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The Performing Bears - The Pictorial Moving Picture Books - Movable pull tab book - 1914

Antique Movable Book 'The Performing Bears' by Pictorial Color Book Company, NY. Published circa 1922 with 4 tab-activated moveables, 11 pages, half-cloth binding, and printed in Germany. Measures 23.3 × 18.2 cm
The Performing Bears - The Pictorial Moving Picture Books - Movable pull tab book
 
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The Performing Bears - The Pictorial Moving Picture Books

11 pp. - half-cloth binding - 23.3 × 18.2 cm - 7 1/4" x 9 1/4" Hard cover with red cloth spine wrap.

No date but our research shows that this series was likely first published in Germany in 1914*. The New York Publisher below was incorporated in 1920 - The inscription in front of the book is dated 1922.

The publisher "Pictorial Color Book Company, NY" is printed on the title page.

4 tab activated moveables in excellent condition with 4 pages of text - see pictures

Book measures 9 1/8" x 7 1/4" and is complete with all moveable pages intact and working.

Condition:The spine is strong with intact original binding. Pages exhibit normal age foxing, and the movables are bright and beautiful. There is a tear around one tab, but no missing pieces. Inscription reads 'to Junior from Aunt Helen and Uncle Carl - Xmas 1922.' All movables are original and in excellent condition

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Collect them all :*

Similar Pictorial Color Book Company (Sully and Kleinteich) moveables also published (all with an original price of 35 cents) include:

"Little red Riding Hood"

"The Performing Bears"

"The Night Before Christmas"

"The Circus"

(This listing is for "Puss In Boots" as described above only)

* The Pictorial Color Book moveables above were all listed on page 266 of "The Dial" volume LVI January 1914. The Dial was an American magazine published intermittently from 1840 to 1929. In 1914 it called itself a "Semi-monthly journal of literary criticism, discussion, and information".


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