Album Fee [Fairy Album] (Albums du Pere Castor)

(Pere Castor) [Perrault, Charles; et al.] Album Fee [Fairy Album] (Albums du Pere Castor); images de Helene Guertik; textes de Rose Celli et Marguerite Reynier. Paris: Flammarion, Editeur, (1933). 4to - 10-15/16" x 9-11/16". Staple-bound pictorial stiff paper wrappers with minor rubbing along the spine fold, a tiny bit of wear to the tail of spine fold, a tiny corner crease (1/4" x 1/4") to the lower fore edge corner of the front wrapper, rusted staples and minor tearing around the staples making the binding tender for what overall is a lovely copy of the book. 23 pp.; color illustrations + "magic glasses."
Rose Celli and Marguerite Reynier retold a dozen fairy tales from Perrault (4), Andersen (2), Grimm (1) and others. These French language tales include: Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, The Puss in Boots and The Sorcerer's Apprentice. The fairy tales are illustrated in blue and red in an angular, art deco style by Russian émigré artist Helene Guertik, but there is a twist. Attached to the inside of the back wrapper is a cellophane envelope containing a SET OF MAGIC GLASSES that have both blue and red lenses that when used obscure either the red parts or the blue parts of the illustrations which in effect, makes two distinct pictures out of each one; internally with one minor stain to title page and offsetting to the final page from the inside of back wrapper. The condition of the book is VERY GOOD +. ONE OF THE RAREST, IF NOT THE MOST RARE, OF ALL THE PERE CASTOR BOOKS. # 001262