The Children's Book of Pantomimes
$95.00
The Children's Book of Pantomimes is a large-format 1930 children's volume published by Cassell & Company Limited, combining six traditional pantomime stories with an elaborate model theatre for Cinderella. The book includes stories such as Dick Whittington and His Cat, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Robinson Crusoe, The Sleeping Beauty, Jack and the Beanstalk and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, together with scenery and characters intended for home performance.
Publisher: Cassell & Company Limited, London
Publication year: 1930
Edition: First edition
Binding: Quarter cloth with pictorial boards
Pages: 128
Language: English
ISBN: None (pre-ISBN publication)
Condition: Used antiquarian hardcover with substantial edge and corner wear, rubbing and surface marks to the pictorial boards, chipping and abrasion along the board edges, and wear to the cloth spine and joints. The front board has scuffing and age-related handling wear. Interior pages have scattered foxing and spotting. The model-theatre components have not been individually collated for completeness.
A scarce and highly decorative interwar children's novelty book, notable for its integrated paper theatre and Cinderella stage production.
Book details
- Title
- The Children's Book of Pantomimes
- Authors
- Anonymous / not stated
- Publisher
- Cassell & Company Limited, London
- Published
- 1930
- Language
- en
- Binding
- Quarter cloth with pictorial boards
- Subjects
- Children's pantomime, theatre, Cinderella, model theatre, novelty books
- Page count
- 128
Collections: ALL BOOKS, ALL PRODUCTS, ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS, CHILDREN & BABIES, FAIRY TALES, VINTAGE BOOKS, VINTAGE CHILDRENS BOOKS
Type: CHILDREN & BABIES
Category: 1930S, ANTIQUARIAN, BOOKS, CASSELL, CHILDREN & BABIES, CINDERELLA, COLLECTABLE CHILDRENS BOOK, FAIRY TALES, MODEL THEATRE, NOVELTY BOOK, PANTOMIME, PAPER THEATRE, THEATRE, VINTAGE BOOKS, VINTAGE CHILDRENS BOOKS, WB109-10
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