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SOLD: TWO COPIES OF Dean & Son - Dean's Moveable Book of Children's Sports and Pastimes - Fine $2,600.00	SOLD - Les Idées de Mignonnette: Unrecorded 19th-Century French Movable Book by A. Capendu $750.00	SOLD - Carl Schaller Circa: 1885 - A Variety Show: Revolving Pictures for Young People Movable Vovelle $390.00




SOLD - Dean & Son - Cosmoramic Pictures - 1870 movable book $1,600.00	SOLD Dutch Cut and Paste Book 1923 Onze Vacantiedagen Knip-Plak Prentenboek $150.00	Antique Peepshow SOLD Tunnel Book - Netherlands - Maliebaan in Utrecht – 1842 $650.00




SOLD Meggendorfer Lustige Drehbilder - Scarce Movable Volvelle changing faces Book - 1892 $1,275.00	SOLD - Andy Warhol Index Book - FINE - Pages NOT stuck together - Balloon still there - Softcover - First Printing - 1967 - Complete with all 10 elements $1,200.00	SOLD - Andy Warhol Index Book - FINE - WITH ORIGINAL BALLOON INTACT - pages NOT stuck together. Complete with all undamaged elements $1,800.00




SOLD - Dean & Son Home Pantomime Toy Books with Five Set Scenes & Nine Trick Changes: Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp - Original Dean 1879 softcover in good condition $950.00	SOLD - Dean & Son - A Visit to the Country : with surprise model pictures - Swedish edition - " En Utflykt till Landet " - excellent & complete $1,200.00	SOLD - Dean & Son - French adaptation of Royal Punch & Judy Books. LE POLICHINELLE DES CHAMPS ELYSEES [c 1880] movable book Capendu $950.00

		Original Antique Vintage French Movable Book from the 1800's


SOLD - Dean & Son - Tale Of an Old Sugar Tub With Surprise Model Pictures - complete $950.00	SOLD Meggendorfer - Nah und Fern - a movable book 1887 $2,475.00	SOLD Rare Tuck Peepshow Father Tuck’s Mechanical series In The Jungle - VG $750.00




SOLD Rare Raphael Tuck Peepshow Paper Toy - Ali Babba - Fine $640.00	SOLD _ Nister - The A B C Surprise Book - Unusual type of Nister movable $480.00	SOLD Kubasta Hansel & Gretel d Pop-up book - Fine in original packaging with hang-tag pop-up book $295.00

		Kubasta Hansel & Gretel d - 1961 Pop-up book - Fine in original packaging


SOLD - Dean & Son - Transforming Performers with Surprise Pictures Volume 1 of Dean's surprise picture books $1,150.00	SOLD - Movable Lift the Flap book 1915 - The Story of Little Red Riding Hood. Printed in Bavaria. Chicago, L. W. Walter - Fine $650.00	SOLD - Rare Metamorphosis, Ein Brief an mich und Dich C: 1835 - in color $590.00

	Vintage moveable book 1910


SOLD - Elie Haguenthal - Rare Slice Book World's Fair of 1867 Souvenir - Movable Slice Book $950.00	SOLD: The Golden Book - Movable with gold foil - Schaller & Kirn. Furth 1885 - original Carl Schaller signature included with purchase $1,475.00	Sold - Andy Warhol Index Book - Hard Cover – Fine - First Printing - 1967 - Complete with all elements (stuck balloon) $1,100.00




SOLD Cinderella - Pop-up Antique Crepe Paper Book Triumph ed. 1890 - fine pops $520.00	SOLD - Title: Metamorphosis; or a Transformation of Pictures, with Poetical Explanations, for the Amusement of Young Persons $675.00	SOLD - Meggendorfer - Tiny Tim. Prince of Liliput. A Movable Toy-Book - English Edition - Fine $1,875.00

Antique Vintage Movable pop-up tissue Book


SOLD Kubasta Red Riding Hood Pop-up book - Mint in original packaging with hang-tag unopened pop-up book $395.00	SOLD - Kubasta In The Jungle 1962 Pop-up book - Mint in original packaging with both dolls and monkey $795.00	SOLD - 1875 - Hazen - Title: Metamorphosis; or a Transformation of Pictures, with Poetical Explanations, for the Amusement of Young Persons - Very good - still bound and complete without tears. $750.00

Kubasta Red Riding Hood - 1961 Pop-up book - Mint in original packaging


SOLD - Raphael Tuck - FUN AT THE SEASIDE - SCENIC PANORAMA BOOK with Movable Pictures - complete with all original figures $395.00	SOLD - Raphael Tuck - Father Tuck's Panorama Fairy Tales - With Movable Pictures - complete with all original figures $1,200.00	SOLD - Dean's Moveable Books. Old Woman and Her Silver Penny - Complete Dean & Son movable book from 1859 $650.00




SOLD - Dean & Son Home Pantomime Toy Books with Five Set Scenes & Nine Trick Changes: Whittington and His Cat - Original Dean 1879 softcover in very good condition $950.00	SOLD Dean & Son - Dean's Moveable This Is The House That Jack Built - 1857 very good $950.00	SOLD METAMORPHOSES antique movable slice flap book - Bavaria - $550.00

	Dean & Son Antique Vintage Movable pop-up Book


SOLD Raphael Tuck Meadow Brook Farm - pop-up, movable, and panorama 1895 - FINE $590.00	SOLD Nister - Push and Pull pictures - A Novel Mecchanical Picture Book - Movable $580.00	SOLD The Pop-Up Pinocchio - Harold Lentz - True First Edtion - 1932 $290.00




SOLD - Raphael Tuck - Panorama book - unpunched! "Little Snow White" $390.00	SOLD: Our Friends at the Zoo - Raphael Tuck & Sons 1892 Sliding Pictures $350.00	Sold - Antique Movable Flap Book McLoughlin Brothers : Beauty and The Beast; New York: McLoughlin Brothers [n.d. ca. 1891] $225.00




SOLD: Lieti Meriggi - Rare Italian version of Father Tuck's Mechanical Series " Friends In The Country" FINE $950.00	SOLD - Kubasta Paper Pop-Up Creche Nativity Scene w/ original envelope - Fine $275.00	SOLD Kubasta Pop-Up Creche Nativity Scene book w/text - excellent $185.00




SOLD Kubasta Nativity - First edition - ORIGINAL 1953 NATIVITY - Very rare stand up Kubasta nativity complete - LIDOV BETLEM $575.00	SOLD Kubasta Peter & Sally On The Farm - Mint in unopened original packaging - Bancroft 1960's - includes all original loose figures $495.00	Kubasta Noah's Ark Pop-Up Book $450.00




SOLD Kubasta - The Day of the Bison Hunt - Very Good $275.00	SOLD Kubasta - Columbus - Mint in original package $475.00	SOLD - Kubasta - Polar Station - Rare storybook -SOLD - This item is for reference only, to find available movable books, see category "Books for Sale" $620.00




SOLD Rare Kubasta Robinson Crusoe in RUSSIAN - 1960 - Fine $375.00	SOLD Kubasta Ricky The Rabbit - Pop-up Book $299.00	SOLD - Kubasta - The wolf and the two little pigs - RARE French only- SOLD - This item is for reference only, to find available movable books, see category "Books for Sale" $390.00




SOLD - Kubasta - Gloria in Excelsis Deo with original envelope FINE $490.00	SOLD - Kubasta - Malá Eva - Little Eve - Movable - Fine Condition! $740.00	SOLD Kubasta DIe Cut cover "Flying through the Universe" in RUSSIAN - 1961 $375.00




SOLD Kubasta PopUp Diorama Space Pioneers movable stand up scene original 1982 $275.00	SOLD - Kubasta – Pop-up card of The Low Tatras and Kubasta designed stamp 1974 $375.00	SOLD- Kubasta - The Counting Series - complete first edition set 1963-1965 $1,400.00




SOLD - French edition of a Dean & Son* Movable Dress Book - Rose Merton $750.00	SOLD - 1880's Theatrical Picture Pop-up "Awake Sleeping Beauty", by G. Loewensohn Fuerth $675.00	SOLD - Antique Peepshow cards - 6 $475.00

	Antique Vintage Movable Book


SOLD - Rare French Surprise Antique Movable Picture Book - french version of Dean & Son - circa 1875 $1,150.00	Sold - Raphael Tuck The Doll's House - rare pop-up, flap, panorama book circa: 1890 - Excellent $1,250.00	SOLD _ Meggendorfer - The Great Punch Theater - German Edition Grosses Puppentheater- C:1890 Large Punch & Judy movable book $1,775.00

		Vintage movable pop-up book by Lothar Meggendorfer 1800's


SOLD : Wettrennen in Kamerun, Black Interest Schreiber panorama with 4 pop-ups - 1890 $1,795.00	SOLD - Dean & Son - Dean's New Scenic Books #2 - Robinson Crusoe $2,310.00	SOLD - Magical Changes, 1878 by Donaldson Brothers movable flap book - Rare Limited Edition $450.00

Vintage movable pop-up book 1800's		Antique Vintage Movable Flap Book


SOLD - THE ELECTRICAL WONDERBOOK with original box – 1909 - Fine - Movable Arm book - Parker Brothers $450.00	SOLD Alfred Jacobsen 1907 Lift The Flap Book - Svine-drengen – Movable Flap Book - Fine $490.00	SOLD - Antique Peepshow tunnel book small nineteenth century with 9 scenes $600.00

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SOLD - Antique Peepshow Small circa 1850's 12 CM $480.00	SOLD Meggendorfer - Internationaler Circus - Rare near-fine original German edition $7,875.00	SOLD - Nister - Pleasant Surprises - Very Rare movable book with unique mechanism $1,200.00




SOLD - Theater Bilderbuch Editor: Verlag J.F Schreiber Very Good 1882 $975.00	SOLD - Celebrations of Christianity - Festtage der Christenheit. Ein Bilderbuch zum Aufstellen - JF Schreiber pop-up pull down tableau book : Edition 1 $2,275.00	SOLD - Nister - WONDERLAND PICTURES - 1890's Very Good - Movable dissolving vovelles $700.00

Antique Vintage German Movable Book	SOLD


SOLD - Celebrations of Christians - Festtage der Christenheit OTHER EDITION Ein Bilderbuch zum Aufstellen - JF Schreiber pop-up pull down tableau book : Edition 2 (different scenes than Edition 1) $1,675.00	SOLD - GOOD EXAMPLES London: Ward and Lock - 1861 Movable Edition $1,850.00	SOLD - Antique Movable Fold Out book. Pleasant Surprises - Lothrop Publishing $200.00

SOLD		Antique Movable Fold Out book


SOLD - COLUMBUS PANORAMA: THREE PICTURES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY - Ultra Rare JF Schreiber Pop-up book $1,675.00	SOLD - Dean & Son - Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella: with surprise pictures. c: 1875 $1,150.00	SOLD - "Pop-Up" Minnie Mouse - Blue Ribbon Pop-up book 1934 - Fine in case $590.00




SOLD - Dean & Son - Tuck - Dean’s Pantomime series Robinson Crusoe 1891 theater movable book FINE - The Dean version is quite rare $950.00	SOLD - Meggendorfer - Hansel und Gretel - 1887 - Rare movable book - First edition $1,975.00	SOLD - Fascinating 1908 Japanese pop-up protesting the 1908 USA/Japan Gentlemen’s Agreement - Ephemera $260.00




SOLD - Capendu - The Magic Lantern – Struwwelpeter - Rare French edition - movable- vovelles $1,900.00	SOLD - Buffalo Bill’s Wilder Westen - Meggendorfer* - 1st German edition - Near Fine $5,500.00	SOLD!!! La Fontaine, Jeu de Fables : mises en action avec figures coloriées et découpées - Very early slot book - L'Auteur, FIRST EDITION - State A - 1818 $1,790.00

The Magic Lantern – Struwwelpeter - Rare French edition - movable- vovelles		SOLD


SOLD - Le Grand Guignol - Rare With Vovelles - A. Capendu Movable - 1800's $1,250.00	SOLD - Magic Pictures Novel Transformation Scenes by Ernest Nister with provenance - Very Rare Nister $800.00	SOLD - Jacob Behmen, The Teutonic Theosopher. Volume III. The one with 3 moveable plates - published in 1772 $4,200.00

Antique Vintage French Movable Book		Antique Vintage Movable Book from the 1700's


SOLD - Dean & Son Extremely Rare 1867 Christmas Tunnel Book Style Pull-Out Peep-Show $1,200.00	SOLD - Nister - The Soldier Panorama Book - 1800's pop-up book - complete $780.00	SOLD - Kubasta Nativity - ORIGINAL 1953 NATIVITY - Very rare stand up Kubasta nativity complete and uncut with all figures and directions - LIDOV BETLEM $975.00

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SOLD - Allerneuestes Theaterbilderbuch 1883 movable theater pop-up book Near Fine $1,900.00 $1,500.00	SOLD - Nister - Large 1895 Pop-up Book - What The Children Like - Fine $980.00	SOLD - Meggendorfer - The Great Punch Theater - 1897 Large Punch & Judy movable book $1,575.00

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SOLD - The Alphabetical Toy Panorama - Rare 1886 Toy Panorama $650.00	SOLD _ 1918 Antique Flip Book with Original Box and instructions - 600 pages - Piano lessons $250.00	SOLD - Nister - See Saw Pictures 1913 movable with Punch & Judy $580.00




SOLD Raphael Tuck 1907 Large Rare Pop-up Calendar - Fine $650.00	SOLD - Capendu Movable - Grand Album D’Animaux $945.00	SOLD - 1880's Theatrical Picture Pop-up "Too Much Talking Is Hurtful", by G. Loewensohn Fuerth $475.00

Rare Raphael Tuck Antique Vintage Movable Calendar	SOLD	SOLD


SOLD - Nister -Round and Round Pictures Changing Picture Book 1914 $180.00	SOLD - Antique Peepshow - Telescopic View of the Great Exhibition, 1851 $975.00	SOLD Beste maatjes - beweegbare Gorgeous 1800's Rare Dutch Movable Book - Father Tuck's Mechanical Series - Granny's Stories About Animals $675.00

		Vintage movable pop-up book 1800's - Dutch


SOLD - The Magic Hunt Pop-up Book Milan Rosa D'oro 1955 $75.00	SOLD ---- Rare 1928 Movable Book by important illustrator! In Original Box. $575.00	SOLD - Pathetic and Peaceful Scenes - Large gorgeous 1869 movable book - 3 languages -SOLD - This item is for reference only, to find available movable books, see category "Books for Sale" $3,575.00

SOLD Vintage movable pop-up book	"Loederer's Movie Book" illustrated by DC comics first illustrator	Antique Vintage movable book


SOLD - Raphael Tuck Comical Kittens - 1800's rare pop-up book $490.00	SOLD - Raphael Tuck Playtime Pictures - 1800's pop-up book $590.00	SOLD - Blanche-neige - Hop-La - French pop-up book 1949 - w/ original Dust Jacket $375.00




SOLD - Night Before Christmas - 1914 - The Moving Picture Books - Movable book $650.00	SOLD - Animaux Comiques - Capendu Transformation Book Album #1 - Circa 1900 $450.00	SOLD - Kubasta Cicus Life $475.00

Moving Picture Books movable book antique 1914	Moving Picture Books movable book antique 1914


SOLD - Kubasta Prelude To Christmas pop-up book - Fine $290.00	SOLD - Nister - Merry and Wise ABC - Slice movable pictures book $280.00	SOLD- Nister - Ups and Downs - A Movable Book of Tansformation Pictures $380.00




SOLD: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Elaborate Swedish Pop-Up Book $190.00	SOLD - The Pop-Up Little Black Sambo $290.00	SOLD - Hachette - Mickey Hop-LA Pop-up book - Polo Party! Fine $390.00




SOLD - Cinderella - tissue paper antique pop-up book $190.00	SOLD - PANTOMIME TOY BOOKS: CINDERELLA McLoughlin Brothers [n.d. ca. 1882] $275.00	SOLD - Mother Goose Playhouse - 8 pop-up books in original box - fine $390.00

Antique Vintage Movable pop-up tissue Book - Triumph Edition	Antique Vintage Movable Toy Book


SOLD - 1893 COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR POP - This item is for reference only, to find available movable books, see category "Books for Sale" $2,400.00	SOLD - - The Old Fashioned Mother Goose Melodies - 1879 movable transformation book $350.00	SOLD - Das Lebende Märchen - Max und Moritz - 1948 German movable book - CLICK IMAGE FOR INFO $150.00

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SOLD - Little Red Riding Hood - The Moving Picture Books - Pictorial Book Company	SOLD - Mickey Mouse in King Author's Court 1934 Pop-Up Book - Rare Spanish edition near fine in DJ $920.00	SOLD "Pop-Up" Popeye - Blue Ribbon Midget Pop-up book 1930's $290.00




SOLD - Tauba Auerbach - [2,3] This item is for reference only, to find available movable books, see category "Books for Sale" $1,100.00	SOLD - Sally Blakemore - FlameGuard - Limited edition pop-up $250.00	SOLD - Tony Sarg's Treasure Book - Near Mint in original publishers box - movable book $950.00

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