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A history of the writings of Beatrix Potter, including unpublished workLinder, Leslie

A history of the writings of Beatrix Potter, including unpublished work


Linder, Leslie

Hardcover. London, New York, Warne, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 446 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to price clipped dust jacket with small chip missing from upper edge of spine.

Record # 460526


Price: $44.00 

 

A sense of story: Essays on contemporary writers for children


Townsend, John Rowe

Hardcover. London, 1st edition, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, blue dust jacket. Clean covers, light edgewear to dust jacket, with faded spine, neat ink underlining to pages 193-199, pages crisp and otherwise unmarked, tight binding.

Record # 450679


Price: $12.00 

 

A.S. Pushkin: Selected Works / . . :


Vorobeva / , I.V. (ed.) / . . ( )

Hardcover. Moscow / , Children's Literature / , 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Text in Russian. Red cloth w/ Black Pushkin profile on front. One mark on front cover, a few white marks on back cover. Corners bumped. Tan pictorial dust jacket shows minor edgewear/chipping and a few inch - 2 inch tears on front and back. Pictorial end papers w/ copies of Pushkin's handwriting. B/W illustrations throughout. Clean, tight, unmarked copy.

Record # 804203


Price: $35.00 

Best in Children's Books: The University of Chicago Guide to Children's Literature, 1973-78Sutherland, Zena

Best in Children's Books: The University of Chicago Guide to Children's Literature, 1973-78


Sutherland, Zena

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 547 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 460507


Price: $15.00 

 

Bibliographica Oziana: A Concise Bibliographic Checklist of the Oz Books by L. Frank Baum and His Successors


Hanff, Peter E. and Douglas G. Greene

Softcover. Kinderhook IL, International Wizard of Oz Club, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages, b&w illustrations. Softcover in mustard color wraps.

Record # 405903


Price: $25.00 

 

Black Beauty


Sewell, Anna , Illust. by: Susan Jeffers

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 69 pages. Hardcover. Adapted by Robin McKinley. Extensive color illustrations by Susan Jeffers throughout. Illustrated title page and frontispiece. Illustrated end papers and pastedowns. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 613493


Price: $25.00 

 

Caldecott Medal Books 1938-1957: With their Authors Acceptance Papers & Related Material Chiefly from the Horn Book Magazine


Miller, Bertha Mahoney and Elinor W. Field

Hardcover. Boston, Horn Book, 4th pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 329 pages, b&w illustrated dust jacket with light edgewear. Vol. 2 of the Horn Book Papers.

Record # 405870


Price: $38.00 


 

Celebrating Children's Books


Hearne, Betsy and Marilyn Kaye (editors)

Hardcover. New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepherd Books, first, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. A collection of literary criticism about children's books. The book is a tribute to Zena Sutherland. In very good condition, very clean pages and tight bindings. Dust jacket in very good condition.

Record # 807632


Price: $12.00 

Child of Bliss, A : Growing Up With Mervyn PeakePeake, Sebastian

Child of Bliss, A : Growing Up With Mervyn Peake


Peake, Sebastian

Hardcover. Luton, Queen Anne Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 138 pages, b&w illustrations. Sticker over bar code on rear cover, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460471


Price: $25.00 

 

Children of Dickens, The


Crothers, Samuel McChord

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, rep, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 259 pages. Illustrated by Jesse Willcox Smith. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with small chip missing from top of spine. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856996


Price: $15.00 

 

Children's Books and Their Creators - An Invitation To The Feast Of Twentieth-Century Children's Literature


Silvey, Anita (Ed.), Illust. by: various

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY SILVEY on title-page. Black & white and color illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 203239


Price: $50.00 

 

Children's Books and Their Creators - An Invitation To The Feast Of Twentieth-Century Children's Literature


Silvey, Anita (Ed.), Illust. by: various

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white and color illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 203241


Price: $35.00 

Children's Books of Mary (Belson) Elliott, TheMoon, Marjorie

Children's Books of Mary (Belson) Elliott, The


Moon, Marjorie

Hardcover. Winchester, UK, St. Paul's Bibliographies, na, 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 171 pages. Includes 470 bibliographical entries of the works by Mary Belson Elliott. Book in near fine condition, clean pages, tight binding. Blue cloth covers. Some scratching to the dust jacket, which is in very good condition.

Record # 807637


Price: $30.00 

Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great NovelsLocke, Richard

Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels


Locke, Richard

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 218 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 458552


Price: $25.00 

 

Crosscurrents of Criticism: Horn Book Essays, 1968-1977


Heins, Paul (Ed.)

Hardcover. Boston, Horn Book, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 359 pages. Light sunning and edgewear to dust jacket with slight tear to front cover. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460472


Price: $13.00 


 

Crusoe 250: Being a Catalogue in Celebration of the 250th Anniversary of Robinson Crusoe


Smith, R.D. Hilton

Hardcover. Victoria BC, Adelphi Book Shop, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages, illustrations, beige cloth with blue lettering, design. Features 677 editions of the classic tale, described and priced. Limited to 500 copies.

Record # 405850


Price: $25.00 

Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula NordstromMarcus, Leonard S. (Editor)

Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom


Marcus, Leonard S. (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, NY, HarperCollins Publishers, 2nd printing, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 406 pages. SIGNED by editor Leonard Marcus on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 460504


Price: $31.00 

Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: Subversive Children's LiteratureLurie, Alison

Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: Subversive Children's Literature


Lurie, Alison

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460474


Price: $13.00 

 

Dr. Seuss: American Icon


Nel, Phillip

Hardcover. New York, Continuum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460467


Price: $25.00 

 

Dromkeen - A Journey Into Children's Literature


Prentice, Jeffrey and Bettina Bird

NY, Henry Holt , 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light edgewear to dust jacket. Color and Black & white illustrations and photos.

Record # 201572


Price: $28.00 

Early Children's BooksQuayle, Eric

Early Children's Books


Quayle, Eric

Hardcover. New Jersey, Barnes and Noble Books, 1st U.S., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. First U.S. edition. An entertaining history of the development of children's books. A clean, bright, unmarked copy.

Record # 951021


Price: $39.00 

 

Elements of His Dark Materials, The - A Guide to Philip Pullman's Trilogy


Frost, Laurie

Softcover. Buffalo Grove, The Fell Press, First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 542 pages. Softcover with irridescent covers. Light marginal wear to edges. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 750780


Price: $25.00 

 

Girl Sleuth, The - A Feminist Guide


Mason, Bobbie Ann

Paperback. Old Westbury, NY, Feminist Press, 1st wraps, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback

Record # 300218


Price: $80.00 

 

Hewins Lectures 1947-1962, The


Andrews, Siri

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


Price: $11.00 

 

Joel Chandler Harris: Folklorist


Brookes, Stella Brewer

Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press , 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 182 pages. Five pages with red underlining, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Record # 401311


Price: $20.00 

 

John Newbery and his successors, 1740-1814;


Roscoe, S

Hardcover. Wormley, Five Owls Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 460 pages, b&w illustrated plates. Small stain on dust jacket rear cover. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 453971


Price: $50.00 

Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and AndyGruelle, Kim (Foreword)

Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy


Gruelle, Kim (Foreword)

Hardcover. Gretna, La., Pelican Publishing, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 221 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460492


Price: $38.00 

JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE Volume X Spring 1977 No. 4Brown (Ed.), Ray B.

JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE Volume X Spring 1977 No. 4


Brown (Ed.), Ray B.

Softcover. Bowling Green OH, Journal of Popular Culture, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages 701-909. Articles include: Philip Gordon on Ayn Rand. Louis F. Helbig on Struwwelpeter: an inquiry into the effects of violence in children's literature. French folksongs. D. L. Ashliman on the American Indian in German Travel Narratives and Literature. Clean.

Record # 411779


Price: $13.00 

Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found ThereCarroll, Lewis, Illust. by: Barry Moser

Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There


Carroll, Lewis, Illust. by: Barry Moser

Hardcover. Berkley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 161 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white, fine wood cuts, by Barry Moser. Spine darkening, edgewear, Front boards lightly warped. Light staining on front boards.

Record # 468450


Price: $63.00 

 

Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott


Bonstelle (Editors), Jessie and Marian deForest

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 197 pages, hardcover. Decorated green cloth boards. Frontispiece. Examines the Alcott characters through correspondence and diary entries. Light rubbing and edgewear to boards. Moderate bumping to spine, light bumping to corners. Unmarked. Scarce. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951607


Price: $55.00 

 

Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, The


Opie, Iona/Peter Opie

Hardcover. London, Oxford, Reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 417 pages. Previous owners name at top left corner of front endpaper. Spine faded. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607846


Price: $15.00 

Lost Life of Horatio Alger, Jr.Scharnhorst, G

Lost Life of Horatio Alger, Jr.


Scharnhorst, G

Softcover. United States, John Wiley & Sons, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages. Light sun-fade to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460539


Price: $13.00 

 

Ludwig Bemelmans, a bibliography : with 77 reverently drawn irrelevant drawings by Ludwig Bemelmans


Pomerance, Murray

Hardcover. New York, James H. Heineman, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 390 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460549


Price: $15.00 

 

Mary Poppins and myth


Bergsten, Staffan

Hardcover. Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell international, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 79 pages, b&w illustrations. Green cloth with gilt titles to front and spine, no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460530


Price: $38.00 

Moral Tale, A : Children's Fiction and American Culture, 1820-1860 Macleod, Anne S.

Moral Tale, A : Children's Fiction and American Culture, 1820-1860


Macleod, Anne S.

Hardcover. Hamden, Conn., Archon Books, 1st thus, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages. Orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460515


Price: $11.00 

 

Nebuchadnezzar's Children - Conventions of Madness in Middle English Literature


Doob, Penelope B. R.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, First Edition, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 247 pages. Hardcover. Wine boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Light foxing to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 750884


Price: $19.00 

 

Newbery Medal Books 1922-1955: With their Authors Acceptance Papers & Related Material Chiefly from the Horn Book Magazine


Miller, Bertha Mahoney and Elinor W. Field

Hardcover. Boston, Horn Book, 3rd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 458 pages, dust jacket with light edgewear. Vol. 1 of the Horn Book Papers.

Record # 405858


Price: $31.00 


 

Newbery Medal Books 1922-1955: With their Authors Acceptance Papers & Related Material Chiefly from the Horn Book Magazine


Miller, Bertha Mahoney and Elinor W. Field

Hardcover. Boston, Horn Book, 3rd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 458 pages, dust jacket with light edgewear. Vol. 1 of the Horn Book Papers.

Record # 405902


Price: $31.00 


 

Other Alice: The Story of Alice Liddell and Alice in Wonderland


Bjork, Cristina

Hardcover. Stockholm ; New York, R & S Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 93 pages, photographs and illustrations throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 457189


Price: $18.00 

Pauses : autobiographical reflections of 101 creators of children's booksHopkins, Lee Bennett

Pauses : autobiographical reflections of 101 creators of children's books


Hopkins, Lee Bennett

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


Price: $11.00 

 

Phoenix Award of the Children's Literature Association 1985-1989


Helbig, Alethea and Agnes Perkins

Hardcover. Metuchen, NJ, Scarecrow Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Commentary on works by Leon Garfield, Rosemary Sutcliff, Helen Cresswell, others. Bibliographies. 166 pages.

Record # 59833


Price: $10.00 

 

Pied Piper Syndrome and other Essays, The


Hunter, Mollie

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Essays on writing for children, 118 pgs.

Record # 70552


Price: $18.00 

PotterWalter, Wangerin, Jr., Illust. by: Daniel San Souci

Potter


Walter, Wangerin, Jr., Illust. by: Daniel San Souci

Hardcover. Minneapolis, Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 55 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Daniel San Souci. Clean, unmarked copy with creasing on front dust jacket flap and only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468076


Price: $15.00 

 

Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine, The


Twain, Mark, Philip Stead, Illust. by: Erin Stead

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 152 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Color illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers and front cover board. Very clean inside and out. In excellent condition.

Record # 30731


Price: $23.00 

Roald Dahl: A BiographyTreglown, Jeremy

Roald Dahl: A Biography


Treglown, Jeremy

Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 3rd printing, 1994-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Minor sun-fade and shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461782


Price: $13.00 

 

Sambo Sahib: The Story of Helen Bannerman author of 'Little Black Sambo'


Hay, Elizabeth

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.

Record # 807633


Price: $35.00 

 

Second Year of the Look About Club


Bamford, Mary E.

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 178 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings. Slight warp to right edge of pages 161 through 178. Minor foxing to cloth covers. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 607597


Price: $25.00 

 

Secret Life of The Lonely Doll - The Search for Dare Wright, The


Nathan, Jean

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.

Record # 611653


Price: $19.00 

 

Shoemaker's Son, The - The Life of Hans Christian Anderson


Burnett, Constance Buel

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


Price: $10.00 

 

Special Collections in Children's Literature


Field, Carolyn W.

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.

Record # 59832


Price: $10.00 

 

St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks - Volume XXVII - Part I - Six Months - November 1899 to April 1900


Dodge, Mary Mapes/St. Nicholas Magazine

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.

Record # 613854


Price: $38.00 

 

St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, Volume XX


Dodge, Mary Mapes

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.

Record # 808943


Price: $30.00 

 

St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks


NA

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

Record # 500835


Price: $35.00 

 

Talent Is Not Enough - Mollie Hunter On Writing For Children


Hunter, Mollie

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 59831


Price: $20.00 

 

Telling Line, The: Essays on Fifteen Book Illustrators


Martin, Douglas

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."

Record # 30480


Price: $15.00 

 

Thornton W. Burgess, Harrison Cady : a book, magazine, and newspaper bibliography


Dowhan, Michael W.

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.

Record # 460529


Price: $38.00 

 

Through the Looking Glass: Further Adventures & Misadventures in the Realm of Children's Literature


Lanes, Selma G.

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.

Record # 471145


Price: $23.00 

 

Tough Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood


Yolen, Jane

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.

Record # 12963


Price: $9.00 

 

Travelogue Storybook of the Nineteenth Century, The


Haviland, Virginia

Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 70 pages, b&w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851541


Price: $15.00 

 

Treasure for the Taking - A Book List for Boys and Girls


Eaton, Anne Thaxter

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, Second printing, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages. Hardcover. Light chipping to dust jacket edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611798


Price: $13.00 

Victorian childhood : themes and variationsJordan, Thomas Edward

Victorian childhood : themes and variations


Jordan, Thomas Edward

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.

Record # 460559


Price: $19.00 

 

Walt Whitman: Words for America


Kerley, Barbara, Illust. by: Brian Selznick

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Dust Jacket: None, 50 pages with selected poems by Walt Whitman. Fantastically illustrated in color by Brian Selznick to complement biography. Very good condition, tight copy.

Record # 512369


Price: $10.00 

 

World of the Nursery, The


White, Colin

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.

Record # 801547


Price: $13.00 

 

Yankee Doodle's Literary Sampler of Prose, Poetry, & Pictures: Being an Anthology of Diverse Works Published for the Edification and/or Entertainment of Young Readers in America Before 1900


Haviland, Virginia and Margaret N. Coughla

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.

Record # 804037


Price: $51.00 

 

Young Ardizzone, The: An Autobiographical Fragment


Ardizzone, Edward , Illust. by: Edward Ardizzone

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.

Record # 508432


Price: $38.00 

Monroe Street Books