Mount Vernon, NY: The Peter Pauper Press, 1936. tall 8vo. boards. 64, (2) pages. Limited to 950 numbered copies. Spine faded, some rubbing to boards. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. (Angelo Bibliography p.54). Prologue by Edward Larocque Tinker. The author, born in Dublin, Ireland, moved to Japan and became very familiar with Japanese culture. The fables came from the people around him. READ MORE about JAPANESE FAIRY TALES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 22980
N.P. n.p., (1986). square 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, plasticv spiral binding. unpaginated. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Text in German. Illustrations by Renate Habinger. A tale about a caterpillar. Copy of English translation laid in. READ MORE about DER RAUPE LIKAN
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 124534
Pictures by Kurt Wiese.
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co., 1960. oblong small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (28) pages. Pictures by Kurt Wiese. First edition. See B2-1977 for second edition of 1966. Illustrated in color. Covers rubbed. School library stamp on title page. READ MORE about PICTURE BOOK OF DELAWARE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 68407
New York: Swann Galleries, 1978. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 493 items listed. Many illustrations. With prices realized loosely inserted. Soiled covers. READ MORE about DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION OF L. FRANK BAUM AND RELATED OZIANA INCLUDING W.W. DENSLOW FORMED BY...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 545
Chicago, IL: F.E. Compton & Company, 1946. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 24 pages. An introduction, for children, to the use of encyclopedias. Color and black and white illustrations. READ MORE about BOB DISCOVERS A GOOD BOOK
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134860
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Stockholm: Kooperativa Förbundets Bokförlag, 1951. small 8vo. sewn, stiff paper wrappers. 219+(1) pages. Fourth edition. Domestic and translated children's literature in 9 reading groups, with a book list at the end of each chapter. Drawings by Birger Lundquist. Index. Covers detaching at spine. READ MORE about BARN OCH BOCKER [CHILDREN AND BOOKS
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 52856
FROM IT'S GLORIOUS PAST TO THE PRESENT
Chicago: Childrens Press, (1967). square 8vo. pictorial cloth. 95+(1) pages. FROM IT'S GLORIOUS PAST TO THE PRESENT. B2-1497. An illustrated history of Delaware written for children. Covers foxed. READ MORE about DELAWARE
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 66041
Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1964. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xii), 147 pages. First edition. With a checklist of translations which contains comments on how translations differ and what they used as their basis. Jacket rubbed. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about ALICE IN MANY TONGUES, THE TRANSLATIONS OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 25690
Vienna: Herbert Reichner, 1937. 8vo. cloth. 102+(1) pages plus 368 leaves of plates. First edition (Besterman 1306). Numbered (but not limited) edition. Boards faded and slightly warped, spine lightly sunned. Ink signature to front free endpaper, interior age-toned. The front panel of the original dust jacket (age-toned and edgeworn) is laid in. Bibliography of German children's literature, especially from the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. 368 entries. Color plates interspersed through introductory..... READ MORE about ALTE DEUTSCHE KINDERBÜCHER, MIT BIBLIOGRAPHIE UND EINHUNDERTFÜNFZIG BILDTAFELN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 78163
London: National Book League, 1973. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 64 pages. Exhibition catalogue featuring 20th century British children's books. Well illustrated. READ MORE about LOOKING AT PICTURE BOOKS 1973
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 26922
Italy: Ente Autonomo per le Fiere di Bologna, (1988). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 197, (3) pages. An interesting selection of illustrators from around the world. In each case an example of their work is shown, usually in full color and short biographical details are given. READ MORE about ANNUAL '88, ILLUSTRATOR'S OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 95168
(London): The British Library, (1986). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 80 pages. First edition. A near fine copy. This book "describes and reproduces a selection of the interesting, beautiful and amusing illustrations in children's books published down to the 1920s." Includes the work of Kate Greenaway, Randolph Caldecott, Walter Crane and Beatrix Potter. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 63937
Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2008. 8vo (24 cm, 9.5"). Publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine. xiv, 342 pages. First edition. Light bumping to bottom edge. In original pictorial dust jacket; very minor edgewear. Interior is bright. "The essays collected here ask about the meanings and values that have been ascribed to the term 'popular.' They consider whether popular can be imposed, or if it must always emerge from children's preferences. And they investigate how..... READ MORE about POPULAR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN BRITAIN
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 138316
London: The National Book League, 1972. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 102, (8) pages. 4th edition. A bibliography of British children's books. Preface. Introduction by Eileen Colwell. Arranged chronologically. 533 entries. Entries after 1940 broken down into fiction and non-fiction categories. Indices of authors/editors and titles. Eight pages of advertisements follow the text. READ MORE about BRITISH CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 114777
(London, England): The Library Association, 1957. 8vo. cloth dust jacket. viii, 89+(1) pages. Table of contents. Frontispiece portrait of Arthur Ransome, first recipient of the medal. Black and white plates; black and white illustrations in text. A description of medal winners from 1936 to 1957. Dust jacket chipped and torn along edges. Ink notation on front free endpaper. READ MORE about CHOSEN FOR CHILDREN: AN ACCOUNT OF THE BOOKS WHICH HAVE BEEN AWARDED THE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 126875
New York: H.W. Wilson, 1973. 8vo. cloth. (viii), 320 pages. Second printing. This latest work in the series begun in 1951 by Stanley J. Kunitz, includes 255 autobiographical or biographical sketches of authors and illustrators of books for children and young people, with the new feature of autobiographees' signatures when authorized. Index of all authors and illustrators in this volume and its two predecessors. Portrait photographs. Bookplate of Doris Frohnsdorff loosely inserted. READ MORE about THIRD BOOK OF JUNIOR AUTHORS
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 65463
Boston, MA: Charles E. Lauriat Co., n.d. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 28 pages. Books published by Houghton Mifflin and offered for sale by Lauriat. Table of contents, Black and white plates. Covers tanned, Lower fore-edge corner torn off. Fore-edge chipped. READ MORE about A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 126718
New York: Pantheon, (1965). 4to. cloth. 232 pages. First U.S. edition. 750 woodcuts and engravings on wood and engravings of which upwards of 125 are colored. Covers soiled. READ MORE about FLOWERS OF DELIGHT CULLED BY LEONARD DEVRIES FROM THE OSBORNE COLLECTION OF EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 26693
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. READ MORE about FROM FREDDIE & GEORGE
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 91939
Boston: Horn Book, 1959. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xvi), 261 pages. First edition. Divided into eight sections covering subjects such as Reviews and Criticism, Fairy Tales, Youth in the War, and Poetry. Minor fading of spine of jacket. READ MORE about A HORN BOOK SAMPLER ON CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND READING SELECTED FROM TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF THE HORN...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 26694
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. READ MORE about EUROPÄISCHE KINDERBÜCHER IN DREI JAHRHUNDERTEN
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 78086
Translated and Edited by Brian Alderson.
London: Oxford University Press, 1967. tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 297 pages. Translated and Edited by Brian Alderson. First English edition. "Important contribution to the history of bibliography of children's books." Illustrated. READ MORE about THREE CENTURIES OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS IN EUROPE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 6142
Translated and Edited by Brian Alderson.
Cleveland: The World Publishing Co., 1968. 8vo. gilt-stamped cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 297 pages. Translated and Edited by Brian Alderson. First U.S. edition. "Important contribution to the history and bibliography of children's books." Illustrated. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about THREE CENTURIES OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS IN EUROPE
Price: $19.00 Order nr. 100456
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1990. small to. stiff paper wrappers. 44 pages. Acknowledgments, table of contents, preface, list of contributors. Papers from a symposium at the Library of Congress. Editor was chief of the library's Children's Literature Center. Black and white illustrations by Mitsumasa Anno. READ MORE about WINDOW ON JAPAN: JAPANESE CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND TELEVISION TODAY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 126643
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. Front cover and flap of jacket is present and the rest of the jacket is a replacement. The cloth bound version of this book is scarce. READ MORE about CHILDREN'S BOOKS OF YESTERDAY
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 3779
