Trade Catalogues From the 19th and 20th Centuries Catalogue 52
Rye, NY: High Ridge Books, Inc. Small 4to; stapled stiff pictorial covers; softcover; 45 pages; black and white illustrations; very good copy with no apparent flaws. More
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A Brief Biographical Dictionary
New York: The Arundel Print, 1881. 12mo. cloth covered boards; hard cover; 497 pages; "when did he die and what did he do?" one line per person: name, birth and death dates and accomplishment; very good. More
Storybook Culture The Art of Popular Children's Books
Portland, OR: Collectors Press (2002). Stated First American Edition with a 1 present in the number line; small 4to.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 207 pages; color illustrations; very good clean, tight copy in a very good unclipped dust jacket. More
Edmund Dulac-His Book Illustrations
Potomac, MD: The Buttonwood Press, 1995. 4to; cloth covered boards; hardcover; black and white illustrations; “A Bibliography”; Authorial Inscription: “To XXX and XXX What a delight to meet you and share ideas about C.W. Post College, Monhegan and best of all books! With warmest wishes Ann Conolly Hughey 2 December..... More
Children’s Literature An Illustrated History
Oxford and NY: Oxford University Press, 1995. First edition with a 1 present in the number line; small 4to.; black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine and illustrated endpapers, hardcover; xiv, 378 pages; black and white and color illustrations; very good in a lightly sunned spine else very..... More
Seven Houses My Life with Books.
NY: Thomas Y. Crowell (1977). Translated from the German by Anthea Bell; 1st U.S. edition, 8vo., hardcover; 262 pages, autobiography of children's literary historian, publisher and editor, very good in very good dust jacket. More
Lafayette. A Bibliography
N.Y.: William Edwin Rudge, 1930. 8vo., cloth covered boards, hardcover, 226 pages; light edgewear, frayed spine ends and lightly sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy. More
Horn Book Magazine. April, 1953
Horn Book, 1953. 8vo., stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; contents include: “Television and Children’s Reading” by Robert Lewis Shayon, “The Great Originator” by Elizabeth Nesbitt, and “Three Boys and Their World of Books“ a very good clean tight copy. More
Horn Book Magazine. April, 1955
Horn Book, 1955. 8vo., stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; contents include: “Eliza Orne White and Her Books for Children” by Bertha Mahoney Miller, and “Holling Clancy Holling” by M. Clyde Armstrong; a very good clean tight copy. More
Horn Book Magazine. April, 1956
Boston: The Horn Book, 1956. 8vo., stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; contents include Laura E. Richards, Joyous Companion by Ruth Hill Viguers and Unafraid of Greatness, by Jessica Wood; very good. More
Horn Book Magazine. April, 1957
Horn Book, 1957. 8vo., stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; contents include: “Return to Lebanon,” by Belle Dorman Rug and tributes to Elizabeth MacKinstry from Anne Carroll Moore and others; a very good clean tight copy. More
Horn Book Magazine. August,1957
Horn Book, 1957. 8vo., stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; articles on Newbery and Caldecottt Acceptance Speehes by Virginia Sorensen and Marc Simont, a very good clean tight copy. More
Horn Book Magazine. December,1957
Horn Book, 1957. 8vo., stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; contents include: “The Four Legs of Gian-Carlo” by Anne Molloy, and “For Listening Children” by Ethel Heins; a very good clean tight copy. More
Horn Book Magazine. February, 1955
Horn Book, 1955. 8vo., stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; contents include: “I’d Always Been Reading” by May Lamberton Becker, “On Making a Book for a Child” by Taro Yashima, and “Shakespeare of London“ by Marchette Chute; a very good clean tight copy. More
Horn Book Magazine. February, 1956
Horn Book, 1956. 8vo., stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; contents include: “Not to Be Islanded” by Joan Warn, and “Little Blue Sheep” by Laura Adams Armer;a very good clean tight copy. More
Horn Book Magazine. February, 1958
Horn Book, 1958. 8vo., stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; articles on Gudrun thorne-Thomsen, Storyteller from Norway and “The Long Hunter and the Tall Tale;” a very good clean tight copy. More
Horn Book Magazine. June, 1955
Horn Book, 1955. 8vo., stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; contents include: “ The Need of Understanding in Our Shrinking World” by Margot Benary-Isbert, “Eleven Little Girls and Peter Pan” by Corinna Marsh and “A Head Full of Songs” by Martha Bennett King;a very good clean tight copy. More
Horn Book Magazine. October, 1956
Boston: The Horn Book, 1956. 8vo., stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; contents include: “Eleanor Farjeon’s ‘Room with a View,” by Frances Clarke Sayers, “A Summary of Knowledge” by Phyllis Fenner; and “Laura E. Richards, Joyous companion, Part III” by Ruth Hill Viguers very good. More
Horn Book Magazine. October,1957
Horn Book, 1957. 8vo., stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; contents include: “Helen Sewell” by Louise Seaman Bechtel, and “Bench Marks for Illustrators” by Warren Chappell; a very good clean tight copy. More
High Spots Of American Literature: A Practical Bibliography And Brief Literary Estimate Of Outstanding American Books
Austin: Jenkins Publishing Co., 1971. Small 4to.; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, 114 pages; hardcover; boards are very lightly soiled else very good. More
Mother Was a Lady: Self and Society in Selected American Children's Periodicals, 1865-1890 - Contributions in American Studies, Number 12
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 1974. First edition; small 8vo; brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering; 233 pages; 233 pages; a clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
Encyclopedia of Ships and Seafaring
NY: A Herbert Michelman Book/Crown Publishers, Inc. (1980). First edition; small 4to; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering; hardcover; 256 pages; color and black and white illustrations; lightly edgeworn with lightly sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy in a sunned pictorial dust jacket. More
Hawthorne's Literature for Children.
Athens:University of Georgia Press, (1992). 8vo., cloth covered boards, hardcover; 154 pages; "In-depth study of a long-neglected but significant aspect of Nathaniel Hawthorne's literary career: his writings for children.” a very good clean tight copy in a very good dust jacket. More
Once Upon a Time Contemporary Illustrators of Fantasy Vintage
NY: Peacock Press, 1976. First Edition; sm. 4to; stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; unpaginated; color illustrations; a very good, clean, tight copy. More
Beatrix Potter 1866-1943-Centenary Catalogue 1966
London: National Book League (1966). 12mo.,stiff wraps, softcover; 109 pages; black & white illustrations; lightly rubbed else a very good, clean, tight copy. More