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Prospectuses for children's books and for a children's game

Title
[Prospectuses for children's books and for a children's game].
Published
[United States ; 1901-1991]
Physical Description
8 pieces : ill. ; 12-23 x 7-19 cm.
Notes
Seven prospectuses for children's books and one for a children's game, The Uncle Wiggly game, published by Milton Bradley Co. in 1916.
Authors, titles of books, publishers of prospectuses and dates of publication of books: Mother Goose. Denslow's Mother Goose. W.W. Denslow [ed. and ill.]. Belknap & Warfield, [1901?] -- Ernest Thompson Seton. Wild animals at home. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1913 -- A.A. Milne. When we were very young. E.P. Dutton & Co., 1924 -- Elizabeth Gordon. More really-so stories. Jane Priest [co-author]. P.F. Volland Company, 1929 -- Aesop's fables. [new version written by] Munro Leaf. Robert Lawson [ill.] Heritage Press, 1941 -- Mary Steichen Calderone. The first picture book. [photographs by] Edward Steichen. Whitney Museum of American Art, 1991.
Prospectus for Denslow's Mother Goose (the first American publisher of which was McClure, Phillips & Co. in 1901) issued by Hartford, Conn., publisher, Belknap & Warfield, but no such book issued by that publisher has been identified.
Prospectus for More really-so stories in bookmark format.
Prospectus for Aesop's fables forms the entire issue of the Heritage Press's Monthly magazine of the Junior Heritage Club.
Includes two different prospectuses for The first picture book, the first for it as a limited edition, the second for it as a trade edition; both prospectuses issued by the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Format
Other
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 24, 2013
Genre/Form
Prospectuses - United States - 1901.
Also listed under
Milton Bradley Company, publisher.
Belknap & Warfield, publisher.
McClure, Phillips & Co., publisher.
Doubleday, Page & Company, publisher.
E.P. Dutton (Firm), publisher.
P.F. Volland Company, publisher.
Heritage Press (New York, N.Y.), publisher.
Whitney Museum of American Art, publisher.
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