Animated Pictures
The Night Before Christmas Animated Pictures
Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., 1940.
8vo. Card covers illustrated in colour. Each endpaper with a tab mechanism moving Father Christmas, the first transporting him down the chimney and the second carrying his sleigh and reindeer through the sky. Pictorial title page, colour frontis and 12 pages of text with two colour illustrations. A very good copy, staples rusted and boards a little dusty, however moveable parts still working. A charming production of Moore's famous poem.
Label of Megan and Michael Dawson, who ran a highly successful business dealing in and restoring pop-up and moveable books, to the front pastedown.
Stock ID: 45904
