Rare Book and PaperPalooza coming soon ​

Discover Rare Children's books among more than 1500 items for sale

Rare children's books will be among the more than 1500 items on all subjects at the Rare Book and PaperPalooza July 25-27  Here are a few examples.....   Rare Book and PaperPalooza   The virtual fair where everything goes! July 25-27 Opens Thu. July 25 noon ET through Sat. July 27 at 7:00pm EHIBITOR INQUIRIES Eloise in Paris (Limited and Signed) Kay Thompson (Illustrated by Hilary Knight) NY, Simon & Schuster, 1999, Hardcover. Blue cloth in slipcase. First edition thus, Fine in Fine slipcase   Grocery Store to Set Up Fern Bisel Peat Akron, OH, Saalfield, 1937, Stiff color pictorial wraps First edition, Fine Fern Bisel Peat was a favorite illustrator for Saalfield publications and her Grocery Store to Set Up (Akron, OH: Saalfield, 1937) was one of her crowning achievements. I Saw Esau: Iona Opie (Illustrated by Maurice Sendak) Deluxe Edition…SignedThe Schoolchild's Pocket Book Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1992,  Black boards in slipcase First edition, Fine in Fine slipcase Subtitled The Schoolchild's Pocket Book,  signed (by both Sendak and editor Iona Opie) Shadow Blaise Cendrars (Translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown) NY, Scribner's, 1982, Cloth backed boards First edition, Fine in dust jacket Marcia Brown won three Caldecott Medals and six Caldecott Honors, more than any illustrator before or after. Shadow. Donald Hall (Illustrated by Barbara Cooney) Ox-Cart Man NY, Viking, 1979, Cloth backed green and black pictorial boards First edition, Fine in dust jacket Barbara Cooney received her first Caldecott Medal for Chanticleer and the Fox in 1959. Her second came in 1980 for Ox-Cart Man, a story by poet Donal Hall with illustrations by Cooney. My Very First Book of Touch, ...Motion, ...Homes, ...Growth Eric Carle NY, Crowell, 1986, Spiral bound stiff color pictorial wraps First edition, Fine The world of children's literature lost a giant with Eric Carle's passing in 2021. Carle, of course, was the author/illustrator of the beloved The Very Hungry Caterpillar and the illustrator of more than 70 additional titles.  Snowflake Bentley Jacqueline Briggs Martin (Illustrated by Mary Azarian) Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1998, Bue boards First edition, Fine in dust jacket Every once in a long while, an individual shuffles onto history's pages and does something that no-one else has ever considered. W.A. Bentley was such a man and his story is beautifully told and illustrated in the 1999 Caldecott-winning Snowflake Bentley. Make Way for Ducklings Robert McCloskey NY, Viking, 1941 (1961), Green cloth 19th Printing, Fine in dust jacket Most anyone's list of the top ten children's books ever published would probably include Robert McCloskey's Make Way for Ducklings A Celebration of Pop-up and Movable Books Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the Movable Book Society Robert Sabuda et al, Various illustrators First edition, Fine in Fine box East Brunswick, NJ, Movable Book Society, 2004, Cloth with pop-up p/o in cloth covered box. FAIR WEBSITE Forward this email to a friend UPDATE YOUR PROFILE We send emails announcing these virtual shows. You may choose which show information you want to receive. Click the button above to choose which emails you want to receive:   Antiquarian Book Fairs Ephemera Fairs Photography Fairs Antiques Shows