The Best in Children's Books 1979-1984
University of Chicago, 1986, 1st printing; 547 pp. Reference book lists, hardback. The U of Chicago Guide to Children's Literature, 1973-78. 1400 books described, fully indexed.
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The Best in Children's Books 1985-1990.
University of Chicago, 1986, 1st printing; red cloth, 511 pp. Reference book lists, hardback. The U of Chicago Guide to Children's Literature, 1966-1972. 1400 books described, fully indexed.
Three Hundred Million Books: The Building of a Special Collection.
Berkeley, CA; Richard Levenson, Tamalpias Press, 1974, 200 copies printed, of which 100 were reserved for the author and publisher and 100 were reserved for the September meeting in Los Angeles of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs, 4.75x7"; 12 pp. Reference history, softcover. "Between 1919 and 1951, America was inundated.....
A Time to Recall: The Delights of a Maine Childhood.
Norton, 1963, 1st printing; 224 pp. Reference childhood, hardback. The Delights of a Maine childhood.
Edwardian Childhoods.
London: Routledge & Paul, 1982/1981, 2nd; large 8vo, 232 pp, 56 b&w plates, notes. Reference childhood, hardback. The world before the Great War as seen through the memories of nine Edwardian children. Well done reference work.
Children in the Wind (Kaze no naka no kodomo).
London: UNESCO, Kegan Paul International, 1991, 1st printing English, translated from the Japanese, by Robert Epp; marine blue cloth, green blue endpapers, in black jacket with picture of children, small 8vo; 89 pp. Reference childhood, hardback. Set in a small town in the Japanese countryside during the Olympic summer of.....
Pages and Pictures from Forgotten Children's Books.
New York: Benjamin Blom, 1968/1899, reissue. Blue cloth with white drawing, large 8vo; 510 pp. Reference history, hardback. A beautiful example of an early "book on books" for children.
Stories from Old-Fashioned Children's Books.
London: Leadenhall Press, 1898-99, 1st printing edition. Navy cloth with gilt picture and title, top edge gilt, small 8vo: 510 pages including ads. Reference history, hardback. Reproductions of earlier little books.
Stories from Old-Fashioned Children's Books.
London: Leadenhall Press, 1898-99, 1st printing edition; navy cloth with gilt picture and title, tipped in ad present; top edge gilt, small 8vo: 510 pages including ads. Reference history, hardback. Reproductions of earlier little books, poetry, and magazines, with the woodcuts they came with and others interspersed. A long and.....
Seven Little Billabongs: The World of Ethel Turner and Mary Grant Bruce.
Melbourne University Press, 1979, 1st printing; 219 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .
The Swans Fly Over.
Faber, 1959, 1st printing; 139 pp. Reference childhood, hardback. More descriptions of Uttley's life as a young child on a Buckinghamshire farm with reflections on the present, following A Country Child.
Margin for Surprise: about Books, Children, and Librarians.
Little, Brown, (1964), 3rd; 175 pp. Reference essays, hardback. .
That Eager Zest.
Lippincott, 1961, 1st printing; 252. Reference essays, hardback. 47 authors recall their first discoveries in the magic world of books.
The Indexing of Books and Periodicals.
New York: R. R. Bowker; London Edward Arnold & Co, 1931, 1st tp; green textured boards, 118 pp incld index. Reference essays, hardback. A clear explanation, still of use to people organizing their own small libraries for specific purposes. Once you start to think about it, there are many choices.....
Cobwebs to Catch Flies, illustrated books for the nursery and schoolroom 1700 to 1900.
London: Elek (1974); plain blue boards in blue jacket with full illustration reproducing one from Crane's Alphabet of Old Friends (1874); 19 x 25 cm; 163 pp. Reference history, hardback. Heavy coated paper which allows many clear coloured full page reproductions on both sides, extensive bibliography, list of collections, publishers.....
Books Before Five.
New Zealand Council for Educational Research 1956/1954, stated 2nd impression; blue boards, pink jacket with Carol reading; 8vo; 196 pp. Reference essays, hardback. An insightful diary kept by a librarian/mother observing her child's growing interaction with books, their conversations spread over Carol's years as a two, three, and four year.....
Kate Douglas Wiggin as her sister knew her.
Houghton, Mifflin Co., (c.1924); yellow boards with brown titles; 383 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .
Kate Douglas Wiggin as her sister knew her.
Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1925, 1st printing; green cloth boards,, photo; 383 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .
Kate Douglas Wiggin as her sister knew her.
Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1925, 1st printing; green cloth boards,, photo; 383 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .
West From Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder San Francisco 1915.
Harper & Row, Family Bookshelf, 1974, 1st printing; 124 pp. Reference biography, hardback. Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915. These letters, discovered after Wilder's death, were written on a visit to her daughter Rose Wilder Lane during the Panama Canal celebration and World's Fair.
Henry Williamson, the Man, the Writings, a Symposium.
Padstow, Cornwall: Tabb House, 1980, 1st printing; yellow ochre cloth, in jacket with drawing of author, photos, 8vo; 165 pp. Reference biography, hardback. A collection of essays assembled soon after Williamson's death.
The Children of Shallowford.
London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1978/1939, reissue with photos and additional material. Reference biography, hardback. The naturalist author (Tarka the Otter) and his wife Loetitia moved to Swallowford, a thatched cottage on the south side of Exmoor, and there brought up their five young children in the freedom of the countryside.....
Books Children Love.
Westchester, Illinois: Good News Publishers, Crossway, 1987, 1st printing; SOFTCOVER. Reference book lists, hardback. An annotated bibliography broken down into many subject areas and four literature levels with subcategories. The choice is individual, old favorites and some new; the comments are concerned with both writing quality and ethics imparted by.....
Autobiography of a Family Photo.
Dutton, 1995, 1st printing; 113 pp. Reference biography, hardback. Woodson's story of a girl growing up in Brooklyn during the Vietnam era.
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