From a talk given at the annual meeting of the Friends of the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., 6 November 1997, this monograph recounts the experiences of appraising the Elisabeth Ball collection of historical and rare children's materials.

The author assembled this lecture as part of his ongoing activities as an antiquarian bookseller with a specialty in rare and collectible children's literature. For further details, see http://www.childlit.com/