Collecting Childrens Picturebooks

In Chapter 8 of the Children's Picturebook Price Guide, we list the most valuable picturebooks, followed by a page describing the most valuable picturebooks of each decade.

Seven Dr. Seuss books make the list of most valuable picturebooks from the 1950’s, headed by The Cat In The Hat.  The true first state of Horton Hears A Who, with Seuss title list in back of book (list not on copyright page) is extremely difficult to find.  Of the seven Seuss books, Horton/Who, If I Ran The Zoo, and Scrambled Eggs Super are much more difficult to find than the others.  Grinch/Christmas currently has higher market value due to significant pop culture awareness.  Cat/Hat has higher pop culture awareness, but also literary significance as essentially the first beginning reader trade book, being the catalyst for a multi-billion dollar industry, and simultaneously leading to the virtual extinction of the primary reader published by the educational system (i.e. Dick and Jane readers, et al)

Harold And The Purple Crayon is the second most valuable book on the list, however is probably the most difficult book on the 1950’s list to obtain in collectible first edition condition. Harold’s Trip To The Sky is the second Crockett Johnson book to appear.  Robert McCloskey’s classic book, Journey Cake, Ho!, is also very difficult to find in first edition, as is Lynd Ward’s Caldecott Medal winning book, The Biggest Bear.

The first Eloise book is the third most valuable book from the 1950’s.  Being the first book in the Eloise franchise, it is much more difficult to find then the other books in the series. The subsequent books in the series, Eloise In Paris (1956), Eloise At Christmastime (1959), Eloise In Moscow (1959), and Eloise in London (1961) are not extremely difficult to find in first edition, collectible condition since they were initially printed in higher quantity than the original Eloise.

H.A. Rey’s Curious George character is featured in three books on the list of most valuable picturebooks from the 1950’s,   Each of the books is difficult to find in first edition format.

Four Caldecott Medal books and three Caldecott Honor books are on the list.  It is peculiar that three Caldecott Honor books from the 1950’s have a higher market value then the most valuable Caldecott Medal book from the decade.  The third of these Honor books, A Very Special House, is the first Maurice Sendak book to appear on the Most Valuable lists.

From Chapter 8 of the Children's Picturebook Price Guide:

Note the key factors that impact the collectibility of the books. Each is a high quality story with imaginative or inventive illustrations, therefore the reading public has recurrently purchased the books for decades. Because of this, the books have stayed in print since their original publication and gone into many, many printings.

Many of the books have earned a children’s picturebook award, while many of the illustrators have won numerous awards. All of the illustrators have high esteem within the book publishing market place. Many of the book’s characters became franchise characters, where one or more sequels were published, and line extensions have been made into other consumer product areas (i.e. toys, games, dolls, costumes, decorations, etc…). Lastly, many of the books or characters have crossed over into pop culture, either via a TV or feature film adaptation.

The estimated values in the table are for first edition books with dust jackets.

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In Chapter 8 of the Children's Picturebook Price Guide, we list the most valuable picturebooks,  followed by a page describing the most valuable picturebooks of each decade.

Horton Hatches The Egg, by Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, tops the list of the most valuable children’s picturebooks of the decade.  First edition Dr. Seuss books are usually notoriously difficult to identify (see First Editions of Dr. Seuss Books, by Younger/Hirsch for bibliographic info) -  Horton being an exception, our copy includes ‘First Printing’ on the copyright page.  Remarkably, four of Dr. Seuss books are in the top eight most valuable picturebooks from the 1940’s! 

Tasha Tudor authored and illustrated eight of the most valuable picturebooks from the 1940’s, among them The County Fair and Thistly B.  There are three Curious George books on the list, by H.A. Rey, each of which is fairly difficult to find in first edition collectible format. Although Rey’s book, Cecily G. And The 9 Monkeys is the second American book featuring Curious George, the book’s British and French version precede the 1941 American printing of Curious George. The British version, published in 1939, was titled Raffy And The 9 Monkeys; the French version, also published in 1939, was titled Rafi et les 9 Singes.

Robert McCloskey authored and illustrated three books on the list, Make Way For Ducklings, Blueberries For Sal, and Homer Price. Blueberries For Sal is one of the most difficult Caldecott Honor books to find in first edition.  Based upon our experience, Make Way For Ducklings  and Virginia Lee Burton’s The Little House are the two most difficult Caldecott Medal books to find in a first edition.  The Little House is one of the few Caldecott Medal winning books missing from our collection.

The Caldecott awards make a significant impact on the list, with five Medal books and four Honor books on the list.  The Medal books are:  Make Way For Ducklings, The Little House, Many Moons, The Rooster Crows, and The Big Snow.  The Rooster Crows was the second Caldecott award for Maud and Miska Petersham – An American ABC (1941) earned them a Caldecott Honor.  For Berta and Elmer Haders, The Big Snow was their third Caldecott award.  The Hader’s previously had won Caldecott Honor awards for Cock-A-Doodle Doo (1940) and The Mighty Hunter (1943).

From Chapter 8 of the Children's Picturebook Price Guide:

Note the key factors that impact the collectibility of the books. Each is a high quality story with imaginative or inventive illustrations, therefore the reading public has recurrently purchased the books for decades. Because of this, the books have stayed in print since their original publication and gone into many, many printings.

Many of the books have earned a children’s picturebook award, while many of the illustrators have won numerous awards. All of the illustrators have high esteem within the book publishing market place. Many of the book’s characters became franchise characters, where one or more sequels were published, and line extensions have been made into other consumer product areas (i.e. toys, games, dolls, costumes, decorations, etc…). Lastly, many of the books or characters have crossed over into pop culture, either via a TV or feature film adaptation.

The estimated values in the table are for first edition books with dust jackets.

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For those with interest in Dr. Seuss ephemera:

The Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego, is pleased to announce the publication of a new online exhibitions:

Dr. Seuss Went to War: A Catalog of Political Cartoons displays 388 political cartoons published by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) in the newspaper PM during the years 1941-43.  The cartoons include caricatures of most of the world's leaders at that time, and many of them were drawn to encourage support of the war and fundraising efforts such as the War Savings Bonds & Stamps program.  Richard Minear, author of Dr. Seuss Goes to War, which published 200 of the cartoons included in the exhibit, has written the introduction to the exhibition.  The cartoons are arranged chronologically and grouped by month.

Once you click past the entry page, click on the appropriate index at the top of the page to view the cartoons by

• Year/ Month
• Subject/People
• Subject/Countries
• Subject/War Domestic Issues
• Subject/Battles
  

I did not see a copy of This Is Ann, the malaria booklet Geisel did for the Army.  The booklet warns soldiers of the anopheles mosquito.  This is Ann pops up for auction on eBay several times a year, in hotly contested fashion.  I found five copies for sale on ABE, ranging in price from $450 to $1650.

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Use the links in the blog navigation pane to find first edition identification points for Caldecott Medal books, grouped by year. 

On our website is an index page to each of the first edition identification points on this blog: 
First Edition Identification Points

The index page is more convenient to use then navigating through the listings on the blog, especially as we post identification points for more books.  The index page will lag the blog posts by a day or two, however I will try to keep it fairly up-to-date.

[Note:  In many cases, if you are viewing the post from the blog home page or an index folder, you should click on the ‘Permalink’ at the end of the post to see the full width of the photographs.  The photographs are often truncated on the blog home page or category folder due to width issues.  We use a maximum photo width of 1200 pixels on some of the side-by-side comparison shots.  On most monitors, the full width of the photo can only be seen if you view the individual item’s Permalink posting.]

Caldecott Medal Book Values

If you are interested in the estimated market value of Caldecott Medal books, then click Caldecott Medal Book Values

The illustrator’s name is a link to an eBay search for that illustrator. 

Instead of searching for ‘first edition’ or something of the sort, I have found better results by searching for ‘dust jackets’.  I’ll ask the seller additional questions if the auction description provides insufficient information to identify the item as a first edition.

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Every year the American Library Association announces the Caldecott and Newbery Medal winning books at their mid-Winter conference. The event was webcast this morning. Once the winners are announced, we hustle out to purchase a copy or two of the winning books, since they will be tougher to find within a week. The books become instant 'classics' - rarely do Newbery or Caldecott Medal winning books go out of print.

Today, because of the awards, the respective publishers have started the process of making additional printings to serve the market. Barnes & Noble is already marketing the winning books on their home page. Such is the power of the ALA. See today's winners, at 2007 ALA Awards.

In the past couple of years, the Newbery Medal winning book has skyrocketed in value. There are 9 copies of the Single Shard, the 2001 winner, on ABE, each selling for over $500. ABE has 4 copies of Kira-Kira, the 2005 winner, each selling for over $600. ABE has 19 copies of Criss Cross, last year's winner, listed for over $100.

This year, again, the ALA has selected an obscure, under-printed book, The Higher Power of Lucky, by Susan Patron, as the Newbery winner. This is the second year in a row that Borders did not stock the Newbery Medal book in advance of winning.

As an aside, David Wiesner has now won his third Caldecott Medal, this year winning for Flotsam. Wiesner won in 1992 for Tuesday, and in 2002 for The Three Pigs. He now joins Marcia Brown as the only 3 time winner. Wiesner has also won two Caldecott Honor awards, and yet is still relatively underappreciated within the collectible book market.

Tooting our horn a bit, from our book, the Children’s Picturebook Price Guide: Most Valuable Books – 1990’s

"This list is dominated by the seven Caldecott Medal award books, headed by David Wiesner’s Tuesday. Tuesday is becoming moderately difficult to find, and Wiesner’s regard within the market place has been enhanced by winning a second Caldecott Medal with The Three Pigs, and a second Caldecott Honor for Sector 7. In our opinion, David Wiesner’s wordless books are the best that have been crafted. As an aside, Wiesner also illustrated E.T., The Storybook, published in 1982, which is 97th on the Publisher’s Weekly list of bestselling children’s books."

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Dr. Seuss First Edition Identification

Horton Hears A Who; written and illustrated by Theodor Seuss Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss); Random House; 1954.

Children’s Picturebook Price Guide value - $2,000 VG+

There are three printings of the book with “250/250” price on the front DJ flap.  The first two printings have Horton’s “full ear” graphic on the back of the book and dust jacket.  The third printing book’s back and back DJ have Horton’s partial ear (ear cut off by Junior Literary Guild review).

First Edition Identification – Book

Horton has full ear on back cover graphic, with cloud in upper left corner, and five branch tree in upper right corner.  Later issues had Horton’s ear cut off by review, no cloud, and two branch tree. See photo.

This later printing's graphic (partial ear, no cloud, two branches) was used on the book and DJ post-1957, when the price of the book was changed to “295/295”.  The book’s price was “250/250” from 1954-1957.

The true first edition book’s copyright page does not have a list of “Other books by Dr. Seuss”. 

Also, on the true first edition book, the reverse of the rear endpaper has a list of nine books, titled “Other books by Dr. Seuss”, starting with SCRAMBLED EGGS SUPER, and ending with “AND TO THINK THAT I SAW IT ON MULBERRY STREET”. 

Younger/Hirsch identifies this first edition book as a ‘variant’.  The following table is a compelling argument that it is not a variant, but instead the true first edition of the book.  Note that all later printings have the Seuss title list on the copyright page.  Only in the first edition book is there no Seuss title list on the copyright page, and instead, the list is on the back of the rear endpaper.

[Note: The Youngers have corrected the identification points to Horton Hears A Who as per the above, on their error page for the guide. The Younger/Hirsch guide, First Editions of Dr. Seuss Books, is an invaluable resource if you are a collector of first edition Dr. Seuss books, and is considered the definitive guide by collectors and booksellers.]

First Edition Identification – Dust Jacket

Horton has full ear on back DJ graphic, with cloud in upper left corner, and five branch tree in upper right corner.  Later printings had Horton’s ear cut off by review, no cloud, and two branch tree.  See photo.

The dust jacket is the same on both the first and second printing books.  The DJ price of '250/250' is not necessary if the 'full ear/clouds/5 branch' graphic is present on the back of the dust jacket.

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Dr. Seuss First Edition Identification 

 Bartholomew and the Oobleck; written and illustrated by Theodor Seuss Geisel; Random House; 1949.

1950 Caldecott Honor Award 

Children's Picturebook Price Guide Value - $2,200 VG+

Essential First Edition Identifying Points

Blue boards and blue dust jacket. 

Oobleck is similar to Seuss' Thidwick The Big-Hearted Moose and If I Ran The Circus, in that the book and dust jacket are unique to the first edition.  Later states have orange boards and dust jacket.

 It is difficult to find a first edition dust jacket in VG condition, since the paper stock was so thin on the first state DJ.

 The dust jacket price is $2.00, "200/200" at top right of front flap, however this is not necessary to identify the first state book.

The rear flaps gives a short review of the first six Seuss books.

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Elaine Krieg Smith publishes a monthly list of the top ten children's books sold on eBay.  See here for her December 2006 list Top Ten Children’s Books Sold on eBay - December 2006

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First Edition Identification - Wanda Gag

Snippy and Snappy; written and Illustrated by Wanda Gág; Coward-McCann, 1931.

Children’s Picturebook Price Guide Value – $920 VG+

Essential Identifying Points - Book:

Copyright page has four lines, as follows:

Copyright 1931 by
COWARD McCANN , INC.
All rights reserved.

Printed in U.S.A.

The title page ends with two lines as follows:

PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK  ~~~~~~~~ BY
COWARD-McCANN, INC - IN THE YEAR  1931

Essential Identifying Points – Dust Jacket

The front and back dust jacket flaps are blank. 

The back dust jacket has four paragraph’s framed in a black rectangle.

The first paragraph is a short biography of Wanda Gág.  The second paragraph is a quote from Rockwell Kent.  The third paragraph is a critic’s acclaim for Millions of Cats.  The fourth paragraph is a quote from Anne Carroll Moore.

A similar back DJ composition was used on both the first printing of Wanda Gág’s The Funny Thing (1929) and Snippy And Snappy (1931). 

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First Edition Identification - Wanda Gag

The Funny Thing; written and Illustrated by Wanda Gág; Coward-McCann, 1929.

Children’s Picturebook Price Guide Value – $940 VG+

Essential Identifying Points - Book:

Copyright page has three lines, as follows:

Copyright 1929 by
Coward McCann , INC.
All rights reserved.

Printed in U.S.A.  

PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK
by COWARD-McCANN, Inc.
IN THE YEAR  1929

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First Edition Identification - Wanda Gag

Millions Of Cats; written and Illustrated by Wanda Gág; Coward-McCann, 1928.

1929 Newbery Honor Book 

Children’s Picturebook Price Guide Value – $4000 VG+

“In the fall of 1928 a picture book about a gentle peasant who went off in search of a kitten and returned with millions of cats was published.  The picture book was something new in the field of children’s literature.  And the artist’s name became a household word wherever small children were found.”

-- Rose Dobbs, Horn Book Magazine, Nov – Dec 1935.

We concur with Ms. Dobbs, and consider Millions Of Cats the first true picturebook.  (For rationale, please see Children’s Picturebook Price Guide, Chapter 1, Today’s Golden Era Of Picturebooks; Development And Evolution of the Picturebook Market;  Beginning of the Modern Picturebook.)

Essential Identifying Points - Book:

Copyright page has five lines, as follows:

Copyright   1928, by
Coward McCann ,  INC.
All rights reserved.

Printed in U.S.A.
By the Jersey City Printing Co.

Later printings omitted the last line with the Jersey City Printing Co.

The title page ends with three lines as follows:

PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK by

COWARD-McCANN, Inc.

IN THE YEAR  1928

Essential Identifying Points – Dust Jacket

Front and back dust jacket flaps are blank (white).

The back dust jacket is blank on the first printing (yellow).

The back dust jacket on second state copies have a one paragraph biography on Wanda Gág, followed by an endorsement of Millions Of Cats by Rockwell Kent.  This is followed by a one paragraph review of the book by Anne Carroll Moore.

A similar back DJ composition was used on both the first printing of Wanda Gág’s The Funny Thing (1929) and Snippy And Snappy (1931).  There are a couple of subtle differences.  Wanda’s last name is “  Gag  ” on the back DJ of the second state Millions Of Cats, whereas it is changed to “  Ga’g  ” on the latter two books.  Presumably it was not possible to typeset an “ á ” in 1928.  Also, Wanda “was born … in a desolate Minnesota village” on the back DJ of Millions Of Cats, while she “was born … in a small Minnesota town” on the back of the latter two.  Apparently New Ulm, Minnesota went through an economic transformation from 1928 to 1929, changing from a desolate village into a thriving small town.

The historical importance of the book is underappreciated by the general public, however not so within the bibliophile hobby, as the steep market value will attest.  The book is still in print today, which is quite remarkable for a children’s picturebook.  How many other picturebooks from the 1920’s are still in print today? 

Barbara Bader, in her wonderful opus American Picturebooks, from Noah’s Ark to the Beast Within, also infers that Millions Of Cats is the first true picturebook.  In her second chapter, she provides some historical background on illustrated books and books with pictures, while providing insight into the children’s publishing industry leading and into the 1920’s, then ends the chapter with “All that was needed was a star performer and a big hit—Wanda Gág and Millions Of Cats.”

In Bader’s next chapter, titled “Wanda Gág”, she writes:

If one had to sum up Millions of Cats, pictures and text, in a very few words, form and character would suffice.  Form and character fused, yielding folk quality much remarked in Gág’s work.  Not only did words and pictures reinforce one another, both benefited by the hand-lettered text:  “A child will almost feel that he has made the book”.

In 1928, Newbery Medalist Elizabeth Coatworth put it in poet’s terms,

“The text runs like a streamlet around the very old man and the very old woman and their house that had flowers, and through the hills where the old man walked hunting for a cat, and in and among the millions of cats which he finally found.” 

We also own the slipcased, limited edition first printing copy, which is signed and numbered, and came with a Wanda Gág etching.  The copyright page includes the "Jersey City Printing" line.  This edition was not issued with a dust jacket.

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In 1938, the Horn Book Magazine published two issues which contained reviews or excerpts of Tolkien's The Hobbit. 

Vintage Horn Book Magazines have collectible value, due in part to the articles on children's books contained in each issue, which provide a 'when published' perspective on the respective authors, illustrators, and books, and also their use as a solid reference for the first issue price of a particular book.  With that said, since pricing ephemera is an esoteric science, we cannot even put forth a bad estimate.  Currently, neither of the two issues are available on any of the usual internet book market sources.  Anyone have a guess as to value?

The Horn Book Magazine, March - April, 1938

Page 69 - 3/4 page advertisement for The Hobbit

Page 94 - Short review & synopsis of book by Anne Eaton; states $2.50 price

 

 

Page 95 - Full page picture of "The Hill:  Hobbiton across the Water"

The Horn Book Magazine, May - June, 1938

Page 130, one paragraph, as follows:

The New York Herald Tribune's Prize and Honor Books.  For the Second Annual Children's Festival, the Herald Tribune judges - Mrs. Dwight Morrow, Miss Mabel Williams, Mr. Stephen Vincent Benet, Mr. Robert Lawson and Mrs. May Lamberton Becker, Editor of the Herald Tribune's page, "Books for Young People" - have awarded one prize of $250 to J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit as the best book of the spring for younger children. 

Page 141, two paragraphs, beginning with:

The Hobbit is another book to add to this group, and we close this Spring Festival number with its opening pages.  Some children will read the book over and over, and some to whom it is read aloud will find it in their memories long hence. 

Page 174, two paragraph as follows:

Should any one be in doubt as to the looks and ways of dwarfs let him turn to The Hobbit (Houghton, $2.50), the book awarded a prize at the recent Spring Festival of Children's Books as the best book published for younger children in 1938. 

The Hobbit is good vacation reading for older children as well -- for any one with imagination and a zest for adventure.  A rich book, and a rare, and a book to share, is The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, who sadly enough is a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, which means that he may never find to to write another children's book.

First edition copies of The Hobbit can see for near $100,000. For first edition points, see Bookride. 

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