The House We Live In: Put Together Book

  • Hardcover
  • New York: Saml Gabriel Sons & Company, 1930
By Hutchison, Paula
New York: Saml Gabriel Sons & Company, 1930. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover. A children's activity book showing six rooms of a house, each with a sheet of furnishings to cut out and paste into the picture of the room opposite. The rooms of the house are accompanied by a story about the children who live there. Most of the rooms have been partly "furnished" although two have not been. Bound in bright pictorial covers showing the house, the children, the pets and the maid. Only in fair condition with small sections of the furnishings sheets cut out. With a few pink water or brown stains to gutters. Rear hinge is split. Despite condition the book is an interesting survivor of childrens's play activities early in the 20th century. Measures 10.5 x 12.5 inches. Unpaginated [about 40 pages].

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