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Chicago, New York, M. A. Donohue, [ca 1920], #362, heavy card boards with grey cloth spine, on top board, bright pictures of kitten in a garden with black border suggesting bamboo, on the bottom board, a lovely blue sky with clouds; large oblong, 14 full colour pages facing b/w copy.....
London: Bancroft & Company Ltd, Westminster Books, (co. 1961 by Artia, Prague]; front cover as a medieval castle where the princess sits at one window and the prince approaches at the other BUT the tab can be pulled to reveal the witch who will keep him out. 8 pop-up scenes.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, Little Simon, ill co 1982 by C. Bracken, 6 page topstitched cloth book, packaged in card top with plastic display bag; 6.75 x 7.7" Toploader fabric book. "The safe, soft, cloth book that comes with a doll on a ribbon which tucks into 8 pockets.".....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, (1943), green boards constructed with one long board folded with a small inverted pleat in the middle through which a red spiral binding attaches the pages; board has a picture of Peter in the garden on the front and Peter with a butterfly on the.....
New York: Maxton, (1945), early copy; shaped wraps; 13 pp. Softcover. Toploader large softcover novelty moveable. The outline shape of the book is of a sitting bear front and back; no exterior words, only the picture. In the bear's arms rests a cub, who is removable.
NY: Maxton, (1945), Series A; outline shape of bear with place for cub in pouch, pictorial envelope. Softcover. Toploader large softcover novelty moveable. The outline shape of the book is of a sitting bear; no exterior words, only the picture. Designed so that a removable bear cub can rest in.....
New York: Maxton, 1945, apparent 1st printing; wraps. Softcover. Toploader large softcover novelty moveable. Kangaroo shape book; no exterior words, only the naturalistic full coloured picture. In the roo's pocket rests a joey, who is removable and free standing. 13 pp text.
London: Burke Publishing Co. Ltd; 1970/1968 (Paris: Fernand Nathan), Concertina Books, 1st in this format; heavy card covers with the engineer sitting in his steam engine on the front, the crossing guard on the back, 8 one sided page panorama, stylized illustrations with heavy black lines and bright primary colours.....
New York: Greenberg Publisher, issued by New Library, Inc. 1943, 1st and presumed only edition; one contiuous board covered in cream pebbled paper is creased to receive white plastic ring binding, full coloured endpapers of stork and baby arriving in the world, fairly thick pages illustrated on one side, in.....
New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, circa 1920, #926; bright green boards, dark green cloth spine, large bear cub, front and back, with head on flap attached to top board, black and white illustrations and 4 colour illustrations, 8.25x10.25; np. Novelty, shape book moveable. A very huggable bear cub.....
New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, circa 1920, #926, printed in Germany; bright green boards, dark green cloth spine, large bear cub, front and back, with head on flap attached to top board, flat cut, black and white illustrations and 4 colour illustrations, 8.25x10.25; np. Novelty shape book moveable.....
Brimax Books, London E. C. 1 #1602, printed in West Germany; shiny board book, 11.4; np. Novelty board book. A very large cheerful teddy bear goes through his farmer's day, set in a friendly mountain landscape. Nice coloured photographs!
Racine, Wisc.: Whitman Publishing Company, co. 1960 Walt Disney Productions, Authorized Walt Disney Edition; in the form of a large trifold pocket folder with a winter scene of the puppies and their parents walking along a frozen stream in a snowy wood, on the inside, also suggested layouts. Inside one.....
Cadbury Limited, Bournville, Birmingham: Film Fair Wombles from the BBC TV Series, c mid 1970s, oranges yellows and greens with full figures of each Womble, his name, and "Womble Hint no. _ on Back" Also a note "Please dispose of this wrapper carefully 'Keep Britain Tidy' " Toploader small. The.....
Malysh Publishers, no words (1984). Pop-up, continuous cutout card strip forming doubled covers and book pages, black on cover with circular hole on back from which emerge fleeing wolves, 8.3x9.5; c 14 "pages" . Softcover. Novelty pop-up softcover. A pop-up folk tale in a snug little house with five animal.....