1950s Space Cut Out Books

[Brian..]

Another area of space memorabilia: space cutouts. Here are a few English ones I've found

1 The Rocket Ship by Balfour. A story book with a simple two-page card spaceship that you launch from a ramp.

2 Jet Space Car by Collins. A larger, more complex model of a space car, complete with metal axles.

 

 

[Brian..]

Here's the Dan Dare Anastasia Jet Plane. Published in 1955 and once extremely rare until a batch turned up in the 1990s. 

 

 

[Brian..]

This is the first of the press-out books based on Dan Dare's exploits in the Eagle comic: the Dan Dare Space Ship on its launch pad. Created by Wallis Rigby, as was the Anastasia model above.

 

[Brian..]

The Book of Model Spaceships by Wallis Riby. It contains 24-inch a spaceship, space car, helmet, raygun and other items.

 

There are at least two versions of this book. The American Grosset and Dunlap version comes with spaceships, helmet and raygun. The other, a Brockhampton English version, has just the spaceships. 

[Brian..]

The last Rigby book, Jets, Rockets, and Spaceships. Despite the cover it's mainly planes with just one spaceship.

[Brian..]

Small but nicely detailed, the Woodbine Space Ship. Woodbine is a cigarette brand and presumably this was one of those mail-away offers. 1950s probably.

[Brian..]

The Space Patrol, a 1950s cut out book by Amex Co. Ltd

[Joe K.]

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Here are some additional Wallis Rigby cardboard creations as offered on the rear dust jackets of 1950's Grosset & Dunlap books:

Space Car, 3 Space Patrol Planes, Two Foot Long Space Ship, Complete Space Outfit (Helmet, Ray Gun and Ray, Belt, Holster, Badge, "and more".)

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[Brian..]

Thanks, Joe. That looks worth finding. I wonder if this is the same as the Book of Model Spaceships that's shown higher up. The contents sound similar.

[Joe K.]

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It's probably exactly the same, Brian, as The Book of Model Space Ships was published by Grosset & Dunlap (1952):

 

Here's the back cover:

 

And a couple interior pages:

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