Book Description

Puffin Cut-out book. The High Toby A Play for the Toy Theatre 1st edition 2nd issue 1948 Complete and unused. PC5. Play by J B Priestley and the scenery and characters illustrated by Doris Zinkeisen. 18 pages of text and 16 pages of coloured plates, the plates printed on single sides; some very slight finger creasing else contents very good and clean. 185 x 225 mm [approx 7 ¼” x 8 ¾”] pictorial wraps; staples a little rusted, slight dust-marking, near Fine condition. Printed in England by W R Royle & Sons Ltd. Published by Penguin Books Ltd in Association with Benjamin Pollock Ltd 1st edition, this is the second issue, with red background. As with the 1st issue, it too was printed for sale at 'Two Shillings and sixpence' but is usually over-stickered '3s 1d (including 7d purchase tax)' This copy shows no signs of ever having had the sticker. The theatre was specially designed to fit Pollocks Toy Theatres.
Author J B Priestley
Date 1948
Binding Pictorial wraps
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd in Association with Benjamin Pollock Ltd 1948
Illustrator Doris Zinkeisen
Condition Near Fine
Pages 34

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