Hardcover. Totowa, NJ, Barnes & Noble, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Biography of the life of Helen Bannerman and her controversial books about "Little Black Sambo." 194 pages. In very good condition, clean and well-bound. Some rubbing to dust jacket. Includes b&w illustrations.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear to dust jacket edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, American Library Assoc., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A guide to important collections of juvenile material in U.S. Libraries. 257 pages.
Hardcover. New York, The Century Co., 1st US, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 568 pages. Hardcover. Collects six months of St. Nicholas Magazine for Young Folks - Volume XXVII - Part I - November 1899 to April 1900. Black & white illustrations. Brown leather spine and corners, with black pebbled cloth. Title in gilt on spine. Moderate abrasions to leather. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. New York, The Century Co., 1st, 1893, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 960 pages, b&w illustrations. Edge wear, chipping, tears to covers; hinges cracked. Light edge wear to pages; else pages clean and crisp.
Hardcover. London, Century Co - Frederick Warne & Co. , 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 576 pages. Volume XLII. Part I - November 1914-April 1915. Periodical of children's literature. Several Rackham & T. Burgess & Cady illustrations. Black & white illustrations and photos. Leather spine with gold lettering and bands. Spine and corners worn, otherwise good
Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st U.S.A, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket spine lightly yellowed from shelf wear. Otherwise very clean inside and out. From the font flap: "The art of book illustration is too often overlooked, rarely getting the attention that it deserves. Art historians, students of children's literature, librarians, teachers, and general readers will be pleased to find that Douglas Martin helps to fill this void. In The Telling Line, he focuses on fifteen significant modern illustrators: their backgrounds, influences, and techniques."
Hardcover. New York, N.Y., Carlton Press, rep, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 287 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David R Godine, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. A critical analysis on children's literature. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with small previous owner's inscription on front, short closed tear otherwise VG.
Hardcover. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 391 pages. Light shelf-wear to maroon laminated boards, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Herbert Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages, English nurseries from the mid 19th to the mid 20th century, lavishly illustrated in b&w and color, slight edgewear, very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 466 pages w/ index. Red cloth w/ embossed picture of a boy on cover and gilt lettering on spine. Color pictorial dust jacket is protected in myler cover. One brown strip of discoloring runs the width of the dj, presumably from tape. Clean, unmarked, tight copy of the collection of stories selected form the Rare Book Collections of the Library of Congress.
New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 144 pages. Contains black & white and color illustrations by Ardizzone. Remainder dot on top edge. Dust jacket with edgewear.
Hardcover. Boston, Horn Book, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 375 pages, a collection of lectures on children's literature and publishing. Blue cloth covers, clean and tight. Record # 405846
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, rep, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A children's book from the winner of 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature. Color illustrations by Margot Zemach. Dust jacket edgeworn with closed tear and damp-stain. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Nice tight copy. Classic tale about the conflict between Mazel, the debonair spirit of good luck, and Schlimazel, the wicked old spirit of bad luck. Record # 12830
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 460632
Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, black & white plates, decoration by Fritz Kredel, 313 pgs. Slight fading to spine, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 108528