So now we're banning books...

Under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA)

the federal government has now advised that children’s books published before 1985 should not be considered safe and may in many cases be unlawful to sell or distribute. Merchants, thrift stores, and booksellers may be at risk if they sell older volumes, or even give them away, without first subjecting them to testing—at prohibitive expense.

The Feds aren't enforcing this at the moment but who's to say when they will and at the possible fine of $100,000 an item that a bit of a risk to take if you're a book dealer. Effectively the Federal Government has banned all children's books published prior to 1985. The sheer number of books that could go into the trash bin is staggering. Generations of children's literature lost with a signature. Whether that was an intended or unintended consequence of the legislation that's just plain fucked up. That's ok the current Administration and Congress will just blame it on the Republicans or tell us after all "its for the children."