New York: R.R. Bowker, 1964. First edition. Soft cover. 224p, several ills. in publishers' ads. Pages age yellowed. A very few lightly dogeared corners. Covers lightly age soiled. With the imprint of Hathaway House Bookshop, Wellesley, MA. Arranged by grade and subject, with indexes to authors, titles, series, and illustrators..... More

Turin: C. Deasti, n.d. [ca. 1900?]. Deasti, C. Unbound. Cabinet card, ca. 4 x 5 1/2 inches. The photographer was located at 25, Via Garibaldi in Turin. This serious well-dressed lad poses with studio props of gun and toy horse in the photographer's studio.   His active hands are slightly..... More

Paris: Ipomee-Albin Michel, 1994. Clement, Frederic. No stated edition, presumed first. Hardcover (plasticized boards). N.p., many photos and ills. by the author, partly in color. No jacket (as issued?). In this children's photobook Clement imagines the journey and fate of a book abandoned on the wet streets of Paris. Clement..... More

Paris: Magnard, n.d. [1960s]. No stated edition. Sewn soft cover. 24p, several line ills. and many handwriting examples. Printed in grey. French elementary student's exercise book for learning to write cursive lowercase letters in the "sloping English" style.  Sixth and last in the series.  Each spread is gridded, with examples..... More

N.p. No stated publisher, n.d. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. One sheet of card stock, 1 ill. printed in brown. Tongue-twister verse, featuring the letter F. One of the alliterative rhymes first published in Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation by Willard Johnson (Philadelphia, 1836). Perhaps printed..... More

Moscow: Detgiz [State Publishing House for Children's Literature], 1958-59. Unstated editions. Soft cover; hardcover. Most are 16-20p. All soft cover except Cat's House, which is 48p and in boards. Cat's House is a play; the others are verse about animals (About Everything in the World is also an ABC book)..... More

Milan: Bablibri, 2024. Mari, Iela. Reprint of 5th edition of 2019 (1st pub. 1967). Hardcover (plasticized boards). 32p, many color ills. by the author. No jacket (as issued?). Wordless children's picture book about a shape-shifting wayward balloon. Not to be confused with Lamorisse's red balloon of film. Can be sent..... More

N.p. [American Library Association?], 1943. First edition. Unbound. Ca. 2 1/2 x 6 inches. Lightly stained on front, 3 small pencil drawings on back. Printed in blue and red. Prints the Dickinson poem beginning "He ate and drank the previous words" and lists 9 rules for how children can "take..... More

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 318p + 16p of black-and-white ills. "Nodelman explores the various means by which pictures tell stories: design, style, code, tension, action, irony, and rhythm." Discusses the relationship between text and pictures in books for all ages by many illustrators--Anno, Burkert..... More

New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1963. First edition. Soft cover. 65p, a few ills. 278 lots, of which 1-111 are children's books and references. Other lots, including English and American literature, are from the library of the late The Vice-Chancellor Maja Leon Berry. Can be sent outside the US for less..... More

N.p. No stated publisher, n.d. [mid-1960s]. No stated edition. Soft cover. 62p, a few ills. Remnants of old enclosure sticker. Bound in are 3 store order cards and an application for a store charge account. With the imprint of Hathaway House Bookshop, Wellesley, MA. A few light pencil marks. Issued..... More

New York: Viking Press, 1998. Zahares, Wade. First edition. Hardcover. [32]p, many color ills. by Wade Zahares. On jacket flap: "Reinforced binding. A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection"; however, this copy was purchased upon publication at an illustrator signing in 1998. Related material laid in. A vivid children's picture book, with rhyming..... More

Boston: Horn Book, 1925-1988. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged and illustrated. Long broken run; list and details sent on request. Well over 200 loose issues, including 2 complete decades (1940s, 1960s), and many complete years in the 1930s, 1950s, and 1970s. The definitive American periodical for children's books--publishing, writing..... More