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: $36.00 Order nr. 124534
1962. small 4to. wrap-around folder with article inserted. pp.75-81. A separate from The Penrose Annual, Volume 56, 1962. With illustrations in color. A fine copy. READ MORE about AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS IN A CHANGING WORLD
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 18353
Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1998. 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages. VOLUME 3, NO.3, MARCH 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: B. Hicks on Nancy Drew books, G. Dibert-Himes on the library of Schloss Corvey in Germany, B.G. Henneke on old ship's logbooks, J.G. Schiller on the early publishing history of the Paul Bunyan tales, T. Conway on James Michener, G. and M. Green on the Little Blue Books of the 1920's and 30's, N. Basbanes on..... READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
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Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1998. 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages. VOLUME 3, NO.11, NOV., 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: A. Tufel on George Eliot, R. Armstrong on Alan Paton, and J. Waters on "Invasion of the E-Books" (yes, a certain software company has expressed interest). N. Basbanes tours that institution, The Strand; R. Brown and Tasha Tucker discuss Tasha Tudor (with notice of the new Tasha Tudor bibliography by John & Jill Hare, published by..... READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
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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
With an Introduction by Margaret K. McElderry. Given at Boys and Girls House, Toronto Public Library, April 21, 1977.
Plains, PA: Boss Dog Press, 2021. 8vo. marbled paper covered boards, title stamped in silver on front board. (ii), (2), 3-15 (2) pages. With an Introduction by Margaret K. McElderry. Given at Boys and Girls House, Toronto Public Library, April 21, 1977. Limited to 80 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator, Sarah P. Burda. Lecture by this children's book author. A fine copy with the prospectus loosely inserted. This chapbook was composed by..... READ MORE about STARS IN OUR HEADS
Price: $110.00 Order nr. 136910
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
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: $16.00 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
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Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Library, 2021. 12.375 x 9 inches. light gray Japanese cloth with front covers stamped in gold, with illustrated endpapers. 2 vol.: [xiii], 622, [2]; [6], 623-1252, [2]. The Comprehensive Index volumes cover all 20,082 descriptive entries published in the previous six volumes, all well illustrated: Twentieth Century (2 vol.: 12,403 entries, v.1 issued in 2000 and v.2 issued in 2003), Nineteenth Century (2 vol.: 6,370 entries, issued in 2019) and..... READ MORE about A CATALOGUE OF THE COTSEN CHILDREN'S LIBRARY: COMPREHENSIVE INDEX
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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: $28.00 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
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: $12.00 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: $28.00 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: $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
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
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: $16.00 Order nr. 78086
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: $15.20 Order nr. 100456
Washington: Library of Congress, 1988. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 140 pages. Four papers about children's books in the 1920's and 1930's that were presented at the Library of Congress in 1984. A fine copy. John Tebbel, Abe Lerner, Anne McLeod, and Mildred Batchelder give their accounts of dealing with areas of children's books such as publishing, the day to day scene in the children's book department of major publishing houses, and children's librarianship. Illustrated. READ MORE about STEPPING AWAY FROM TRADITION, CHILDREN'S BOOKS OF THE TWENTIES AND THIRTIES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 60135
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: $16.00 Order nr. 126643
Boston: Horn Book, 1968. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 295 pages. First edition. With illustrated articles by Marcia Brown, Adrienne Adams, Grace Allen Hogarth and Rumer Godden. Biographies and selected bibliography of artists and authors. Jacket torn at head of spine. READ MORE about ILLUSTRATORS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS, 1957-1966
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 1773
Göteborg: Pedagogiska Institutionen Lärarhögskolan i Göteborg [The Pedagogical Institute The Teacher's College of Gothenburg], 1969. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. vii, 145 leaves. Presentation copy to Dr. Sigfred Taubert in German on title page. An outline of research into children's/young people's literature (not including schoolbooks): Five basic questions concerning this literature, and eight basic research methods, with many variations. May also indicate actual findings, but that is not the primary concern. Bibliography. Report no. 15..... READ MORE about BARN-OCH UNGDOMS-LITTERATURFORSKNING, OMRADEN, METODER, TERMINILOGI
Price: $36.00 Order nr. 52012
