Hardcover. NY, Sterling, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a maroon cloth spine. 12 pages with 6 color pop=ups. Paper-crafting genius Sam Ita gives Jules Verne's engrossing undersea story a unique and amazing presentation. Ita literally takes graphic novels into another dimension with breathtaking designs that pop, flaps that lift, parts that move, and art that astonishes. There's nothing like it out on the market. You won't believe your eyes as you join Captain Nemo on an unforgettable adventure: submarines, sea monsters, and even the lost city of Atlantis (complete with ancient artifacts, temples, and columns) rise from the page as if emerging from the waves. Take a 3-D look inside Jules Verne's visionary submarine; sit with the sailors at their lobster-laden table; pull a lever to move the diving gauge; and face a giant squid as its slippery tentacles attack the Nautilus and her crew. Clean copy with no flaws to the paper cut-outs.
Hardcover. NY, Kestrel / Viking, 1st thus, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. Six pop-up scenes unfold to show children visiting the elephants, lions, tigers, fishes, monkeys, and bears, during a day at the zoo. This is a 1980 reproduction of an antique book originally published in 1890 by J. F. Schrieber of Esslingen, Germany. It unfolds into one long panorama, showing different animals in their zoo cages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Templar/HarperFestival, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. With 12 original holograms, color illustrations and die-cut windows, a spooky story in which a grandfather takes the children on a fossil hunt, but when they find a giant bone in a cave, the past comes to life in a ghostly form. Minor wear to top of spine
Hardcover. New York, Little Simon, 5th, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, unpaginated. Hardcover no dust jacket. This masterpiece of 3-D Paper Engineering by Sabuda has all parts and pieces working smoothly. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear cover boards.
Hardcover. NY, Little Simon, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Every Robert Sabuda pop-up book is a marvel, but America the Beautiful is singularly remarkable for its inspired interpretation of the classic American anthem. Each page presents a magnificent pop-up featuring a line from the first (and best known) verse of "America the Beautiful." Sabuda has included the song in its entirety, featuring mini pop-ups, in a small booklet on the final page. Beginning with the Golden Gate Bridge, and ending with a spectacularly regal Statue of Liberty, Sabuda's America the Beautiful is a lovely keepsake that also serves as a patriotic primer for teaching young ones about America. Clean with all pop-ups in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Little Simon, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. In beautiful condition, no rips. All pop-ups are intact and fascinating. Includes a small, to-scale pop-up book within. "Master paper engineer Robert Sabuda has interpreted the classic American anthem 'America the Beautiful' in dazzling dimention. From the Golded Gate Bridge to Mount Rushmore to the Statue of Liberty, America has never looked more spectacular. This stunning keepsake masterpiece will be shared and admire by generations to come; indeed it is a national treasure in and of itself."
Hardcover. San Diedo CA, Silver Dolphin, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Children and parents will love this cleverly crafted interactive adventure. Kids get to turn flaps to reveal pop-up surprises on every page; which ends with an entire pop-up scene. When Winnie Wolf Cub finds a feather in the forest, she is determined to find its owner as well. She meets a lot of new friends in her search, but no one with a black and white feather. Will she ever find its owner? Lift the flaps that appear throughout this pop-up adventure and see! Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Grolier Club, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. A lively look at an underexplored niche in the history of American ads: pop-ups. Drawing from Ellen G. K. Rubins extensive collection of more than 7,000 pop-up books and related ephemera, Animated Advertising demonstrates how animated and dimensional paper devices have been used throughout US history to promote products, art, entertainment, and ideas. The book displays the creativity of advertisers in food, fashion, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, travel, music, politics, and more. Rubins diverse examples of historical paper pop-ups show how they leaped from the pack of standard marketing materials to catch the eye and inform patrons and clientele about the items being sold. Illustrated with two hundred and fifty color images, and published to coincide with a Winter 2023 exhibition at the Grolier Clubs New York headquarters, Animated Advertising is a lively look at an underexplored niche in the history of American marketing, graphic design, and paper engineering. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 6 amazing complex double page colored pop-ups, plus pop-up box inside upper cover, and 4 full page colored illustrations and brief text. Ben's mother's discarded washing machine box brings him face to face with dragons, a giant octopus and a whale, and takes him out into space. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York , Little Simon, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY CARTER. The stellar pop-up experience that began with "One Red Dot" continues with a scavenger hunt to find a hidden blue 2 on each spread in this zigzag masterpiece
Softcover. NY, Peter Bendrick, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Froud, 6 double-page spreads featuring pop-ups / moveable parts. All very good in working order. Small nick to cardboard spine otherwise very good. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. NY, Little Simon, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. View Brooklyn's famous past and present landmarks--including the Prospect Park Carousel, Coney Island, and the Brooklyn Bridge--in this lively pop-up book. Brooklyn Pops Up" celebrates the diverse borough of Brooklyn with 8 pop-ups by the world's best illustrators and paper engineers. In this dimensional tour of Brooklyn icons you will find Brooklyn Children by Maurice Sendak * Brooklyn Brownstones by David A. Carter and Tor Lokvig * Grand Army Plaza & Brooklyn Public Library by Bruce Foster * Brooklyn Museum of Art & Brooklyn Children's Museum by Robert Sabuda * Brooklyn Botanic Garden by Ken Wilson-Max and Keith Finch * Prospect Park & the Carousel by Biruta Akerbergs Hansen * Brooklyn Bridge by Iain Smyth * Flavors of Brooklyn by Kees Moerbeek and Carla Dijs * Coney Island by Chuck Murphy. Remainder line through ISBN number on rear cover, otherwise clean, in excellent working order.
Hardcover. NY, Little Simon, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. View Brooklyn's famous past and present landmarks--including the Prospect Park Carousel, Coney Island, and the Brooklyn Bridge--in this lively pop-up book. Brooklyn Pops Up" celebrates the diverse borough of Brooklyn with 8 pop-ups by the world's best illustrators and paper engineers. In this dimensional tour of Brooklyn icons you will find Brooklyn Children by Maurice Sendak * Brooklyn Brownstones by David A. Carter and Tor Lokvig * Grand Army Plaza & Brooklyn Public Library by Bruce Foster * Brooklyn Museum of Art & Brooklyn Children's Museum by Robert Sabuda * Brooklyn Botanic Garden by Ken Wilson-Max and Keith Finch * Prospect Park & the Carousel by Biruta Akerbergs Hansen * Brooklyn Bridge by Iain Smyth * Flavors of Brooklyn by Kees Moerbeek and Carla Dijs * Coney Island by Chuck Murphy.
Hardcover. San Diego, Canterbury Classics, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. This unique format features a graphic adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with giant pop-ups on every spread. Readers will be mesmerized by the giant 3-D pop-ups in this graphic adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic novel. When the scientist Victor Frankenstein attempts to create a new being from dead corpses, he has little knowledge of the horrors that await--or of the anguish that his actions will wreak on his own creation. Illustrator Anthony Williams's full-color scenes capture the grim atmosphere of Shelley's novel in detail so that a new generation of readers can enjoy this horror classic. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, McSweeney's, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Very good hardback bound in publisher's shaped boards cut in the shape of a house and issued without a jacket. SIGNED in black marker by Barnett and Horowitz on the rear board.
Hardcover. NY, HarperFestival, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. 13 pages. Paper-engineered with all lift-flaps undamaged. A romp among spooky friends on the way to finding Dracula on his birthday. Color illustrations by Jonathan Lambert. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Playmore Publishers, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards with 4 pop-up spreads. Pages are very clean and bright with no markings. All pop-outs work fine. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Hardcover board book illustrated by Marla Frezee. Every day, everywhere, babies are born. They're kissed and dressed and rocked and fed and completely adored by families that love them. With an irresistible rhyming text and delightfully endearing illustrations, this book is an exuberant celebration of playing, sleeping, crawling, and, of course, very noisy babies doing all the wonderful things babies do best. Clean copy. No "Baby on Board" window cling. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. A large pop-up of Boston Red Sox's Fenway Park, along with booklet telling a history of the historic stadium. Illustrations by Bill Purdom and paper engineering by Rick Morrison. Clean copy.
NY, Dutton, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations with flaps by author. Remainder mark on bottom-edge. No dust jacket as issued.
NY, Dutton, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations with flaps by author. Remainder mark on bottom-edge. No dust jacket as issued.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick Warne, 1st, 2009, Pictorial boards, 16 pages with 8 interactive spreads, all using Barker's art from her Flower Fairies series. What happens when a little girl moves into a new house and discovers a tiny door? One day she manages to open it . . . and her world is forever changed when she gets her fi rst peek at the homes and the magical world of the Flower Fairies. As she starts to explore her neighborhood with a friend, they discover that there are more doors--all leading to the most secret of fairy places. Filled with gorgeous paper ephemera, pop-ups and special interactive features on every spread, this beautiful novelty book leads the reader to eight fairy doors to open and investigate. Each door has its own individual shape, color and characteristics-- some are decorated, others have little signs or notices, a set of footprints leading up to it, or magical fairy glitter at the doorstep. As the book progresses, more of the fairies and their world are revealed, culminating in an exciting and secret fairy nighttime ball.
Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield Publishing Co. , 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with spiral binding. A book with 8 moveable pages, where a mother animal can be folded out to reveal a train of little ones following her. Facing pages with a very short story about the particular animal. Art and animations designed by Vivienne Blake. Spine has chipping to paper, small ownership line on inside front cover at bottom.
Hardcover. Thunder Bay Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 48 pages. For over forty years, postmodern architect Frank Gehry has changed skylines with his dramatic forms. Among several other awards, his enchanting body of work earned him the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize-the "Nobel Prize of architecture." Experience for yourself Gehry's captivating deconstructive designs in a new interactive book, Frank Gehry in Pop-Up. This beautiful pop-up book illustrates Frank Gehry's greatest works of architecture and their natural environments, demonstrating his gift for radically redefining structure and space. Discover the inspirations behind Gehry's light and lively designs in a three-dimensional way, and learn how he combines building elements with an innovative approach. Featured within are his most iconic works, including the titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the pioneering, pulled-apart structure of Gehry's Venice Beach House. Get to know the man behind the buildings with a brief yet in-depth look into Gehry's personal history and lifeworks. Compare and contrast the many different sides of Gehry, from the whimsical laid-back Californian to the closet elitist-and sometimes obsessive perfectionist.