Movable Book (13 results)

1941, 1st Edition. (4to, wrappers) Near fine. Unpaginated, illus. This copy has not been coloured in at all, as nearly pristine as we've seen.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First UK reissue in 1979 of a book published originally in 1892, small 4to, 235 x 220 mm, 9¼ x 8¾ inches, colour illustrated glazed boards. 6 delightful full page coloured revolving transformation wheels, 6 pages of verse text facing. When the wheel is turned with the tab a completely different picture appears. A Fine crisp clean copy, no inscriptions. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

First UK reissue in 1981 of a book published originally in 1895, small 4to, 235 x 220 mm, 9¼ x 8¾ inches, colour illustrated glazed boards. 6 delightful full page coloured revolving transformation wheels, 6 pages of verse text facing. When the wheel is turned with the tab a completely different picture appears. A Fine crisp clean copy, no inscriptions. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Circa 1950, 190 x 105 mm, 7½ x 4 inches, colour illustrated yellow and red card covers, 5 text pages, movable illustration on upper cover: a cheerful clown rides Trixie and when the disc at lower edge is turned, Trixie rears up and the clown rises to stand on her back and then down again. Colour illustrated title page and 4 full page coloured illustrations, signed 'C.S.' No inscriptions, staples rusted, 5 mm (¼") split at tail of spine, minute rub to head of spine. Near Fine. The copy in the Bodleian is dated in the 1940s. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

First Edition. Original spiral bound boards, original dustjacket. Nice moving piece book with turning discs, pull tabs, opening paper doors and folding flaps. Very Good, with mechanisms in working order, closed tear at spine at top spiral edge, in Very Good plus dustjacket, few closed tears, few tiny chips and moderate wear.

Circa 1950, 190 x 105 mm, 7½ x 4 inches, colour illustrated yellow and red card covers, 5 text pages, movable illustration on upper cover: a cheerful clown rides Trixie and when the disc at lower edge is turned, Trixie rears up and the clown rises to stand on her back and then down again. Colour illustrated title page and 4 full page coloured illustrations, signed 'C.S.' No inscriptions, staples rusted, minute rub to tail of spine. Near Fine. The copy in the Bodleian is dated in the 1940s. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Four movable color plates operated by pull-tabs at bottom edge. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed boards illustrated in color. Old ink gift inscription; expected slight use to pull-tabs and lower edges of moving plates (all in excellent working condition with no damage to working parts); boards soiled. Printed in Bavaria. Publisher's imprint on printed label affixed to title page. The Moving Picture Books.

French edition 1948, 225 x 175 mm, 8¾ x 6¾ inches, colour illustrated boards, spiral binding, 8 text pages. 6 bold lively colour plates each with tab which causes movement of 1 or more parts of the picture. Designed by Julian Wehr. Near Fine in near Fine DUSTWRAPPER (dw: no price printed on flaps, very slightly worn at head and tail of spine). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Hardback, 4to. approx 9.5 x 8.5 inches. Original publisher's colour pictorial paper covered boards, front and back; blue cloth spine. In good condition. With some professional restoration so all pop up work perfectly. Some rubbing to edges & corners. Some slight foxing to pages. Small Name on front endpaper (Jane Tate). Else a good clean and tight, very scarce copy. Features wonderful 6 colour illustrated pages, including 2 with a pull-along mechanism, 1 with a turntable, and 1 template. First English edition of the original transformation picture book; the first German edition was published in 1927 under the title "Das Wunderhaus" (The House of Wonders). A pull-along mechanism demonstrates the daily routine of a family in a house and the colourful hustle and bustle of a puppet theatre. A turntable allows you to follow the race between the hare and the hedgehog, and on the back, the action on a Chinese bridge and in a boat.

First Edition. Comical Animals Having a Good Time Six Wonderful Movable Plates [MOVABLE BOOK]. REYNAUD, Adeline. Grand Album D'Animaux Comiques. (Big Book of Funny Animals) Texte de Mlle. Adeline Reynaud. Paris: A. Capendu, 1900. Folio (14 x 9 1/2 inches; 356 x 242 mm.). Lithograph title-page (recto of page [2] and six full-page colored lever-operated moveable plates, each with text illustrations on verso. Text beneath each illustration. Publisher's red cloth over color pictorial boards. Rear cover plain. A wonderful example. The Movable Plates: 1. "En Automobile" (A Goat and a Cow, monsieurs Hautcol & Beugle, in the back seat of a car being driven by a lamb) 2. "La Boxe" (A dog and a cat, Job & Mistigris, in a boxing match) 3. "Le Patinage" (A Dog, Tartenpion, skating on ice) 4. "L'Equitation" (A Frog, Crapoto, Riding on a turtle) 5. "La Chasse" (Two rabbit hunter dogs, Finot & Roublard, standing in the field with their rifles) 6. "Le Ludge" Beofin & Bob, a dog and a monkey with their sledges in the snow. Adeline Reynaud wrote several comic animal stories, including at least two movable books including Allo! Allo! Bostock. Grand Album d'Animaux Savants, Grand Album D'Animaux Comiques, and Jack l'incorrigible et son chien Puck.

First Edition. Les Amis de Polichinelle [MOVABLE BOOK]. Les Amis de Polichinelle par Pierre Delcourt. Paris: A. Capendu, Editeur, [ca. 1890]. Small quarto (8 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches; 216 x 162 mm.). [10] pp. Lithograph title-page and four full-page colored lever-operated moveable plates, each with leaf of text opposite. Publisher's black cloth over color pictorial boards. On the first movable plate Polichinelle is missing the bell that he was holding in his right hand (see cover illustration) and on the second movable plate Madam is missing the fan held in her right hand (as per the text). Otherwise an excellent example in near fine condition. This delightful movable has four wonderfully vivid colored movable plates portraying Monsieur & Madame Polichinelle, Jocrisse & Cassandre. "Polichinelle is the Punch of the old French puppet-shows, and his secrets are stage whispers told to all the audience" (Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable). Very scarce. OCLC locates just one copy in libraries and institutions worldwide: University of Virginia (VA,US). Pierre Delcourt also wrote Le Grand Guignol which was also published by A. Capendu around the same time.

First Edition. Scholarly Animals "Living the Good Life" [MOVABLE]. REYNAUD, Adeline. Allo, Allo! Bostock. Grand Album d'Animaux Savants. Paris: A. Capendu-Editeur, [n.d., ca. 1900]. Folio (14 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches; 365 x 240 mm.). Lithograph title-page (recto of page [2] and six full-page colored lever-operated moveable plates, each with text illustrations on verso. Text beneath each illustration. Gray cloth over color pictorial boards. Very scarce. The first plate showing an elephant in top hat and tails talking on the telephone, entitled Allo - Allo! The second plate entitled La Lecon de Lecture, shows two grown cats and two kittens in a classroom, the third plate entitled Un Artiste Original, shows a donkey standing in front of an easel, painting a picture. The fourth plate shows a cat and a dog playing billiards, La Partie de Billard. The fifth plate, La Lecon de Chant, shows a goat holding some sheet music and another animal with a long tail, (a monkey?) wearing spectacles and sitting at a piano. The sixth plate, Le Dentiste has a horse as the dentist in the title and a cow as his patient. This delightful movable has wonderfully vivid plates portraying comical animals as they go about "living the good life". Apart from a few minor and mainly marginal repairs is in excellent condition. The original stitching is a little loose but sound. OCLC locates just one copy in libraries and institutions worldwide: University of Chicago (IL, US). We have only seen one other example of this movable which we sold in 2001. Adeline Reynaud wrote several comic animal stories, including at least two movable books including Allo! Allo! Bostock. Grand Album d'Animaux Savants and Jack l'incorrigible et son chien Puck.

First Edition. A Rare and Early Meggendorfer Movable MOVABLE BOOK. MEGGENDORFER, Lothar. Schau mich an! [Look at me!]. Ein Ziehbilderbuch von Lothar Meggendorfer. Verlag von J.F. Schreiber: Esslingen - Stuttgart, [1888]. First German edition. Oblong quarto (10 x 13 1/2 inches; 254 x 343 mm.). [10] pp. (including foreword and advertisements at end). Eight colored lithograph plates with movable parts (included in pagination), each with a tab to set the scene in motion. The eight moveables are all original, completely functional and in excellent condition. The 'pull' tabs have all been replaced. There are some expertly repaired short closed tears where the tabs come through the pages and a few mainly marginal light stains. Publisher's gray boards with color pictorial label on front pane, red cloth backstrip, Light wear to board edges and corners. A wonderful example of this very rare and early title. Housed in a fleece-lined, half black morocco clamshell case, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in compartments. An excellent example of a rare Meggendorfer title. In over fifty years of specializing in Children's Books including Movables I have never seen this title before (DJB). The movable plates: 1. St. Niklas kommt! (St. Nicholas is coming) 2. Das Duett (The Duet) 3. Die Zimmerleute (The Carpenters) 4. Der horrische Esel (The obstinate donkey) 5. In der kinderstube (In the nursery) 6. Beim Friseur (At the Hairdresser) 7. Hausmusik (House music) 8. Der gefoppte Ami (The teased friend) The title of Meggendorfer's Schau mich an! (Look at me!) plays on the potentially uncanny relationship between actual life and the life-like mechanisms between the book's covers. It would appear that the English edition of Look at me! did not appear until three years later in 1891. "Meggendorfer's reputation today is based almost solely on his ingenious mechanical picture-books for children. These he began to design during the late 1880s, and many of these books went into multiple German editions besides translations into English, French, Italian, Spanish, Bohemian, Hungarian, and Russian. Deservedly, he is considered the creator and chief innovator of moveable toy books, and his printed works are eagerly sought after by collectors of historical children's literature. He produced books with moveable figures, transformation pictures segmented into three parts and thus interchangeable, books with pop-up designs, rotating wheels as well as four-panel slat pictures which change the illustrations through movement, and simply funny picture books for children that would certainly make them laugh and generally contributed to some educational benefit" (Justin G. Schiller's Introduction to The Publishing Archive of Lothar Meggendorfer). "There is little doubt that the most elaborate and ingenious movables ever produced were those of the German Lothar Meggendorfer (1847-1925) made during the 1880s and 1890s.the mechanisms and operations of Meggendorfer's books-not to mention the originality of his figures-are far superior to any others published before or since. The devices that operated the various figures in Meggendorfer's books consisted of a series of inter-connecting cardboard levers sandwiched between the coloured illustration on the front of the oblong leaf and the dummy pasted behind it. The animated limbs and heads were cut-out models on the front of the picture, and moving the tab set the whole scene in motion" (Haining, Movable Books, pp. 65-73).