1917 Harper Columbia The Bubble Book One, Eight & Eleven Bubble Book

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Seller: Top-Rated Seller annmarisham-0 ✉️ (941) 100%, Location: Seymour, Connecticut, US, Ships to: US & many other countries, Item: 134722443977 1917 Harper Columbia The Bubble Book One, Eight & Eleven Bubble Book. Billed as the “book that sings,” the “Bubble Book” was the creation of Harper Collins publishers and was the first product believed to combine the world of book publishing with the then emerging recording industry. The first “Bubble Book,” measuring a tiny 6” x 7” and was packaged just like a book: hard covered and title paged. Inside, spread across its 14 pages, was printed an original, short rhyming story and the complete texts of some very well-known nursery rhymes (“Tom the Piper’s Son,” etc.). Also enclosed were some delicate line drawings, by the aforementioned Rhoda Chase, each with a hint of an Art Nouveau influence. Three of the book’s pages doubled as record sleeves and each of these sleeves contained a miniaturized record (smaller than a 45rpm; today, the “Bubble Book” records look a bit like drink coasters). These records, when put on a player and spun at 78rpm, sang aloud the printed nursery rhymes. The voice is believed to have been Henry Burr, a then popular and prolific singer. The “Bubble Book” series got its name from the cartoony “bubbles” that the first book’s unnamed lead, a little blue-clad boy, blows from a magical pipe he has been given. Books show overall signs of wear all records are there including some deplicates
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Language: English
  • Signed: No
  • Region: North America
  • Publisher: Harper Columbia Book
  • Topic: Nursery Books
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Unit Quantity: lot
  • Subject: Children's
  • Year Printed: 1917
  • Original/Facsimile: Original

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