London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited. circa 1875. Hardcover. Like the moonlit fairy gracing its covers, this turn-of-the-century collection of fairy tales is sure to sweep you off your feet and into worlds full of magic and adventure. This beautifully and bountifully illustrated edition collects over 150 beloved fairy tales..... More
London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1909. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A very presentable first UK printing of Isabel Anderson's first book, The Great Sea-Horse and Other Tales, complete in a tissue-guarded frontispiece and 23 color plates from pastel drawings by John Elliott along with charming decorative chapter headings..... More
Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1983. Hardcover. 11 3/4" X 8 1/2". xi, 170pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Dust-spotting to top edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In Nordic literature a remarkable discussion..... More
London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, Ltd., circa 1918. Hardcover. Descend into the depths of enchantment on a spiral staircase of stories by the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Maria Edgeworth, Ouida, the women's suffragist, animal rights activist, and socialist Mary de Morgan, and more! In this..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1880. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. In this second collection of fairy tales by Mary De Morgan, a wicked princess who doesn't want to marry practices black magic and strings her suitors into beads on her beautiful necklace, elves transform a courageous busker into a golden harp..... More
London: Seeley, James, & Halliday, 1877. Second Edition. Hardcover. This enchanting fairy tale collection was the first published by the English writer Mary De Morgan (1850–1907), a women's suffragist, animal rights activist, and socialist whose politics informed her remarkable fairy tales, known for their feminism, criticism of mass production, and..... More
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. As sure as the foaming sea monster adorning its deep green cover, this 1895 menagerie gathers strange and exotic beasts, deities of myth and folklore, and tales of animals with mystical powers, all from the works of Medieval naturalists. Here you will tread..... More
London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907. Third Edition. Hardcover. "Among the Celtic people of Ireland and the norhwest of Scotland, story-telling has alwasy been a favourite amusement..." Calling on a deep-rooted tradition of story-telling, the Irish historian and etymologist Patrick Weston Joyce (1827–1914) presents the first..... More
London and New York: J. M. Dent & Sons LImited and E. P. Dutton & Co., 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. “…but the singing of the Ukrainian is also a precious pearl in the common treasury of mankind. It was born out of the beauty of the Ukraine, and it is..... More
New York: Gael Publishing Company, 1904. Wraps. 10.5" x 8". 410pp. Complete bound run of the final year of The Gael (An Gaodhal), the pioneering Irish-American bilingual monthly founded in Brooklyn in 1881 by Michael J. Logan (1836–1899), described by the Irish World as "the Father of the Irish Language..... More
[London]: Chapman & Hall Ltd., circa 1910. Hardcover. "Many poets affirm that if we only kept our own eyes open we should discover that the true fairy-land is really our own world, or a part of it..." So the poet Alfred Noyes writes in his circa 1910 treasure trove of..... More
San Francisco: Overland Publishing Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. This alluring 1925 book collects four tales by Mimei Ogawa (1882-1961), known today as the Hans Christian Andersen of Japan as well as the father of modern children's literature in Japan, publishing more than 1,200 fairy tales in his lifetime. Ogawa..... More
Boston: L. C. Page and Company, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. This tribute to love in art is beautifully bound in wine-red cloth, with a binding designed by artist Amy M. Sacker (1872-1965). Illustrated in 4 tissue-guarded photogravure plates and 32 further monochrome plates from celebrated paintings by the great masters..... More
London: Messrs. (William) Heinemann Ltd.; Constable & Co., circa 1919. Hardcover. This romantic, rousing, and rowdy circa 1919 collection of historic ballads comes illustrated by the great Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), crown prince of the Golden Age of Illustration, who here offers a feast of 16 mounted and tissue-guarded color plates..... More
London; New York: William Heinemann; Doubleday Page & Co., 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. The Ring of the Nibelung—Richard Wagner's iconic cycle of four musical dramas inspired by Norse mythology, Germanic legend, and the Nibelungenlied—finds its glorious, fiery end here, in this 1911 first edition of Siegfried and The Twilight of..... More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana Folklore Society, 1966. Paperback. 8.75" x 5.5". 64pp. Original tan wraps with light foxing. Contents clean and free of marks. A scarce issue of the Louisiana Folklore Miscellany, the journal of the Louisiana Folklore Society, presenting selections from the Anonymous Breaux Manuscript — a foundational primary source..... More
Nashville: First Center for the Visual Arts and Vanderbilt University Press, 2012. First Edition. Paperback. 11" X 9 1/2". xi, 119pp. Mild toning and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This catalog explores..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". viii, 226pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in tan cloth over boards with spine and front cover stamped in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1915. Hardcover. "Let us walk in the gloom of the pyramids, in the cool shadows of ruined temples…trusting that by virtue of the light we carry we shall succeed in unravelling to some extent the age-long enigma of this mystic land…" With these words..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. "In truth we do not go to Faery, we become Faery, and in the beating of a pulse we may live for a year or a thousand years. But when we return the memory is quickly clouded, and..... More
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1983. First Edition. Leather_bound. This limited edition of the great Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde's fairy tales and stories was exclusively printed for members of Franklin Library's The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series and features a sumptuous genuine leather binding..... More
