One more ABC -- The Temperance Alphabet, published by the National Temperance Society in 1876. The Society wanted to make sure children got the word early: "C -- The child that only took a drop when it began, / D -- is the Drunkard it made him when a man." $1,500.

Now to the grotesque -- Kinder Was Wisht Ihr Vom Fuhrer, a 1933 piece of Nazi propaganda aimed at children by H. Morgenroth and M. Schmidt. The cover pictures a smiling Hitler lifting a young girl into his arms while a couple of Aryan boys look on. Item 376. $950. Fortunately, payback came for the beast in 1943, as described in Inez Hogan's Listen Hitler! The Gremlins Are Coming. Item 582. $475.

Item 206 is Kiddie-Land, by Margaret Hayes, and illustrated by Grace Wiederseim Drayton, the author's sister. The style of these children is instantly recognizable. Drayton also drew the Campbell's Soup Kids, whom these kiddies greatly resemble. You know the chubby-faced red-cheeked little monsters. What made them look this way? Too much sodium? $275.

Who would have thought there were enough cars on the road in 1901 to create a children's book about them? Item 59 is Bubble Jingles: The Jolly Side of the Automobile, by Stuart Travis. It includes rhymes such as, "Jack and Bill went up a hill / with very little water. / Boiler broke down ten miles from town / Which shows they hadn't ought-er." That's why they don't make Stanley Steamers any more. $250.

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