The Pop-up Silly Symphonies, Walt Disney Studios, 1933 | First Edition Pop-Up

Silly Symphonies is a wonderful, colored children’s pop-up book from Disney. ‘Babes in the Woods’ does not follow the traditional story and more closely resembles the story of Hansel and Gretel. This first edition was designed, written, and illustrated by the staff at Walt Disney studio in 1933.

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Pop-up Silly Symphonies: Containing Babes in the Woods and King Neptune
• Author(s): Walt Disney Studios
• Illustrator(s): Walt Disney Studios
• Contributor(s):
• Publisher: New York, Blue Ribbon Books
• Edition: First edition, 1933
• Format: (4to), single volume
• Binding: Illustrated boards
• Size:  9.5 in x 7.5 in (24 cm x 19 cm)
• Collation: 48pp
• Illustrations: Color pop-up illustrations including cover and scenes
• Contents Include:
  • Babes in the Woods (Hansel and Gretel variant)
  • King Neptune
• Provenance: provenance
• Reference(s): references

Condition:

The illustrated boards retain color, though the text block is broken. Pages are intact and generally clean. Pop-up mechanisms remain present. Good.

Why Collect This?

• First edition Disney pop-up volume
• Features two Silly Symphonies stories adapted to book form
• Rare movable book from the 1930s

Item Number: #29392