THE TOY ARMY (Father Tuck's "Panorama" Series)

Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., London; Paris; Berlin; New York; Montreal, 1907

About this Item

(Raphael Tuck & Sons) publisher. THE TOY ARMY (Father Tuck's "Panorama" Series). London; Paris; Berlin; New York; Montreal: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., [between 1907-1910]. FIRST EDITION. 32mo - 4-11/16" x 3-3/16". Color pictorial embossed glazed paper front wrapper and unprinted cardboard with unpunched bases for holding the paper figures contained within back wrapper for what is a beautiful copy of the book. [5] pp., plus [5] section leporello and [1] p. of punch-out cardboard bases. Instructions for "how to make each figure stand separately and form innumerable tableaux" printed inside front wrapper; four page story, "The Little Wooden Soldier; of the Toy Army," on book's two leaves of text; five section leporello with chromolithographed punch-out figures of the toy soldiers, their horses, a cannon, etc.; leporello attached to the cardboard section that functions as the back wrapper; back wrapper with nineteen punch-out bases for holding the figures from the leporello; book remains completely intact and unpunched. The condition of the book is FINE. Only one copy located on OCLC/WorldCat (Princeton University Library). EXCEEDINGLY RARE; as are all titles in this series of small fold out booklets with punch-out figures and stands. Seller Inventory # 000885

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE TOY ARMY (Father Tuck's "Panorama" ...

Publisher: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., London; Paris; Berlin; New York; Montreal

Publication Date: 1907

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition