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Justin Galland Schiller (born September 10, 1943) is an American bookseller specializing in rare and collectible children's books; proprietor during his student days under his own name (1960–69), then Justin G. Schiller, Ltd. (1969–2020). Headquartered in New York City, it was the oldest specialist firm in the United States, focusing on historical and collectible children's books, related original art, and manuscripts. In 1988, he formed a second corporation—Battledore Ltd, with his partner and spouse Dennis M V David, to further specialize in original children's book illustration art and the legacy of Maurice Sendak. Early life Justin Galland Schiller was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 10, 1943, to Samuel Gary Schiller and Constance Audrey Galland where he attended Public School 236 and Samuel J Tilden High School. As an eight-year-old boy he started collecting Wizard of Oz books by L. Frank Baum, lending parts of his collection to the author's centennial exhibition at Columbia University’s Butler Library in 1956. At age of 13, Schiller founded the Wizard of Oz Fan Club, afterwards renamed The International Wizard of Oz Club, appointing Frank Joslyn Baum its honorary president. On the November 3, 1956, television debut of the MGM Wizard of Oz film, host Bert Lahr appeared with 10-year old Liza Minnelli and 13 year-old Schiller, introducing the movie by reading from Schiller's copy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz first edition (1900). And as an expert in all things Ozian, Justin appeared in an early episode of the television game show To Tell The Truth (1972) where guest celebrities had to identify him amidst two impostors. Career Schiller received a Bachelor of Arts from Ithaca College in 1965 (Honors in English Renaissance Literature). He attended the International Symposium at the Shakespeare Institute at Birmingham University in 1964, and completed a graduate studies/teaching fellowship at Harpur College, SUNY Binghamton, in 1966. Schiller's first antiquarian books catalogue was issued in 1960; he was elected to the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America in February 1967 (member of the Board of Governors, Class of 1976), where he remains a member. His first specialty catalogue on collectible children's books came out that year. He was also a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (UK) from 1969 to 1989, and joined the Bibliographical Society of America in 1969, where he's still a member (Council, 2001–2007). He served as chairman on the Antiquarian Booksellers Center board of directors from 1973 to 1976; he has been a member of the Grolier Club since 1982. Schiller was a member of the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie from 1983 to 2012; and the American Antiquarian Society since 1984. He served on the Lenox Society Steering Committee for Rare Books & Manuscripts at the New York Public Library from 1986 to 2000, and the Lewis Carroll Foundation board of directors from 1988 to 1995. Schiller works to promote awareness in early children's books, writing articles on various authors, artists, genres and collectibles, including reports and annual analyses of the antiquarian children's book field, and annual auction summaries and book reviews in trade journals including AB Bookman’s Weekly, where he contributed from 1971 to 1989. Schiller has acted as advisor and dealer for some of the major private and institutional collections of early children's books in the world, including the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection now at Yale’s Beinecke Library, the Lloyd E. Cotsen Collection of Children’s Books now at Princeton University's Firestone Library, and the Peter J. Solomon Collection now at the Houghton Library, Harvard University, among others. His legacy extends to two fellowships with the American Antiquarian Society and the Bibliographical Society of America devoted to promoting scholarship in early children’s literature research prior to 1901. The Justin G. Schiller Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society supports research by both doctoral candidates and postdoctoral scholars from any disciplinary perspective on the production, distribution, literary content, or historical context of American children's books to 1876. Collections As an early collector, Schiller formed numerous major collections which resulted in single-owner auctions and exhibitions of what he assembled: L Frank Baum and related Oziana, Swann Galleries NY sale 1118 (2 November 1978) Lewis Carroll and Alice, Christie’s NY sale 9046, 9 December 1998 The Treasure of Siam, Christie’s Bangkok sale 9991, 7 August 1999 Dutch Modernism … Symbolism, Art Nouveau and Art Deco 1880-1930, Sotheby’s Amsterdam Sale 1047, 5 February 2008 Vintage Chinese Posters 1939-1990, Bloomsbury London sale 583, 21 September 2006 Red China 1921-1976, Bloomsbury sale 35982, London 4 October 2012 The Art of Maurice Sendak at the Society of Illustrators NY, 2013 Quotations of Chairman Mao 1964-2014 (The Little Red Book, 50th anniversary), Grolier Club NY 2014 “Once Upon A Time”, the inventory of Justin G Schiller Ltd, Heritage Auctions (Dallas) sale 6234, 16 December 2020 Publications "L Frank Baum and his Teen-Age Serials: a Bibliographical Checklist", Boys' Book Collector II:3 (Spring 1971) "Collecting Children's Literature", American Book Collector, Summer 1972 "Memoirs of an Antiquarian Bookseller", Horn Book Magazine, October 1973 "Artistic Awareness in Early Children's Books", Children's Literature: The Great Excluded, Volume III, 1974 (Temple University Press) "Magazines for Young America: the First Hundred Years of Juvenile Periodicals", Columbia Library Columns XXIII:3 (May 1974), Columbia University "The Publication of Little Black Sambo", The Book Collector, Summer 1974 "Collecting American Juveniles" (Chapter 4), in Jack Tannen's How To Identify And Collect American First Editions: A Guide Book (New York: Arco, 1976) "Early Children's Books at the Pierpont Morgan Library", American Book Collector, 1976 "Collecting Historical Children's Books", Art At Auction (Sotheby's), 1976–77 "Animated Picture Books to 1900", Children's Books International 2, Boston Public Library, 1977 Classics in Children's Literature, 73 volumes co-edited with Alison Lurie (Garland, 1977) "Notes on an Antiquarian Children's Bookshop", Horn Book Magazine, April 1977 Introductions to Lothar Meggendorfer's mechanical toybooks Doll's House (1978), International Circus (1979), &c, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Intervisual Communications) L Frank Baum and related Oziana, The Schiller Collection, Swann Galleries, 1978 "The Osborne Collection: An Appreciation", A Token for Friends, Toronto Public Library, 1979 "Appraising Historical Children's Books", AB Bookman's Yearbook 1984 Introduction for Barry Moser's illustrated version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum, Pennyroyal Press, 1985 (reprinted, University of California Press, 1986) Introduction for Youthful Recreations. 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