story and allows Rabier to present a thriving universe populated by artists, trained animals, staff, visitors, and eccentric characters whose strongly marked personalities fuel the action’s comedy -
Benjamin Rabier - The Misfortunes of Caraco - 1932 - Jules Tallandier -
48 Pages.
Good condition of the binding, the work in its full illustrated original hard cover, wear from use, a few minor defects on boards and spine (with a split), smooth spine, boards nicely illustrated in color -
Very good interior condition, some stains, title page printed in red and black and adorned with a fine engraving, the work enriched with beautiful color and black-and-white illustrations both in and out of the text, a pleasant copy -
Delivery service guaranteed within a few days –
Exciting illustrated edition notably featuring beautiful color plates from this work by Benjamin Rabier, which creates a particularly endearing hero in the person of Caraco, a lively, curious, and well-intentioned young monkey who works in a circus and a traveling music-hall called Pandovani -
The work follows the incessant tribulations of this character, whose every initiative, even when inspired by the best intentions, seems to provoke a succession of comic catastrophes and unforeseen situations -
Wanting to be useful, to impress those around him, or simply to satisfy his natural curiosity, Caraco is constantly drawn into adventures where clumsiness, misunderstandings, and accidents multiply -
The backstage area of the traveling show constitutes the main setting of the story and allows Rabier to present a thriving universe populated by artists, trained animals, staff, visitors, and eccentric characters whose strongly marked personalities fuel the action’s comedy -
Benjamin Rabier - The Misfortunes of Caraco - 1932 - Jules Tallandier -
48 Pages.
Good condition of the binding, the work in its full illustrated original hard cover, wear from use, a few minor defects on boards and spine (with a split), smooth spine, boards nicely illustrated in color -
Very good interior condition, some stains, title page printed in red and black and adorned with a fine engraving, the work enriched with beautiful color and black-and-white illustrations both in and out of the text, a pleasant copy -
Delivery service guaranteed within a few days –

