Cheap Books not mean Less Valuable Books

Low cost Movable Books

Abstract

I have focused on the simplest and cheapest publications. In the early nineteenth century an interest to

childhood emerge, that had never been manifested. Along with an already well-established artisan attention

to the toy, or to the illustrated book addressed to wealthy buyers, a market with less expensive editions

arises. We can define them poor in relation to their low cost, these are editions made with less valuable

papers and simpler movements. Based on these assumptions, I have supported my research by collecting

titles of low-cost publications by important authors.

Many times I have been told that die-cut books, made of paper parts, shaped and interwoven from different

parts, should be called toys. I believe that if you come across an artifact with pages and cover, figures,

words, movements and weaves, that is a Book.

I would like to present a series of books ranging from the 1930s to 1970. Books with simple animations

or animated by moving tabs or lifting parts, booklets with fairy tales and very short stories, with sealed

envelopes containing water and many other kinds of books.