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. Small quarto. 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..... 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
Brussels: Libraries de l'Office de Publicité, (c. 1850). Six hand-colored, movable double-engravings; one engraving is half-pasted from the top, another from the bottom, and their remaining halves are pasted together to create a flap that the reader may flip down to see one image and up to see the other..... 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
NY: Colorcraft-Brussel Publishing, (1969). Square octavo. Unpaginated. On alternating black and white papers, Ockerse deftly uses paper cutting and varied paper sizes to transmute letterforms; K becomes X, E becomes F becomes T, and so on. A testament to midcentury typographic wit. Plastic comb binding with paper covers. Housed in..... More
The Netherlands: Tine Krijnen, Miniatur Boekbinden, 2011. (16)pp. One of 150 copies. Signed and numbered at the rear pastedown. A pop-up of appropriately lilliputian proportions, with Verweil's illustrations rendered in lithographs by Thomas Touw. A Dutch production, but with text in English. Bound in full blue leather with silver anchor..... 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
