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SEIDMANN FREUD: DAS ZAUBERBOOT. EIN BILDERBUCH  ZUM DREHEN, BEWEGEN UND 
VERWANDELN (DAS NEUE WUNDERHAUS). Berlin, Stuffer Verlag; (7. bis 10 
Tausend): 1930. 4to. Cloth backed pictorial boards. Seidman-Freud, 
Sigmund's niece, was one of the most innovative book illustrators of her 
period. She was far and a way the most original movable book designer of 
her time. But all of her books came out just before Nazism's rise, and the 
books, by a Jewish modernist, therefore objectionable on artistic as well 
as "racial" grounds were actively destroyed after 1933, and are now very 
rare. Among her movable plates in this book, are a movable wheel and a 
Punch and Judy show. Also included is a grid with cutouts which allow the 
reader to invent his/her own story or stories from a single page. The piece 
of red, transparent plastic which is supposed to come with this in a packet 
at the back of the book is often missing, but it is present in this copy. 
This is used on two pages which have a wonderful story, to make parts of 
the illustrations disappear. Hurliman P. 216-217 discusses these books, 
which are not only remarkable for their moveable book innovations, but also 
for development of appropriate texts illustrated with modernist artistic 
quality. OCLC finds 3 locations, but only of a later reprint! Two of these 
are in the USA [BNY, WAU] the other is in the UK[AVA]. The covers are near 
Fine, with just the slightest trace of use on the rear cover. The lower 
edge of the first page just shows an edge  repair which could be made 
invisible. OW Fine throughout. $1250.00

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