Animated Nursery Tales; The Three Bears - The Three Little Pigs - The Three Little Kittens

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1943. Comb binding. Very good +/good. Quarto size, [22] pp., with dust jacket. Three favourite children's stories with the imaginative paper engineering of Julian Wehr (1898-1970), who was known as the "American Master of Animated Books" (n.b., quote from Wiki).

___DESCRIPTION: Illustrated paper-covered boards with a red comb binding, illustrated title page in green and black, the six moveable pages in full colour and the rest of the pages with green and black, or red and black, small illustrations; quarto size (10 3/8" by 7 1/2"), unpaginated with eleven leaves. The dust jacket front panel mirrors the front board, back panel and spine blank, front flap a publisher's blurb about the animation, back flap publisher's ad for a different animated book.

___CONDITION: Volume better than very good and could almost be deemed near fine, the animations all in good working order, the yellow paper boards clean other than a stray speck or two, the top corners unrubbed, the comb binding strong, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; bottom corners somewhat rubbed, the paper covering the bottom couple of inches of both boards beginning to crack at the joints. The jacket is unclipped (although unpriced) and is good only; all component parts present and attached, there are several closed tears, overall edgewear, a small chip out of the bottom of the front panel and a larger chip out of the top of the back panel.

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