Arbuthnot Anthology of Children's Literature.
Scott, Foresman 1961 rev. edition; 460 pp. Reference education, hardback. Composed of three "Time For" volumes: Poetry, Fairy Tales Old and New, True and Almost True, (blank endpapers). Pictorial boards.
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The Hole in the Wall.
Oxford University Press, 1968, 1st printing; 161 pp. Juvenile hardback. Eight stories written between 1796 and 1886, of "children trying to overcome some real or imagined fault."
Companions of Our Youth: Stories by Women for Young People 1865-1900.
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, (1980); red boards, grey endpapers, in red jacket illustrated with a girl reading; 216 pp incld bibliography. Reference history, hardback. Drawn mainly from the five most widely read magazines of the period: Youth's Companion, Riverside Magazine, Wide-Awake, Our Young Folks, and St. Nicholas, these.....
A Child's Book of Prayers (Masha)
Random House, (1941) probable first; gilt paper boards with large picture of little angels playing a violin, gilt titles, ivory cloth spine; endpapers with lovely illustrations of angels descending to a boy and girl; colour illustrations bordered and highlighted with gilt facing on almost every spread, in jacket identical to.....
A Child's Book of Prayers.
Random House, (1941) probable first, ; 9.6x 12.2, 36 pp. Picture Book hardback. Traditional children's prayers, beautifully illustrated.
Naughty Children.
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1963, stated 1st printing (1st US); red cloth boards with a little drawing of an afternoon tea, jacket with people looking at life sized picture books featuring naughty children; 8vo; 315 pp. Juvenile hardback. Stories of "mischief, only worse", over 100 short, funny selections from.....
The Ox of the Wonderful Horns and Other African Folktales.
New York: Atheneum, 1971, 1st printing; dark red cloth with black stamped warrior, yellow ochre endpapers, in dw with ox illustration in these colours, tall 4to; 42 pp. Picture Book hardback. Five African Stories, Ananse, Frog, Another Frog, Sister Tortoise and the title story, 4 funny tales, one a tale.....
The Magic of Lewis Carroll.
Bramhall House, 1973, a reprint of which this is the 1st printing; 288 pp. Reference biography, hardback. An interesting collection of Carroll's games and tricks. Nice quality for a reprint.
Looking-Glass Letters.
New York: Rizzoli 1992/1991 stated 1st US; black binding in jacket with Alice, letter andcarroll; obling 25.5 x 10.5 cm; 160 pp. Reference biography, hardback. Chapters arranged by his childhood and student days, then by the Alice's, the Snark and Sylvie and Bruno.
A Thousand Yards of Sea.
Greenwillow, 1993/1992, 1st printing Am. Shiny colour pictorial boards, 7.9x11; c 77 pp. Picture Book hardback. "A collection of sea stories and poems."Seven poems and six stories that present fanciful aspects of life on or beneath the waves are gathered together here, among them Edward Lear, Eleanor Farjeon, Jack Prelutsky.....
Stories for Five-Year-Olds and other young readers.
London: Faber and Faber, 1973, 1st printing published; green paper boards with stamped fox, in tan jacket with story characters, 6.25x8.5"; 167 pp. Juvenile hardback. Twenty-eight good modern stories and folk tales.
Creatures of the Cosmos.
Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1977, 1st printing, nl; orange paper boards with orange/yellow flying creatures lit from below; 8vo; 152 pp. Juvenile hardback. "Eight tales about beasts that never were." by the editor and her husband, also John Christopher, Anne McCaffrey, Howard Fast, Kris Neville.
Flowers of Delight.
Pantheon, 1965; 7.75x 10.5, 230 pp. Reference history, hardback. Culled from the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books.
Robinson Crusoe; his life and surprising adventures.
New York: Franklin Watts, Inc (London: Nonesuch Press) 1968, US 1st printing thus illustrated/[1719]; with foreword and introduction by Kathleen Lines; blue cloth boards with gilt vignette, blue eps w R.C. portrait; blue top edge; in identical jacket without text on flaps; tall 8vo; 281 pp includes glossary. Juvenile hardback.....
The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol 1, No 2, Fall 1977.
Johns Hopkins University Press. Reference journals, softcover. Fantasy and creativity in children's literature.
The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol 1, No 2, Fall 1977.
Johns Hopkins University Press. Reference journals, softcover. Fantasy and creativity in children's literature.
The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol 11, No 1. April 1987.
Johns Hopkins University Press. Reference journals, softcover. Literature of American minorities.
The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol 11, No 2, Fall 1987.
Johns Hopkins University Press. Reference journals, softcover. Children's Literature and Popular Culture.
The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol 14, No 2. Dec 1990.
Johns Hopkins University Press. Reference journals, softcover. Images of the family in children's books.
The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol 15, No 1. June 1991.
Johns Hopkins University Press. Reference journals, softcover. Historical fiction and nonfiction for children.
The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol 15, No 2, December 1991.
Johns Hopkins University Press. Reference journals, softcover. Beyond Sexism: Gender Issues in Children's Literature. Abridged: Kuznets/Hitty and Miss Hickory; Clark/Confederate Females; Judith Gero Hohn/George MacDonald's female characters; Rushdy/Charlotte's Web;Nikola-Lisa/Peter Rabbit.
The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol 2, No 2. June 1978.
Johns Hopkins University Press. Reference journals, softcover. The Adolescent Novel.
The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol 4, No 2, Winter 1980-81.
Johns Hopkins University Press. Reference journals, softcover. Children and poetry.
The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol 5, 1981.
Johns Hopkins University Press. Reference journals, softcover. Selection and criticism.
The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol 6, 1982.
Johns Hopkins University Press. Reference journals, softcover. Informational books for children.