Loose pages, mostly, with one pair of boards and several title pages. Boards are rubbed, soiled and chipped. Pages have thumb and finger prints. One title page has a child's writing naming the bears. The "Teddy Bear" was launched in 1903 by two enterprising toy makers, Morris Michtom (Ideal Toys) in the US and Richard Steiff in Germany, and the world of children has never been the same. Inspired by a political cartoon--hence the involvement of Judge Magazine, a political satire vehicle--of former President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt refusing to kill a bear which had been hogtied to a tree to make it easy for Roosevelt to kill, which was first published in 1902. Less than 5 years later, the Teddy Bear had become a household word and this series of stories were launched. Like the original imported Steiff bear--of which no examples are known--these books are fragile and targeted to a brutal audience. Few copies are available in the market, and those that do pop up have been rudely stored for more than a century now.