Stan Zielinski A first edition copy of The Little House, the 1943 Caldecott Medal winning book, is coming up for auction on July 12, 2007 at PBA Galleries. The first edition The Little House is very difficult to find, and some have estimated the book will sell for close to $10,000. The Children’s Picturebook Price Guide estimates … Read more
A first edition copy of Pumpkin Moonshine, Tasha Tudor’s first book, is coming up for auction on July 12, 2007 at PBA Galleries. Published by Oxford University Press in 1938, Pumpkin Moonshine first edition books do not surface for sale very often. There is currently only one first edition book with dust jacket on the … Read more
A first edition copy of The Gremlins, the 1943 book written by Roald Dahl, is coming up for auction on July 12, 2007 at PBA Galleries. A Walt Disney Production published by Random House in 1943, The Gremlins first edition books do not surface for sale very often. There are currently five first edition books … Read more
Two rare illustrations featuring the adventures of A.A. Milne’s much-loved creation, Winnie-the-Pooh by Ernest H. Shepard (1879 – 1976), are to go under the hammer at Bonhams in London later this month. ‘Tigers don’t like honey’ and ‘Pooh visiting in Owl’s parlour’ are expected to fetch between $40,000 – $60,000 each at Bonhams’ Sale of … Read more
Dr. Seuss First Edition Identification The conventional wisdom among booksellers is first edition Dr. Seuss books cannot be identified without the dust jacket. This used to be true. With the recent discovery of some salient information, today, most of the large format Dr. Seuss books can be identified as first printings without the dust jacket. … Read more
This blog and our website focuses on collecting and valuing first edition children’s picturebooks. We try to stay on subject as much as possible, and refrain from presenting material that strays too far from the hobby. Picturebooks are the center of our attentions. Some of our readers – parents, teachers, educators, and feminists – will … Read more
Several weeks ago, we garnered a by being tagged by Fuse #8 Production in the "Someone Believes I Think!" post. The idea originated in February from The Thinking Blog’s tagging five blogs which make you think (for those tagged, below, click on the link to see guidelines for tagging thinking blogs). Certainly a unique idea … Read more
From Publisher’s Weekly: For Better or Worse, Used Book Sales Grow Trade publishers ambivalent; online businesses prosper by Jim Milliot — Publishers Weekly, 4/2/2007 "Prompted in part by Amazon.com’s decision to sell used trade books in 2004, the Book Industry Study Group commissioned a report in 2005 to determine the size and composition of the … Read more
Most Valuable First Edition Picturebooks The following table lists the second fifty illustrators in the Children’s Picturebook Price Guide with the highest average book value. The value would be for first edition books, with dust jackets. The table also includes the number of books listed in the price guide for each illustrator. Kurt Wiese, the … Read more