Paper with a Secret
Not everything is what it appears to be at first glance...
Sand Toy, Paper Plaything, Mechanical Toy, Uncut Paper Toy
[1860]. Includes litho label on paper cover and four (4) uncut approx. 9" x 12" color litho sheets including printed instructions on assembly including diagrams and use. German. There is a sand box to construct and fill with sand and a sand funnel, so apparently the wheel is propelled by.....
Price: $700.00
Concertina Book, The Night Before Christmas, TNBC,
c1900. A 12 fold concertina book. Illustrated wraps. Picture book with rhyming verse, with a storyline similar to The Night Before Christmas. A brown coat St. Nicholas and dwarfs cutting down Christmas trees and driving St. Nicholas' sleigh. Measures 2 1/2" x 3 7/8"
Price: $175.00
Paper with a Secret, Watercolor
c1830. A 9" x 7" card that at first appearance looks like a watercolor of Cruikshank's Comicalities. Upon closer view it opens to reveal a watercolor of a curmudgeonly sort. It is captioned "THE PATIENT" What train of maladies has led To this your very sad condition... Has laid you.....
Price: $925.00
Rebus, Picture Story, Watercolor, Love Token
A single-fold 6 1/2" x 4 3/4" sheet with a grapevine on the cover titled A Fruitful Theme When opened a hand penned note :Although I've hear you called a "cherry" That notion i Deery. I rather choose to eat you The "apple" of my "eye" But if you only.....
Price: $125.00
childhood ephemera, greeting cards, get well cards, activity books
Chicago: Whitehall, 1950. A colorful illustrated folder with side clasp depicting fairy tale and anthropomorphic characters. Two sections within each containing six (6) books and envelopes. The set includesThree clowns of Yetti Putti wishin' book / Rob Fink ; illustrations by Eoina -- Poncho the elephant wishin' book / Rob.....
Price: $125.00
Jigsaw Puzzle, Farm Life, Childhood Ephemera, Wooden Puzzle
N. Carpenter, c1850s. An 8 1/2" x 12" litho on wood jigsaw puzzle titled "The Life of a Farmer. The puzzle is comprised of 18 captioned vignettes. They are The Farmer and His Family, The Farm House Ricks & Stables, Milking, Churning, Making Cheese, Sheep Feeding, Ploughing, Sowing, Harrowing, Weeding.....
Price: $650.00
Original Art, Comic Art
United Kingdom: c1860s. The tone is set for this album containing 59 pen and ink and/or watercolor drawings by the verbiage on the image on the inside cover of a scroll with a whimsical lad at top reads: In Truth it is not every Book, That's suited to the Mind.....
Price: $750.00
Movable book, children at play, anthropomorphism
Amsterdam: Mulder & Zoon, 1955. Illustrated paper cover with fold-out die-cut boat attached to the inside of the back cover. The profusely illustrated story book depicts chilldren at place recto and children in water scenes verso. The boat from the back cover an be overlayed on each of the water.....
Price: $150.00
Die-cut Transformation, Advertising and Promotion, Pretty women influencer
Worcester, MA: 1880s. A 6 1/4" x 3 1/2" single-fold transformation advertising card. It depicts a women with a flowing gossamer shawl and is captioned "If you don't get what you want". When opened the remainder of the caption appears and reads "KICK FOR IT". Her leg kick upward. Promotion.....
Price: $150.00
Children of the World, International Friendship, European Heritage
United States. Dorothy K. Weeblow, 1951. A charming interactive children's book emphasizing international friendship and cultural heritage. The story revolves around six children from European countries (England, France, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, and Norway) who are traveling across the Atlantic on an ocean liner. The young reader is asked to help.....
Price: $125.00
Zoo Animals, Interactive
New York, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941. A very charming interactive children's book starring Mr. Luke, a harried zookeeper who needs help putting the animals back in their cages at the end of the night. Each of the eight die-cut animals, ranging from "Trunko" the elephant to "Humpo".....
Price: $125.00
Dorothy N. Knight, interactive
United States: Dorothy K. Werblow, 1951. Take the Children is an unique, interactive story, that involves the reader in a game. 24 pages. It is representative of Dorothy N. Knights signature style. Spiral bound litho on heavy paper covers. The book begins with six children from different lands boarding the.....
Price: $75.00
Akron: Saalfield, 1930. An 11" x 12" die-cut polka-dot cat wheeled toy with grommeted wheels. NO. 946 Illustrated by Fern Bistel Peat. Interesting book construction with the cat opening about half way to expose a the actual book. The book measures 5" x 12". The tale of this anthropomorphic stuffed.....
Price: $75.00
Little Tom Thumb, Children's Puzzles, H. Jannin, French, Childhood Ephemera
Paris: H. Camus, c. 1870. This six piece wooden puzzle with applied depicts a critical scene in the life of little Tom Thumb. The color lithograph is done by H. Jannin depicts the two parents at a table by a fire with sad expressions, as the caption reveals that the.....
Price: $175.00
die-cut animals, movable paper animals
New York: Animated Book Company, 1944. Diarama-style children’s book w Eight (8) die-cut movable animals A 9” x 11 ½” heavy card stock fold-out diorama-style barnyard scene. Includes eight (8) different easel back, mechanical animals, each with a printed verse. They are Wooley the Sheep, Gobbie the Turkey, Dobbin the.....
Price: $275.00
mechanical, diorama
New York: Animated Book Company, 1944. Diorama-style children’s book with ten (10) die-cut movable animals A 11 1/2" x 9' ” heavy card stock fold-out diorama-style barnyard scene. Includes ten (10) different easel back, mechanical animals, each with a printed verse. They are Wooley the Sheep, Gobbie the Turkey, Dobbin.....
Price: $125.00
Picture Book, Whimsy
New York: Stokes, 1898. Unnumbered. Cloth backed pictorial boardsPrinted on rectos (one side of the paper), whimsical rhymes and imagery each page. Imagery verging on the bizarre e.g. Bridge'ts cooking on Jimmy's hair of fiery red. Measures 8 3/8" x 11 1/4" Inscribed on free endg paper.Edges worn, front cover.....
Price: $225.00
Overlay, Metamorphosis, Made by Hand, Social History, Women's History
1805. A 3.5" x 3" watercolor bust of a women gazing slightly to the right on 6" x 5 1/4" card stock. Finely detailed face. Inscribed on reverse "Miss Millett with J.P..W's love". This is accompanied by sixteen (16) different overlays of costumes for women of various stations, nationalities and.....
Price: $3,200.00
Ron Henry, Jean Henry, Jean and Ron Henry, Pop-up, Tales from Fairyland
Great Britain: Flame Tree Publishing, 2007. The gorgeously illustrated pop-up panorama truly brings the characters and scenery to life. It is one illustration that expands over two pages depicting a gathering scene of the various fairies in the woods. There is a little story and poem that are placed within.....
Price: $55.00
Dolls
New York: Capitol Publishing, 1946. A 13 page accordion or concertina book, with color litho illustrations printed on to cardboard. It is missing the doll that would be seen through the die-cut window on the front cover. This book shows heavy wear, with rubbed edges, and missing surface litho on.....
Price: $45.00
friendship albums, rebus
Rahway, NJ: 1874. A friendship album, aptly titled "Album of Friendship", belonging to a woman by the name of Jennie. Her last name is never mentioned. The album is mostly blank, but the entries date from 1874, and when a location is noted, it is Rahway, NJ. One of the.....
Price: $130.00
movable books, children's stories
Kenosha, Wisconsin: John Martin's House, Inc., 1945. unpaginated. Metal spiral bound printed color paper cover, movable parts and pop ups, book 1864. A movable book about Hans and Fritz Katzenjammer and their uncle, the Captain. Something is always happening to them. The book includes pop-up, a movable wheel, and sliding.....
Price: $45.00
Babar, Laurent De Brunhoff, Pop-up, Anthropormorphism
New York: Random House, 1968. The classic children's character Babar got a fun pop-up twist in this story of his adventure to space. 19 pages. The books starts with the announcement of Babar's plan to go into space to the moon, and as the story follows through the preparations and.....
Price: $85.00
pop-up, space fantasy, space travel, movable book, vovelle
USA: Personal History Agency, inc., 1952. 4to. Unpaginated. A die-cut Terry is grommeted to front cover allowing him to tumble about space, giving the reader an introduction to Terry's trip, as he fell off the edge of dreamland and visits the universe including the pop-up sun and each of the.....
Price: $55.00