File talk:LittleBlackSamboCover.jpg

Reason for "Citation needed" tags: doubt that image is actually "from the cover of Little Black Sambo 1899"

I'm adding "Citation needed" tags because the image is unlikely to be "from the cover of Little Black Sambo 1899" as the uploader claimed in 2004.

The covers of the editions of 1899 had "pale green (shining surface) cloth, printed in dark green inks, with ruled borders and vertical stripes." (See: Schiller, Justin G (Autumn 1974). "The Story of Little Black Sambo". The Book Collector. 23 (3). The Collector Ltd: 381–386.) For photos of the 1899 covers, see Bookride, Heritage Book Shop, James Cummins Bookseller, LiveAuctioneers, etc.

It also seems unlikely that the image was scanned from the interior of an 1899 edition. The image does not show any discoloration (e.g., yellowing, foxing) that would be expected for a book that is more than 100 years old, although it could have been Photoshopped.

Instead, the image is likely from the cover of a more recent edition. The early illustrations of Little Black Sambo with a green umbrella show solid tufts of grass on the ground and three black buttons on the front of the jacket, as in the authorized editions or in the Chatto & Windus version of 1961. This image shows horizontally striped tufts of grass and three red buttons on the front of the jacket, as in the Chatto & Windus versions of 1965 and later (like this listing on eBay UK).

-SunnyDisp (talk) 07:33, 28 May 2013 (UTC)