Peter and Wendy Dress Up for the New York World's Fair, Official Edition, Paper Doll Cutouts with Costumes From Many Different Lands

New York: Spertus Publishing Company, Inc, 1963. Wraps. Near fine. [JUVENILE] [PAPER DOLLS] [ADVERTISING] [TRAVEL].
Cover title: Singer World's Fair Dress-Up Book, A Paper Doll Book. The Official 1964-1954 New York World's Fair Paper-Doll Book
4to (13 7/8" x 10"); [7] leaves printed one-side only; stiff glazed yellow pictorial wrapper, color illustrations on front of the world's fair and the two paper doll characters, the girl sitting at a sewing machine, rear wrapper features five vignettes of national costumes; stiff glazed color pictorial title page with two die-cut paper dolls to punch out; last leaf a still glazed color pictorial with a die-cut Unisphere and to punch out, and a small girl and boy die-cut vignette with stand; 6 leaves of uncut color paper doll clothing; 1" separation at wrapper tail fold, creasing to front and rear at the top staple; near fine. OCLC locates 4 copies, 3 in the U.S. and one in Hong Kong. A wonderful, unused, colorful paper doll booklet from the Singer Pavilion at the New York's World Fair. The two die-cut paper dolls found on the title page are labeled "Peter" and "Wendy" (perhaps recalling the 1960 made for TV movie titled Peter Pan). National costumes from Thailand, the U.S.A., Austria, Mexico, France, Africa, Italy, Eskimo garb, Japan, and Sweden are ready for cutting out on the line and dressing the dolls. A large Unisphere die-cut appears on the last stiff leaf and can be punched-out and placed on its corresponding stand.

Thumbnail color illustrations of the New York State Pavilion, the Federal Pavilion, Festival of Gas, Eastman Kodak, India, Holland, Johnson's Wax Pavilion, General Motors are pictured on the.