GUEST: I brought the book Ferdinand by Munro Leaf that belonged to my father that he acquired when he was eight years old. My dad got it in 1937 at a signing.

APPRAISER: Uh-huh.

GUEST: A book signing in Berkeley, California, where Munro Leaf was present.

APPRAISER: You are aware that the book was a huge success upon publication, right?

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: And that is reflected on this page. The first publication was 1936, and this is the eighth printing, 1937. What makes this copy incredibly special is the inscription.

GUEST: Munro Leaf actually made the inscription out to my dad and my uncle, and drew their caricatures, as well as the caricature of the, Ferdinand.

APPRAISER: Mm-hmm.

GUEST: And it's just a sweet little story about Ferdinand the bull, who did not quite fit in with all the other bulls, but would rather be smelling flowers than, than bullfighting.

APPRAISER: It came out just months after the Spanish Civil War started, and it takes place in Spain. That being said, that book was not printed in Spain. This was considered to be a pacifistic manifesto in a children's book. And the Nazis and the Franco regime were absolutely opposed against the pacifistic ideas in, in their children's room. So it was a huge success in the United States, and in some European countries, it was not allowed to be read by children. When the Nazis lost the war in 1945, the U.S. military distributed 30,000 copies of this book.

GUEST: Oh, how interesting.

APPRAISER: To sort of introduce the deprived kids of Germany...

GUEST: Yeah.

APRPAISER: With the idea of a peace-loving, not-into-bullfighting cow. And in the auction world, even though it is the eighth printing, I would estimate it at about $800 to $1,200.

GUEST: Oh!

APPRAISER: And, um, yeah, I think it's, it's just a truly...

GUEST: Holy cow! (both laughing)