Children's Books 1938 Suggested as Holiday Gifts "On Exhibition in the Central Children's Room" New York Public Library, 1938 Small (7 x 4 1/2 inches) booklet of 1938 exhibition at the New York Public Library. 19 pp. Introduction (unsigned) with annotated descriptions of books in the exhibition, including The Hobbit , pp. 8-9. See photo. This rare booklet is referenced in The Annotated Hobbit (2002), edited by Douglas A. Anderson, p. 22: "The Hobbit was displayed with about fifty other children's books in the annual November-December exhibition in the Central Children's Room of the New York Public Library and was suitably praised in a little booklet, Children's Books 1938, published for the occasion." A fine copy.