Mendota: Wayside Press, 1971. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 160 pages. Revised edition. A fine copy. READ MORE about ROAD TO SUCCESS, THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF HORATIO ALGER
Price: $6.40 Order nr. 26764
4 volumes.
Göttingen: Evangelisches Bibliothekar-Lehrinstitut, 1971, 1975, 1976, 1977. one large 8vo. & 3 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers with fabric covered spine. (iv),iii,46; 48; (xxii),44,xxiv; x,70 pages. 4 volumes. Volumes 4, 6, 7, and 8 in this series. Includes studies of journalistic documentation of news in public libraries, of specialized bibliographies and catalogues, on the catalogue of a children's library, and on organizations for evangelical books. READ MORE about ARBEITEN AUS DEM EVANGELISCHEN BIBLIOTHEKAR-LEHRINSTITUT
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 51247
Freiburg, Germany: (Antiquariat Uwe Kolb), 1996. 8vo. cloth, paper front cover label. 88 pages. Text in German. A fine copy. Volume 1. With assistance of Walter Sauer and Hasso Böhme. Foreword by the editor, table of contents, indices of authors, illustrations, titles and secondary literature. A bibliography of works on Struwwelpeter (shock-headed Peter), a German children's book by Heinrich Hoffman. Color and black and white illustrations. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books &..... READ MORE about DER STRUWWELPETER: EIN BILDERBUCH MACHT KARRIERE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 125799
Cambridge: Research Classics, 1961. 8vo. cloth. vi, 153 pages. Third printing of the 1938 first edition. Minor rubbing to the covers, else a near fine copy. READ MORE about PETER PARLEY TO PENROD A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE BEST-LOVED AMERICAN JUVENILE BOOKS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 141157
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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: $14.00 Order nr. 52856
West Kingston: Donald M. Grant, 1964. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 418 pages. Revised edition. Fine in near fine jacket. Full bibliographical descriptions of books. A very scarce bibliography. READ MORE about A GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 11270
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..... READ MORE about ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, AN 1865 PRINTING RE-DESCRIBED AND NEWLY IDENTIFIED AS THE...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 49189
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..... READ MORE about AN ANNOTATED INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LEWIS CARROLL'S SYLVIE AND BRUNO BOOKS
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 94203
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
Waltham: Mark Press, 1969. 8vo. cloth. xvii, 142 pages. Second printing, limited to 300 copies. Illustrated. A near fine copy. READ MORE about HARRY CASTLEMON, BOYS' OWN AUTHOR, APPRECIATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 12354
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
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 2006. 9 x 12 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 320 pages. First edition. Spine faded, else a good copy. When was it that someone decided that books might be written and published for child readers? It's fair to say that some kinds of text-alphabets, fables, the Lord's Prayer, may have been seen as fundamental to the process of learning to read from the beginning of book..... READ MORE about BE MERRY AND WISE: ORIGINS OF CHILDREN'S BOOK PUBLISHING IN ENGLAND, 1650-1850
Price: $57.50 Order nr. 138439
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: $28.00 Order nr. 26922
Basel: Haus der Bucher, n.d. small 8vo. cloth. 240 pages followed by plates. Catalogue 636 issued by this bookseller. Over 2000 titles offered for sale. With an introduction by Adolf Seebass. READ MORE about ALTE KINDERBUCHER UND JUGENDSCHRIFTEN
Price: $44.00 Order nr. 27222
Köln: Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek und Rheinisches Bildarchiv, 1988. 4to. paper-covered boards; second volume is stiff paper wrappers. 539; 152 pages. First edition. This is a catalog of the 1988 exhibition of children's book art held at the Joseph-Haubrich Kunsthalle in Köln. Includes 34 short essays on all aspects of children's book art, from incunable art to art of the Weimar Republic. All illustrations are reproduced in color. The second half of the book is taken..... READ MORE about DIE BILDERWELT IM KINDERBUCH
Price: $32.00 Order nr. 123945
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: $12.00 Order nr. 114777
London: Sotheby, Parke Bernet & Co., 1982. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Auction, July 20-21, 1982, of children's literature and drawings. Formerly the property of Mrs. F. Nevill, E.G. Nunn, and H.A. Potts. 618 lots. Black and white illustrations throughout. Ink stamps on front wrapper. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS, JUVENILIA AND RELATED DRAWINGS
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 108024
Toronto: Toronto Public Library, 1964. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 29, (3) pages. Illustrated. READ MORE about A CHRONICLE OF BOYS AND GIRLS HOUSE AND A SELECTED LIST OF RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE OSBORNE...
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 51164
London: The British Council, n.d. small 8vo. paper wrappers. 24 pages. An exhibition catalogue. Presentation from Cleverdon on front inside cover. READ MORE about ENGLISH CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 26919
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: $16.00 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: $20.00 Order nr. 126718
Paris, France: Gumuchian & Co., 1938. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 29+(1) pages. Gumuchian Catalogue 23. Black and white plates and illustrations. Covers lightly soiled. Tanning at edges of text. READ MORE about EARLY ALPHABETS HORN BOOKS AND AMUSING CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 125782
London, England: Sotheby's, 2011. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 58 pages. Auction, July 14, 2011. 159 lots. Table of contents, index. Mainly children's books and illustrations. Color illustrations throughout. READ MORE about ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 133648
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: $14.00 Order nr. 91939
Preston: Harris Public Library, 1967. 8vo. cloth. xii, 307 pages. With a preface by Jane A. Downton, and an introduction by Percy Muir. Annotated descriptions. Spine faded. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE SPENCER COLLECTION OF EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND CHAP BOOKS PRESENTED TO...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 21391
