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KUBASTA**, VOJTECH - [illustrator]: : HANSEL AND GRETEL. [Pop-up book.]

LONDON.WESTMINSTER BOOKS/BANCROFT & CO. (PUBLISHERS) LTD.,1961.

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UK,slim,oblong,small 8vo HB,no dw/dj,as issued, colour illustrated pop-up,1st edn thus.[Printed in Prague,Czech Republic,and published by ARTIA, 1961.] VG+.No owner inscrptn and an absence of publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean,minimally bumped,creased,rubbed cornered, glossy,paper-covered card boards with colour pictorial illustration with a pull tab which doubles as a pull tab for the following first pop-up inside and with capitalised red lettered title and illustrator's facsimile signature to front cover,a very lightly time-aged/grubbed plain pale yellow fabric/cloth blindspine,rear cover with colour illustrations of gingerbread and pastry items and without text.Negligible shelf-wear,aforementioned minimal bumping,creasing, rubbing with reciprocal paper loss.Front cover illustrated with a lightly creased pull tab of a moveable image of Hansel & Gretel peeping over the roof of the gingerbread cottage,a black cat in the window of the roof,replaced and revealing a witch's head when tab is pulled down.The reverse of this tab doubles up as the father's axe-chopping action of the actual first pop-up of the book.UK,slim,oblong,small 8vo HB,no dw/dj,as issued,colour illustrated pop-up,1st edn thus,6 double-pages excluding both pastedowns which in turn,become parts of the first and last of the 8 pop-ups.The 1st,3rd,5th, 6th and 7th (which also has Kubasta's facsimile initialled signature) pop-ups have action pull tabs.Only the 2nd pop-up has a portion of the trunk of the left-hand edge's free-standing tree illustration missing - all the other pop-ups complete.  Visually the exterior appearance is acceptable, and even internally, the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it’s age and nature, i.e. a child's ephemeral pull tabs and pop-ups book.The faults described prevent a slightly higher and more deserving grading.Despite them,it really is still an exceptional copy for its working pop-ups,cleanliness and brightness.  A remarkable surviving example from the master of pop-up engineering and an uncommonly scarce item.                                       Want more Vojtech Kubašta pop-up books/items? Please see my book IDs' rja1030022, rja1030122 [Jack and the Beanstalk] and rja1030322 [TIP + TOP + TAG Go Flying.]  Vojtech Kubašta (b. 7th Oct,1914 - d. 1992) was a Czech architect,graphic artist,children’s book illustrator and master of the pop-up book.  In the 1950s-1960s,Vojtech Kubašta,an Austrian-born paper engineer and illustrator working in Czechoslovakia,created a series of pop-up adventure and fantasy stories combining bold folk art style imagery, distinctive colours,and innovative cut and folded paper styles. Combining his artistic and architectural talents in the creation of the spatial,pop-up book,he not only draw them all,but he was also the author of the solution to the three-dimensional parts.He produced nearly a hundred pop-up books from 1955 to 1965,and makers of pop-up books today still use Kubašta's structures and the principles he invented and used in his instantly recognisable and unique works.  Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!  ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,slim,oblong,small 8vo HB,no dw/dj, as issued,colour illustrated pop-up,1st edn thus.
Not SIGNED.