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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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”...
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'...
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...
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"...
Price: $3,200.00
Ron Henry, Jean Henry, Jean and Ron Henry, Pop-up, Tales...
Great Britain: Flame Tree Publishing, 2007. The gorgeously illustrated pop-up panorama truly brings the characters and scenery to life. It...
Price: $55.00
Dolls
New York: Capitol Publishing, 1946. A 13 page accordion or concertina book, with color litho illustrations printed on to cardboard...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Price: $55.00