Aesop's Fables (Young Folks' Classic Series)
Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co. Hard Cover.
No publisher date. No jacket. Board edges rubbed, board soiled, pages toned.
159 pp. Illustrated boards with gilt accents. Woodcuts by various artists.
Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co. Hard Cover.
No publisher date. No jacket. Board edges rubbed, board soiled, pages toned.
159 pp. Illustrated boards with gilt accents. Woodcuts by various artists.
New York: Golden Press, 1968. Shiba Productions. Hard Cover.
Board corners rubbed.
Unpaginated. Stop-motion style illustrations. When a boy is cursed with an inability to perceive goodness, a young girl must go on a lonely quest to restore his heart and vision and free him from captivity in the palace.....
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1977. Lo Grippo, Robert. Full-Leather.
Tiny blemish to front edge of spine, otherwise an exceptional copy.
543 pp. Full orange-brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the original Danish by Erik Christian Haugaard.....
New York: The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf / The Heritage Press, 1948. Kredel, Fritz. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Includes publisher's slipcase. Lacks Sandglass insert. Spines slightly toned, a few abrasions to slipcase.
xx, 297; 445; 430, lii pp. A collection of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales and stories in three volumes. Translated.....
Odense, Denmark: Flensted, 1972. Pedersen, Vilhelm; Frolich, Lorenz. Reprint. Small Hard Cover.
1970s reprint of Keigwin's award-winning English translation. Volume 1: Lacks acetate jacket, smudge on front board. Promotional ribbon marker included. Volume 4: Tear along edge of front jacket panel.
Four volume set. Edited by Svend Larsen, with illustrations.....
New York: Allen Brothers, 1869. Hartmann, Carl; Dalziel. Hard Cover.
Spine faded, ink name stamp crossed out on title page, ink name and date on front endpaper.
vi, 9-154, 7-187, [3] pp. Beautiful blind-stamped purple cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Engraved frontispiece, portrait of Andersen from a painting by Carl.....
London: Faber & Faber, 1971. Jacques, Robin. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Second printing. Sticker remains and surface tear on spine, bottom edge of rear cover soiled.
346 pp. Translated by M. R. James. Drawings by Robin Jacques. Stories include The Tinder Box; The Princess and the Pea; Thumbelina; The Little.....
New York: Scott, Foreman and Company, 1961. Large Hardcover.
Lacks jacket, boards rubbed.
Contains fables, myths, and fairy tales from many traditions.
Boston: Sanborn, Carter, Bazin & Co., 1855. Third Edition. Hard Cover.
Third edition. Loss to spine head, tear to spine, hinges repaired with tape, ink notes on second flyleaf.
488 pp. Author's first book. "Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of general audience works by American Latinist and banker Thomas Bulfinch.....
MN: Polanie Publishing Company, 1983. Stombaugh, Karen. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. No jacket. Light general wear.
53 pp. A children's story about the white storks, the fairy tale birds of the old world.
New York: McGaw-Hill, Inc., 1963. D'Amato, Janet and Alex. Spiral-Bound Hardcover.
Light general wear.
Unpaginated. Board book in spiral-bound format. Adapted and illustrated by Janet and Alex D'Amato. A retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.
New Haven: Yales University Press, 1923. Field, Rachel Lyman. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Endpapers lightly foxed.
118 pp. Silhouette illustrations. Fairy tales with short bits of verse separating each story. CONTENTS: Punch & Robinetta; The Tapestry Prince; The Two Poor Seamstresses; The Princess Dyonetia; The Fairy.....
. Golden Cocky, 1993. Kondakova, Olga. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. No jacket. Light general wear.
77 pp. CONTENTS: The Wooden Eagle; The Copper, Silver, and Golden Tsardoms; The Silver Saucer and the Ripe, Juicy Apple; Jack Frost.
Garden City, New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1977. Trade Paperback.
Spine lightly faded, edges lightly rubbed.
x, 633 pp. For readers of all ages, two hundred and ten tales of the Brothers Grimm, including "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White," and "Hansel and Gretel," translated by Ralph Manheim, the highly.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1971. Hogrogian, Nonny. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. No jacket. Boards lightly soiled, board corners bumped and rubbed.
ix, 118 pp. Etchings by Nonny Hogrogian. CONTENTS: Foreword; About a Fisherman and His Wife; The Wolf and the Seven Kids; Brier Rose; About Elves: The.....
London / Edinburgh: The Nonesuch Press / R. & R. Clark, Limited, 1926. Garnett, Ray. Hard Cover.
Boards a bit rubbed, spine toned.
107, [1] pp. Brown cloth spine, gilt and orange floral paper over boards, gilt titles. A collection of Russian short stories, fables, and folk tales about bears.....
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1887. Dore, Gustave. Reissue. Full-Leather.
Rebacked with new leather, gilt titles and decorations sympathetic to original style, first gathering repaired at binding with tissue. Boards lightly stained, front matter lightly foxed, pages 25-32 and 49-120 darker than the rest (these editions often used different paper.....
Wickford: North Books, 2004. Reissue. Hard Cover.
No illustrations (as issued). Jacket faintly rubbed.
A reissue of the work originally released in 1897, but without any of the illustrations. Contains fairy tales from Japan, Sicily, and Scandinavia. Lang's fairy books were very popular, and originals, due to their binding designs.....
New York: Dover, 1965. Ford, H.J. Reissue. Trade Paperback.
1965 reissue of 1893 original. Spine faded and creased.
xi, 366 pp. Giants, dwarfs, monsters, and magicians star in 42 classic stories from China, Russia, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Scotland, and England. Includes "The Three Little Pigs" and "The Half-Chick." 100.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984. Offen, Hilda. Large Hardcover.
No jacket.
157 pp. A new collection of old and familiar nursery rhymes -- rhymes that stay alive from generation to generation because they move in lively rhythms. The words of these old favorites roll easily from the tongue, whether.....
London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., 1944. Brooke, Leslie. 1st Printing. Hard Cover.
First printing of 1944 edition, reset in slightly smaller format than 1909 original. No jacket. Ink gift note on front free endpaper.
141 pp. Color plates and frontispiece, black-and-white illustrations in text. Stories include.....
Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1872. Ward, Marcus. Large Hardcover.
No publisher date (circa late 1800s). Cover lightly rubbed, hinges professional reinforced, a few pages lightly foxed.
Color plates. Legends include Cinderella, Goldie Locks and Sleeping Beauty.
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1903. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Spine sprung, large stain ink stamp on front paste-down endpaper, front free endpaper missing.
Unpaginated. A collection of children's tales including, Puss in Boots and Other Fairy Tales; Cinderella; The Charmed Fawn; The Yellow Dwarf; Little Red Riding Hood. With numerous.....
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1910. Neill, John R. [Rea]. Hard Cover.
Boards rubbed with some loss from corners, pencil name on ownership page.
Two classic children's stories, bound dos-a-dos, with color illustrations by John R. Neill throughout. Neill is most well-known for contributing illustrations to L. Frank Baum's.....
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1905. Small Hard Cover.
Lacks front free endpapers, boards lightly soiled, front hinge starting, pencil mark on front free endpaper, rear hinge broken.
45 pp. Color frontispiece, woodcuts throughout. The Three Bears, to Which are Added The Stories of Jack and the Bean-Stalk and Little Red.....