Rare HCDJ MICKEY MOUSE PRESENTS WALT DISNEY'S NURSERY STORIES Silly Symphonies

Description

Tight book, with tide stains and toning. No foxing or smells. DJ has some tears and chips missing, also tide stains on the back. All 6 full color illustrations are present. Copiously illustrated with line drawings. Tips are rubbed. Head and tail are crisp, erect but have crimps from bumping or reading. Front board paste down is bright with brilliant colors. Back board lightly stained, wrinkled where jacket is stained.  Original price tag on the front interior paste down.
1937 Whitman Publishing release celebrating the breakthrough animated short series: Silly Symphonies. Mickey only appears on the end papers. The pages are stiff pulp paper, almost card stock, with color illustrations on thinner glossy stock.
Few have survived the ravages of time and as many as 5 generations of children. We found less than a half dozen copies available world wide and only one with a dust jacket that was described as Fine/Near Fine (0.00 +) No other copies with a jacket were advertised, and many with far worse damage than this.
An important book for the Disney collector, and for Whitman collectors. Silly Symphonies is a 75 film deep library of animated shorts. Donald Duck debuted in the series. This book is assembled from cells for several of the shorts based on nursery rhymes. King Cole, for example. This book was released with a companion coloring book that employed the same drawings. No doubt a good number of copies of this book were loved by their children in such a way.
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