Hans Andersen’s Fairy Stories. With Pictures That Spring To Life. Bookano Pop-Up Series. London: Strand publications, no. circa 1930’s. Unpaginated with four large pop ups in full colour all intact and in working order, also contains numerous black and white illustrations. A very good copy, with previous owner’s name to front free endpaper. Bound in fully illustrated paper covered boards, with minimal wear to edges.

Between 1929 and 1949, Giraud produced sixteen annuals in the Bookano Pop-Up Series. He coined the title, Bookano, by combining the words “book” and “Meccano,” the name of a popular mechanical toy. The series represented the first truly “automatic” books, with the turning of the page, whole forms and figures popped into shape, viewable from all four sides.