Antique Vintage Movable vovelle Book Three Little Kittens - De Wolfe Fiske & Co. -
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Three Little Kittens
Movable revolving vovelle cover shows 8 different scenes when turned
Publisher : DeWolfe, Fiske & Co., Boston, 1899
Copyrighted by the Niagara Lithograph Company in Buffalo, New York
1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. No date – found in 1899 catalog*
Oblong quarto. Boards with thin cloth spine. Not paginated, (28) pp, ink illustrations.
Excellent Fine condition – see photos
Collectors Corner:
Collect them all:
Very rare, likely published in only one edition. During our 30 years of collecting, we have only seen two. Nevertheless, *according to The Publishers' Trade List Annual, Volume 1 R. R. Bowker Company, 1899 - page 85, there were 6 titles in this series of “Revolving Toy Books” each having a “perforated revolving disk on the cover showing 8 amusing scenes”.
The titles were:
The Night Before Christmas
The Story of The Three Bears
The Story of The Three Little Pigs
The Three Little Kittens (shown here)
The House That Jack Built
Picture Land A, B, C
About the publisher:
DeWolfe, Fiske and Company was founded in Boston in 1880 by Perez Morton DeWolfe and Charles F. Fiske, succeeding the firm Albert W. Lovering . During the 1890's it was well known for its large chromo covered juveniles. From 1905 the firm was renamed DeWolfe and Fiske, at that time it ceased publishing, and became a retail and wholesale book selling business. The firm later became a subsidiary of Chadwick-Miller Inc., of Canton, Massachusetts. - See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 119
Product Code: A-60
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