75 Years of Children's Book Week Posters: Celebrating Great Illustrators of American Children's Books by Leonard S. Marcus (With introduction and Text by) - 1994

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Z1 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by Marcus Leonard on the title page and also SIGNED by Laurent de Brunhoff, William Joyce, Jerry Pinkney, Rosemary Wells, on their respective page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket and book have some light discoloration and shelf wear. Sponsored by The Children's Book Council. This gorgeous and wonderfully personal look at the history of children's books is a beautiful poster book, an informative history book, and an essential reference book-the perfect gift for collectors, art lovers, and anyone involved with or interested in children's books. Reads like a Who's Who of Children's Book Illustration for the 20th century! - Adrienne Adams, Jan Balet, Joseph Binder, Marc Brown, Marcia Brown, Jon O. Brubaker, Peter Burchard, Walter Cole, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire and Ingri d'Aulaire, Marguerite Lofft de Angeli, Laurent de Brunhoff, Tomie dePaola, William Pene du Bois, Roger Duvoisin, Richard Egielski, Kenneth S. Fagg, Richard Floethe, Antonio Frasconi, Ralph Bell Fuller, Robert C. Gellert, F. Hasse, Gertrude Howe, Trina Schart Hyman, Elizabeth Orton Jones, William Joyce, Ezra Jack Keats, Steven Kellogg, Anita Lobel, Arnold Lobel, Fred Marcellino, James Marshall, Mercer Mayer, Emily Arnold McCully, Gerald McDermott, Bruno Munari, Ruth Alexander Nichols, Grace A. Paull, Maud and Miska Petersham, Jerry Pinkney, Alice and Martin Provensen, Paul Rand, Ellen Raskin, Jay Maurice Reibel, Feodor Rojankowsky, Richard Scarry, Maurice Sendak, Kate Seredy, Helen Sewell, Uri Shulevitz, Marc Simont, Jessie Willcox Smith, William Steig, James Stevenson, Tomi Ungerer, Chris Van Allsburg, Nedda Walker, Lynd Ward, Wendy Watson, Leonard Weisgard, Rosemary Wells, Garth Williams, Elizabeth Tyler Wolcott, N.C. Wyeth, Ed Young, Paul O. Zelinsky, Margot Zenach. 10.25"x10.75", 74 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.