Running to just 25pp, the Mickey Mouse Waddle Book of 1934 has as its principal attraction – and still bound in as issued – the four coloured ‘waddle’ plates on card stock. As shown right, they were intended be cut out and assembled to form the characters waddling down the ramp, or runway seen on the dust jacket. Also still present, along with instructions for set-up, was an envelope containing a set of six brass pieces, two of them spares, to assist in the waddling process.
A Californian sale of March 7 certainly offered great variety in age, content and price range. Promoted as A Biblio-Medley for All Tastes, it ran to well over 500 lots across its printed and supplementary, online catalogues – with at least one lot, a volume of the works of Arthur Hallam, sold for just $10.