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(Adams, William Taylor) Jones, Dolores Blythe AN " OLIVER OPTIC" CHECKLIST, AN ANNOTATED CATALOG-INDEX TO THE SERIES, NONSERIES STORIES, AND MAGAZINE PUBLICATIONS OF WILLIAM TAYLOR ADAMS.
Westport, CT Greenwood Press (1985) 8vo. cloth. xvii, 181 pages.
First edition. A detailed listing of works written by Adams under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Oliver Optic, Gayle Winterton, Warren T. Ashton and Brooks McCormick. It includes books, book-length serializations, and children's magazines he edited. The main section contains a chronological listing by copyright date and gives title, original series name, date, original publisher, story description and review excerpt, illustrators, reprint publisher and series, variant titles and holdings. There are also sections on the series published with Lee and Shepard, and series titles created by reprint publishers. The appendix includes a Special Collections Directory and a chronology of Adams and his Publishers.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 26828

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(Alger, Horatio) Gardner, Ralph D. HORATIO ALGER OR THE AMERICAN HERO ERA
New York Arco Publishing Co. (1978) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 503 pages.
Revised from the 1964 edition. The second part of the book is a thorough bibliography of Alger.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 17486

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(Alger, Horatio) Mayes, Herbert R. ALGER, A BIOGRAPHY WITHOUT A HERO.
New York Macy-Masius 1928 8vo. cloth. 241 pages.
First edition. Biography followed by a list of books written by Alger. Of course, this biography turned out to be a hoax written for fun by Mayes but taken as a serious work. Covers rubbed and spine age darkened.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 64250

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Baldwin, Sidney (compiler) STORIES BY MRS. MOLESWORTH.
New York Duffield and Company 1922 8vo. cloth, illustrated label on front board (vi), 353+(1) pages
A collection of short stories. Frontispiece and illustrations in color by Edna Cooke. Table of contents. A collection of short stories by Maria Louisa Molesworth (1839-1921), who wrote mainly children's stories. Rubbed at edges, rear hinge cracked.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 110118

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(Baum, L. Frank) DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION OF L. FRANK BAUM AND RELATED OZIANA INCLUDING W.W. DENSLOW FORMED BY JUSTIN G. SCHILLER.
New York Swann Galleries 1978 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 493 items listed. Many illustrations.
With prices realized stapled to inside front cover. Soiled covers.
Price: $ 22.00 other currencies Order nr. 545

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(Baum, L. Frank) Hanff, Peter E. & Douglas G. Greene BIBLIOGRAPHIA OZIANA, A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST OF THE OZ BOOKS BY L. FRANK BAUM AND HIS SUCCESSORS.
San Francisco International Wizard of Oz Club 2002 5.5 x 8.5 inches. paperback. 146 pages.
Reprint of the revised and enlarged second edition from the original published in 1976. Bibliographia Oziana by Douglas G. Greene and Peter E. Hanff serves as the standard reference work that sorts out the extremely complex printing history of each of the original forty Oz books by L. Frank Baum and his six successors. In addition, it includes full descriptions of Oz-related works by the same authors. The descriptions of each variant are clear and concise, but conform to general accepted principles of bibliographical description. The 136 photographic illustrations complement the textual descriptions, making Bibliographia Oziana particularly helpful to those who are new to the field. Distributed for the International Wizard of Oz Club.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 86827

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(Book Club of California) Dailey, Victoria A LADIES' DOZEN AND A GENTLEMAN, EARLY CALIFRONIA CHILDREN'S BOOKS 1853-1913.
(San Francisco, CA The Book Club of California 2009) 4to. paper portfolio with 4 page history and 14 broadsides inserte.
The annual keepsake produced by the Club.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 106084

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(Botany) THE CHILD'S BOTANY.
Boston Jenks and Palmer 1845 32mo. quarter leather, paper-covered boards 103+(1) pages
Eleventh edition. A guidebook, prepared for children, of the "first principles of botany." Frontispiece. Black and white illustrations throughout. Alphabetical list of New England plants at end of text. Boards soiled and stained; many pages of the text stained.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 115656

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(Busch, Wilhelm) WILHELM BUSCH LUSTIGE KLEINIGKEITEN
Mit einer Einleitung von Georg Jacob Wolf. München Delphin-Verlag (1919) 12mo. stiff paper wrappers 46, (2) pages
Written in German. With an introduction by Georg Jacob Wolf, and 32 black-and-white drawings. Wilhelm Busch was a poet and artist famous for his comical picture stories. With two pages of advertisements at the end. Corners bumped and slightly rubbed, edges worn, front cover and edges of back cover faded.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 100661

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(Carroll, Lewis) Cohen, Morton N. LEWIS CARROLL AND ALICE, 1832-1982.
New York The Pierpont Morgan Library 1982 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 133 pages.
Exhibition catalogue with a preface by Charles Ryskamp.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 27405

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(Carroll, Lewis) Goodacre, Selwyn H. and Justin G. Schiller ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, AN 1865 PRINTING RE-DESCRIBED AND NEWLY IDENTIFIED AS THE PUBLISHER'S FILE COPY WITH A REVISED AND EXPANDED CENSUS OF THE SUPPRESSED 1865 ALICE TO WHICH IS ADDED, A SHORT-TITLE INDEX IDENTIFYING AND LOCATING THE ORIGINAL PRELIMINARY DRAWINGS BY JOHN TENNIEL FOR ALICE AND LOOKING-GLASS.
New York Battledore Ltd. 1990 8vo. printed paper over boards 111 pages.
First edition. An excellent book which contains a wealth of information about the publication of ALICE. Well illustrated throughout. Bumped.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 30552

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(Carroll, Lewis) Goodacre, Selwyn H. and Justin G. Schiller ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, AN 1865 PRINTING RE-DESCRIBED AND NEWLY IDENTIFIED AS THE PUBLISHER'S FILE COPY WITH A REVISED AND EXPANDED CENSUS OF THE SUPPRESSED 1865 ALICE TO WHICH IS ADDED, A SHORT-TITLE INDEX IDENTIFYING AND LOCATING THE ORIGINAL PRELIMINARY DRAWINGS BY JOHN TENNIEL FOR ALICE AND LOOKING-GLASS.
New York Battledore Ltd. 1990 6 x 9 inches hardcover 111 pages
Collectors and those interested in children's books will find this work fascinating as it unearths information about the first actual printing of Alice in Wonderland. Encouraged by his friends, Reverend Charles Dodgson, otherwise known as Lewis Carroll, first had Alice published by Macmillan & Co. and printed by the Clarendon Press in June 1865, arranging to have a specially bound copy delivered to Alice Liddell, the famous Alice for whom the story was spun, the next month on July 4. However, not several weeks after that, John Tenniel, the illustrator, wrote to Dodgson complaining of his dissatisfaction with the printing of his illustrations. Macmillan examined one of the unbound copies of the book and agreed to fully reprint the book using a more commercial printer from London, Richard Clay. The condemned printing was then sold to David Appleton & Co., an overseas publishing house who wanted to distribute copies of the book in America. Only 1,952 copies were sold to them of the original 2,000 copy print run. The title-pages were redone with a New York imprint dated 1866, the sheets were machine-folded and put into cloth bindings with Appleton's name on the lower spine and the new title-page substituted on a stub for the earlier one. Meanwile, Macmillan completed its new edition in November 1865, but post-dated this printing 1866 in time for the holidays. As of this writing, twenty-two copies of the original 1865 Alice are located and known to have survived with their original title-pages plus one copy presented to Christ Church Library, currently lost, by the author. This work resolves the whereabouts of Macmillan's file copy and hopefully provides a framework for future research. An excellent book which contains a wealth of information about the publication of Alice in Wonderland. Well-illustrated throughout.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 49189

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(Carroll, Lewis) Lovett, Charles C. LEWIS CARROLL AND THE PRESS
New Castle and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 1999 6 x 9.5 inches cloth, dust jacket. 135 pages.
This comprehensive new work not only provides bibliographical details lacking from previous studies, but it describes Dodgson's letters, articles, games, mathematical problems, and stories in such a way that the scholar without access to these rare items will gain an understanding of where Dodgson stood on various subjects and the nature of his relationship with the public via the press.
Previously unknown, Dodgson items are brought to light in this listing, and numerous early reprints are recorded for the first time. Dodgson's word puzzles "Doublets" and "Syzgies," which were published on a continuing basis in Vanity Fair and The Lady are fully described for the first time, and dozens of previously unknown Doublets and Syzygies are reprinted. Lovett's introductory essay discusses Dodgson's career as both a reader of periodicals and a contributor to them, and quotes extensively from one of the "lost" periodical contributions - Dodgson material which has not been reprinted. Its wealth of new material and full and proper description of what has so often been neglected in the past make LEWIS CARROLL & THE PRESS an invaluable reference for librarians, scholars, students, professors, collectors, and booksellers.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 53904

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(Carroll, Lewis) Sewell, Byron and Clare Imholtz AN ANNOTATED INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LEWIS CARROLL'S SYLVIE AND BRUNO BOOKS.
New Castle and London Oak Knoll Press and the British Library 2008 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover, dust jacket 274 pages
First edition. Byron Sewell and Clare Imholtz have compiled a comprehensive international bibliography of over 1000 entries listing all known editions of Lewis Carroll's Sylvie & Bruno books, their translations into foreign languages, excerpts from them, the appearance of their poems in anthologies, critical articles and studies, parodies, and much more. This book establishes for the first time the full bibliographic record of these long-neglected works by Carroll, including several little-known bibliographic rarities. Because this is a truly comprehensive bibliography, with a great breadth of citations, it will almost certainly become an important reference work, not only for Carrollians, but also for other bibliographers and students of Victorian and later literature. This descriptive bibliography will introduce many of its readers to the important techniques of the novels, with their multiple and shifting levels of reality, and the delightful nonsense of the Mad Gardener's song and other poems in the books. The bibliography includes a 30-page scholarly essay by Anne Clark Amor, one of Britain's foremost Carroll scholars, as well as a complete list of the recipients of Lewis Carroll's presentations of the two books, the latter compiled by Carroll scholar and editor of the acclaimed new unexpurgated edition of his diaries, Edward Wakeling. In identifying the riches to be found in the bibliographic outlands of Carroll's Sylvie & Bruno books, Sewell and Imholtz have demonstrated that there has been far greater interest in them than has generally been recognized. The bibliography reveals the many literary and cultural figures who have commented on, disparaged, imitated, parodied, quoted or in some other way drawn upon the Sylvie books, including: T.S. Eliot, Harold Bloom, Jorge Luis Borges, G.K. Chesterton, James Joyce, Ogden Nash, Elizabeth Sewell and Evelyn Waugh, among others. Both authors are well-known among Lewis Carroll collectors and scholars. In 1992, Byron Sewell published, in a very limited edition, Much of a Muchness: A Survey of the American Editions of the Alice Books Published from 1866-1960. He is one of the co-authors of a recent Lewis Carroll Comic Book Bibliography and has written numerous bibliographic articles. Clare Imholtz has written several articles on Carroll that have been published in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, The Carrollian, The Lewis Carroll Review and other journals. The extent and thoroughness of the bibliography is in no small part due to the wonderful cooperation the bibliographers received from Carroll collectors and scholars in Great Britain, Japan, Russia, Finland, France, the United States and elsewhere.
Sales rights: Worldwide except in the UK; available in the UK from The British Library.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 94203

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(Castlemon, Harry) Blanck, Jacob HARRY CASTLEMON, BOYS' OWN AUTHOR, APPRECIATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Waltham Mark Press 1969 8vo. cloth. xvii, 142 pages.
Second printing, limited to 300 copies. Illustrated.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 12354

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(Castlemon, Harry) Blanck, Jacob HARRY CASTLEMON, BOYS' OWN AUTHOR, APPRECIATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
New York R.R. Bowker Co. 1941 8vo. cloth. xviii, 142 pages.
First edition, limited to 750 copies. Detailed bibliographical descriptions of the books and a checklist of periodical appearances.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 20487

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Chancellor, Valerie E. HISTORY FOR THEIR MASTERS
Opinion in the English History Textbook: 1800-1914 (Bath) Adams & Dart (1970) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket 153+(1) pages
With a foreword by Sir John Newsom. A study of opinions and ideas in children's textbooks. Price-clipped. Previous owner's name on front endpapers. Light wear.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 97544

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(Children's Books) De Vries, Leonard LITTLE WIDE-AWAKE, AN ANTHOLOGY FROM VICTORIAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND PERIODICALS IN THE COLLECTION OF ANNE AND FERNARD G. RENIER. Selected by Leonard De Vries.
Cleveland The World Publishing Co (1967) small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 240 pages.
First U.S. edition. 300 black-and-white illustrations and 40 in color. Jacket soiled.
Price: $ 12.50 other currencies Order nr. 19305

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(Children's Books) FROM FREDDIE & GEORGE
Basel Erasmushaus, Haus der Bücher n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 128 pages
Text in German. Catalogue of 570 books from the 16th and 17th centuries covering Botany, Zoology, Architecture, Gardening, Medicine and Pharmacy, Science, Technology, Art Literature, Costumes, Topography, illustrated children's books and Juvenile fiction. Beautifully illustrated rear cover from item 482. A few scattered stains on front cover, light discoloration of spine, mild wear to edges.
Price: $ 17.50 other currencies Order nr. 91939

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(Children's Books) Götsche, Friedrich Wilhelm DER MORALISCHE UND BELEHRENDE BILDERMANN.
Mit 12 illuminirten Kupfern. Meißen (1824) square 24mo. stiff paper wrappers, slip case (ii), 120 pages
Written in German. A facsimile of "Der moralische und belehrende Bildermann" (The moral and instructive Picture-man), taken from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Included as a separate same-size pamphlet is the modern publishing information, as well as a foreword by Gabriele Spitzer about the series, and a foreword by Carola Pohlmann about the book itself. The pamphlet is bound in self paper wrappers, unpaginated, and the following additional publishing information can be found: published by the Verein der Freunde der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Society of Friends of the State Library of Berlin); Volume 2 in the series "Sibi et amicis", circa 1999. Contains 12 engravings printed in color. Very light wear.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 100001

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(Children's Books) Hearn, Michael Patrick, ed. MYTH, MAGIC AND MYSTERY, ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOK ILLUSTRATION.
(Boulder, Colorado) Roberts Rinehart (1996) 4to. stiff paper wrappers xii, 242 pages
First edition. Portable encyclopedia of works by children's books illustrators. Published in cooperation with the Chrysler Museum of Art as a handbook for an exhibition. Essays by Trinkett Clark and H. Nichols B. Clark. Over 230 color and black and white illustrations: Barry Moser; Jerry Pinkney; Maurice Sendak; Dr. Seuss, to name a few. Index and bibliography.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 64617

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(Children's Books) Hurlimann, Bettina EUROPÄISCHE KINDERBÜCHER IN DREI JAHRHUNDERTEN.
Zürich Atlantis Verlag (1963) 8vo. cloth, leather cover label, dust jacket 247 pages.
Second Swiss edition of Hurlimann's study of European children's books. Jacket rubbed.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 78086

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(Children's Books) James, Philip CHILDREN'S BOOKS OF YESTERDAY
London The Studio 1933 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (iv), 128 pages.
First edition. A special issue of The Studio. Profusely illustrated guide to the study of children's books of the 18th through 20th centuries. Some illustrations are in color. Jacket is chipped around edges with tears along back hinge.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 3779

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(Children's Books) JUVENILE REVIEW, IN TWO PARTS.
Toronto Toronto Public Library 1982 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), (iv), iv, 68, viii, 100, (42) pages.
Facsimile of the two volume 1817 first edition with historical notes by Marjorie Moon and an index by Dana Tenny.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 26995

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(Children's Books) Moon, Marjorie BENJAMIN TABART'S JUVENILE LIBRARY, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS FOR CHILDREN PUBLISHED, WRITTEN, EDITED AND SOLD BY MR. TABART, 1801-1820.
Winchester St Paul's Bibliographies 1990 8vo. cloth. xvii, 180 pages.
First edition. In the early nineteenth century the prevailing influence in children's books was the promotion of morality, coupled with instruction, and fairy-tales and such-like improper subjects were widely discouraged. So Benjamin Tabart showed no little courage when, within three years of opening his Juvenile Library in Bond Street, he launched out into the publication of a series of well-produced fairy-tales and nursery stories.
During his short publishing career, he continued to provide children's bookshelves with light-hearted, attractive-looking books for which he employed excellent artists and some of the best children's writers of the day. Many of his publications are now very scarce, but Marjorie Moon has recorded about a hundred and ninety titles (often in several editions), which have survived the hazards of nursery life. Since Mr. Tabert was not only a publisher but also a bookseller, part two of this bibliography includes other titles which he advertized as being on sale in his shop.
An introduction discussing Tabart's publishing career, his family life, and the very close connection between Tabart and the prolific publisher, Sir Richard Phillips, is included. Brian Alderson has contributed an appendix on the illustrating of two of Tabart's picture-books, and another appendix reprints William Goodwin's remarkable preface to his book of Bible stories which so horrified Mrs. Trimmer, the self-appointed critic of Georgian children's reading matter.
Price: $ 36.00 other currencies Order nr. 32779

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