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Eighteen Mid-19th Century Metamorphic Ladies' Costume Blocks

By: N/A

Price: $375.00

Seller ID: 003841

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good Minus

N.d., but circa 1850. Three cards aligned one above the other make for a complete figure, with the completed figure measuring about 10 by 6.5 cm. The bottom pieces are slightly larger than the two top pieces for the figures. Usually one encounters this sort of metamorphic toy in card format, as opposed to the thin wooden block used here. All the figures are of ladies, one a queen or princess, and others a musician, one or two dancers, one a proper lady. The blocks have soiling but are otherwise solid and pleasing.
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[Faux Books][Folk Art Mechanical Toy Book] Holy Bible

By: N/A

Price: $1,250.00

Seller ID: 004411

Binding: Wood boards.

Condition: Very Good

Highly unusual fun piece of folk art, with the "Bible" springing up with the touch of a lever. Most definitely one-of-a-kind! N.d., circa 1900, possibly earlier. In size, like a 4to. 33 by 25 cm, 14 cm thick. The bible resembles an early 19th century leather bible. Here, though, the boards and sides are of wood, with the spine a heavy cloth which is painted to look like leather, and with the paint looks not unlike a paper mache composition. The snap is on the fore-edge, with the metal lever on the top. All sides are painted in gilt. Moderate wear throughout, as befitting an ol...
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Image for [Political][Movable] You can pick the Winner. Pick Selz Shoes. They Win Every Time. To find THE WINNER move card very slowly. If Selz Shoes were Candidates They'd be elected every time.

[Political][Movable] You can pick the Winner. Pick Selz Shoes. They Win Every Time. To find THE WINNER move card very slowly. If Selz Shoes were Candidates They'd be elected every time.

By: N/A

Price: $300.00

Seller ID: 004703

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

As one pushes or pulls a side tab, the image morphs from one candidate in the four man Presidential contest of 1912 as if on a television screen. The morphing figures are Woodrow Wilson, Howard H. Taft, Theodore Roosevelt and Eugene Debs. The card is postcard sized: 9 by 14 cm. The mechanism works but can be a little fussy initially. Light soiling to the card.
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[Paper Toys] Chocolat Lombart Souvenir de la Fête Four toys: policeman, private or scout, jockey, clown

By: N/A

Price: $575.00

Seller ID: 005067

Condition: Fine

N.d., circa 1900. The toy figures were meant to bring amusement by twirling them around on a toothpick. WIth their limbs attached but movable, the figures would then somersault and engage in spastic acrobatics. The figures came in an envelope along with an instruction sheet and toothpick or axle. We have all these pieces for all the figures we have. We do not know whether the company made other such figures, but we would guess that it did. The company goes back to 1760 and continued in business until 1957 when it was absorbed by another chocolatier, Menier. In the early 20th century it ...
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Image for Les Transformateurs d'Energie. Generateurs. Accumulateurs. Moteurs. Avec les Plus Recentes Applications a la Navigation Aerienne (Two volumes in one)

Les Transformateurs d'Energie. Generateurs. Accumulateurs. Moteurs. Avec les Plus Recentes Applications a la Navigation Aerienne (Two volumes in one)

By: Barres, Fernand; Eugene Bremaud; Adolphe Schoeller; etc.

Price: $475.00

Publisher: 1910

Seller ID: 002775

Binding: Full Leather, with the original decorated cloth bi

Condition: Very Good

4to. (12 by 8.5 inches, 30 by 21 cm.) x, [2], 9-221. Atlas: [2], 13 color plates on heavy card stock, with movable parts, captions on facing versos. The atlas anatomizes with great precision generators and motors and various vehicles, including automobiles, motorcycles, zeppelins, airplanes. The pulls allow one to see the inner workings of all the machinery, as well as relate it to the other layers, and it is also a fun learning too. An ink mark affecting half the leaves in the fore-edge. Scattered soiling and moderate wear.
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Hide and Seek. Gadgets and Illustrations

By: Leech, Carlyle, and John McKenna

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap, Inc.: 1943

Seller ID: 005309

Binding: Hardcover. Spiral spine.

Condition: Near Fine

4to. 25 by 20 cm. Unpaginated, seven leaves, with flaps and doors, plus a revolving wheel, to make the reading of the book and the puzzling over riddles the more interactive and fun for the child. With big, bold graphics of animal characters such as children experienced in cartoon shorts of the period. Age toning and light soiling on the title page. Otherwise, virtually unused.
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Nur fur brave Kinder Verwandlungs-Bilder. Ein Verwandlungsbilderbuch mit 12 feinem Fardruckbildern

By: Meggendorfer, Lothar

Price: $1,450.00

Publisher: Esslingen and Munich, J. F. Schreiber:

Seller ID: 003225

Binding: Paper pastedown on boards, cloth spine

Condition: Very Good Minus

Scarce Meggendorfer title (not to be confused with "Fur brave Kinder"), with the only copy located on OCLC FirstSearch (and not a much later printing) in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. N.d., circa 1890s. Oblong, 28 by 32 cm. Seven leaves. With six tranformations (a total of 12 illustrations effectively): Der Sonntagsreiter, Vor dem Affenhaus, Auf dem See, Die Landpartie, Die bosen Buben and Im Urwald. On facing versos are light humorous verses. All the transformations work, although they can be fussy and care is highly advisable in manipulating at least two of them. The tabs have...
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Das Puppenhaus. Eine Festgabe für brave Mädchen

By: Meggendorfer, Lothar

Price: $3,500.00

Publisher: Esslingen and München, T. F. Schreiber:

Seller ID: 006234

Rare Meggendorfer pop-up paper and card dollhouse, with five sections -- three interior rooms, and a front and backyard. N.d., circa 1910. The front yard has a pop-up mistress of the house and a cyclist delivery man. The dollhouse originally had in this compartment a gypsy horse drawn cart, which was after the turn-of-the-century updated with a horseless carriage, aka an automobile, as shown in our example. A door that swings open lies between this and the shop with its pop-up counter. Between this public part of the house and the front yard is a window made with a type of glassine. Next...
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Circle Doll 4 Party dresses, 5 Pairs of shoes and socks, 7 Hairbows, 8 Handkerchiefs, 9 Pocket-purses. Learn to match basic colors and patterns.

By: Newbury, Edward, designer.

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky, The Newgood Company: 1944 or 1945

Seller ID: 006813

Binding: Outer envelope.

Condition: Very Good

Measuring 27.5 by 24 cm. Scarce, with no copies found on OCLC First Search. With five pinwheels allowing for countless attire combinations. This was created supposedly as a learning tool by Newbury, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Kentucky at the time. The back of the color picture of the little girl whose clothing and accessories can be played with via the pinwheels is an explanation of the toy's purpose, and we are also there informed that a mechanical patent was applied for. Condition: the toy has light soiling on its back. The envelope has some crude scotch...
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"Follow Me" Animal Book

By: Paulsen, Martha. Animations by Vivienne Blake

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, The Saalfield Publishing Company: 1945

Seller ID: 005301

Binding: Hardcover. Plastic spine.

Condition: Near Fine

Oblong, 21 by 27 cm. Unpaginated, eight color plates, each with a domestic pet or farm animal (cats, dogs, pigs, chickens, goats, rabbit, sheep) which can be pulled out to reveal a procession of children of that animal. Facing pages with a very short story about the particular animal.
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Biedermeier-Wnsche... Fnfzig Kleinfolio-Tafeln in Licht-u. Farbendruck nebst illustriertem Text

By: Pazaurek, Gustav E.

Price: $550.00

Publisher: Stuttgart, Julius Hoffmann: 1908

Seller ID: 005296

Binding: Cloth folder

Condition: Near Fine

No. 165 of 400 copies. Oblong, 26.5 by 33.5 cm. Booklet, running 25 pages, and 50 separate or loose plates, each with a number of images of Biedermeier cards, especially those with movable parts, and other ephemera from that period. One plate with color chromolithographic images; otherwise, the plates are in black and white. This is the indispensable and go-to source still for Biedermeier cards. Biedermeier relates to a period of general stability in Europe between Napoleon's defeat in 1815 and the Revolution of 1848 and specifically pertains to the Teutonic world (the German-speaking ar...
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Category: Movable Books