BANNERMAN, Helen; Julian Wehr, illus.

Little Black Sambo

New York: Duenewald Printing Corporation, [1943]. First Thus. Small, slim quarto (22cm.); publisher's pictorial spiral-bound paper-covered boards; [18]pp.; color illus. throughout, including six moveable plates. Boards rubbed with brief exposure to corners, small paper flaw to upper cover not affecting text, else Very Good, internally fine and unused. A moveable edition (though not the first of this title), designed by Julian Wehr, the inventor of animated plates using paper tabs as seen here. Printed on upper cover: "Animated! Animated!" See Bill Yoffee, "Black Sambo's Saga" (1997), p. 32.

Price: $125.00

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