Reflects three generations of use with edge wear and some soil. Designed to wrap-around the sides of a play pen, with engaging and colorful color lithographs, the book folds out and out and out to form a continuous ribbon, with both sides printed to complete the book.
The J.L. Schilling Co. was a short lived child-oriented company that flourished in NY during the war and shortly after. They manufactured toy trains (later copied by Marx), scooters, pedal cars and books.
Schilling was pretty successful with the accordion-fold approach to children's books, issuing several sets: "Indestructible", "Sit-in", and others, however collector's of children's pictorials might be hard-pressed to complete their collection as many titles appear hard to find, at best