Canton, NY: Caliban Press, 2007. Square 24mo. (8)pp., accordionfold. One of 200 copies. The jumblies in their famous seive, with holes in the appropriate places, on a colored etching, which is printed on a movable piece of paper affixed to the fifth panel. With red paper covered and housed in..... More
Paris: Guérin Müller & Co, c. 1865. 8ff., printed one side only, with a pop-up image folded over the text. Each pop-up consists of three layers: a background, a middle ground with the characters of the particular scene, and the foreground with small landscape elements at ground level. A turquoise..... More
Berkeley, CA: Flying Fish Press, 1990. Innovative both in design and text, this book explores the idioms associated with "home" related words, e.g. house, home, wall, grass, and rug. The text pages are interspersed with half-size pages that match up exactly to change the illustration or text on the full-size..... More
London: Bancroft, (c. 1960). Small quarto. 8pp + fold-out pop-up advent calendar. A heart-warming production, lustrous with Christmas spirit, this scarce Kubasta begins with a Christmas story and ends with an operational advent calendar set into a large Christmas tree, a sleigh, and various festive forest animals. Bound in pictorial..... More
(1968). An uncommon die-cut pop-up card depicting a nativity scene set in ancient Bethlehem, beneath palm trees and a starry night sky. Cattle, goats, sheep, and an elephant surround the manger, as the magi and others bring gifts. Presiding over the scene is an angel carrying a banner proclaiming "Gloria..... More
Strasbourg: Victor's Kunstverlag, (c. 1900). Chromolithographed postcard with an internal wheel that recreates the operation of the famous astronomical clock in the Cathédrale Notre-Dame in Strasbourg, France. As one turns the wheel, the automata and rotating panels at three different levels of the clock change. Text on the back of..... More
(Strasbourg: c. 1900). Chromolithographed postcard with an internal wheel that recreates the operation of the famous astronomical clock in the Cathédrale Notre-Dame in Strasbourg, France. As one turns the wheel, the automata and rotating panels at three different levels of the clock change. The title is in both German and..... More
(Leonia, NJ): Lois Morrison, 2005. Morrison's peepshow re-creates the fields of Geryon, with its Arcadian vista and red cattle, as recounted more famously in accounts of the labors of Hercules, and less famously in Stesichoros' Geryoneis, an epic poem which treated Hercules' theft of Geryon's cattle with considerable detail. Wherever..... More
Amsterdam: Cohen Zonen, (c. 1920). Octavo. (10)pp. Four full color movable images, and black & white illustrations throughout. The movables illustrate humans and animals taking part in charming circus scenes: monkeys clamber about a ladder, an elephant balances a clown upon its trunk, another well-dressed elephant plays the tuba in..... More
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, (1933). Illustrated with twenty-seven full-page color images by Kurt Wiese, including four "animated" movables by A. V. Warren. The movables are complicated jointed figures that move when the handle on the verso of the picture is rotated. As usual for Little Black Sambo tales..... More
NY: Bouillon-Sanders & Chopp, (1926). Quarto. (16)pp. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white, and in a bright orange binding featuring the main character, Willie, with fully movable arms. A "Willie Wait a Minute," who is always postponing his responsibilities to play just a minute longer, is able to..... More
Esslingen and Munich: J. F. Schreiber, (c. 1890). Each spread of pages takes the reader on a tour of the zoo, enhanced by pop-up displays of some of the zoo's most stunning animals. The reader (or zoo-goer) encounters a passenger-carrying elephant, two cages holding lions and bears, and an aquarium..... More
NY: Little Simon, Simon & Schuster, 2008. Octavo. One of 250 copies, signed by Sabuda. Six double-page spreads, each with a booklet affixed to the page and held in place by a tab. The spreads unfurl into elaborate pop-up illustrations of scenes from J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan; the children..... More
Claremont, CA: Scripps College Press, 2010. Slender quarto. Unpaginated. One of 109 copies, signed by all the artists, who at the time were students at Scripps College, and by Kitty Maryatt, their supervisor. Clever structural use of red, green, tan, and gray papers, paired with original text and typography, evoke..... More
(Bangor: Tatlin Books, 1996). (12)ff. A prayer for safety on the way, with subtle decorations in color. The first eight pages unfold to show a wheel-like design. "Very little pagan influence can be seen in this poem, which seems more prayer than charm." A handsomely designed and printed book on..... More
