Hannibal and His 37 Elephants
New York: Holiday House, 1977. 25x21cm: unpaginated [30pp]. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. Colorfully illustrated dust jacket with black and white titling to cover and black titling to spine. Rubbing to lower spine and bottom edges with some shelf wear. Yellow cloth boards with black titling to cover and spine. Inscription to the front free endpaper reads, “Dear Paula, Happy Birthday and much luck in finding work worthy of your many talents. Love Marilyn 1987.” Beautiful illustrations in black and grey with yellow and green accents. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
Based on the fascinating and almost unbelievable true story of Hannibal who successfully took an army of elephants from Carthage to Spain by boat and then crossed the Alps in order to take Rome by surprise in 318 B.C, in the Second Punic War. During her short life, Marilyn Hirsh was known for her historical research and accuracy in her children’s books which were often based on Jewish subjects. She studied at Chicago’s Art Institute, the Carnegie Mellon Institute, and New York University Institute of Fine Arts. She also taught at the NYU Institute of Fine Arts and Cooper Union as a historian on Indian and Buddhist art, perhaps inspired by her two year Peace Corps stint in India.
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