This very early spiral bound popup book has an area at the spiral comb where the plastic cover is starting to delaminate, paper is worn at the spiral but holding. The mechanisms all work, some dancer's arms here and there are bent over from the natural folding action of the paper (paper used rather than heavier card stock in modern pop-ups). Pages clean and unmarked. Comes with the matching children's book (A Child's Book of Ballet) published at the same time (book is VG+ condition, clean and unmarked, with a 1 inch gutter crack at the bottom. Bookseller Inventory # 301212
Title: BALLET IN POP UP ACTION PICTURES AND A ...
Publisher: Maxton
Publication Date: 1953
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good-
Book Description Maxton, NY, 1953. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in red boards with red spiral binding. 16 pp. and four really attractive pop-ups. Some minor scuffing to extremes, but overall book is in very nice condition. The regular (non pop-up) book of the same format and binding is included with the pop-up. Kind of hard to find the two books together. Size: Oblong 4to. Seller Inventory # 5000380