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Best.-Nr. 36966Hildesheim Georg Olms 1977. . Enthält u.a.: König Ortnit. Wolfdietrich. Hugdietrich. Alpharts Tod. Die Ravenna-Schlacht. Sigenot. Ecke. Dietrich und seine Gesellen. Dietrichs Brautfahrt. Etzels Hofhaltung. Ermenrichs Tod. Texte in mittelhochdeutscher Sprache. Mit Einführung des Hrsg. - Fußschnitt angestaubt sonst gutes Exemplar Hildesheim, Georg Olms, 1977. unknown
Best.-Nr. A9781345969887Hardback. New. hardcover
1884Best.-Nr. 66612Villon Society London 1884. First Edition limited no. 331 of 500 copies. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". 9-volume set complete. Front hinge beginning to crack vol 1 with splits to front joint ends and chip to top. Internal hole to spine of vol 8. Horizontal split to spine of vol 5. Foxing front/rear pages most noticable in volume 1. Slight in a couple of other volumes. Edges browned. Top edge gilt in good condition. Covers marked. Some bumped corners. "The first complete unexpurgated and unabridged translation of The Arabian Nights into English. Published in London by the Villon Society for private subscription and circulation only it was intentionally distributed privately to bypass strict Victorian obscenity and censorship laws." Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 5 kilos. Category: Myths Legends & Folklore; History. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 66612. . This is a SET of books therefore heavier than a standard volume and will involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Villon Society hardcover
1983Best.-Nr. 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
1968Best.-Nr. 009856London Melbourne Toronto: Macmillan 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at title page -"John Johnson with best wishes Margaret Laurence". Review Copy with publisher's review slip laid in. Near Fine small corner bumps in a Very Good dust jacket light edge wear mainly at corners and spine ends. With Johnson's blind stamp front end page. John William Johnson 1942 is a noted folklorist with a distinguished teaching and publishing career and who spent a year and a half translating and editing for the renowned Somali folklorist and poet Haaji Muuse Galaal. A great folkloric Association Copy. Macmillan Hardcover
1967Best.-Nr. 003958New York: Harper & Row 1967. Hardcover. Very Good /very good-. Large 8vo. Bound in illustrated boards and matching dust jacket. Full-color illustrations by Ungerer. Very Good previous owner's name in ink to front free endpaper rubbing and bumping to extremities internally clean and bright in Very Good- dust jacket with 1" tear to lower edge of front cover several shorter tears and wear to extremities age-toning overall. Attractive copy. Harper & Row hardcover
2001Best.-Nr. 82626New York:: Crown 2001. SIGNED first edition -. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers light crease to book cover. First US printing. A novel about the final cycle of the King Arthur legend - the coming of Sir Galahad the search for the Holy Grail and the fall of Camelot a blend of fantasy and legend by this critically acclaimed historian and writer. SIGNED on the title page. Publisher's letter laid in. 424 pp plus lists of characters and places charts of Celtic and Christian Wheels of the Year. Uncommon both as an advance copy and signed. Crown, unknown
1928Best.-Nr. 002972Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Company 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Millard C. E. 8vo. x 2 312 pp. Bound in full yellow cloth title and decoration stamped in black on cover and spine deckle edge top edge stained orange illustrated endpapers. Lacking dust jacket. Full-color frontispiece and three full-color fifteen full-page black and white and numerous in-text black and white illustrations by C. E. Millard. Good internally age-toned evidence of water staining to text block effecting lower margins of many pages top edge of front cover also has some light blue staining some light soiling bumping and fraying to extremities and fading to spine. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover
Best.-Nr. rja664117UKslim Qrto HBdw/djillustrated1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright crisp clean glossy laminated colour pictorial artwork by Errol Le Cain illustrated dw/dj panels with black lettering to front panel; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present. Topfore-edges bright and clean; contents bright tight clean solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners appears unread apart from my collation. Bright crisp clean sharp-cornered colour pictorial illustrated glazed boards - design repeated from dw/dj and clean plain white endpapers. UKslim Qrto HBdw/dj illustrated1st edn32pp unpaginated and excluding front free endpapers includes 13 full-page coloured illustrations which includes the illustrated dedication page other coloured illustrations and border edge decorations on every page; plus colour illustrated title page aforementioned dedication page with full-page full-colour illustrated frntis to it's reverse. An increasingly and highly collected and prolific children's book illustrator and an unusual item in Le Cain's bold style and will be an important and welcome addition to the canon for discerning collectors and fans alike. Errol John Le Cain b.1941 - d.1989. Worked as Erroll Le Cain. Born in Singapore son of a member of the police force. During his childhood he travelled extensively in the Far East and lived for five years in India. He worked in Pearl & Dean advertising studios 1956-60 and on animated films and titles in the Richard Williams Studio 1960-67. Following that he worked freelance as a filmtelevision and exhibition designer. As a book illustrator Le Cain had developed a distinctive graphic style in which outline and pattern are dominant elements. He aimed to create bold simple designs retaining relevant detail that can be dramatic or humorous and adapts his style to the varying moods of the stories. He uses pen and ink with gouache for colour work. He won the Kate Greenaway Medal with 'Hiawatha's Childhood' UK FABER1984 in 1985. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the lighter weight and value of this item for correct shipping/ Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note stocks' shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order especially if the item is offered either Pp included/FREE. N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL to these destinations can now in some cases cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. LONDON.FABER and FABER LIMITED,1988. hardcover
2001Best.-Nr. 27010New York:: Crown 2001. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket. First US printing. A novel about the final cycle of the King Arthur legend - the coming of Sir Galahad the search for the Holy Grail and the fall of Camelot a blend of fantasy and legend by this critically acclaimed historian and writer. SIGNED on the title page. Crown, hardcover
1858Best.-Nr. 66740G. Routledge & Co London 1858. First Thus. Hardcover Half Leather. Good Condition. Illustrator: Godwin Corbould and Harvey. Size: 12mo 6 3/4 - 7 3/4". x 558pp. Front hinge cracking. Some wear to spine leather with slight loss to base. Foxing front/rear pages but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges browned and marked. Corner of rear end paper torn with some loss. Damp staining to margin of frontispiece with slight loss and paper repair to one corner. Covers marked and worn. Corners bumped. "Planché an English dramatist and costume antiquary translated this collection as a direct companion volume to his highly successful The Fairy Tales of the Countess D'Aulnoy published in 1855. His goal was to provide English audiences with accurate unadulterated translations of the early modern French salon traditions rather than the heavily sanitized and simplified street-chapbook versions common in Victorian Britain." Illustrator: Godwin Corbould and Harvey. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Myths Legends & Folklore; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 66740. . G. Routledge & Co hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 909Y43London: William Glaisher Ltd 1930. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 5.5". None . An uncommon collection of papers that were read at an exhibition for The Folk-Lore Society illustrated with plates. In the publisher's original cloth.Illustrated with five plates.Contains the twenty-one papers that were read at the Society of Antiquaries in Burlington House Piccadilly for an exhibition on folklore. With a list of the members and subscribers of The Folk-Lore Society. To the beginning of the work is a programme with an overview of the dates that each lecture took place as well as the excursions that the Society carried out. Topics of the papers include 'Some Traditions of Stone-Carrying Women' and 'Traditional Games of Turks'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally very smart with bumping to the head and tail of spine. A couple light marks to the boards. Bookplate of one J. D. Dutton to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the odd spot. Heavier scattered spots to the first and last few leaves. Very Good Indeed William Glaisher, Ltd hardcover
Best.-Nr. A9781345709179Hardback. New. hardcover
Best.-Nr. A9781345291254Hardback. New. hardcover
Best.-Nr. A9781345791228Hardback. New. hardcover
2004Best.-Nr. 201231-MB12Ashfield Press 2004. Very Good Hardcover . Softcover. Very Good. Ashfield Press Paperback
2005Best.-Nr. S9337In English. Soft cover 24 cm 168 pp. Epiphaniou paperback
1971Best.-Nr. 122Academy of Athens 1971. Set of three vinyl discs 33 LP in a special box. The discs are in excellent condition. Collectible item published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the struggle for Greek independence 1821. Academy of Athens
1904Best.-Nr. 508Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company 1904. Altemus' Banbury Cross Series. 5"x6.75"in white boards with gilt decoration and titles and pictorial pastedown of Snow White Rose Red and the Dwarf. Good. Split Hinges wear to boards offsetting to endpapers as shown in photos. With Thirty-two Illustrations. A Victorian era collection of three Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales. Henry Altemus Company unknown
1928Best.-Nr. 9005038TFS Austin 1928 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Variant binding with patterned maroon & black cloth with gilt-stamped title etc. on cover & spine. 201pp. Signed & dated in 1930 by the well-known SW historian Mildred Pickle Mayhall. Contains two contributions & an Introduction by Dobie. TFS #7. Some wear to back cover extremities; vg. Scarce. McV B7. TFS, Austin, 1928 hardcover
2021Best.-Nr. 024417Las Vegas.: Bloomsbury Academic 2021. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover 2021 edition. Covers and text in fine condition. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. 271 pages. Bloomsbury Academic Paperback
1989Best.-Nr. 023740New York.: Norton 1989. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover 1989 1st edition. Inscribed and signed by Norine Dresser and inscribed by the same author to fellow co-worker Harold to whom the book is dedicated. Dust jacket and boards in near fine condition. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. 255 pages. Norton Hardcover
1928Best.-Nr. 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
1969Best.-Nr. 7002492NY: Doubleday 1969. Bound in green cloth stamped in red in colorful psychedelic style dust jacket someone made some light marks on the wrapper. A very scarce first U.S. edition stated of this 165 pp. The author died in 1933. This is a re-discovery of her work in English. Fourteen tales included: The diamond bird -- The queen -- Linda-gull and the old king -- The old troll in the big mountain -- The jewel field -- The magpie with salt on its tail -- King Puttilutt -- Jan-the Lame's apple tree -- The sunshine tree -- The golden goats -- The butter tub -- The golden purses -- The wondrous ball -- The golden hen. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good /Very Good . Illus. by Susanne Dolesch. Doubleday Hardcover
1954Best.-Nr. 010392Garden City: Doubleday 1954 Beige cloth pictorially stamped in three colors light cover soil and mild bumping to spine ends; color pictorial dust jacket with wear to edges and folds overall darkened original price intact $5.00. A large and lovely profusely illustrated collection of nursery rhymes. De Angeli's work appears as delicate line art textual color artwork and full page color plates. Quite a lavish production. "De Angeli's work reflects the mood and heart of childhood in the cherubic faces of her characters and will undoubtedly continue to do so for some time." Peterson & Solt pg 303. Uncommon especially signed. Caldecott Honor. Signed by Illustrator. Stated First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good Plus/Good. Illus. by Marguerite De Angeli. Folio. Doubleday hardcover
