Hazelle & Her Marionettes: Creating the World's Largest Puppet Company

by Mike Joly

$250 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Independence, MO: Puppetry Arts Institute, c2005 . First edition. 4to. xiii, 1 , 199 pp. Illustrated from photographs and old advertisements, portrait frontispiece of Hazelle Rollins, color plates. Story of the first puppet and marionette company in the United States, from its creation by Hazelle Rollins during the depression in 1930s Kansas City through the Howdy-Doody rage of the 1950s and the hand and finger puppets of the 1960s. Fine. Gilt-stamped red

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