Popinjay (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. (10) pp., including verso and recto boards, bound in half cloth and card board. With 5 jigsaw puzzles, alas 1 piece of the first jigsaw is missing. Wear on boards, some foxing and spots. Good copy. 25 x 19 cm.

4to (245 by 178 mm). No date [1935, Dated from British Library copy]. Contains 5 coloured jig-saw puzzles, (200 x 150 mm). Each puzzle is set within a thick board page of the book. Adjacent to each puzzle is a chapter of the story with a small picture which can be used as a guide to the jig-saw on the opposite page. The chapter title is also shown on each puzzle: The Clockwork Fury; Order of the Bath; Mr Whiskery Rabbit; What a Picnic; Wogga's Own Island. Original pictorial paper boards with blue cloth spine. Cloth spine with some fading and wear. Small 7mm tear to top spine edge. Boards with some wear to corners and rubbing to edges. Internally clean sound and bright looking with no signatures or colouring-in of pictures. There is one jigsaw piece missing from the last puzzle, and a small area of rubbing to one piece of Mr Whiskery rabbit's trousers. A good copy. ** The Stories are about the toy's in Anthony and Rosemary's nursery. Popinjay and Pongo, the two teddies and Wogga.