Brooklyn Public Library; Ann Montanaro; Ellen G. K. Rubin; Robert Sabuda — Brooklyn Pops Up

New York, Little Simon (Simon and Schuster), 2000. First edition. Hardback. A very smart first edition of this pop-up work on Brooklyn, from Brooklyn Public Library. Signed by Ann Montanaro, Ellen G. K. Rubin, Robert Sabuda, and Ken Wilson-Max. First edition. Signed by Ann Montanaro, Ellen G. K. Rubin, Robert Sabuda, and Ken Wilson-Max, dated 19th September 2000. Illustrated with eight full colour pop-up scenes, as well as a moveable title page. Collated complete and in perfect working condition. Celebrating the diverse borough of Brooklyn, New York, with pop-ups by the world's best illustrators and paper engineers. With scenes of Brooklyn brownstones, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Coney Island, and more. Developed by Brooklyn Public Library, the public library system of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, which is the sixteenth largest public library system in the United States. With concept work by Ann Montanaro, an American author, Ellen G. K. Rubin, an American pop-up and movable book collector known as the "Popuplady", and Robert James Sabuda, an American children's pop-up book artist and paper engineer whose innovative designs have made him well known in the book arts, with The New York Times referring to Sabuda as "indisputably the king of pop-ups". With artwork by various paper engineers, including Ken Wilson-Max, an award-winning American author and illustrator. Includes pamphlets from the Brooklyn Public Library pop-up exhibition. In the original pictorial paper covered boards. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. All pop-up scenes and moveable features are in perfect working condition. Ink inscriptions and signatures to the front pastedown and botanical garden scene. Previous owner's small bookplate to the front pastedown. Fine . Ill.: Robert Sabuda. Fine .