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1913ref. 010418London: Hodder and Stoughton 1913 113 pgs. White cloth decoratively stamped in teal and gilt light wear to top of spine 3 tiny marks to lower cover else a bright beautiful copy. Tipped in color frontis & 9 other very beautiful tipped in color plates with captioned guards. Dulac most celebrated for his "Arabian Nights" illustrations continues his heavily mid-east influenced style in this fabulous volume. Hughey 31a. First Trade. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Edmund Dulac. Thick 4to. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover books
1937ref. 008692Racine WI: Whitman Publishing 1937 140 pgs. Pictorial boards with mild external edge wear inner front hinge strengthened pages age-toned as usual last three pages with edge tears and creases not affecting text; dust jacket frayed with small losses. Mother Goose rhymes some original and some with Disney characters worked into the verses. Fun Disney artwork in color and line throughout. The book was produced with inexpensive materials so few copies survived in collectible condition. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/Good Minus. Illus. by Walt Disney Studio. Thick 8vo. Whitman Publishing unknown books
2014ref. 008447New York: Toon Books 2014 Pictorial boards as new. Neil Gaiman's adaptaion of the fairy tale with artwork by Mattoti after work he originally created for the Metropolitan Opera's stage production. Printed on tree-free paper. First Trade Edition. Pictorial Boards. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Lorenzo Mattotti. Small 4to. Toon Books unknown books
1919ref. 007478New York: Frederick A Stokes 1919 Red cloth pictorially stamped in black titled in gilt with die-cut color pastedown to front cover light wear to extremities frontis tissue creased else nice internally; the dust jacket is missing large pieces with old repairs on verso heavily worn. A beautifully illustrated Mother Goose with 24 color plates plus full and partial page line art. A beautiful copy rare with the dust jacket. First Edition. Very Good/Good Minus. Illus. by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis. Thick 4to. Frederick A Stokes hardcover books
1882ref. 47510San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft and Company 1882. First edition. Hardcover. vg- to vg. Folio. 5 leaves 5-417pp. plates with tissue guards. Original brown morocco leather with gilt vignette and decor on cover gilt ruling on cover and spine elaborate blind-stamped decorative ruling on covers; raised bands and dentelles. Gilt edges. Decorative endpapers. The entirely separate volume on was published in 1881. "To gather into a compendium for preservation and reference the lives and portraits of those who have labored side by side in laying the foundations of human greatness upon the shores of the Pacific is the object of this work." Preface. This biographical directory or "mugbook" is illustrated with more than eighty full page steel-engraved portraits with a total of one hundred and seven biographies of distinguished Californians. The editor especially commissioned for this work three essays: "The Glaciers and Snow-banners of California" by John Muir "The Lakes of the Pacific Coast" by John Le Conte and "Alaska" by Caleb T. Fay. Binding with some wear scuffing along edges and joints of spine some foxing. some tissue guards with creasing. Binding in overall very good- interior in very good condition. A. L. Bancroft and Company hardcover books
1920ref. 011401New York: M S Publishing 1920 Stiff pictorial wraps mild dust soil else fine. A booklet of uncut playing cards. Each card features a line from a Mother Goose rhyme and accompanying picture. The user was meant to cut out the cards and play the game as described on the inside covers fo the book. This copy is completely unused. I could locate no exact copies. The copy at Princeton was published by Cupples & Leon and dated 1918. This copy is undated. Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Mary Belle McKellar. Folio. M S Publishing unknown books
1965ref. 011425New York: Harcourt Brace & World 1965 Hard cover in color pictorial dust jacket with original price intact $4.50. Four fairy tales that Cummings wrote for his daughter with dreamy color artwork by John Eaton. Published posthumously. This copy is signed by the illustrator on the title page. . Signed by Illustrator. Stated First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Illus. by John Eaton. Small 4to. Harcourt Brace & World hardcover books
1912ref. 011433Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1912 168 pgs 4 pgs of ads. Blue cloth ruled and titled in gilt color pastedown faint stain to upper cover light shelf wear touch-ups to pastedown 1/2" edge tear to title page. Six fairy stories including the title story; Ruse of the Princess; Prince Almor and the Blind Princess; The King's Mistake.; The Young Dragon; and The Red Troll. Illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright in 8 color plates. . First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Maginel Wright Enright. 4to. Rand McNally & Company hardcover books
1945ref. 011337New York: Simon & Schuster 1945 Pictorial boards with blue cloth spine a whisper of wear to top edges "belongs to" filled in; matching dust jacket with small losses edge tears old repair to verso fold wear original price intact $.25. A nice copy of Little Golden Book #17 in dust jacket. The popular fairy tale illustrated in color and b&w by Erika Weihs. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Erika Weihs. Square 8vo. Simon & Schuster unknown books
1920ref. 011375London Paris & New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons 1920 140 pgs 4 pgs of ads. Color pictorial boards with brown cloth spine shelf wear and light surface wear FFEP is newer half-title browned else bright and clean. Contains a brief bio of Han Christian Andersen plus the fairy tales Red Shoes Steadfast Tin Soldier Wild Swans Tinder-Box Little Match Girl Thumbelina Ugly Duckling Little Tuk Little Ida's Flowers Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweeper Storks and Little Mermaid. Illustrated with 12 color plates plus partial-page line art throughout by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Circa 1920. . Early Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Large 8vo. Raphael Tuck & Sons unknown books
1890ref. 011327London: George Allen 1890 104 pgs. 1 pg of ads. AEG. Burgundy cloth pictorially stamped and titled in gilt extremities worn stain to upper cover marring the first "a" in Rosalinda gift inscription occasional foxing and soil to text pages. Four fairy stories including the title story Prince in a Fog; Princess with the Beautiful Hands; and Worth Her Weight in Gold. Illustrated with a frontis printed in black and yellow; other artwork and decorations in line. Scarce. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Alfred Lys Baldry. 8vo. George Allen hardcover books
1923ref. 011329London: Gresham Publishing Company 1923 1923 per British Library. Red cloth pictorially stamped in blind spine titled in gilt gilt stamp of Hillhead High School of Glasgow to upper cover; bookplate removed from FFEP otherwise a nice clean copy of a scarce book. A selection of fairy stories illustrated with partial-page b&w artwork by various artists a color frontis by Mary Peart one plate by Arthur A Dixon and two color plates by Florence Harrison. . First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Florence Harrison Arthur A Dixon and Mary A Peart. 8vo. Gresham Publishing Company hardcover books
1896ref. 011376London: George Allen 1896 353 pgs. TEG. Blue-grey cloth elaborately stamped and titled in gilt gilt dulled chip from endpaper occasional foxing many pages opened roughly. A collection of folk peasant tales and stories copiously illustrated with partial- and full-page b&w Art Nouveau drawings by Emily J Harding well-known for her miniatures children's book illustrations and her activities as a suffragist. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Emily J Harding. 8vo. George Allen hardcover books
1888ref. 319819Tokyo: Kobunsha 1888. paperback. very good. Told in English for Children by B.H. Chamberain. Illustrated with color wood block prints on double folded crepe paper string-tied Tokyo: Kobunsha 1888. Perhaps uniquely the back cover reproduces a letter to the London publishing house Griffith Farrar & Co dated and stamped FairyLand/Jan. 1 1888 presumably asking them to order copies of the book. The front cover is somewhat faded with one of the corners curled but the interior prints are clean and bright. Kobunsha unknown books
ref. 248505Tokyo: Kobunsha. paperback. very good. 16mo color illustrations with colored pictorial front wrapper; sewn with silk. Tokyo: Kobunsha no date. The front edge of the wrapper is chipped and one corner torn off but otherwise a near fine example of an ephemeral piece. Printed on paper not crepe which is considered the first issue. Japanese Fairy Tale Series number 5. Kobunsha unknown books
1672ref. 5393Venice: Steffano Curti 1672. soft cover. Very Good. 12mo 16 cm; 596 pages. Half title present. Typographic and woodcut ornaments. Bound "alla rustica" in pasteboard worn. Shaken. Title in ink on spine. Pages untrimmed and generally clean. Vinciana 2661. The classicist Fulvio Testi worked diligently to oppose of the baroque excesses of Marino and his followers and to maintain Horatian decorum. After a brilliant diplomatic career he died--or was murdered--in prison. His poems were admired and went through many editions. Steffano Curti paperback books
1950ref. 011366Unknown: Uncredited 1950 Circa 1950s. Pictorial board with some wear to spine and edges. Inside the upper cover are familiar Mother Goose rhymes with small illustrations in line by an unknown hand opposite the nurserhy rhymes is a simple puzzle featuring a colorized version of a photo by Harry Whittier Frees. Many of the puzzle pieces are in the shape of familiar objects. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Harry Whittier Frees. 4to. Uncredited hardcover books
1986ref. 002093New York: Dutton 1986 Illustrated boards in matching dust jacket price-clipped. Retelling of this enduring fairy tale illustrated with breathtaking color paintings by Zelinsky. Caldecott Honor. First Printing. Illustrated Boards. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Paul O. Zelinsky. 4to. Dutton hardcover books
1944ref. 000980Zurich: Globi-Verlag 1944 Brown cloth backed illustrated boards lt. rubbing to edges lt. shelf wear 2 thin holes in back strip where staples pushed through. Internally fine. Fairy tale from Grimm illustrated by 6 stunning and colorful full-page lithos plus a dual-page color centerfold. Text in German. . First Edition. Illustrated Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Herbert Leupin. Oblong 4to. Globi-Verlag hardcover books
1918ref. 011435Alkmaar: Gebr Kluitman 1918 32 pgs. Pictorial boards with worn corners and edges rebound with new cloth spine a number of archival mends previous owner's stamp to title page. Fairy tales and verse illustrated with lovely silhouette illustrations. . Pictorial Boards. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Nelly Spoor. 4to. Gebr Kluitman unknown books
1925ref. 010664New York: George H Doran 1925 310 pgs. Red cloth with pictorial pastedown in metallic gold black & red a few spots to edge of text block else a fine copy housed in the original pictorial box which is worn and soiled with a couple of breaks but complete. A gorgeous copy of Kay Nielsen's magnificent illustrated edition of Grimm's fairy tales featuring 12 tipped-in color plates and 10 full page b&w plates and decorative initials. This was the last of Nielsen's lavish gift books and no British trade edition was issued. . First Trade Edition. Pictorial Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Kay Nielsen. Large Thick 4to. George H Doran hardcover books
1931ref. 142394Reprint of the first and best edition Besterman 522 Artizen A28 Universal Catalogue of Books on Art I p.293. Original spine laid down else a fine copy. The art historian Conte Leopoldo Cicognara 1767-1834 wrote on aesthetics French and Italian art mainly visual and art and archaeology of antiquity. He also compiled this catalogue of his own collection the working and reference library of a scholar who could afford to buy whatever books he needed. It was primarily a library of classical studies and of Italian and French art and aesthetics from the Renaissance through the 18th century. Cicognara's library was acquired by Pope Leo XII in 1824 and is today part of the Vatican Library. There are 4800 numbered entries with frequent descriptive annotations. Topics include: treatises on painting ancient and modern theatrical architecture perspective treatises on beauty Etruscan antiquities Italian antiquities before Rome numismatics inscriptions and many others. Author index. A scarce and still essential reference. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hiersemann 1931; small 8vo. modern cloth leather spine label; xiv 414; iv 333 lxxvii1 pages. Book # 142394 Verlag Karl W. Hiersemann books
1930ref. 011104New York: Coward McCann 1930 Orange cloth pictorially stamped in blue a few minuscule nicks from board edges previous owner's name else Fine and clean; color pictorial dust jacket with some darkening and tiny losses original price intact $3.50. An early printing bound in orange instead of blue but retaining the original design originally issued at $2.50. One of the Hader's most desirable titles. Their Picture Book of Mother Goose is illustrated on every page either in b&w or full color and printed on thick stock. First and early printings of this title are notoriously difficult to find in nice condition and almost never with a dust jacket and /or signed!. Signed by Illustrators. Early Edition. Pictorial Cloth Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Berta and Elmer Hader. Large Square 8vo. Coward McCann hardcover books
1904ref. 010920Boston: Old Corner Book Store 1904 464 pgs. Beige cloth pictorially stamped in color on all panels mild surface rubbing light shelf wear overall a lovely clean copy. Originally published in this format in 1900 but this edition replaces the pictorial endpapers with plain all else is identical. Illustrated with a color frontis & title page the balance in b&w as full- and partial-page plus chapter heads and decorations. All iterations of Rackham's Grimm fairy tales are elusive. This one is made even more special by an autograph letter signed by Rackham addressed to Canadian author Howard Angus Kennedy declining an invite to a party held by the Candian Author's Association. Reprint. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Arthur Rackham. Thick 8vo. Old Corner Book Store hardcover books
1928ref. 010436Newark NJ: Charles E Graham & Co 1928 Three volumes in a book-shaped box that repeats the cover of the title volume the books have light dust soil wear to extremities one has a crease to the corner of a the cover the original box is worn and has undergone some cosmetic restoration. The cover title is illustrated by Julia Greene; The Sheep and the Pig Who Went Into the Woods to Live by Themselves illustrator uncredited; The Sky is Falling on Henny-Penny! is illustrated by Marie Schubert. Each volume illustrated in color and b&w. . Pictorial Card Covers. Very Good. Illus. by Julia Greene Marie Schubert & Uncredited. 12mo. Charles E Graham & Co paperback books
