As Soon as You're Born, They Make You Feel Small. Self determination for children
London: the author, [199-?]. 36p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches, illus. Reprint of 1986 edition. More
Cat.No: 73357
London: the author, [199-?]. 36p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches, illus. Reprint of 1986 edition. More
Cat.No: 73357
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. Hardcover. 59p. photos by Arnold Skolnick and Gary Azon, first edition, dj, in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 25860
Toulouse: Ediciones "Ideas" n.d. 32p., wraps, pages evenly toned else very good condition. Text in Spanish. Prolog by Federica Montseny. Lecturas para la Juventud. Fiction for adolescents from a CNT-affiliated press. More
Cat.No: 74114
Toulouse: Ediciones "Universo" n.d. Pamphlet. 32p., wraps, 4.75x7 inches, paper slightly browned else very good condition. Lecturas para la Juventud. Fiction for adolescents from a CNT-affiliated press. More
Cat.No: 74115
New York: Fitzgerald Publishing Company, 1968. Comic. [32]p., profusely illus., wraps with some chipped edges, paper evenly browned, good condition. Comic book with art by Joan Bacchus, Howard Darden and Ezra Jackson, among others. Benjamin Quarles served as consultant. Golden legacy vol. 4. More
Cat.No: 38847
New York: Lee & Low Books, 1994. Glossy Pictorial Cover. [32]p., profusely illus. children's book based on African American characters, 8.5x11 inches, first printing. More
Cat.No: 48417
New York: Paula Wiseman/Simon & Schuster, 2004. Hardcover. [32]p. children's book by the pro football stars about their youth, illus. with Root's color paintings, 9x12 inches, first printing, dj. More
Cat.No: 114546
New York: Harper & Row, 1989. Hardcover. 32p. color illustrations face large-type text, children's book, first printing, dj, in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 111521
Sunnyvale, CA: Ventura Press, 1968. Pamphlet. 48p., 5.5x8.5 inches, illustrated with color drawings by the Chicano artist/author, toning to covers otherwise good first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Short story about a young girl in San Francisco by the author of "The Plum Plum Pickers" More
Cat.No: 33104
Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1980. 62p., b&w illustrations (photographs of what look like soft sculptures), rubricated titlings throughout, unlimited wraps edition of the original 1980 letterpress run done by Penmen Press. Cover bears a vertical crease and a small sticker shadow. Barton a Trinidadian folklorist; Norman's introduction incorporates a pagelong..... More
Cat.No: 69231
Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1980. Paperback. 62p., b&w illustrations (photographs of what look like soft sculptures), rubricated titlings throughout, a very good copy of the unlimited wraps edition of the original 1980 letterpress run done by Penmen Press. Barton a Trinidadian folklorist; Norman's introduction incorporates a pagelong excerpt from Peter..... More
Cat.No: 144971
New York: Vantage Press, 1989. Hardcover. 23p., cloth-covered boards, 5.5x8.25 inches, illus., pages lightly warped else very good first edition in a water-damaged dj. Children's story by an African-American author. More
Cat.No: 259199
Elgin, IL: David C. Cook Publishing Co., 1919. Staplebound. 62 pages, illustrations. Staplebound pictorial wrappers, soiled, but otherwise a sturdy copy with clean interior. Good. Youth adventure story by Canadian-American Bedford-Jones set in ancient Egypt about a 16-year-old boy, Manu, who saves the life of Pharaoh Sesostris's son and so..... More
Cat.No: 292723
Berlin: Meidinger's Jugendschriften Verlag, [1920s?]. Hardcover. 240p.,front., titled white cloth with well-drawn color illus. Toned text block inside, board corners lightly bumped, else very good. For children. More
Cat.No: 87648
San Diego: Oak Tree Publications, 1981. Hardcover. 132p., preface, very good first edition, first printing stated in red buckram cloth boards and unclipped but edgeworn dj. Novel for teens about Hispanic cowboys. Puerto Rican author. More
Cat.No: 41315
New York: Coward-McCann, 1930. Hardcover. ix, 177p., cloth-covered boards, illus., boards stained, front hinge starting, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, small splash stain on fore-edge, else good later printing. No dust jacket. Children's book inspired by the author's time in Tahiti. Biddle was an artist and muralist who..... More
Cat.No: 297384
San Francisco: Tools for Schools Inc., 1978. Pamphlet. 24p., 5.5x8.5 inches, child's drawing, short stories, very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. A.E. Biderman was a long time member of the Communist Party. Kerin, his grand daughter, was seven at the time. More
Cat.No: 70922
San Francisco: the authors, 2004. [52p] 8.5x11 inch coloring book celebrating multicultural gay family life, remains of sticker on rear wrap else very good condition in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 97674
Paris: Lehuby, 1842. 238p., presswork in handsome largepoint type and illustrated with monochrome lithography (or tint-block) overprinted with steel-engraved [?] pictures of children and adults, a dozen or so, fullpage and all in good shape. Lovely stuff a kid could actually like. Small hardcover in marbled boards with tooled red..... More
Cat.No: 229625
Chicago: A. Flanagan Publishers, 1899. Hardcover. 230p., original green decorated cloth, frontispiece portrait of Joel Chandler Harris, illus., first edition, spine lettering slightly faded, light edge wear and fraying, some internal handling wear, else very good condition. Children's book by Bloor, then a member of the Socialist Labor Party. In..... More
Cat.No: 177065
Washington: The Associated Publishers, [1960]. 10p., staplebound wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, illus. with drawings, pen notation and previous owner's stamp on front wrap, front wrap foxed else good condition. Children's booklet on Marian Anderson. More
Cat.No: 81643
Oakland: The Corporation for Cultural Literacy, 1997. [48]p.. illus. 8.5x11 inch children's book, first printing, dj. More
Cat.No: 98471
Oakland: The Corporation for Cultural Literacy, 1997. [48]p.. illus. 8.5x11 inch children's book, signed by Bolden, first printing, dj. More
Cat.No: 110343
Pasadena CA: Belda, 1947, 1948. Ephemera. Booklet and Illustrated sleeve only, two items of three, lacking the 10" disc that accompanied the first issue. The recording is represented in-text by a song printed on the back-page of booklet, showing music notation and several verses of a Bellem-authored lyric, "Ready for..... More
Cat.No: 313328
Milan: Casa Editrice “Alba” via Disciplini, 2, 1941. Staplebound. 31, [1] pp., illustrations, color wraps. 7.75 x 5.5 in. A touch of soiling and foxing to the covers and title page; the upper right corner of page 21 is missing, not affecting text. At head of cover title: “Compiti per..... More
Cat.No: 297447