The Collector's Book of Children's Books by Quayle, Eric - 1971

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1971. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine and probing account of children's books and their collecting and collectors stretching from the 1600s to the present. Stated First American Edition, the true First Edition having been published just prior in the U.K. Big, tall, black cloth-bound hardcover copy. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Chapters devoted to Juvenile Incunabula, 18th-century children's books, Fairy, Folk Tales and Fantasia, Books of Instruction, Natural History and Travel, Poetry and Nursery Rhymes, Stories pre- and post-1850, Boys' Adventury Stories, Periodical, Annuals and Penny Dreadfuls, Miscellanea, Toy Books and Moveables Books, then a full bibliography and Index. [6], 7-144 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.