Puss In Boots: Fairy Tale Favorites (Pop Up Book) -

good. hardcover. cover and corner wear. no dust jacket. bent cover corners.

London: Raphael Tuck Covers and contents and dustjacket all clean and crisp. 36 pages, well illustrated.. First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Beek. 4" x 4". Hardback.

New York: Merrimack Publishing Corp, 1970. Hardcover. Small 4to. Glazed pictorial paper over boards. 10pp. Numerous color illustrations. Very good. Slight minor separation along the always-delicate spine has been expertly and archivally strengthened. Facsimile of a cryptic "Antique Original" in which the ten all-text pages are divided by an all-color "And here is the Story of Puss in Boots in Pantomime" section, being a facsimile of what appears to be a late 19th century color lithography edition -- not pop-up style, but the kind of novelty printing in which various-size pages overlap one upon the next, revealing the story entirely in pictures as you go. Quite charming and rather uncommon.

John McLoughlin, Publisher. NY. Circa 1852., 1852 Book size about 4 by 6 inches with some 16 pages including the covers. Bound in pale pink wraps with front cover image of 'Puss' with a rabbit over his shoulder; lettering in black; rear cover list of products available from the publisher (Which includes Grate Aprons, Frame Paper, Valentines, Games, Alphabet Cards, Toy Books, Primers). Illustrated with six roughly half page woodcuts. It is possible to closely date this book due to the publisher address of No. 3 Tryon Row, New York and the notation 'Successor to Elton & Co., New York'. John McLoughlin, son of the elder John McLoughlin succeeded to the business in 1850 when his father and Elton retired. He published from the Tryon Street address until about 1855 when he was joined in the business by his brother and the name changed to McLoughlin Brothers. Thus this little chap book was published within that five year period--not often we can pin a date so closely on one of these early… Read More