Ours et jouets anciens
Teddy Bears and others antics toys
Rare : Livre ancien "Two Teddy bears in Toy-land" - 1907
Edité au Canada, à Toronto en 1907 - (Ecrit en anglais)
30 pages au total, 12 pages d'illustrations (dont 6 présentées ici) et 13 pages où est écrit l'histoire de 2 ours
au pays des jouets (voir début du texte plus bas). Certaines pages ne sont plus attachées à la couverture,
d'autres ont leur bord un peu abimé. Néanmoins, l'état du livre est bon pour ses 100 ans passés et sa rareté.
On peut lire encore le nom de sa propriétaire : Vera Cole, écrit au crayon sur la couverture.
Les ours semblent être des ours de la firme américaine Ideal Toy Ltd.
Dimentions : 21 x 26 cm - Prix 300 euros
Rare : Childs story and Teddybear book entitled "TWO TEDDY BEARS IN TOYLAND" - 1907
Narrated by ELIZABETH GORDON. Produced by the MUSSON BOOK CO., LTD.,TORONTO,
copyright by DODD, MEAD & CO. 1907. Dedicated to the Giant and his Sister.
The book has 30 pages in total, 12 pages have wonderful illustrations and the other 13 have the cute story.
The original owner has added some colour to the Black and White lithographed illustrations when the book was new.
Also she had written her name in light grey pencil on the front cover (VERA COLE), which can be erased.
And on the back cover their are numbers and a bit of scribbling in light grey pencil. The book has some tattering
to some of the page edges and there are a few pages with creases. The pages have come loose from the binding.
Over all the book is in pretty good shape for his hundred years old and rarity. It will make a fabulous addition to your
collection of Vintage Teddy Bear related items or collection of vintage childrens books.
Bears seems to come from the american firm : Ideal Toy ltd.
Size : 21 x 26 cm - Price 300 euros
This is how the story starts:
Down this pretty toyland street,Where all was peace and calm one summers day two big bears came walking arm in arm.
They peeped and peered in everything-On mischier they were bent. And first they scared Jackso so That up a tree he went.
And then they spied a chicken coup: Ha! Ha! they cried in glee; Now this is where well surely find a nice sweet bit for tea.
But when they got up to the door, to their extreme surprise it opened wide: a cock flew out and pecked them in their eyes. and then another one appeared, a large and curious fowl, that sprang at them, and scared them so, they both set up a howl.
Then off they started down the street as fast as they could go. They climbed a wall and there they found a garden, with flowers aglow.
Flowers of every sort and kind and in the midst of all a table set, with all things good, Enough for great and small.
And at the head stood "Wollygog", to keep the cats away, of course the bears soon knocked him down! For them it was mere play,
Oh, dear! Oh dear! what shall I do, weve nothing to eat; And here my guests are coing too in fancy dress complete. When they arrive, they all agreed the best thing to be done would be to send the soldiers out. And each one with a gun....etc,
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