New York: The Century Company, Oct 1919, 1st printing; grey cloth boards with gilt and orange illustration of small girl, 8vo; 224 pp. Reference childhood, hardback. Full of interesting detail about the world of a lively little girl in the late 1800's. Quite a modern tone.
Boston, New York, Chicago, Dallas: Atkinson, Mentzer, and Grover, (1906); light tan cloth boards with red geometric border and black titles; many photographs of children and projects, small 8vo; 136 pp. Reference education. From the days when children did serious handwork in public schools, despite large classes and simple materials.....
Abrams, 1981, 2nd printing, c.1980; 11.8 x 10.9 x 1.5", 276 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .
Dutton Lodestar, 1984, 1st printing; 149 pp. Reference biography, hardback. The "Story of a Storyteller". First in the Jewish Biography series. Includes list of works and index.
Metuchen NJ and London: The Scarecrow Press Inc., 1994/1994, 1st tp; green cloth binding, black panel with gilt decorative border and titles; tall 8vo; 405 pp incld index. Reference history, hardback. Fourteen interesting chapters written by various academics: Through a Glass Clearly: Positive Images of African-American fathers in Young Adult.....
Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1997 Vol 21, Jan. Apr. Sept.; 5.75x8"; 456 total plus index to Vol 21. Reference journals, softcover. Jan: Forgotten authors (including Elizabeth Goudge); Apr. General Issue (Cuckoo Clock, Potter, Oz, Cushman), Sept. Irish Children's Literature. Institutions inquire.
Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1999 Vol 23, Jan. Apr. Sept.; 5.75x8"; 456 total plus index to Vol. 23. Reference journals, softcover. Jan: Contemporary British Children's Literature; Apr: General Issue (Ethnicities and modern Irony); Sept: Sexuality and Children's Literature. Institutions inquire.
Johns Hopkins University Press. Reference journals, softcover. American Children's Literature.
New York: The John Day Company, ALA, 1942/1933, 3rd edition completely revised and reset; green and tan jacket, not illustrated, 8vo; 285 pp, including publisher list and extensive index. Reference book lists, hardback. Over 1300 titles graded and divided to meet the reading needs of all children from two to.....
Plough Publishing House, 1975/1963, Second Edition. Reference childhood, hardback. A long photo essay about the lives of children in the Bruderhoff.
DMS Publishing, 1995, 1st printing; paperwraps; 64 pp. Reference book lists, hardback. .
DMS Publishing, 1995, 1st printing; paperwraps; 64 pp. Reference book lists, hardback. .
University of Chicago, 1974/1973, 2nd; 484 pp. Reference book lists, hardback. The U of Chicago Guide to Children's Literature, 1966-1972. 1400 books described, fully indexed.
University of Chicago, 1980, 1st printing; 547 pp. Reference book lists, hardback. The U of Chicago Guide to Children's Literature, 1973-78. 1400 books described, fully indexed.
University of Chicago, 1980, 1st printing; 547 pp. Reference book lists, hardback. The U of Chicago Guide to Children's Literature, 1973-78. 1400 books described, fully indexed.
University of Chicago, 1980, 1st printing; 547 pp. Reference book lists, hardback. The U of Chicago Guide to Children's Literature, 1973-78. 1400 books described, fully indexed.
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.
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.
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.....
Norton, 1963, 1st printing; 224 pp. Reference childhood, hardback. The Delights of a Maine childhood.
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.
Lippincott, 1975/1974, 1965, 1st printing Am this edition; 368 pp. Reference essays, hardback. An excellent critical history of children's books in England, with United States and Commonwealth children's literature added in this edition.
Lippincott, 1975/1974, 1965, 1st printing Am this edition; 368 pp. Reference essays, hardback. An excellent critical history of children's books in England, with United States and Commonwealth children's literature added in this edition.
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.....
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.