1895ref. 003263London: Lawrence and Bullen 1895 Mauve patterned cloth pictorially stamped in gilt gilt slightly dulled spine sunned boards slightly bowed. Fairy stories set in Ireland written by Irish poetess Moira O'Neill. Illustrated with lovely b&w plates by Britten. Scarce. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by W. E. F. Britten. 8vo. Lawrence and Bullen hardcover
ref. 1333784546.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. 1334711860.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. 0267926847.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1974ref. w230532449Atheneum 1974. 43pp. Gray cloth hardback DJ has a few tiny chips and tears along edges light brown stains on front and back cover of DJ Third Printing publishers reinforced binding illustrations by Edward Gorey Retelling of the folk tale Red Riding Hood . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Edward Gorey . Atheneum Hardcover
1951ref. w220331271Fantasy Publishing Co. 1951. 248pp. Small black hardback DJ G with light wear along edges a couplt tiny closed tears and slight stains on back cover stated First Edition inscribed and signed by author owner nameplate on front end page FPCI Fantasy Publishing co. Inc on lower edge of spine no markings in text The Undesired Princess finds the overly practical Rollin Hobart transported to a far-from-sensible world . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Fantasy Publishing Co. Hardcover
1938ref. 8934Seattle: Printed by C. Ellis Shephard 1938. First edition. 8vo 8 64 1pp. Presentation inscription from Shephard to a T.D. Schindler on the ffep. Printer's ornaments devices borders vignette's throughout. 2pp of musical notation at rear. Bound in beige cloth boards stamped in black on front cover. Few bumps and scuffs to boards clean internally and near fine. Scarce book of poetry from American folklorist writer and critic Esther Shephard 1891-1975. Shephard is most well-known for her work Paul Bunyan published in 1924 with an illustrated edition by Rockwell Kent appearing in 1941. As a teacher Shephard held posts at Reed College in Portland the University of Washington in Seattle Lower Columbia College in Longview WA and San Jose State University. This collection was printed by her then husband C. Ellis Shephard and contains 31 pieces on topics from Seattle to Dante and Demeter. OCLC cites just 6 holdings. Printed by C. Ellis Shephard unknown
1907ref. 9022London: Cassell and Company Ltd 1907. First edition. 8vo x 3 312pp. Frontis and 7 plates. Presentation copy from the author signed to the former owner on date of publication on half title verso. Publisher's green cloth with black line illustration and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Spine darkened corners bumped and rubbed. Endpapers toned pencil numbering of the fallacies about halfway through. Newspaper clipping tipped in at rear. A very good copy. A very curious and scarce book basically a compendium of debunked folk beliefs; or an early version of Myth Busters. Covered are Domestic Fallacies Fallacies Connected with Ourselves Animal Vegetable and Mineral Kingdoms Musical Instruments Weather and more. The author deals with palmistry spiritualism and other occult practices. Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann 1867-1951 was a mechanical and civil engineer who served as consultant to the Controller of National Aircraft Factories and secretary of the Society of Engineers in England. Cassell and Company Ltd unknown
1934ref. 250604Chicago: Reilly & Lee 1934 . Regular Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto 298 pages variant green cloth pictorial plate on top cover; tips of spine worn inch long by 1/4 inch wide brown stain at lower right corner of pages 27-32 OZIANA 22; Bienvenue p. 116. Illustrated by John R. Neill with 12 striking color plates which became monochromatic in the subsequent printings. Speedy goes to Umbrella Island where he rides the dinosaur called Terrybubble and a lot more. Reilly & Lee hardcover
1923ref. 8866New York: Harcourt Brace & Co 1923. First edition. 8vo 177pp. Plates vignette illustrations throughout. Publisher's green buckram with printed labels on upper board and spine in illustrated orange jacket. Near fine book in very good jacket with shallow chipping at spine ends and corners fading to spine and a couple of tears. First edition of this copiously illustrated overview of masks; both demonic and spiritual in religion and drama of various cultures of primitive man. Harcourt, Brace & Co unknown
1899ref. 011068New York: McLoughlin Bros 1899 12 pgs. 7.75 x 5.5 in 19.5 x 14 cm. Color printed paper covers mounted on linen interior pages printed directly on linen spine wear crease to rear cover light wear. An uncommon edition of Little Red Riding Hood. Illustrated with a color cover and four pages with color artwork the rest in line. . Linen. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Uncredited. 12mo. McLoughlin Bros paperback
1847ref. 011072Leipzig: Chez Baumgaertner 1847 1847 per institutional copies Gumuchian dates it at 1835. 6.5 x 4 inches 16.5 x 10 cm. 16 pgs. Yellow paper over boards titled in black ink some cover soil occasional light foxing offsetting opposite artwork. One in a series of books meant to teach young Germans how to read French. An abbreviated version of Perrault's tale in French with explanations of French idioms in German. Illustrated with brightly colored engravings. Some of the scenes depicted are quite violent and gruesome. Rare. Gumuchian 4454. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Oblong 16mo. Chez Baumgaertner hardcover
1995ref. 011071Kingston NY: Battledore 1995 9 x 6.5 inch. Grey paper folder titled in black ink old tape mark and light creasing to edges houses two cards one an explanation of this unpublished work by Beatrix Potter illustrating an old nursery rhyme compiled by Anne Stevenson Hobbs of the V&A Museum the other a reproduction of Potter's drawing printed in brown ink on fine art paper. #2 of 100 copies 125 copies printed 25 hors commerce. . Loose Portfolio. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Beatrix Potter. Battledore paperback
ref. 000480Freiburg im Breisgau: Adolph Emmerling. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. 4 individual volumes 1839 1840 1841 and 1844 of this annual periodical handbook of southern German history and folklore which was published between 1839 and 1846. The 1839 volume is re-backed preserving the original publisher's blue paper boards with a decorative title printed on the front cover. The volumes for 1840 and 1844 are bound in early blue paper boards; the 1840 volume is re-backed and the 1844 volume is carefully strengthened along the hinges. The volume for 1841 is bound in brown cloth. Both the 1841 and 1844 volumes contain the remnants of original paper spine labels and also paper institutional shelf tickets. The boards and extremities to all volumes show some rubbing wear and spotting. Personal bookplates present on inside front covers; institutional blind stamp on title pages and two other leaves in each book; a shelf number is handwritten on the bottom margin of the second leaf in each volume. Pages are generally clean but with some light scattered foxing; occasional leaves are uncut; the volume for 1839 is untrimmed; the upper corner of the final leaf in the 1840 volume shows some wear - a couple small marginal tears and a tiny hole are neatly sealed. Contents include interesting articles on local historical events; superstition and folklore; Celtic Germanic and Roman antiquities folk songs Volkslieder and folk tales; church and reformation history etc. Three of the volumes contain fold out plates depicting Celtic antiquities manuscript and sheet music facsimiles a land chart showing ancient graves and an ancient wall in the Alps. Adolph Emmerling hardcover
1884ref. 000390James R. Osgood and Company 1884. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo. pp. 225 1. Original publisher's yellow-green cloth with black oriental design on front cover. Re-hung / re-cased preserving end papers ; small repairs to head and tail caps of spine and to outer corner tips of boards.; spots of wear to extremities; some fading or discoloration along the upper edge of the rear board. Inner hinges are neatly strengthened; color book plate on inside front cover. Pages are clean. This edition contains the JR.O & Co insignia at the bottom of the spine. Lafcadio Hearn's first book. The contents contain supernatural stories based on folklore from Buddhist and Indian literature the Finnish Kalavala The Jewish Talmud Muslim literature Egyptian papyri etc. Many of the stories deal with the themes of the pursuit of wisdom and of the spectral lover. BAL 7912. James R. Osgood and Company hardcover
1875ref. 000317Leipzig: B.G. Teubner 1875. Second Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. pp. XI 1 507 1. Bound in quarter brown morocco. Rubbing to extremities and corners; some discoloration and rubbing on the third panel of the spine due to a former shelf label. A "withdrawn" sticker is pasted on the inside front cover. A library blind stamp is located on the title page and on p.55. Interior is otherwise clean. Second edition enlarged with 6 additional essays. Contains articles on ethics and religion in ancient Greece with discussions on gods demi-gods and damons. Karl Ludwig Lehrs 1802-1878 was a professor of ancient Greek philology at Königsburg University. B.G. Teubner hardcover
1847ref. 000110London: Longman. Brown Green & Longmans 1847. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 2 volumes. Vol. I. pp. viii xxxviii 2 391 1. Vol. II. pp. 4 vii 1 xxii 2 447 1. Frontispiece in each volume. Wood engravings by F.W. Fairholt. Green cloth with gilt front cover image of Medieval knights. Some shelf wear and rubbing. Hinges and corner tips carefully repaired. Inner joints strengthened. Name and date 1858 written in an old hand on front fly leaf of each volume. Some foxing to frontispieces and title pages. Occasional mild marginal soiling on several pages. Otherwise a generally clean copy. An excellent source book of Robin Hood lore. Volume I contains J.M. Gutch's biography of Robin Hood; a printing of the Middle English ballad "The Lytell Geste of Robin Hode" accompanied by a modern English version; W. Hone's "Dissertation upon the Morris Dance and Maid Marian" taken from his "Year Book"; Francis Douce's "A Dissertation on the ancient English Morris Dance" from his "Illustrations of Shakspeare"; "The Lament of Simon de Montfort" in Anglo-Norman French with a translation by Sir Walter Scott; "Life of Robin Hood" - taken from Sloane MS No. 715 - an early biographical sketch of Robin Hood. Volume II contains a collection of many other ballads songs and poems about Robin Hood; "Musical Illustrations of the Robin Hood Ballads" edited by E.F. Rimbault. Lowndes p.2108; CBEL I p.272. Longman. Brown, Green, & Longmans hardcover
1754ref. 000354Paris: Duchesne 1754. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. First Edition. 12mo. pp. lxviii 129 15. Fleuron on title and three chapter head vignettes by Aliamet Pitre-Martenaise and Sornique after Eisen. Bound in period mottled calf boards re-backed with original gilt spine preserved; well rubbed but still attractive; morocco spine label is renewed; corner tips to boards are neatly repaired. Early ownership ticket on inside front cover "D.F. Lesne Maitre en Chirurgie rue S. Benoit." First French translations from the German of Christian Furchtegott Gellerts fables. Some of John Gays fables are also translated. The fables are preceded by Boulenger de Riverys essay "Discours sur la literature allemande" pp. lxvii which discusses the Fables of Gellert Gay and Fontaine. Cohen-De Ricci p. 182; Lewine p. 79; Cioranescu 13457; Barbier II p. 414. Duchesne hardcover
1987ref. 7219-1Boston: Joy Street/Little Brown & Company 1987. Signed by Howard Norman and Ed Young on the title page. First edition / First printing. Blue green paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Ed Young is a Chinese born American Illustrator who has won the 1990 Caldecott Medal and two Caldecott Honor Awards 1967 & 1992. Howard Norman is a writer with novels such as The Bird Artist. His earliest work were translations of Canadian Native American Folklore. Who-Paddled-Backward-With Trout is a Cree folktale. Joy Street/Little, Brown & Company, hardcover
1948ref. 011066Chicago: Wilcox & Follett Co 1948 Unpaginated. Pictorial boards with a small break at top of spine light shelf wear; matching dust jacket with dust soil small edge tears and wear no printed price. A selection of poems from Child's Garden of Verses illustrated in alternating color and b&w. A charming lovely and uncommon edition of Stevenson's Child's Garden of Verses. First Thus. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Steffie E Lerch. 8vo. Wilcox & Follett Co unknown
1932ref. 011081New York: Blue Ribbon Books 1932 1932. Illustrated boards worn at extremities with some splitting at top of spine binding shaken with separation in a few places but holding the Jack & the Beanstalk pop-up was mis-folded at one point so the arms of the giant do not extended quite as intended the other pop-ups are fine matching dust jacket with wear and creasing 2 inch loss from top of spine. Stories include the title story Jack and the Bean Stalk Little Red Riding and Sleeping Beauty a full-color pop-up for each story other illustrations in b&w. First Edition. Illustrated Boards. Good/Fair. Illus. by Harold B. Lentz. Thick 8vo. Blue Ribbon Books hardcover
1880ref. 011085New York: McLoughlin Bros 1880 Circa 1880. AAS dates it to 1882 but this copy differs from their copy with no advertisements for Over the Hills by Ida Waugh. Upper cover printed in red blue and blac spine reinforced chipping to lower corner cover soil. A selection of popular Mother Goose rhymes illustrated with 6 vibrant color plates plus a dual-page centerfold. Rhymes include Pussy Cat Pussy Cat; Ride-a-Cock-Horse; Mary Mary quite contrary; Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater; Jack and Jill etc. Pictorial Wraps. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Uncredited. Small 4to. McLoughlin Bros unknown
1940ref. 009885New York: Harcourt Brace & Company 1940 Green cloth pictorially stamped in navy light wear to extremities book plate and previous owner's name; illustrated dust jacket worn with losses tears and tape repair to verso damp stain visible on verso. A collection of Andersen's fairy tales translated by well-known Danish actor of stage and screen Paul Leyssac. Illustrated with lovely silhouettes by Hertha List. Signed by Translator. First Thus. Cloth Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. Illus. by Hertha List. Small Thick 4to. Harcourt, Brace & Company hardcover
1929ref. 009180Paris: Chez Firmin-Didot 1929 Printed paper wraparound covers over card light soil creasing to spines in a worn marbled slip case. Facsimile reprints of the 1695 editions of Perrault's poems fairy tales and fables limited to a total of 500 copies the first 185 on vellum. This is number 419 or 479 on arches paper. Scarce. Limited Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo. Chez Firmin-Didot hardcover
1935ref. 003221Los Angeles: Suttonhouse 1935 181 pgs. Blue cloth hardcover titled in gilt mild discoloration of cloth near spine else fine in color pictorial dust jacket with wear at folds small chips to spine ends and corners spine slightly darkened slip case is wornand dusted. A collection of seven prize winning stories illustrated by Pogany with 7 full page color plates and small b&w drawings on almost every page. Uncommon with wrapper and slipcase. First Trade. Hard Cover. Very Good to Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Willy Pogany. 4to. Suttonhouse hardcover
