Jean de La Fontaine, Jean Lourane — le chat, la belette et le petit lapin
Neuchatel, Switzerland: Delachaux & Niestlé S.A.. First edition, first printing. 42 pp., 28x22. Condition: Very Good (VG). Minimal wear to corners over wrappers; else fine With dust jacket. Black-and-white photographs of animal characters illustrate a fable about a rabbit whose home is taken over by a weasel. Returning to find the intruder established inside, the rabbit is refused entry to its own home. The story brings the rabbit, weasel and cat together in a photographic retelling of a literary animal fable. The album contains 29 black-and-white photographs and is associated with a short-film adaptation of the same story. Rather than using drawn illustrations, it presents the tale through photographs of real animals, bringing the animal characters of the fable into the visual world of a children's picture book.
