Children's Books from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

New York: Justin G. Schiller, 1973 5 volumes. Justin G. Schiller Catalogue 29, New York, 1973. 8vo (24.5 cm), unpaginated, 1692 items. Justin G. Schiller Catalogue 30, A Wintery Selection of Modestly Priced Children's Books. New York, 1975. 8vo (21.5 cm), unpaginated, 1444 items. Justin G. Schiller Catalogue 39, Illustrated Art and Children's Books. New York, 1981. 8vo (23.5 cm),… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Justin G. Schiller, 1970 4 volumes 12mo (16.5 cm), 264 pp. Printed wrappers. Rollo To Rebecca, Spring 1970; Juvenile Temptations, Summer 1970; A Paper Menagerie, Autumn 1970; The Children's Hour, Winter 1970. 491 items. Limited to 500 copies. Chapbook Miscellany has been conceived as a series of antiquarian catalogues devoted entirely to early children's books and related juvenilla.… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Justin G. Schiller 5 volumes 8vo (21.5 cm), unpaginated. Printed wrappers. Part the First: A-G, Part the Second: H-R, Part the Last: S-Z. 1367 items. Together with: Justin G. Schiller Catalogue 28. Unpaginated in printed wrappers. 170 items. Justin G. Schiller Catalogue 32: American Children's Books Printed Before 1900. Unpaginated in printed wrappers. 423 items.

Belitha Press Ltd, 1995 4to (29 cm), 110 pp. Laminated boards and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). The book explains how one hundred medical and scientific discoveries were made, and how they have prolonged and improved our lives.

A. and C. Black, 1940 12mo (19 cm), 96 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding slightly dusted).

Carousel Books, 1977 12mo (19.5 cm), 110 pp. Laminated wrappers (stamps of the Royal Institution).

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1889 12mo (17.5 cm), 106, 6 pp. Publisher's decorative cloth, tile gilt on the spine and front cover (endpapers slightly stained). A course of lectures delivered before a juvenile authority at the London Institution during the Christmas Holydays of 1888-89. Fine copy.

Leonard Baskin, 1979 4to (29 cm), 48 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly frayed at extremities, small tear at the head).

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1994 8vo (24 cm), 96 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Ian McEwan's children novel illustrated by Anthony Browne. Fine copy.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1966 4to (29 cm), 220 pp. Laminated boards (later edition, ownership entry on the front free endpaper dated 1994, which is probably about the date the book was published). A collection of 408 rhymes as told by Mother Goose, illustrated with almost 850 drawings by Raymond Briggs. Fine copy.

Doubleday, 1998 12mo (18.5 cm), 38 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich's book is based upon the Christmas carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and illustrated by Quentin Blake, one of the finest Britain illustrators.

Macmillan , 1969 Oblong 8vo (17 x 23.5 cm), [32] pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly rubbed at extremities, small tear at the head of the spine). Muriel Spark's first children's book Illustrated by Edward Gorey. The first UK edition.

Vienna: [Mkhitʻarean tparan], 1930 12mo (19 cm), 80 pp. Cont. cloth backed boards. In Armenian. An illustrated anthology for the second grade of Armenian school. Published by the Mekhitarists publishing house in Vienna. From the library of Armenian community in L'viv (printed label).

London: B. T. Batsford, 1954 4to (25.5 cm), front., 256 pp, 107 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj worn, some part of dj missing, internally very good). From the blurb: "In this book, Percy Muir, the leading authority on English Children's Books, has written an account which is both scholarly and entertaining of the works published for children during… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Pierpont Morgan Library and David R. Godine, 1975 4to (30.5 cm), front., XXX, 265 pp, 225 illustrations. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "[The book] attempts to show us, by word and by picture, how and where children's literature originated and which kinds of stories were chosen for children -- and by children -- over the centuries. We follow the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Toronto Public Library, 1975 2 volumes 4to (25.5 cm), XXVI, 562 pp, plates; front., XIV, PP. 563-1138, plates. Publisher's decorative cloth. The catalogue of early English children's books in the Osborne Collection donated in 1949 by Edgar Osborn to the Toronto Public Libraries. The collection represents all types and phases of writing fro children of the English-speaking world. Some three… Saber más sobre este artículo

St Paul's Bibliographies, 1987 8vo (22 cm), XXX, 142 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "Mary Elliott (then Mary Belson) began writing for children in 1809... Although Mary Elliott's books are now forgotten, they cannot be disregarded by researches into the history of childhood and children's literature. This bibliography contains about 470 entries, detailing not only each… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Henry Pootle Press, 1976 8vo (21.5 cm), without pagination. Printed wrappers. An attempt of Milne's bibliography contains 286 items. All known first British editions have been listed, and those American editions which represent first publication of an item. The first section of this list comprises books; the second lists Milne's contributions to other publications and the third section lists… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Gumuchian & Compagnie, 1930 2 volumes, 4to (29 cm), title, XXIV, 446, [4] pp, 1 plate in color; front., title, 16 pp, 336 pp of plates. Untrimmed in red calf gilt (minor shelf-wear). An unnumbered copy from 900 printed on papier velin. Fine copy of the first edition of one of the most important catalogues of children's books. "This… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Denis Dobson, 1971 4to (28.5 cm), 120 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "It is rare to find material assembled for the first time between the covers of a book that deals with objects so familiar that we are no longer aware of them. Infantilia is such a book. It tells in drawings and text the… Saber más sobre este artículo