By Clement Clark Moore
New York   Crown Publisher's
9" by 7.5" 17pp
A charming 1944 edition of classic tale 'The Night Before Christmas', with flaps and moving parts.
By Clement Clark Moore

1944 The Night Before Christmas

New York   Crown Publisher's
9" by 7.5" 17pp
A charming 1944 edition of classic tale 'The Night Before Christmas', with flaps and moving parts.
£75.00
: 0.5kgs / : 915F46

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Description

Colour Plates, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

Illustrated throughout in full colour.

With a central folding plate of Father Christmas, and with flaps, slides and moving parts throughout, all in full working order. Collated, complete.

The animated pictures are the work of Meg Wohlberg.

With the stamp of Michael and Megan Dawson, a husband and wife who established a successful business dealing in and restoring pop-up books, to the head of the front pastedown.

With a former owner's inscription, dated 1949, to the title page head.

Condition

In the publisher's pictorial paper covered boards. Head and tail of rear joint starting, with back strip slightly detached in these regions, but with boards firmly held. Boards lightly age toned to perimeters. Stamps to head of front pastedown. Inscription to title page head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright, with moving parts in full working order.

Good

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