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96 pages : frontispiece, illustrations (some color). One of the first in a series of pop-up books based on fairy tales, created as a collaboration between the publisher Blue Ribbon Books and paper engineer and illustrator Harold Lentz. !b Lentz "borrowed" some of the designs from the earlier Bookano series published in London, although it was Blue Ribbon which first introduced the term "pop-up." For more information on pop-up books, see the University of Virginia online exhibit "Pop Goes the Page: Movable and Mechanical Books from the Brenda Forman Collection" at http://explore.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/show/popgoesthepage/walkthroughText illustrated with many black and white drawings by Harold Lentz; four "pop-ups" in brilliant colors include Pinocchio in school with schoolbook; the Blue Fairy outside Pinocchio's house; Pinocchio as a donkey, performing at the circus; and Pinocchio and Gepetto in the belly of the whale.Printed on leaves of heavy cardstock.Issued in publisher's colored illustrated paper over boards, and matching dust jacket; illustrated endpapers in brilliant colors.Both copies lack dust jacket. 1st copy has front hinge broken ; 2nd copy has split spine, larger part detached, scotch tape repairs.c. 1 has hand-written previous owner name and address ; c. 2 has book plate. Both copies gift of J. & J. Hirsch.Joyce & Jerry Hirsch Pop-Up Book Collection.
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Lentz_ThePopupPinocchio.mp4
Publication Date
1932
Imprint / Year
New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1932.
Publisher
Blue Ribbon Books
City
New York
Keywords
pop-up books; movable books; toy books; puppets (recreational artifacts); illustration (process); pop-up books; paper engineering; cardboard; endpapers
Disciplines
Book and Paper
RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record
Recommended Citation
Lentz, Harold B.; Blue Ribbon Books; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "The "Pop-up" Pinocchio" (1932). Pop-up and Movable Books. 147.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_books_popupandmovablebooks/147