Barrie and the Kailyard School.
Barker, 1951, 1st printing; 103 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .The English Novelists Series.
Barker, 1951, 1st printing; 103 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .The English Novelists Series.
National Trust for Scotland, 1964; Paperback pamphlet, illustrated. 19 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .
National Trust for Scotland, 1964; Paperback pamphlet, illustrated. 19 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .
National Trust for Scotland, 1964; Paperback pamphlet, illustrated. 19 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .
National Trust for Scotland, 1964; Paperback pamphlet, illustrated. 19 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .
Scribner's, 1938, 1st printing; 256 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .
Doran, nd; 257 pp. Reference history, hardback. In rare dw with drawing and text on front and back, blank flaps.
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.....
Milford, 1988; stiff white WRAPS, Rupert and bird on front cover, 4 full paged cartoons or drawings, 6.5x9.3;12 pp. Reference biography, hardback. An exhibition catalogue covering a biography, Early Works, The Commercial Artist, Oil Paintings, Rupert, Showcase. A. E. B. kept careful notebooks of account for most of his life.....
Harcourt, 1939, 1st printing, 280 pp. Reference biography, hardback. A retrospective anthology of the career in illustrator Reginald Birch, with excerpts from his illustrated stories and poems, 1885 - 1938.
Addison-Wesley, 1979, 1st printing. Reference biography, hardback. .
Orion Children's Books., 1996, 1st printing. Reference history, hardback. .
London: Armada, 1989, 1st printing; colourful WRAPS with montage of books, pens, candy, badges, 7.5x10.25; 97 pp. Reference biography, hardback. All about the school, the author, and the characters, illustrated with photos and colour reproductions of the dustjackets.
New York: Simon and Schuster 1979, 1st thus nl; boards with wrap around illustration of MWB and her grandmother in an old convertible, dark red endpapers, in jacket identical to boards; 10.25" sq; np. Reference childhood, hardback. A child's memories. From a piece originally written by MWB for the Junior.....
New York, London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927/1927, 1st tp; dark hunter green cloth boards, gilt titles, rough cut bottom and foredges,; 8vo; 423 pp. Reference biography, hardback. Written by the devoted son of Frances Hodgson Burnett. Her many books for adults are largely forgotten, but Sara Crewe, The Secret Garden.....
München, Munich: Verlagsgruppe Bertelsmann, no date, (1975 inscription); with a foreword by Rolf Hochhuth; red textured paper boards, realistic sketches by Busch on endpapers, in green jacket with Max and Moritz picture, and titles of his works in yellow and white script; 24.5x32.5 cm; 544 pp. Reference illustration, hardback. Twenty-one.....
Little, Brown Co., 1969, 2nd; 378 pp. Reference essays, hardback. On the Writing and Enjoyment of Children's Books.
New York: Dutton Children's Books, 1993 1st, nl; grey blue covers with maroon spine, maroon jacket with Renoir's Artists Son Drawing; 6x9"; 362 pp incld Bibliography and index, Reference essays, hardback. On Writing. On Fantasy. Is It Good, Will It Last?, (Reviews), the Unconscious.
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1967, stated first; tan boards, turquoise spine, in white jacket with posed teens looking through books next to a lone Bus Stop sign; 8vo; 218 pp. Reference history, hardback. Written just as "Young Adult" literature was beginning, the author, a former NCTE president, first.....
Boys and Girls Department, Carnegie Library, 1960. Tan paperwraps with brown Pied Piper drawing and red lettering. Reference education, hardback. A selected list categorized.
Boys and Girls Department, Carnegie Library, 1960. Tan paperwraps with brown Pied Piper drawing and red lettering. Reference education, hardback. A selected list categorized.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co, 1985, 1st paperback; 235 pp, images from the original plates, notes, index. Reference history, softcover. Focussed on the major writers of this period. Interesting fact: in spring of 1862, three clergymen, Charles Kingsley, Lewis Carroll, and George MacDonald, each began their first stories. What caused this.....
London: The Lewis Carroll Society, 1973, Robert Stockwell Ltd. Printer; green card with large photo of Carroll, illustrated, fold out genealogical chart, 6x9.75"; 62 pp. Reference biography, softcover. Jaques: Lewis Carroll and the Dodgson Lineage; Clark: Three Faces of Alice; Goodacre: Lewis Carroll the Creative Writer; Davies: The Revd. Mr.....
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.
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, (1976); 22 x 28.5 cm; 216 pp. Reference biography, hardback. An authority on Carroll has assembled 15 new essays ranging from Arthur Rackham's Adventures in Wonderland to Alice movies. With the assistance of the Lewis Carroll Society, the book also includes unpublished photographs and other.....