It contains five flip, or as they are sometines called, flicka books featuring the antics of two of Walt Disney’s more popular creations. Each of the stories present 100 images that the well-practised thumb can bring to life in a five-reel ‘Cinema Show for Boys and Girls’.
published by Collins in 1939, this well-preserved Donald & Pluto item, still sporting a 1/- (one shilling) price band on the pictorial wrappers, was a £200 purchase in a Keys (17.5% buyer’s premium) sale of February 8-9.
Other modestly priced record-breakers in the Norfolk sale included an 1897, first UK edition of a little known Jules Verne tale, Clovis Dardentor, at £360, and at £310 a signed copy in dust jacket of The Death of the Heart of 1938, the most expensive of Elizabeth Bowen’s novels recorded at auction.