Dragon pop-up from the first edition of The Pop Up Buck Rogers (and the Spider Ship)
first edition of The Pop Up Buck Rogers (and the Spider Ship)
Title page of the first edition of The Pop Up Buck Rogers (and the Spider Ship)
Pop-up from the first edition of The Pop Up Buck Rogers (and the Spider Ship)
Pop-up from the first edition of The Pop Up Buck Rogers (and the Spider Ship)

The "Pop Up" Buck Rogers (1935)

$200.00

First Edition of The "Pop-Up" Buck Rogers,
With Three Beautiful and Fully Intact Pop-Ups

Calkins, Dick and Nowlan, Phil. Buck Rogers 25th Century Featuring Buddy and Allura in "Strange Adventures of the Spider Ship". Chicago, Illinois: Pleasure Books, 1935.

Quarto. Hardcover. 1st Edition.

First edition of this pop-up scifi classic based on the comic and radio favorite, Buck Rogers, with three fully functional pop-up illustrations. One of the quintessential Blue Ribbon pop-ups, Buck Rogers appeared in 1935 and assumed a permanent place in the pop-up book canon with its complex paper-engineering and appealing mid-century cartoonish artwork. Slight creasing to dragon claw and hand holding ray gun in third illustration (as often; the engineering of the parts invites them to interlock and crease), a few faint smudges to interior, a few faint spots of soiling and light wear to extremities of boards. An attractive copy, most desirable with fully intact pop-ups.
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