Daily Express Children’s Annual, 1931

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 […]

Bunty, 1935

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 […]

Star Trek Pop Up 1977

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 […]

Buck Rogers, Strange Adventures in the Spider Ship, 1935

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 […]

Superman Pop Up 1979

Superman can do everything.  This is obvious in this wonderful pp up book, printed in 1979 by Random House.  At this time, Random House was publishing a long list of pop-up books that reflected movies and juvenile heroes of the time. This book does not expand on Superman or his powers, it does not break […]