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1950rif. 000576New York: Limited Editions Club 1950 41 pgs. #1283/1500. Signed By Edmund Dulac. Maroon cloth with inlaid brass cockerel lt. oxidization prev. owner's name lt. fox near gutter of front ep Maroon chemise with stamped cockerel design sp. faded. Maroon slipcase with fading at edges and wear to bottom flap. Illustrated and decorated by Dulac his first work for the Limited Edition Club. First Limited Edition. Very Good. Limited Editions Club hardcover
1938rif. 27942London: George G. Harrap 1938. Book. Illus. by Aris Ernest. Good. Hardback. First. 4vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. 190 Pages. Light Blue cloth cover. No inscriptions. English Language. George G. Harrap Hardcover
1900rif. 10598London: Longmans Green 1900. Book. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 5.5 x 8.25"; 86 pages; blue cloth boards some soiling beige vellum spine with gilt title; all edges uncut; good tight book; six illustrations;. Longmans Green Hardcover
1915rif. 17601London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. 1915. Book. Good. Hardback. Fifth Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Contains 73 Russian tales. Green cloth with decorations. 350 pages. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Hardcover
1973rif. 011569New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux 1973 Blue cloth with a whisper of sunning to edges; color pictorial dust jacket with mild wear to extremities 1/4" tear to rear panel price-clipped award seal present. Re-telling of an old Cornish play that was performed at Christmas time. Brilliantly pictured by Zemach in color throughout. Caldecott Medal. This copy signed by Margot Zemach on the half-title page. Second Printing. Cloth Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Margot Zemach. 4to. Farrar Strauss Giroux hardcover
1894rif. 010101New York: The Century Co. 1894. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x 239 pp.; beige cloth pictorially stamped in gold orange & green; frontis. & 22 illustrations reproducing George Wharton Edwards' drawings after the author's photographs. Very Good spine darkened slight soiling to boards interior clean tight and unmarked. SCARCE. The Century Co. Hardcover
1898rif. 010120Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin 1898. Book. Very Good Plus. Decorative Cloth. Later Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good Plus in original brown cloth lettered in gilt and blindstamped with red decorations black end papers professionally restored small rubs to cloth at corners scattered marginal stamps of a hand with pointing finger no other markings clean and tight. xv 1 379 pages 12 illustrations. Originally published 1884 title page date of 1898. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover
1972rif. 52995Garden City NY: Doubleday and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards and jacket lightly worn jacket price-clipped and sunned. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by both of the Caldecott medalist author-illustrator team on the title page. Illustrated boards. Humorous colorful and earthy tales about trolls grounded in Norwegian folklore. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Doubleday and Company hardcover
1912rif. 50353Boston: Little Brown and Company. Good with no dust jacket; Usual library stamps and markings pages toned . and finger soiling throughout spine cocked. 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy rebound in orange patterned reinforced cloth. xii 333pp. Black and white plates and many other smaller elegant illustrations by Alexander Popini. A collection of 41 fairy tales from Grimm and Andersen as well as traditional fairy tales from Greece Norway Roumania Ireland India Turkey China and some other countries. Johnson notes in his introduction that he has edited the stories to remove savagery distressing details and excessive pathos and removed references to cruel fathers and wicked stepmothers. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Little, Brown, and Company hardcover
1869rif. 007788Melbourne Australia: George Robertson 1869. Book. Near Fine. Morocco. New Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New Edition containing prefaces to First and Second Editions xliii 255 pp with six full page color illustrations and numerous black and white illustrations. Master Tyll Owlglass is the Anglicized name for the German jokester Till Eulenspiegel. Finely bound in lovely Art Deco brown morocco with vertical sets of double gilt rules five raised bands with gilt lettering decorative end pages all edges gilt wide inner dentelles with double gilt rules. Likely an early 20th c. California binding. Bearing the small leather bookplate of Alfred Sutro General Counsel of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company of which organization he had been a director since 1940 and noted bibliophile whose leadership as President of the Book Club of California was indtrumental in its growth. Near Fine original cloth covers bound in front and rear moderate toning to end pages and first few pages two small rubs to morocco at rear joint prior owner name half-title page. George Robertson Hardcover
1939rif. 006603Goteborg Sweden: Dr. Walter Kaudern Gothenburg Ethnographical Museum 1939. Book. Very Good. Printed Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front wrapper - "To G. Herzog with the compliments of A. Metraux". A wonderful folklore Association Copy Alfred Metraux published landmark studies of South American Indians Haitian Voodoo and Easter Island. As a human rights leader he participated in the framing of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and was a permanent member of UNESCO's Department of Social Science. George Herzog was a noted anthropologist linguist and ethnomusicologist who studied under Franz Boas at Columbia University and later assembled the Archives of Folk and Primitive Music at Columbia University. Reprinted without changes of paging from "Ethnological Studies 9 1939 the book is Very Good light soiling and edge wear to wrappers. 127 pp. Stamped Herzog Collection at first page. SIGNED works by Metraux are RARE. Dr. Walter Kaudern, Gothenburg Ethnographical Museum Paperback
1937rif. 006611Lincoln Nebraska: University of Nebraska 1937. Book. Good. Printed Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A notable folklore Association Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page - "To Stith Thompson - "Hop skip down the wilderness" BA Botkin 6/30/37". Botkin is best remembered for his "A Treasury of American Folklore" and for his government positions at the Federal Writers' Project Joint Committee on Folk Arts of the Works Progress Administration and as chief editor of the Writers' Unit of the Library of Congress Project. Stith Thompson is best known for his work on the classification of motifs in folk tales. His six-volume "Motif-Index of Folk-Literature "1955-1958 is considered the international key to traditional material. The book is Good only mostly because of wrappers- old tape mends at spine 1/3 approx. of rear wrapper torn and missing label taped at spine and stamped "Folklore Institute Reading Collection" title page. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. A SCARCE thesis and 1st book for this noted folklorist. University of Nebraska Paperback
2021rif. S6656In Greek. Soft cover 24 cm 504 pp. ill. ISBN: 9789609826174. Therasia is a suitable field for the observation of small island communities having preserved significant traces of a cultural landscape connected with the diachronic ekistic history of the island the uses of land and the perception and experience of the space by human communities on the past. These traces have been recorded in the context of the Island Cultures in a Diachronic Perspective: The Case of Therasia research project and the ongoing excavations on the island. This volume focusses on the geological archaeological and historical research carried out on Therasia in order to gain an understanding of the history of the landscape in the longue duree from prehistory to the 21st century. The research combines archaeological survey geological and geophysical study and excavation methods while the investigation of the available historical sources and archival research complete the wide range of sources data and perspectives. Ta Pragmata paperback
1992rif. 1121 O42SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING stated complete number line to 1 Cambridge Candlewick Press 1992 ISBN #156402072X. Deluxe Limited Slipcased Edition #7 of 350 numbered copies. Signed by Sendak and Iona Opie. New and includes publishers paper with original price of $75 and Limitation Number No. 7 on the label. A collection of traditional children's poems and riddles illustrated by Maurice Sendak mostly in color. Books are Carefully Packed and Shipped Daily with Delivery Confirmation from Dry Smoke-Free shop. Complete Satisfaction Guaranteed. Candlewick Press hardcover
1902rif. 010795Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge 1902. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Later printing uncommon institutional / educational issue. Featuring the Riverside Press title-page layout and omitting publisher advertisements. 19 cm. 6 259 pp. In publisher's original olive-green cloth. Very Good. Light shelf wear to spine ends and corners. Issued as part of Houghton Mifflin's push into the progressive education movement printed on heavier-duty stock for bulk distribution to classrooms and public libraries. Uncommon for copies to survive in this condition. . Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge Hardcover
1975rif. 011555New York: Alfred A Knopf 1975 73 pgs. Hard cover with cloth spine sunning to board edges else fine; color illustrated dust jacket with a few edge tears and creasing light rubbing original price intact $4.95. Celebrated author and writing teacher John Gardner's first book for a juvenile audience; four fairy tales the title story plus The Tailor and the Giant The Miller's Mule and The Last Piece of Light. Illustrated in b&w by Charles Shields. . First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Charles Shields. 8vo. Alfred A Knopf hardcover
1970rif. 010581Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1970. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Second printing stated. Original French by Mircea Eliade. Rust cloth covered boards with black cloth spine wrap and gilt lettering to the spine. Bollingen Series LXXVI. Near Fine in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket designed by Paul Rand. Dust jacket has a small price sticker showing P.U.P. $12.50 next to the clipped area. Top page edges dyed gray. Scattered underlining in ink throughout. Dust jacket has an old wraparound tape repair to top of spine; light rubbing and chipping to edges; and lightly sunned spine. Princeton University Press Hardcover
1922rif. 010626Boston : Richard G. Badger: The Gorham Press 1922. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Second Edition 1922 the First published 1916. Black cloth covered boards with blind stamped decorative front and rear. Gilt lettering to the spine. Illustrated with 14 black and white plates most with multiple figures. Frontispiece. Mostly uncut pages. Top edge gilt. Near Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. Slight toning under the jacket flaps. Dust jacket lightly toned spine; 1/8" chip across spine top; small chip to spine bottom. SCARCE in dust jacket. Richard G. Badger: The Gorham Press Hardcover
1940rif. 010655Chicago: The Norman Press 1940. Book. Fine. Hardcover. SIGNED BY PUBLISHER. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER Norman W. Forgue at first blank rear end page and Uncommon Thus. First Edition. Gold speckled red paper covered boards with gilt title frame and blue lettering to the front. Fine no jacket as issued. Norman W. Forgue was an American bookmaker typographe printer and founder of several private presses including At the Sign of the Gargoyle The Black Cat Press The Norman Press and Normandie House. . The Norman Press Hardcover
1933rif. 010534New York : Macmillan and Co 1933. Book. Illus. by Yeats Jack. Very Good. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition. First published August 1933. Green cloth covered boards with black lettering to the front and spine. This copy is Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Spine sunned end papers are toned at hinges and edges of paste downs. Dust jacket a bit darkened at spine. Spine ends are chipped. Edges and tips have small chips and creases. Front flap has the numeral 2 in ink at bottom corner and stamped price of $2.25. Uncommon in dust jacket and in such nice condition. . Macmillan and Co, Hardcover
1931rif. 010369Indianapolis Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1931. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine early prior owner gift inscription at first blank in a Very Good dust jacket small chips at spine ends and light edge wear spine a shade sunned. 357 pages photographic end papers original orange cloth lettered in red. Blockson 9809. A book remebered now more for the attempt than for the execution of telling the true story of slavery. . The Bobbs-Merrill Company Hardcover
1917rif. 009853New York: G. P Putnam's Sons 1917. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxviii 341 ps. oroginal blue gloth with gilt lettering top edge gilt. Very Good gilt at spine dulled front hinge cracked yet holding nicely 3 pages of Introduction with top corner creases. Originally from the collection of Anne F. Oberndorfer her signature in pencil front end page. Anne Shaw Faulkner Oberndorfer 1877-1948 a prominent Chicago music educator and a frequent contributor to Better Homes & Gardens The Ladies' Home Journal and Child Life magazines during the 1920s. Later from the collection of noted music professor John Planer of Manchester University his bookplate front paste down. G. P Putnam's Sons Hardcover
1970rif. 009855Cardiff: University of Wales Press 1970. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. One of Griffiths two most important works. "This is the first modern commentary on Plutarch's De Iside et Osiride to be accompanied by a new recension of the greek text and also the first to be undertaken by a classical scholar who is at the same time an Egyptologist." front flap. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket tiny tear at top edge of spine faint staicker shadow rear panel. University of Wales Press Hardcover
1947rif. 009948Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1947. Book. Very Good. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page-" To my colleague and friend James W. Marchand with greetings Clair Hayden Bell 28th March 1960". Four volumes in original red cloth Very Good no jackets spines slight sunning spine lean Marchand's name stamp front end page with laid in photocopy of a review of the book published in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology Vol. I No. 4 October 1951. Bell's monumental study of Meistergesang one of the most characteristic forms assumed by German literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With presentation inscription to the noted medieval scholar linguist and polyglot James W Marchand. A wonderful scholarly Association Copy. University of California Press Hardcover
1864rif. 009973London and Cambridge: Macmillan & Co. 1864. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. lvi 190 pages. In original brick cloth gilt lettering back Near Fine faint name in ink front end page tiny rubs to corners the small bookseller's ticket of Gustav E. Stechert of New York verso front end paper. SCARCE and important edition and study of the Stanzaic or Harleian Le Morte Arthur. Collectible copies uncommon in current market. Macmillan & Co. Hardcover
