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.
Nashville: Ideals Children's Books, 1992. Nyman, Elisabeth. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. 1 inch tear to jacket spine head.
32 pp. A fine leather ball snobbishly refuses to marry a plain wooden top; but years later, after Ball has fallen on hard times and Top has a shiny new.....
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1981. 3rd Printing. Large Hardcover.
Third printing. Small chip along bottom edge of rear jacket panel, jacket lightly toned.
162 pp. A collection of tales including "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "The Little Match girl," "Thumbelina," "The Elfin Hill," "Little Ida's Flower," "The.....
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.....
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.
Toronto / Nashville: Flowerpot Press, 2011. Greenway, Kate; Dulac, Edmund; Rackham, Arthur. Large Hardcover.
A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.
31 pp. "Whether it be on the back of a tortoise or riding upon the north wind itself, you will travel to exotic and magical lands with.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1920. McCandlish, Edward G. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Reissue. Ink name on front free endpaper, pencil name on second blank, mull exposed at front hinge, some pages starting to loosen but still holding.
xi, 198 pp. New introduction by Kate Douglas Wiggin. Translated by.....
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.....
New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2002. Large Hardcover.
Jacket spine bumped.
256 pp. "Information contained in this work draws together all the different strands of Arthurian myth from such sources as Geoffrey of Monmouth, Malory, Chretian de Troyes, and the English Gawain cycles. Every character appearing in the myths.....
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 York: The Seabury Press, 1976. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. No jacket, edges lightly rubbed, pencil name.
Unpaginated. A poor young man gains a fortune and meets a beautiful princess when his cat outwits an evil giant.
New York: Random House, 2001. Silin-Palmer, Pamela. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Jacket flaps toned, sticker remains on rear jacket panel.
Unpaginated. Renowned artist Pamela Silin-Palmer brings her stunning paintings of animals in clothes to the classic fairytale of Beauty and the Beast. The story is retold with a......
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company, 1922. Smith, Wuanita; Shenton, Edward. Hard Cover.
Boards rubbed, one plate missing, ink gift note on front flyleaf.
116 pp. Original blue cloth, color picture plate mounted on front board. Color plates by Wuanita Smith, black & white illustrations by Edward Shenton. INCLUDES: The.....
New York: Barnes & Noble, 2001. 6th Printing. Hard Cover.
6th printing. Faint edge wear.
Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales is a German collection of fairy tales by the Grimm brothers or "Brothers Grimm", Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812. This.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988. Sendak, Maurice. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Front jacket flap price clipped.
Unpaginated. "On September 28, 1983, the discovery of a previously unknown tale by Wilhelm Grimm was reported on the front page of The New York Times. "After more than 150.....
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.....
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1913. Shepherd, J. A. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Bookplate removed from front paste-down endpaper.
vii, 144 pp. Brown boards with a rooster illustration on the front board. A fable of the Chanticleer--a proud and fierce rooster who dominates the barnyard
.....Auckland, New Zealand: David Bateman, 2007. Ingpen, Robert. Reprint. Large Hardcover.
Reprint. Jacket edges rubbed.
288 pp. All edges gilt. Retold by Barbara Hayes. Illustrated by Robert Ingpen. Over sixty traditional folk tales and fables from Europe, Africa, Asia, The Middle East, Australasia and the Americas. These entrancing stories will.....
London: The Bodley Head, 1978. Felts, Shirley. Hard Cover.
Half inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel, quarter inch tear along top edge of rear jacket panel.
111 pp. "Sweet and Sour contains many different Chinese tales from various periods of time. The stories contain a wide variety.....
London: Westminster Books / Bancroft & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1961. Kubasta, V. [Vojtech]. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. All pop-ups complete and functional.
Unpaginated. A retelling of the classic story of Cinderella in pop-up format, with illustrations by Vojtech Kubasta, a Czech artist. Kubasta's first pop-up was Little Red.....
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, some pages toned.
lxiv, 839, [3] pp. Royal 4to. 12 3/4 x 10. Leather.....