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A collection of 16 publishers’ catalogs of children’s books:

1. MACMILLAN BOOKS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS 1939, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939. 45 pages.

2. BOOKS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS 1943, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. 24 pages.

3. BOOKS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS 1944, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944. 25 pages.

4. HARCOURT BRACE & CO. BOOKS FOR BOYS & GIRLS, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [no date]. 56 pages.

5. BOOKS FOR BOYS & GIRLS, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [no date]. 64 pages.

6. Catalog No 23, Junior Press Books For Boys and Girls, Large Type, Colorful Illustrations, Strong Bindings, Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co. 27 pages, with a partial list by state of the elementary school reading lists, [no date].

7. OXFORD BOOKS for BOYS and GIRLS 1939, New York: Oxford University Press, 1939. 31 pages.

8. LONGMANS’ BOOKS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS 1939, New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1939. 64 pages.

9. DUTTON BOOKS FOR Boys and Girls 1938, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1938. 52 pages.
10. 1940 Jr. BOOKS, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 48 pages and the order form.

11. 1941 Jr. BOOKS, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 40 pages.

12. Viking Junior Books 1938, New York: The Viking Press, 47 pages.
13. Viking Junior Books 1939, New York: The Viking Press, 47 pages.
14. Viking Junior Books 1940, New York: The Viking Press, 45 pages.

15. Viking Junior Books 1941-1942, New York: The Viking Press, 51 pages.
16. VIKING JUNIOR 1942-3, New York: The Viking Press, 48 pages.

Sold with : Branch Library Book News, Volume 19, Number 1, January 1942, “Books for Young People.” New York: The New York Public Library, 1942. 34 pages.
Children’s Book Week 1939. New York: Book Week Headquarters, 1939. 15 pages.
Book Week Aids, Children’s Book Week November 10-16, 1940. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1940. 8 pages plus order form.

Books Children Will Love, large fold-out poster catalog for E.P. Dutton, New York: [no date]; ephemera for Dorthy Garden’s Treasure Bag of Game Songs, Illustrated by Veronica Reed; and leaflet for other books from Dutton on Music and Art.

James Kendrew Ten Illustrated York Chap Books

Twelve Scotch Chapbooks Glasgow 1840 – 1860 Boxed Hand-Colored Title Pages

Harold Courlander Kantchil’s Lime Pit and Other Indonesian Stories Illustrated by Robert Kane First Edition Signed

La Famosa Invasione degli Orsi in Sicilia Prima Edizione 1945

Vittorio Podrecca’s Teatro dei Piccoli at the Hollandsche Schouwburg in Amsterdam 1935

Ya’akov David Kamson Hatunah ba-ya’ar Illustrated by Elsa Wenns Viëtor Adolf Holst Hochzeit im Walde in Hebrew