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: The Macmillan Company, 1929. Heighway, Richard. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Minor loss to spine head, spine head and spine base wear, bookplate.
xxii, 222 pp. Woodcut illustrations by Richard Heighway. A collection of Aesop's fables.
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: Anchor Books, 1974. 14th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Fourteenth printing. Spine faded, corners dog-eared, laminate starting, pages toned.
xvi, 1101 pp. Unlike the Brothers Grimm, who collected and retold folklore, Andersen adopted the most ancient literary forms of the fairy tale and the folklore and distilled them into a......
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.
London: Henry and Co., 1893. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First edition of the Burton translation. Split along front joint of first volume, front and end matter lightly foxed.
xvi, 282; vi, [283]-562 pp. 8vo. Black cloth, gilt titles. Translated into English from the Italian by Sir Richard Francis Burton, best.....
New York: Random House, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Boards lightly soiled with a couple tiny blemishes, slightly musty.
Unpaginated. An illustrated history of trolls and their daily routines, homes, family life, myths, entertainments and some of their neighbors, the dwarfs and elves.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The John C. Winston Company, 1932. Stephenson, Eunice. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. No jacket. Rear board lightly soiled, pencil notes on page ix.
xiv, 170 pp. Color frontispiece and plate, woodcuts. Introduction by Mabel Dodge Holmes. Illustrated by Eunice Stephenson. One of the favorite story books.....
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.
Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 1974. Vos, Peter. Large Hardcover.
Jacket lightly rubbed.
166 pp. Dutch text. A collection of Dutch fairy tales, with color plates and illustrations by Peter Vos throughout.
Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 1972. Vos, Peter. Large Hardcover.
Jacket rubbed with 2 inch tear on base of rear panel.
166 pp. Dutch text. A collection of Dutch fairy tales, with illustrations by Peter Vos throughout.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1945. Baldridge, Cyrus Leroy. Hard Cover.
Includes acetate jacket. Remains on front panel of acetate jacket. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper.
xiv, 314 pp. The novel takes place in the Netherlands and is a colourful fictional portrait of early 19th-century Dutch life, as well as.....
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.
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: 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.....
Avon, Connecticut: The Heritage Press, 1970. Etchemendy, Teje. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Includes publisher's slipcase and Sandglass insert Number X:37. Slipcase lightly rubbed, tiny spot on spine.
Red leather spine, gilt titles, decorated paper over boards. Introduction by editor, illustrations by Teje Etchemendy. A collection of traditional Russian folktales, including: Vasilissa.....
Boston, Massachusetts: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1921. Hard Cover.
Loss to spine head and spine base, boards soiled and bumped, hinges starting, front free endpaper loose but included.
168 pp. Animals posed for photographic illustrations. A collection of Mother Goose rhymes.
Troy: J. Disturnell [John], 1825. Stapled Binding.
Chips and tears to page edges, colloquial repair using thread along spine.
35 pp. Fable with engravings, published by John Disturnell, whose Map of America led to border disputes between Mexico and United States that persisted until 1963.
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.....
Bronx, New York: Child Guidance Products, Inc. Dauber, Liza. Large Hardcover.
No publisher date. One page's moving components non-functional, tear at spine head taped, pages lightly soiled.
Unpaginated. A telling of Little Red Riding Hood with moving parts.