Bauman Rare Books Early 2020 Online Catalogue

C H I L D R E N ’ S L I T E R A T U R E B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S • E A R L Y 2 0 2 0 O N L I N E 108 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) “Children’s Books Have Such A Many-Sided Appeal…” ROSENBACH, A.S.W. Early American Children’s Books. Portland, Maine, 1933. Quarto, publisher’s full blue morocco gilt, slipcase. $1200. View on Website Signed limited first edition of the celebrated Philadelphia bookseller’s authoritative bibliography of early American children’s literature, one of only 85 copies on Zerkall Halle paper (of a total edition of 673 copies) signed by Rosenbach, in publisher’s morocco-gilt and slipcase. “The anomaly of the childless bachelor collecting children’s book… added to the spice of the handsome catalogue handsomely produced of a pioneer collection in a fast-growing field… Everywhere the book should have been noticed it was—and favorably, too” (Wolf, 389). Spine mildly toned. A fine copy.