Animated Nursery Tales: 3 Little Kittens, 3 Bears, 3 Little Pigs by Wehr, Julian - 1943

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; HC/DJ. 1st edition. Soundly bound in original color pictorial dust jacket, matching the color design of the paper covered boards. Of the 6 mechanical pages, 3 are in VG working condition with light wear to the "tab" while 2 are broken but with all pieces present (requiring repair) and 1 has parts missing. Jacket is jusy slightly rubbed to edges but has thin swaths of dust soiling along the top and bottom edges of the cover panel. Mild offset toning to endpages from the lining sheets. Other than the 3 defective mechanicals the book is quite bright and neat. G+/VG- .

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. dj. 26cm. Six movables. Neat archival tape repair to one of the cats on the last movable.

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… Read More

New York, (1943): Grosset & Dunlap. Quarto. 24 unnumbered pages. Julian Wehr (1898-1970) was known as the "American Master of Animated Books". He patented his process which used a variety of media. Most of his collection is housed at the University of Virginia, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. This book has six moving illustrations, constructed on double pages. Spiral bound in color pictorial boards with the color illustrated dust jacket. A very nice copy with a few chips at the lower edge of dust jacket and upper corner with a small piece torn away, small closed edge tear to rear panel and tiny chip to lower edge, light rubbing or finger soiling.