AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, HIS WIFE'S COPY
Giant Otto.
[New York: Viking, 1936].
Price: $750.00
About the item
First edition. [40] pp, illustrated in color by the author. 1 vols. 12mo. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, HIS WIFE'S COPY. Publisher’s illustrated boards, almost fine. Signed by the author's wife Jane Bouché on ffep.
Item #307810
The first Otto book in which Otto and his master Duke leave their little French town for Africa where they fight off attacking Arabs
Pène du Bois married Jane Michele Bouche of Manhattan, daughter of artist Louis Bouche, in 1943. They later divorced.
