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.
Kestral, 1979/1971, 1st printing this edition; 218 pp. Reference biography, hardback. Essays on contemporary writers for children.
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.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, new edition with appendix, no date, green cloth, 8vo; 267 pp. Reference education, hardback, ex-lib. .
New York: Peacock Press/Bantam Books 1977; softcover still in original shrinkwrap. With an elegy by Hildegarde Flanner. Reference biography, softcover. A collection for an edition of a Thousand and One Nights that was never published.
New York: Harpercollins, 1998, stated 1st, nl; light brown boards with dark brown spine, gilt; tan endpapers, 6x9.25"; 406 pp incld bibliography and index. Reference essays, hardback. "Most memorable, however, is Nordstrom to her authors, cajoling, encouraging, assisting, teasing out ideas, supporting in every way possible. It would have been.....
Twayne's English Authors Series, 1994, 1st printing. Reference biography, hardback. .
Putnam, Book Club Edition, (1982). Reference biography, hardback. Autobiography, with photos.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, Riverside Press Cambridge 1912; red cloth, gilt titles, 8vo; 344 pp in all. Reference essays, hardback. 14 chapters beginning with The Influence of Good Books, then Some Modern Conditions and the Effects of Bad Books, followed by consideration of children reading and different types.....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1980); 8.6x12, 128 pp. Reference history, hardback. Twenty-seven nursery books from the early 1800's, including 3 ABC's, in one volume. About 400 bright and delightful colour illustrations by Cruikshank et al.
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1970/1969, 3rd printing with corrections; blue boards, in blue jacket with photo of children playing, 372 pp. Reference childhood, hardback. Based on ten years of the contributions of more than 10,000 children as they play together outdoors and independently, each game with its variants and similar ones.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 1st sd; black cloth in white jacket with children playing; 8vo; 249 pp including index. Reference childhood, hardback. Beginning in 1970 Iona Opie made regular visits to the local school playground, ostensibly to collect games but actually to see how the children's play evolved.....
Elsevier/Nelson, 1981, 1st printing; 127 pp. Reference essays, hardback. On reading and writing books for children.
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1972, previously written but 1st printing thus collected; translated by Arnold Rosin; green cloth boards, dark green jacket, 8vo; 182 pp incl. index. Reference education, hardback. The third of a group of selection's of Piaget's writings designed to make his work accessible to the general reader.....
Munich, München: Rogner & Bernard; 1974, 1st printing, 1-7 thousand; foreword by Eugen Roth; yellow cloth in colourful jacket of Pocci illustrations; 8vo; 655 pp. Reference illustration, hardback. .
Munich, München: Rogner & Bernard; n. d. for Manfred Pawlak Herrsching, foreword by Eugen Roth; yellow cloth in colourful jacket of Pocci illustrations; 8vo; 655 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .