Little Black Sambo - FOLD-A-WAY EDITION BOOK With CUTOUT FIGURES - 1917
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1917 "Little Black Sambo" FOLD-A-WAY EDITION BOOK With CUTOUT FIGURES
DESIGNER: WILL PENTE
PUBLISHER: REILLY & BRITTON
Artist: Helen A. Haselton.
16 unnumbered leaves : 20 cm. with 24 color litho stand alone pieces
Condition - Very Good with original stand-up cut-outs present. Book pages are in excellent condition but have separated from the stapled cover. The cut-outs stand up on their own and are two sided. The 1917 book is so rare we can find no other copies to compare it to.
Based on reading the story, all pieces do appear to be present except for the "extra Pair of trousers". The extra jacket has part of the right sleeve torn off. See pic of teh "extra" pieces. All pieces that are supposed to stand do.
Note: This is the early 1917 edition not the elaborate boxed "Fold Away Theater" version with 2 other plays that was produced in 1934.
Collector's Corner:
These books were patented in 1917. Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Pamphlets, leaflets, contributions to newspapers or periodicals, etc.Volume 14, Issue 1 page 11716 lists the copyright for Fold-a-way books as April 12, 1917.
Note: Pente would later create and copyright a paper theater with several scenes from his earlier books in the 1930's (Fold-a-way miniature theatre. © Nov. 15, 1932 as shown in "Catalog of Copyright Entries 1933 Engravings Prints Etc. Fine Arts New Series Vol 28 Pt 4"
An Ad in The Publishers Weekly, Volume 92, F. Leypoldt, 1917, page 59 states:
The Fold-A-Way Play Books Designed and Patented By Will Pente are wonderful Cut-out books that will amuse, instruct, and delight all children.
Set up devices, character and pictures—printed in unusually attractive colors—all fold over into double-sided toys that show both front and back and stand up like wooden ones.
An Absolutely New Idea in books of toys-to-cut out
Only too often the ordinary “cut-out" books lose their interest and value when the cutting-out is finished. With Fold-A-Ways that's where the fun begins
—the toys can be handled and played with after they are are made.
Neither paste nor easel is required. The patented Fold-A-Way forms a base
upon which the toy stands upright and rigid. And all of the book is put to use, even the covers, which form trunks, houses, tablecloths or scene backgrounds.
Dolly Blossom's Bungalow
Dolly's Breakfast
Little Black Sambo
Dolly Blossom and Her Wardrobe
The Story Of Peter Rabbit
Each, 35c.
While not in that ad, we have also seen a copy Will Pente's The Fold-A-Way Circus
Product Code: M-133
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