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John Martin's Big Book

1930/34 John Martin's Big Book for Young People. Volume 1 of a seven-volume set. NY: Collier and Son. Full set for $10 at Vassar Book Sale, DC, May, '92. Extra set put together: Volume 1 for $5, New Orleans, June, '87; Volumes 2-7 for $30 at Renaissance, March, '88.

Among my favorite kids' books. What a potpourri of stuff! Often delightfully illustrated. Each volume has from two to seven copyrights. One Aesop's fable per volume (except Volume 4) by various writers and illustrators. There is a crow and fox on the inside covers, but no such fable here. Hmmm.... This volume contains CP in verse, told and illustrated by John Martin.

1931/34 John Martin's Big Book for Young People. Volume 2 of a seven-volume set. NY: Collier and Son. Full set for $10 at Vassar Book Sale, DC, May, '92. Extra set put together: Volume 1 for $5, New Orleans, June, '87; Volumes 2-7 for $30 at Renaissance, March, '88.

Among my favorite kids' books. What a potpourri of stuff! Often delightfully illustrated. Each volume has from two to seven copyrights. One Aesop's fable per volume (except Volume 4) by various writers and illustrators. There is a crow and fox on the inside covers, but no such fable here. Hmmm.... This volume contains "The Rooster and the Fox" in verse, told and illustrated by John Martin.

1927/34 John Martin's Big Book for Young People. Volume 3 of a seven-volume set. NY: Collier and Son. Full set for $10 at Vassar Book Sale, DC, May, '92. Extra set put together: Volume 1 for $5, New Orleans, June, '87; Volumes 2-7 for $30 at Renaissance, March, '88.

Among my favorite kids' books. What a potpourri of stuff! Often delightfully illustrated. Each volume has from two to seven copyrights. One Aesop's fable per volume (except Volume 4) by various writers and illustrators. There is a crow and fox on the inside covers, but no such fable here. Hmmm.... This volume contains AL in prose by Amelia Leavitt Hill.

1919/20/21/24/26/29 John Martin's Big Book for Young People. Volume 4 of a seven-volume set. NY: Collier and Son. Full set for $10 at Vassar Book Sale, DC, May, '92. Extra set put together: Volume 1for $5, New Orleans, June, '87; Volumes 2-7 for $30 at Renaissance, March, '88.

Among my favorite kids' books. What a potpourri of stuff! Often delightfully illustrated. Each volume has from two to seven copyrights. One Aesop's fable per volume (except for this Volume 4) by various writers and illustrators. There is a crow and fox on the inside covers, but no such fable here. Hmmm....

1919/20/24/28 John Martin's Big Book for Young People. Volume 5 of a seven-volume set. NY: Collier and Son. Full set for $10 at Vassar Book Sale, DC, May, '92. Extra set put together: Volume 1 for $5, New Orleans, June, '87; Volumes 2-7 for $30 at Renaissance, March, '88.

Among my favorite kids' books. What a potpourri of stuff! Often delightfully illustrated. Each volume has from two to seven copyrights. One Aesop's fable per volume (except for Volume 4) by various writers and illustrators. There is a crow and fox on the inside covers, but no such fable here. Hmmm.... This volume contains TH in verse by Herbert Ernest Hancock, with an illustration by "E.X."

1919/20/22/23/24/32 John Martin's Big Book for Young People. Volume 6 of a seven-volume set. NY: Collier and Son. Full set for $10 at Vassar Book Sale, DC, May, '92. Extra set put together: Volume 1for $5, New Orleans, June, '87; Volumes 2-7 for $30 at Renaissance, March, '88.

Among my favorite kids' books. What a potpourri of stuff! Often delightfully illustrated. Each volume has from two to seven copyrights. One Aesop's fable per volume (except for Volume 4) by various writers and illustrators. There is a crow and fox on the inside covers, but no such fable here. Hmmm.... This volume contains "The Reed and the Oak" in verse, apparently by John Martin, with an illustration signed "C."

1919/21/22/23/24/25/26 John Martin's Big Book for Young People. Volume 7 of a seven-volume set. NY: Collier and Son. Full set for $10 at Vassar Book Sale, DC, May, '92. Extra set put together: Volume 1 for $5, New Orleans, June, '87; Volumes 2-7 for $30 at Renaissance, March, '88.

Among my favorite kids' books. What a potpourri of stuff! Often delightfully illustrated. Each volume has from two to seven copyrights. One Aesop's fable per volume (except for Volume 4) by various writers and illustrators. There is a crow and fox on the inside covers, but no such fable here. Hmmm.... This volume contains LM in verse by Jeffreys Taylor.

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