(Toy and Movable Books) Tony Sarg's Magic Movie Book; ten tales that will never die rewritten in modern style by Hazel Seaman and Christina de la Motte. New York: B. F. Jay & Co., (1943). FIRST EDITION. 4to - 11" x 8-1/2". Color pictorial yellow paper covered boards, bound by three short sections of white plastic spiral rings, with rubbing/wear to head and tail of spine, minor rubbing to the extremities and age-toning to the paper covering the front and back boards for what is still a nice copy of the book; front cover illustration by Tony Sarg. Color pictorial and printed paste-downs with a sleeve for holding the two pairs of "Uncle Ben Jay's Magic Lenses," which are present, attached to front paste-down as issued; the "This Book Belongs To" box on front paste-down not filled in. [16] pp.: color illustrations; plus 2 pairs of lenses.
"Eighteen poems and jingles by poets who will live forever presented with that whimsey and delightful humor that all little children will love." Contents include: Cinderella, The Three Little Pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rumpelstiltskin, The Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Chicken Little and excerpts from Riley's Raggedy Man and Stevenson's Child's Garden of Verses; illustrated by Emery I. Gondor with both full color drawings and blue and red drawings. The blue and red drawings appear to move when viewed through a pair of the included "Magic Lenses;" also, five of the leaves with a double-sided blue and red illustrated story wheel (volvelle) that enables the viewer to see the story's progression "come to life" when viewed through the special lenses; internally clean with all pages and volvelles attached as issued. The condition of the book is VERY GOOD. #001270