Tony Sarg's Book of Animals | 1925 Antique buying Children's Picture Book | Very Good Condition

A fun and funny, beautifully illustrated antique children's book by Tony Sarg. Captivating, Seussian-style, 3-color pen and ink drawings are the star of this fantasy adventure that introduces children to a wide range of animals in a lot of silly situations!

A fabulous addition to any antique children's library.

REVIEW (Courtesy of Goodreads.com)
What a total charmer of a picture book! Sarg's children must have loved these stories, mostly set in Nantucket where the family spent their summers. Other tales include The Lion and The Unicorn, a bit of heraldic silliness that will make you smile (the lion goes to the beauty parlor to have his mane set). But mostly it's the brilliantly energetic, comic drawings that make this book memorable. No one draws monkeys and elephants as well as Sarg did.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
Anthony Frederick Sarg (1880-1942), known professionally as Tony Sarg, was a German American puppeteer and illustrator. He was described as "America's Puppet Master", and in his biography as the father of modern puppetry in North America. He had been raised around puppets, inherited his grandmother's collection of them, developed them as a hobby that enhanced the impression he made on other artists, and finally in 1917, turned them into a profession. In 1921, Sarg animated the film The First Circus, an inventive cartoon for producer Herbert M. Dawley, who was credited as co-animator. Sarg went on to produce a series of cartoons known as Tony Sarg's Almanac, from 1921 to 1923. In 1928, he designed, and his protégé Bil Baird built tethered helium-filled balloons up to 125 feet (40 m) long, resembling animals, for the New York institution of Macy's department store. This work involved a number of puppetry-related principles. These creations were featured in the store's Thanksgiving Day parade. In 1935, he undertook the puppet-related work of designing Macy's elaborate animated window display, which was shown between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The pinnacle of Sarg's visibility occurred at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, where his cumulative audience was 3 million. Sarg stepped back from competing with other puppet studios, and pursued illustrating magazine covers, guide books, and original children's buying picture books, games, and toys. He designed salons and sophisticated interiors for high-end department stores and restaurants, including the supper club at New York's Waldorf Astoria. He designed extensively for the New York World's Fair, in 1939, creating the fair's official pictorial map, and numerous colorful and modernistic fabrics with World's Fair themes for lady's scarves, handkerchiefs, dresses, table linens, and upholstery, which were sold through Lord & Taylor Department Store.

BIXLEY NOTES
• Tony Sarg's Book of Animals
• Written & Illustrated by Tony Sarg
• Published by Greenberg Publishers, 1925
• 64 pages
• Three-color pen & ink illustrations throughout
• Measures 10 1/4" x 8"

VINTAGE NOTES
• In very good condition for its age
• Wear along the edges of the covers
• Binding is nice and tight
• Dust jacket is missing (though we're not sure there was one)
• Pages are in great condition, clean and unmarked with only a tiny bit of yellowing

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