Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1998 Vol 22, No. 1, Jan.; 5.75x8"; 140 pp. Reference journals, softcover. French Children's Literature (WWI on and Contemporary) with picture of Becassine Nourrice on the front. (nice picture, poor scan).
London: Macrae, 1989, 1st printing; 8x10.5, 320 pp. Reference illustration, hardback. Essays on fifteen contemporary book illustrators (Keeping, Jacques, S Hughes,Ambrus, Lambourne, Wildsmith,Pienkowski, Briggs, J Lawrence, Oxenbury, Burningham, R Briggs, Q Blake, Ahlbergs, A Browne, M Foreman).
London: Macrae, 1989, 1st printing; 8x10.5, 320 pp. Reference illustration, hardback. Essays on fifteen contemporary book illustrators (Keeping, Jacques, S Hughes, Ambrus, Lambourne, Wildsmith, Pienkowski, Briggs, J Lawrence, Oxenbury, Burningham, R Briggs, Q Blake, Ahlbergs, A Browne, M Foreman).
London: Macrae, 1989, 1st printing; 8x10.5, 320 pp. Reference illustration, hardback. Essays on fifteen contemporary book illustrators (Keeping, Jacques, S Hughes, Ambrus, Lambourne, Wildsmith, Pienkowski, Briggs, J Lawrence, Oxenbury,Burningham, R Briggs, Q Blake, Ahlbergs, A Browne, M Foreman).
New York and London: Harper Brothers, 1904 tp; green cloth with oval plate and gilt titles, top edge gilt; 8 two toned orange or green plates incl. tissue guarded frontis as issued, little margin drawings with orange highlights repeat every 16 pages; 6.25x9.25; [x] 314 pp. Reference childhood, hardback. A......
Salem, OR: Oregon State Library 1914; brown card, 6x8.75", 83 pp. Reference education, softcover. Books for use with the Oregon high school curriculum and for teacher reference, not state adopted textbooks. which assume strong reading ability and stamina. About 1500 books, not annotated but with trade and school price. Author.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1912); dark green cloth, gilt titles and black lettering and designs, oblong 10x7.75"; 128 pp. Reference history, hardback. The one volume index and parent guide to The Children's Hour set, quite a contrast to The Book House only eight years later. Includes two essays, supplementary readings to.....
University of Toronto Press, (1978); large trade paperback, 147 pp. Reference history, softcover. .
Abrams, 1987, 1st printing; 271 pp. Reference history, hardback. .
New York: Justin G. Schiller Ltd, 1975, light card covers with wrap around selections of Meggendorfer's work; references; 21.5 x 28 cm.; np. Reference biography, softcover. A large and interesting illustrated catalogue with 65 items described by Schiller, with an introduction by Schiller and a seven page Appreciation by Maurice.....
New York: Macmillan, 1953, stated 1st; 624 pp. Reference history, hardback. "From Earliest times to Present," Four excellent articles treating the history of children's literature sequentially. Cornelia Meigs, Anne Thaxter Eaton, Elizabeth Nesbitt, Ruth Hall Viguers.
Abrams, 1983, 1st printing. Reference illustration, hardback. .
Horn Book, 1973, 1st printing; 274 pp. Reference biography, hardback. Bertha Mahony Miller and Children's Books.
New York: Doubleday & Co, Inc, 1939 (1920, 1923, 1926) stated 1st; blue cloth, blue top edge, in pale blue-green jacket with only "My Roads" and oval landscape in tan, blue green, and black, black titles; 8vo; 399 pp. Reference essays, hardback, ex-lib. The three previous "Roads" books, edited, brought.....
New York: Doubleday & Co, Inc, 1939 (1920, 1923, 1926) stated 1st; blue cloth, blue top edge, in pale blue-green jacket with only "My Roads" and oval landscape in tan, blue green, and black, black titles; 8vo; 399 pp. Reference essays, hardback. The three previous "Roads" books, edited, brought up.....
New York: George H. Doran Company(1920); brown boards with dark brown spine and pasted on label, small 8v0; 240 pp incld 23 pp index. Reference essays, hardback. The first of Moore's "Roads" collection of sometimes outspoken essays and reviews of children's books.
HarperCollins, (1995),2nd; 233 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .
NY: St. Martin's Press, (1978 London Macmillan), 1st Am edition, printing unknown. Black cloth boards, blue dustjacket, 1507 pp. Reference biography, hardback, ex-lib. An indispensable reference for children's literature, containing short biographies and bibliographies complete to publication date of most English speaking authors. (European literature and 19th c literature are.....
Wilson, Second Edition Revised, 1970/1951, 6th printing. Reference biography, hardback, ex-lib. Children's writers through the fifties with early pictures and short autobiographies, a good reference for authors who have been omitted from later lists. (other titles issued for later authors).
Houghton Mifflin, 1995, 2nd; 800 pp. Reference biography, hardback. A modern encyclopedic reference on children's literature.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1977, 1st printing; Famous Biographies for Young People series; 152 pp., photos, index. Reference biography, hardback. Short descriptions of 17 pairs of children's writers and illustrators: Grimm, Asbjornsen/Moe, d'Aulaire, de Brunhoff, Hader, Buff, Bryan, Carroll/Lane/Fenton, Ward/McNeer, Adams/Anderson, Yashima, De Leeuw, Blegvad, Emberley, Feelings, Devlin.
London: Kestrel, 1979, 1st printing; 218 pp. Reference biography, hardback. Essays on Contemporary Writers for Children., followed by a short essay by the author.
Oxford UP, 1984, 2nd; 587 pp. Reference biography, hardback. Opinionated, and full of information.
Oxford UP, (1984); 587 pp. Reference biography, hardback. Opinionated, and full of information.
Atheneum, 1978, 1st printing. Reference biography, hardback. Autobiography.