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Gottlieb, Gerald. Early Children's Books and Their Illustration. David R. Godine, Boston, MA, 1975.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cover is in excellent condition, save for minimal rubbing/fading with age. DJ is clipped and in good condition, save for rubbing and corner wear (including head and foot of spine). Text is otherwise tight in binding. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout. No other markings or indications of note. Due to the size of this book, additional shipping charges may apply. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Gottlieb, Gerald. Early Children's Books and Their Illustration. D. R. Godine, 1975.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VERY GOOD COPY IN GOOD DUST JACKET: Text Block is clean and tight. Dust Jacket has crimping to extremities and several tears. (David R. Godine, Boston- 1975) Location: R8
Seller: From Away Books & Antiques, Greenville, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SOLID CLEAN BRIGHT AND UNMARKED A RARE TITLE A COMPLETE LOOK AT CHILDREN'S LITERATURE TRACED BACK TO ITS EARLIEST WORKS LISTINGS OF EARLY BOOKS AND THEIR AUTHORS BOOK BY BOOK A GREAT RESOURCE FOR ANY STUDENT OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS MANY ILLUSTRATIONS BOUND IN RED WITH SOME SUNFADE TO LETTERS ON SPINE
Seller: ARD Books, cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$27.45 + shipping
Description: [EAN: 9780879231583], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: The Pierpont Morgan Library and David R. Godine], Jacket, 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 tales which became popular, see how they were often initially illustrated by crude woodcuts, and how they might later be transformed by the drawings, watercolors, or engravings of great artists. This is not a history of children's literature; it is a selection of masterpieces or milestones from the past two thousand years of books and pictures which either were intended for children or which before long became their special property." (from the Preface by Charles Ryskamp). 225 books described in the catalogue, supplemented by the essay "The first flourishing of children's books" by J. H. Plumb Size: 30 x 23 Cm
Seller: Buli-Antiquariat, Gumtow, Germany
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: First edition; 4to.; red cloth covered boards, hardcover; 263 pages; preface by Charles Ryskamp and essay by J. H. Plumb; color and black & white illustrations; very good in chipped and rubbed dust jacket.
Seller: WellRead Books A.B.A.A., Northport, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No markings. Oversize. Some rubbing to dust jacket edges, in a protective cover.
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: HB Illustrated F/G+. Jacket a little worn at head of spine, DJ
Seller: 221Books, Westlake Village, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 4to. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. 263pp. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Near fine in very good dw with 1 small chip at top of front panel.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 4to. xxx, 263 (3) pp, color and b/w illus. First Edition, 1975. Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, clean, white and bright. 9.25" x 12". Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In mylar protector. Size: Quarto
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.94 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 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 tales which became popular, see how they were often initially illustrated by crude woodcuts, and how they might later be transformed by the drawings, watercolors, or engravings of great artists. This is not a history of children's literature; it is a selection of masterpieces or milestones from the past two thousand years of books and pictures which either were intended for children or which before long became their special property." (from the Preface by Charles Ryskamp). 225 books described in the catalogue, supplemented by the essay "The first flourishing of children's books" by J. H. Plumb.
Seller: Leopolis, Kraków, Poland
Price: US$52.86 + shipping
Description: 4to, 263pp, 225 colour & b/w illus. Boards slightly warped. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
Price: US$97.50 + shipping
Description: New York / Boston: The Pierpont Morgan Library / David R. Godine, Publisher, 1975. Fine condition in a Very Near Fine dust jacket (just a touch rubbed at corners). NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NOT price clipped ($30.00). Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. Nearly 300 illustrations, many in beautiful full color. Featured here are 225 outstanding items from the incomparable treasures of The Pierpont Morgan Library. The text is both informative and entertaining. There are sections on Aesop's Fables, bestiaries, ABC books, grammars, fairy tales and fables, the Brothers Grimm, A Christmas Carol, fantasy books, Edward Lear, Beatrix Potter, etc. Delightful to the eye and a useful reference. Listed in Katz (1994) as one of the best 30 books on the history of book illustration. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Contributions by Charles Ryskamp, Gerald Gottlieb, and J. H. Plumb. Top edge tinted red, as issued. Bound in the original red cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine. From the dust jacket: "Among the priceless treasures of The Pierpont Morgan Library in New York is a very large collection of early children's books, one of the most important and comprehensive collection of its kind in the world. Some of these classics of children's literature have never before been exposed to the public, while others are old favorites. From these incomparable holdings, representing more than a thousand years of social, literary, and art history, Gerald Gottlieb, Curator of Early Children's Books at the Library, has chosen to present and discuss 225 outstanding examples of books and manuscripts, most of them written, designed, and illustrated for children. This is not, emphatically, a 'children's book,' but it is -- through its sparkling text and splendid illustrations, many in full color -- a window into a world we all once loved and inhabited. The term 'children's book' is here interpreted very broadly. Engagingly described and fully illustrated are such gems as manuscripts of Aesop's Fables from the third and ninth centuries; glittering twelfth-century illuminated bestiaries; a fourteenth-century courtesy book written and illuminated for royal princes of France; the original manuscript (1695) of Perrault's fairy tales, containing the first pictures of Puss in Boots, Little Red Riding Hood, and Bluebeard; woodcut-illustrated broadside ballads of Robin Hood and Patient Griselda; the first miniature Bibles for children; the manuscript, with original illustrations, of Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL; illustrated letters in which Beatrix Potter conceived Peter Rabbit; the first edition of Frank Baum's WIZARD OF OZ; and the manuscript, illustrated by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, of THE LITTLE PRINCE. There are hornbooks, battledores, courtesy books, ABC's, primers, nursery rhymes, poetry, and fables, illustrated by artists from Albrecht Durer to Kate Greenaway " Oversize Hardcover. 9.25" wide by 12" tall. This large heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 293pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$104.50 + shipping
Description: First Edition. With 225 full colour and black and illustrations. Folio, publisher's original red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine panel, and with the colour pictorial dustjacket. xxx, 263 pp. A fine copy, very fresh and well preserved. FIRST EDITION AND AN EXTENSIVE CATALOGUE WITH MAGNIFICENT ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. "Among the priceless treasures of The Pierpont Morgan Library is a very large collection of early children's books, one of the most important and comprehensive of its kind in the world. Some of these classics of children's literature have never before been exposed to the public, while others are old favorites. From these incomparable holdings, representing more than a thousand years of social, literary, and art history, Gerald Gottlieb, Curator of Early Children's Books at the Library, has chosen to present and discuss 225 outstanding examples of books and manuscripts, most of them written, designed, and illustrated for children. This is not, emphatically, a 'children's book,' but it is - through its sparkling text and splendid illustrations, many in full color - a window into a world we all once loved and inhabited."
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$104.50 + shipping
Description: First Edition. With 225 full colour and black and illustrations. Folio, publisher's original red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine panel, and with the colour pictorial dustjacket. xxx, 263 pp. A fine copy, very fresh and well preserved. FIRST EDITION AND AN EXTENSIVE CATALOGUE WITH MAGNIFICENT ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. "Among the priceless treasures of The Pierpont Morgan Library is a very large collection of early children's books, one of the most important and comprehensive of its kind in the world. Some of these classics of children's literature have never before been exposed to the public, while others are old favorites. From these incomparable holdings, representing more than a thousand years of social, literary, and art history, Gerald Gottlieb, Curator of Early Children's Books at the Library, has chosen to present and discuss 225 outstanding examples of books and manuscripts, most of them written, designed, and illustrated for children. This is not, emphatically, a 'children's book,' but it is - through its sparkling text and splendid illustrations, many in full color - a window into a world we all once loved and inhabited."
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Early Children's Books and Their Illustration. David Godine, Boston, 1975.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Preface by Charles Ryskamp, foreward and text by Gerald Gottlieb, essay by J.H. Plumb. Red cloth binding, gilt lettering on spine, blue pictorial dj with Kate Greenaway illustration, in mylar cover, taped to the back of the dj in 4 places. 225 books described, 263 pp.
Seller: Ragabooks, Palo Alto, CA, U.S.A.