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Explore the Virtual Museum at Vintage Pop-up Books—a curated collection of rare movable books for scholars and collectors. This digital archive showcases the history and craftsmanship of movable book art with items that are no longer for sale. Each book in this online repository includes detailed photos and historical descriptions, serving as a valuable reference for researchers. If you're interested in a specific book being restocked or have additional historical insights, please email us at [email protected]. To explore our available movable books, please click on the "Books for Sale" tab. For in-depth essays and historical research, visit our "Movable Book History Articles" section.

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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




Antique Peepshow SOLD Tunnel Book - Netherlands - Maliebaan in Utrecht – 1842 $650.00	SOLD - THE HISTORY AND ADVENTURES OF LITTLE HENRY 1810 2cond edition - complete! $2,200.00	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	SOLD - Dean & Son - Tale Of an Old Sugar Tub With Surprise Model Pictures - complete $950.00

	Original Antique Vintage French Movable Book from the 1800's


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 : Peepshow PANORAMA DER BERLINER GEWERBA AUSTELLUNG Berlin Industrial Fair 1896 FINE in Original Slipcase $1,450.00




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	SOLD - Dean & Son - Transforming Performers with Surprise Pictures Volume 1 of Dean's surprise picture books $1,150.00

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


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	SOLD - Elie Haguenthal - Rare Slice Book World's Fair of 1867 Souvenir - Movable Slice Book $950.00

Vintage moveable book 1910


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

	Antique Vintage Movable pop-up tissue Book


SOLD - Meggendorfer - Tiny Tim. Prince of Liliput. A Movable Toy-Book - English Edition - Fine $1,875.00	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

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


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	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

		Dean & Son Antique Vintage Movable pop-up Book


SOLD METAMORPHOSES antique movable slice flap book - Bavaria - $550.00	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 - Kubasta Paper Pop-Up Creche Nativity Scene w/ original envelope - Fine $275.00	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 – Pop-Up 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	SOLD - Rare French Surprise Antique Movable Picture Book - french version of Dean & Son - circa 1875 $1,150.00

Antique Vintage Movable Book


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	SOLD : Wettrennen in Kamerun, Black Interest Schreiber panorama with 4 pop-ups - 1890 $1,795.00

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


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	SOLD - THE ELECTRICAL WONDERBOOK with original box – 1909 - Fine - Movable Arm book - Parker Brothers $450.00

	Antique Vintage Movable Flap Book	SOLD


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	SOLD - Antique Peepshow Small circa 1850's 12 CM $480.00

Antique Vintage Movable Book


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

		Antique Vintage German Movable Book


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	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

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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 - COLUMBUS PANORAMA: THREE PICTURES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY - Ultra Rare JF Schreiber Pop-up book $1,675.00

	Antique Movable Fold Out book


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

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


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	SOLD - Le Grand Guignol - Rare With Vovelles - A. Capendu Movable - 1800's $1,250.00

	SOLD	Antique Vintage French Movable Book


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	SOLD - Dean & Son Extremely Rare 1867 Christmas Tunnel Book Style Pull-Out Peep-Show $1,200.00

	Antique Vintage Movable Book from the 1700's	SOLD


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	SOLD - Allerneuestes Theaterbilderbuch 1883 movable theater pop-up book Near Fine $1,900.00 $1,500.00

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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	SOLD - The Alphabetical Toy Panorama - Rare 1886 Toy Panorama $650.00

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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

		Rare Raphael Tuck Antique Vintage Movable Calendar


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	SOLD - Nister -Round and Round Pictures Changing Picture Book 1914 $180.00

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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	SOLD - The Magic Hunt Pop-up Book Milan Rosa D'oro 1955 $75.00

	Vintage movable pop-up book 1800's - Dutch	SOLD Vintage movable pop-up book


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 - Raphael Tuck Comical Kittens - 1800's rare pop-up book $490.00

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


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

		Moving Picture Books movable book antique 1914


SOLD - Animaux Comiques - Capendu Transformation Book Album #1 - Circa 1900 $450.00	SOLD - Kubasta Cicus Life $475.00	SOLD - Kubasta Prelude To Christmas pop-up book - Fine $290.00

Moving Picture Books movable book antique 1914


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

		Antique Vintage Movable pop-up tissue Book - Triumph Edition


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	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

Antique Vintage Movable Toy Book		Questions? Notification requested when back in stock? Email us at [email protected]


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	SOLD - Little Red Riding Hood - The Moving Picture Books - Pictorial Book Company

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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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