Any book to play with: Pop-up, Shape Books, Panorama, Moveable, Activity Books, Play Sets, Autograph Books, Board Books, even Baby Books and Boxed Books
My Hanky Library, (early 1940s?) full colour card with a white gosling and on front and graceful swan on the back, coloured illustrations inside with a slot containing a cotton handkerchief with a yellow duckling visible, two pages with text; 5.5 x 4"; somewhat shaped. Toploader little. Here's an example..... more
No indication of publishing data. A shaped card barn of silvery wood and red roof surrounded on the front by Holly Berries, with a big double door to open, revealing interior pocket with white horse eating hay next to hanging plow horse collar; on the back a closed door and..... more
{White Plains, New York], White Plains Greeting Card Corp Copyright 1952; metal spiral binding covered by wraps with large Santa; in box with same picture, 22 pages. Novelty Boxed book softcover. Unique in that every toy is completely present and in perfect condition; even the life saver retains its cellophane..... more
Boston: L Prang & Company, [1864-65 Huntington Library]; ivory glazed card cover on the front a delicate green lithograph of hand lettered title and mother bird returning to her nest, on the back "Prang's Album Pictures, for sale in all bookstores, books for children, valentines, etc" surrounds logo; cover encloses..... more
No date No publication data, but surely published for Vaughan's Seed Company, est 1876, Chicago. Novelty Pup-up. On the first heavy card page, Bobby and Betty and their little dog look through an open window, surrounded by a flowery trellis behind which a folded green page can be pulled out..... more
Chicago, ILL; Merrill Company co 1949, #2530; assumed 1st or early, an oversized coloring book with a cute little elf filling in a green leaf in his book, 10.5x13.75"and 1/4" flat spine;np. Toploader oversized softcover. A colorful cover and large scale picture of little girls in dresses and boys in..... more
Golden Press, #11033, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp, 1968, very early printing, $1.50 sticker; matte full colour paper boards with ship with cut-out sails revealing pattern of boards of little books inside. Novelty cut-out. A curiosity with a photo of Rex Harrison on giraffe on the cover and two little..... more
Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Bros. Inc (all co. 1927), 3/4 girls' Toddles Series #276, not incld C. Preston Peek-a-boo and 1/4 of Toddles Boys' Serie #275, about 3.6 x 9" with shaped heads, bound wth two staples and rounded spine with character on front and on back from behind, so they..... more
New York: Domesday Press, distributed by J. L. Schilling Co., (1945); full coloured boards fold out to a ten foot strip; each page is 10"xapprox 8.75"; the covers are oblong and fold around the inner pages, which are diecut to surround the animal pictures on the top edge; pages connected..... more
No publication data, (circa 1940s?) brown and white puppy with holly and red bow, textured card shaped on almost 3 sides and original red fabric ribbon bow glued on. 3.5 x 6.5. Toploader little. An illustrated four page story, in which Spot the puppy feels left out until Santa puts..... more
USA: The Platt & Munk Company, (Copr. 1937) No. 0129 B; orange card covers with two children and a dog sittingon a green sofa and reading this book, white back with instructions. 9x11; 4 pages plus 4 sticker pages. Toploader large softcover. A nice large cut and paste book, bit..... more
London: Murrays Sales & Service Co., Cresta House, Treasure Hour logo, WP4, (ca 1965?) printed in the Netherlands,; six heavy card shaped boards with coloured pictures of a farm, most labeled, on a white background, two short comb bindings, 7,5x13.8"; np.d. Novelty board book. A little boy and girl live..... more
New York: The Platt & Munk Company, 1965, no previous date but undoubtedly a reprint of the 1930's books (these with smooth thin paper covers) 8 softcover books in sturdy box; 7.5x8.5. Novelty Boxed book. 8 boxed books: Micco a Seminole Indian Boy, Antelope a Navaho Indian Boy, Winona a...... more
Akron, Ohio, USA: Saalfield Co.; (1915); two thin card shaped cream coloured pages, with full colour on outside "cover" pages and on inner spread, the other pages in blue outline and type and white accents on the illustrations; approx. 10.6x5.5" Softcover. Toploader large softcover. On both covers, a large and..... more
Whitman Publishing Company, No. 2032, "Made in U. S. A., (late 1920's), panorama, orange board covers with three little children, a darling shocked headed doll, and a toy horse going to bed; a little golfer on the back; red all around, accordion-fold red-taped double-sided boards making 8 boards, 16 pictures..... more
New York: McLoughlin (early 1880's) heavy card covers with pale blue, gilt, and red line borders to full illustration of princess asleep, on back pantomime players with portraits of the five pantomime books, 7.5 x 10. Toploader large novelty moveable. Constructed with 4 pages of text on front and back..... more
New York: Capitol Publishing Company Inc, 139 Fifth Avenue, 1949, Capitol Puppet Books; shaped glossy primary coloured puppet theater book with cut out stage; this opens to inner yellow curtained stage to which is attached a small pulp paper pamphlet of about 22 unnumbered pages; between this stage and the..... more
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1960's/1925, 36th printing, red cloth boards in white jacket, in box together with little wooden doll with gold yarn braids, blue grey and red dress with sky blue ribbons and lace, plain white pantalettes, black felt shoes; painted face, eyescrew jointed at hips and shoulders;..... more
![Item #21015 [Brumm und Braun] a Sevi wooden book of The Bear Family. Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo](https://oldchildrensbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21015_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1644092926)
Sevi (Italian company), Ars edition; no date or other information, four wooden boards with rounded edges and pictures from the Bear family; 105 sq cm; bound by two white cords and wooden beads. German language small series. Eight brightly coloured paintings of Brumm and Braun, very attractively printed on small..... more
New York: Rand McNally & Company and Philips Publishers, 1954, 1st printing or year of publication, yellow boards with girl and boy using book, endpaper paintings of same pair reading seen from the outside, 7.3x8.7; np. Novelty activity book. Lots of fun; in a neat envelope made by the previous..... more
Springfield, Mass: McLoughlin Bros, Inc (1927) #276, (Humpnrey Milford UK) a shape book with heavy card covers of a little girl holding flowers, 9x3.5" Novelty shape book. Pam gives a water-picnic party which ends close to disaster except for a kindly swan: "So they finished the lunch for supper/After a...... more
British Railways Board, c. Felicity Dahl 1991; all on coated paper with heavier paper cover and picture of four children eagerly reading the guide with their dog, coloured drawings throughout, 5.75 x 6.25. Toploader medium. Filled with good advice like "Never Never stick your head out of a moving train"..... more
Joliet, Illinois: The P. F. Volland Company, 1929, 1st, one of the Volland Fairy Stories, pictorial paper boards with white elephant caparisoned in red ornaments; endpapers with running jungle animals, endpapers, boards and all plates have delicate floral borders, black cloth spine, in black box with same illustration as boards..... more
New York: Harcourt, Brace, & World, Novelty panorama. The book came first, but this is perfect for a panorama. Seven wordless two-panel spreads (26") of marvelous animal parades, Puss in Boots, The Traveling Musicians, The Good-For-Nothings, King Easter Rabbit, The Death of the Rooster, The Seven Ravens, The Frog King..... more
Philadelphia: The John C Winston Company, 1916, 1st; dark green cloth boards with full plate with coloured photo of Mary Frances in her garden and titles; cream endpapers with large sprays of green flowers, frontis plate, empty playhouse, and 4 seasonal flower plates (six plates in all), multiple alternating L...... more