{"product_id":"vintage-velvet-eyes-santa-s-little-helper","title":"Vintage Velvet Eyes Santa’s Little Helper","description":"\u003cp\u003eKlimack, Emil W. Velvet Eyes Santa’s Little Helper. No place: No publisher, circa 1950. Quarto, comb-bound as issued, original pictorial red paper wrappers, original pictorial box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of this wonderful story of a reindeer fawn who laments his small size until Santa finds him the perfect job, beautifully illustrated in mid-century style by Charlot Byi, with three Christmas-themed pop-ups, a bouncy reindeer, a tiny jingle bell, a small metal whistle, a mirror, a full sheet of stickers intended for use in the text, paper game pieces, \"Win a Christmas Star\" sheet, and two stick-on gilt badges to celebrate the \"No. 1 Christmas Helper,\" in rare original box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis charming story focuses on a reindeer fawn named \"Velvet Eyes,\" who only wants to help at Christmas but fails at every task until he uses a little Christmas-style ingenuity in completing a job for Santa.\u003cbr\u003e Like many Christmas miscellanies of the era, this book—a complete narrative rather than a true miscellany—offers Christmas fun including a game, pop-ups, and small internal treasures. Less commonly, all of these elements are fully intact in this copy. Indeed, Velvet Eyes includes a full sheet of unused lick-and-stick stickers for embellishing numbered blanks in the text, instructions for \"Win a Christmas Star\" game, all paper game pieces still intact on a single sheet, a raised \"bouncy\" reindeer, three affixed metal pieces with almost none of the usual tarnish (a jingle bell, a child-size whistle, and a mirror), three beautiful pop-ups, and two gilt badge stickers (generally removed as the instructions directed the child to wear them).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Korsten","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47712152027362,"sku":null,"price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/0680\/4962\/files\/il_fullxfull.7478662568_7h0x.jpg?v=1776709808","url":"https:\/\/hausofwest.myshopify.com\/products\/vintage-velvet-eyes-santa-s-little-helper","provider":"Haus of West","version":"1.0","type":"link"}