Bibliophile in the Nursery : A Bookman's Treasury of Collectors' Lore on Old and Rare Children's Books
by Targ, W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in used dustwrapper
- Seller
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LONDON, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
World Publishing Co., Cleveland, first edition, 1957. Cloth, gilt cover title and blindstamped cover device, 8vo,. 503 pp, [15] pp of plates (1 folded). An interesting collection of essays on a range of topics about children's books by a number of experts and enthusiasts. Contents include: John Newbery by F. J. Harvey Darton; Nursery Rhymes by Iona And Peter Opie; Little Women Forever by C. Waller Barrett; The Publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by W. H. Bond; The Moving Market or Cries of London Town by Elisabeth Ball; A Twentieth-Century Look at Nineteenth-Century Children's Books by Jacob Blanck; Milestones of the Nursery (abridged catalogue of Pierpont Morgan exhibition); Geoffrey Chaucer Goes to School by Marchette Chute; The World Republic of Childhood by Paul Hazard; Of Castaways and Islands by Vincent Starrett; In the Cradle by Mrs. E. M. Field; The McGuffey Readers by Henry Ford and D. Kenneth Laub; My First Meeting with Sherlock Holmes by Ellery Queen; and many other pieces. Good in used dustwrapper.
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- Bookseller
- Wykeham Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-02010
- Title
- Bibliophile in the Nursery : A Bookman's Treasury of Collectors' Lore on Old and Rare Children's Books
- Author
- Targ, W
- Format/Binding
- Cloth, gilt cover title and blindstamped cover device, 8vo,
- Book Condition
- Good in used dustwrapper
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- World Publishing Co., Cleveland, first edition, 1957
- Date Published
- 1957
- Pages
- 503 pp, [15] pp of plates (1 folded)
- Keywords
- Book collecting. Children's literature History and criticism. Children's books Collectors and collecting. Children Books and reading William Targ Alice Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Conan Doyle Ellery Queen
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books & Juvenilia (Bibliographies);
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About the Seller
Wykeham Books
Biblio member since 2005
LONDON, Aberdeen
About Wykeham Books
We specialize chiefly in "books about books", the emphasis being on historical aspects of book collecting, production and distribution. A particular speciality is in bibliographies, of all subjects of interest to collectors, dealers and scholars, with several thousand bibliography titles in stock. Other strengths include extensive holdings of auction catalogues for book sales and a good selction of reference material on and facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts. We also have a special interest in rare material by or about Rudyard Kipling.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Device
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- First Edition
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