(San Francisco: Art Hazelwood, 2011). One of twenty copies. Screenprinted boards with cloth joints which open to create a theatrical stage that measures 28 inches in length, 12 inches in height, and 9 3/4 inches deep. Klaus-Ullrich Rötzscher designed the stage, and multi-disciplinary artist, Concord, Mass. native, and self-professed "instigator"..... More
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
(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: 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
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
London: Ernest Nister, (c. 1895). Small quarto. (20)pp. Line drawings throughout, plus eight full-page movable chromolithograph volvelles, whose scenes theatrically change by pulling a silk tab around the entire circle. Each illustration has a couplet caption relating it to the verses on the facing page. A delightful and fully functional..... 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
(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
