Searching For The First Forty Caldecott Medal Books I recently performed a search for first editions of the first forty Caldecott Medal books (covering the award years 1938-thru-1978) to determine the number of books currently being offered for sale. The search was identical to an internet search I completed a couple of years ago, and […]
A first edition The Little House is a scarce bird, rarely sighted in public. First edition copies of Virginia Lee Burton’s 1943 Caldecott Medal winning book are one of the scarcest contemporary children’s picturebook to find. One is currently being offered for sale on ABEBooks. It can be yours for $12,500. [Caveat emptor: I have […]
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 […]
Caldecott Medal First Edition Identification Prayer For A Child; written by Rachel Field; illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones; Macmillan; 1944. 1945 Caldecott Medal Award Children’s Picturebook Price Guide value – $360 VG+ A year earlier, Elizabeth Orton Jones won a Caldecott Honor award for her illustrations in Small Rain (Viking, 1943, $280). Twig (Macmillan, […]
Caldecott Medal First Edition Identification Many Moons; written by James Thurber, illustrated by Louis Sloblodkin; Harcourt Brace; 1943. 1944 Caldecott Medal Children’s Picturebook Price Guide Value – $780 VG+ Essential Identifying Point: Copyright page: Seven lines, as follows: COPYRIGHT, 1943 BY JAMES THURBER All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portiions […]
Caldecott Medal First Edition Identification Make Way For Ducklings, written and illustrated by Robert McClosskey, Viking, 1941 1942 Caldecott Medal Children’s Picturebook Price Guide Value – $7,400 VG+ Essential Identifying Point: Copyright page: Line states “First published August 1941” and no other publication dates.
Caldecott Medal First Edition Identification They Were Strong And Good, written and illustrated by Robert Lawson, Viking, 1940 1941 Caldecott Medal Children’s Picturebook Price Guide Value – $920 VG+ Essential Identifying Point: Copyright page: Line states “FIRST PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 1940” and no other publication dates.
Caldecott Medal First Edition Identification Mei Li; written and illustrated by Thomas Handforth; Doubleday, Doran; 1938 1939 Caldecott Medal Children’s Picturebook Price Guide Value – $1,600 VG+ Essential Identifying Point: Copyright page: Two lines, as follows CL Copyright, 1938 by Thomas Handforth. All Rights Reserved. First edition
Caldecott Medal First Edition Identification Animals Of The Bible, selections by Helen Dean Fish, illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop; Frederick Stokes; 1937 1938 Caldecott Medal Picturebook Price Guide Value – $1600 VG+ Essential Identifying Point – DJ Dust jacket: Lathrop misspelled ‘Lathop’ on DJ spine. Essential Identifying Point – Book Book spine: Lathrop mispelled ‘Lathop’. […]
Caldecott Medal First Edition Identification Song Of The Swallows; written and illustrated by Leo Politi; Scribners;1949 1950 Caldecott Medal Award Picturebook Price Guide Value – $460 VG+ Essential Identifying Point Combined Title/Copyright page: Two Lines, as follows: Charles Scribner’s Sons – New York 1949 Copyright 1949 Charles Scribner’s Sons – Printed in the United States […]
