<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Ola wrote:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Due to the few answers about this I suppose that these books are unknown <BR>
to the most of us on this list? So I assume that they must be quite <BR>
rare? Does anyone know how long they kept this thick format with the <BR>
stiff cardboard pages ?</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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My uncle has a Mickey Mouse Annual given to him by my (late) great-grandmother. When I flipped through it quickly, it appeared to be a mixture of puzzles and games and the like, stories, and coloring pages--the usual "activity book" fare of the present day.<BR>
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I'm not completely sure, but I THINK I read that the date of the book was 1938.<BR>
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Just thought I'd let you know what I'm referring to...<BR>
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Dane Martin<BR>
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"Surrealism in th' service of sanity is no sin."<BR>
--Griffy, "Zippy the Pinhead"</FONT></HTML>