Illusrated by Patricia Wynne Paper Engineering by Ib Penick Copyright 1980 Lucasfilm Ltd. Published by Random House 6 3/4 in x 9 1/4 in 17.5 cm x 24cm 12 pages Through the 1970s and 1980s, Random House published a respectable number of interesting pop up books for a young audience. The title in question […]
Bunty A “Magic Action” Book Copyright 1935, Whitman Publishing Co. Racine, Wisconsin 7 14 in. x 7 3/4 in 18.7 cm x 20 cm 25 pages Whitman Publishing was a subsidiary of the Western Publishing Company. The company existed from 1910 to 2001. Western Publishing is best known for creating Little Golden Books. However, the […]
Blue Beard Pantomime Toybooks Copyright McLoughlin Bros. N.Y. cs. 1875 7 1/2 in. 10 in. 19 cm x 26 cm. 10 Pages By the time this wonderful book was published, the market for moveable books in Europe and the United States was well established. There were several types of moveable books—each with its own […]
Copyright 1897 Ernest Nister, London E.P. Dutton & Co. New York 9 1/4 in. x 11 1/2 in. 23.7 cm x 28.3 cm 25 pages This beautiful book is a fine example of the pop up books produced by Ernest Nister (1842-1909) at the end of the 19th century. Nister was a German who succeeded […]
Daily Express Children’s Annual No. 3 Copyright 1931 Edited by S. Louis Giraud The Lane Publications Daily Express Book Department, London 6 3/4 in. x 8 3/4 in. 17.2 cm x 22.4 cm 95 pages, 7 pop-up “self-erecting models” Geopolitics touches everything, including the world of pop up books. It was German artists and technology […]
Peeps into Fairyland Nister Book # 633 Copyright, 1896 Ernest Nister, London Printed in Bavaria E.P. Dutton & Co., N.Y. 11 in. x 14 in. 27.8 cm x 30.8 cm This beautiful book is a fine example of the pop up books produced by Ernest Nister (1842-1909) at the end of the 19th century. Nister […]
Nister’s Panorama Pictures A Novel Colour Book for Children Copyright 1894 Ernest Nister, London E.P. Dutton & Co. New York 10 in x 12 1/2 in. 25.8 cm x 31 cm. 27 Pages This beautiful book is a fine example of the pop up books produced by Ernest Nister (1842-1909) at the end of the […]
Trillions of Trilligs is a classic pop up in many ways. For those who are “Trekkies” this is a classic treatment of Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek in all its futuristic and adventurous glory. The story is rather straight-forward. The crew of the Enterprise is traveling through space when they receive a distress call from the […]
Tarzan the pop up book is a true classic of both the legend of Tarzan and a beautiful example of pop up books in the 1930s. This is among a series of the the “New Adventures of Tarzan”. After Tarzan was originally found, brought back to England and assumed his proper place as the heir […]
Buck Rogers is an interesting mid-20th Century figure. He’s always been a B-list superhero. Never breaking through like Superman or Batman. Nevertheless, his story and feats are laudable and fantastic. This title revolves around the beginning interplanetary exploration in the 25th century. Buck himself is not a part of this story. This story focuses on […]