book

The Book of accidents: designed for young children. New Haven :  S. Babcock, Sidney's press, 1831.  

A movable scene from Dean's Living Strewelpeter [ca. 1890]

An advertising flyer from the Dorian Book Service, which offered gay- and lesbian-themed publications in the 1960s. [View the large size to read the hilarious introduction - using what can be considered today "sanctioned vocabulary".]

La famille quatre cents coups A surrealist artist's book by Claude Roy [1954] Cover stars: A layout with overlay: and without:

Stacey Grimaldi, The Toilet, London, 1821. The original issue of a book form that was popular in England and then republished in the United States in the 1820s. A set of virtues is taught using illustrations of items found on a lady's dressing table (the "toilet" of the title), each revealed with the lift of a delicate flap. This copy was the property of the author.

New -- An Interview with the Author: Tim Young on Drawn to Enchant (MP3) Little girls with barbells! Dogs using quill pens! Odd looking men fishing for odd looking mermaids!

A newly acquired pop-up/moving flap book (1946, World Publishing). : A scene with flap closed:                                                      and opened:  And the last page: