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1980réf. 009277New York: William Morrow & Co 1980 Blind stamped hard cover corner crease to endpaper else fine; dust jacket price clipped else fine. Library binding but NOT ex-library. Andersen's famous fairy tale beautifully illustrated in color by Austrian illustrator Lisbeth Zwerger. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Lisbeth Zwerger. Small Oblong 4to. William Morrow & Co hardcover books
1928réf. 010682New York: Thomas Nelson 1928 40 pgs. Pictorial boards nibbling along top edge wear to corners and spine ends clean and birght inside. One of the best-known tales from The Arabian Nights' Entertainments illustrated in color throughout by Anne Anderson. . First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Anne Anderson. 12mo. Thomas Nelson unknown books
1983réf. 010253New York: Alfred A Knopf 1983 Pictorial boards upper cover very slightly bowed faint spotting along lower edge remainder mark to top edge text clean and bright; matching dust jacket with tears and creasing small losses and foxing original price intact $9.95. Fairy Tales humorously retold in verse with updated surprise endings by Dahl. Amusing artwork by Quentin Blake throughout. Scarce. First American Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/Good Minus. Illus. by Quentin Blake. 4to. Alfred A Knopf unknown books
1944réf. 008846Zurich: Globi-Verlag 1944 Pictorial boards with cloth spine a bit darkened shelf wear top corner slightly bumped. The famous Grimm fairy tales with stunning color artwork by well-known Swiss graphic artist Herber Leupin including a fabulous dual-page centerfold. Text in German. Stated First Printing. Pictorial Boards. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Herbert Leupin. Oblong 4to. Globi-Verlag unknown books
1973réf. 008759Scarsdale: Bradbury Press 1973 Pictorial cloth base of spine and bottom corner bumped gift inscription to endpaper else clean; color illustrated dust jacket with light wear small edge tear to front panel sunned area on rear panel abrasion to front flap where price would have been. The familiar rhyme adapted and illustrated by Susan Jeffers. Caldecott Honor. First Printing. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Susan Jeffers. 4to. Bradbury Press hardcover books
1958réf. 008815New York: Harcourt Brace & Company 1958 Hard cover with rubbed spine ends bottom corner bumped; pictorial dust jacket with a few edge tears original price intact $2.95. A retelling of Riquet with the Tuft-of-Hair about an ugly baby blessed by a fairy to be generous and kind and who will one day find a pricess who finds him the handsomest prince in the land. Illustrated with wonderful artwork by Edward Sorel--his first children's book best known as a political satirist and cartoonist with work appearing in The New Yorker Atlantic Monthly Vanity Fair etc. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Edward Sorel. Small 4to. Harcourt, Brace & Company hardcover books
1916réf. 007852Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1916 1926 based on the code on CP. Bound in red cloth with full color pictorial pastedown gift inscription on endpaper top corner bumped pages age-toned with light finger soil. A collection of popular nursery rhymes illustrated in full color throughout by Blanche Fisher Wright originally appearing in The Real Mother Goose. . Early Printing. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Blanche Fisher Wright. 4to. Rand McNally & Company hardcover books
1892réf. 5599London: Macmillan and Co. 1892. Second Edition. orig. publisher's cloth. A near fine copy; unopened. 8vo. There are 3 plates and 2 maps one fldg. A wonderful book of local history folklore language natural history and geology. An example of a genre now lost. Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1966réf. 43700New York: The Folklore Center 1966. Very Good. New York: The Folklore Center 1966. First Edition. Three side-stapled mimeographed foolscap leaves printed on rectos only. Old folds tiny chips and creasing to bottom edge of each leaf else Very Good and sound. Lengthy program to the Folklore Center's inaugural poetry reading given by the French-born poet Serge Gavronsky b.1932. The text provides a lengthy biography written by Gavronsky himself hinting at his escape as a youth from Nazi-occupied France during World War II. The program also provides the text for his four-part poem "The Window-Cleaner. The Folklore Center unknown books
1944réf. 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
1982réf. 010690Dornach Switzerland: Walter Keller Press 1982 Color pictorial cover extremities rubbed bottom corner bumped. The classic Rapunzel fairy tale illustrated with beautifully printed color artwork on every page by Jnka Pucmer. One of a handful of children's books published by Walter Keller who is best known for publishing photography books under the Scalo imprint championing such artists as Nan Goldin Larry Clark Helmut Newton etc. First Thus. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Jnka Pucmer. 4to. Walter Keller Press books
1984réf. 011141Saxonville MA: Picture Book Studio 1984 1984. Wraparound pictorial boards; matching dust jacket is very slightly age-toned original price intact $11.95. Gorgeously illustrated edition of this popular Andersen fairy tale. This copy is signed by Zwerger on the title page. Signed by Illustrator. First American Edition. Pictorial Boards. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Lisbeth Zwerger. Oblong 4to. Picture Book Studio books
1929réf. 003430Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1929 199 pgs. Beige cloth with pastedown title age-toning to endpapers and fly leaves else fine; pictorial dust jacket with light wear. From the jacket "William finds the buckle of Angus Og--and encounters all the fairy folk of Ireland." Illustrated with 8 color plates including one of a golliwog. Uncommon particularly in this condition. Australian author and British politician Muir pg 779. First Edition American Issue. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Molly MacArthur. 8vo. Doubleday, Doran hardcover books
1899réf. 009612No Place: Juvenile Publishers 1899 Unpaginated. Pictorial boards accented in gilt cloth spine corners worn edges rubbed clean overall with a few signs of use internally. The publishers really tried to pack a lot into this one little book! We start out with an alphabet with two examples and brief verse for each letter then we go on to counting then days of the week then months and finish off with some natural history. Peppered throughout the book are Mother Goose rhymes. The book is illustrated in two-color plus line art printed with blue ink and there is a color frontis depicting Little Red Riding Hood. There are even some Wain-esque cats! Something for everyone really. . Pictorial Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Various. 8vo. Juvenile Publishers unknown books
1927réf. 009375Newark NJ: Charles E Graham & Co 1927 Pictorial boards with cloth spine light shelf wear small abrasions to cover offsetting opposite color plates original two part box is present but in poor condition. The classic tale from Arabian Nights illustrated with 6 color plates and color endpapers by an uncredited illustrator who signed their name "L S." . Pictorial Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by L S. Square 12mo. Charles E Graham & Co unknown books
1929réf. 011116Rochester: Stecher Litho Co. 1929 16 pgs. Color pictorial covers with light wear to extremities 1/2" tear at base of spine. The familiar Grimm fairy tale retold in verse. Illustrated with 6 pages in full color the balance in red & black by Frances Brundage. Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Frances Brundage. Square 4to. Stecher Litho Co. books
1885réf. 008866London: George Routledge & Sons 1885 8" x 9.5". 24 pgs. Paper wraps front cover printed in color edge wear closed tear near base of spine old bookseller sticker inside front cover. Published between 1886 and 1900 based on rear cover titles and size of book. This was Caldecott's last shilling picture book. The text a nonsense verse was written by Samuel Foote allegedly to test the actor Macklin who boasted that he could memorize anything with a single read-through Osborne pg 63. Illustrated with 6 color plates the balance in line. The best part is there is a bear wearing a dress!. Thwaite pg 197 Muir English Children's Books pg. 199 and British Book Illustrators 1860-1900 pg 36 C20. . Early Edition. Pictorial Wraps. Very Good. Illus. by Randolph Caldecott. Small Oblong 4to. George Routledge & Sons unknown books
réf. 008245York: J Kendrew 1820. Original yellow covers are faded top corner with creases otherwise a beautiful survival. 16 woodcuts including covers illustrated the nursery rhyme. Davis 28. Osborne pg 105. Original Wraps. Very Good. Illus. by Engravings. 64mo. J Kendrew paperback books
1890réf. 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
1951réf. 008850Zurich: Wolfsbergdrucke 1951 Pictorial cover with red cloth spine spine sunned light cover soil and age toned lacks text sheet. A parade of fairy tale characters from 7 different tales including Puss in Boots The Traveling Musicians The Good-For-Nothings King Easter Rabbit The Death of the Rooster The Seven Ravens and The Frog King and His Merry Acrobats. Later published as a panorama leporello binding. Bilderwelt #778. . First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Hans Fischer. Narrow Oblong 4to. Wolfsbergdrucke unknown books
1960réf. 009065South Norwalk CT: Antonio Frasconi 1960 Tan card covers pictorially printed in orange and black some offsetting inside covers tiny stains in gutter from string binding. Six Spanish nursery rhymes printed in orange ink each accompanied by a woodcut by Frasconi printed in black ink. Scarce item published by the artist. Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Antonio Frasconi. 24mo. Antonio Frasconi unknown books
1910réf. 009700Akron OH: Saalfield Publishing Company 1910 Date based on institutional copies. Covers soil bright and clean inside with an occasional mark. A selection of illustrations by Greenaway with brief descriptive text. Printed entirely in color on cloth. An uncommon Greenaway item. . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Kate Greenaway. 16mo. Saalfield Publishing Company hardcover books
1925réf. 010476Champaign IL: M A Donohue & Co. 1925 Green cloth pictorially stamped in blind titled in gilt gilt dulled light wear to extremities previous owner's name occasional signs of use. A selection of well-known fairy tales from the Grimm Brothers illustrated with 8 full-page color plates and 4 full-page b&w illustrations plus small illustrations throughout all by Ella Dolbear Lee. Early Edition. Cloth Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Ella Dolbear Lee. Thick 4to. M A Donohue & Co. hardcover books
1982réf. 010547Dornach Switzerland: Walter Keller Press 1982 Color pictorial cover light shelf wear. The classic Rapunzel fairy tale illustrated with beautifully printed color artwork on every page by Jnka Pucmer. One of a handful of children's books published by Walter Keller who is best known for publishing photography books under the Scalo imprint championing such artists as Nan Goldin Larry Clark Helmut Newton etc. First Thus. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Jnka Pucmer. 4to. Walter Keller Press unknown books
1929réf. 011398New York: Platt & Munk 1929 1922 1929. PIctorial boards with rubbing to extremities matching dust jacket with light soil edge wear and rubbing. Includes Cinderella The Frog Prince and Sleeping Beauty. Cinderella is illustrated by Lois Lenski the other stories are illustrated by Eulalie. Includes color and line art. . Pictorial Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Lois Lenski & Eulalie. Square 16mo. Platt & Munk unknown books
