New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1890. Hardcover. “There are forces around us, and among us, which I shall ask you to call fairies, and these are ten thousand times more wonderful, more magical, and more beautiful in their work, than those of the old fairy tales. They, too, are..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". ix, 289pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Few writers portray Native American life and history as richly, authentically, and..... 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, New York, Toronto, and Melbourne: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5". 173pp. Blue cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Mild edgewear with sunning to spine. Lean to spine. Bookplate of Lt. Colonel V. S. M. de Guinzbourg (Victor de Guinzbourg, author of..... More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982. Paperback. Signed and inscribed to previous owner by author in ink at half-title page. 9" X 6". xx, 852pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with light rubbing and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Spots of faint toning to edges of text block. Pages..... More
Hatboro: Gale Research Company, 1974. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". xviii, 199pp. Rubbing, toning, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Dust-spotting and stamp to edges of text block. Stamp to half-title page and to inside of front cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding..... More
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. This charmingly conceived and prettily bound 1880 children's book follows a young girl, the titular Jenny, as she learns about the insect world through a series of dialogues with "A Great Ugly Spider," "A Nice Little Housekeeper"–an ant, "The Little Confectioner"–a..... More
London: Griffith Farran Browne & Co. Limited, 1897. New Edition. Hardcover. "When you hear of people being clever, you may know that it is because the book-fairies love them..." You'll find book-fairies in great number in the pages of this 1897 children's fantasy, as well as bread-fairies, history-fairies, soot-fairies, fire-fairies..... More
New York: Exposition Press, 1964. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 1/4". 96pp. Book presents nicely with machine-clipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Light wear to jacket with creasing and a few shallow, closed tears to edges. Heavy wear to yellow cloth over boards with rubbing, soiling, and discoloration..... More
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New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2016. Paperback. 8 3/8" X 5 5/8". A brand new complete 12 volume set of Andrew Lang's famous rainbow colored fairy tale books, including The Blue Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, The Orange Fairy Book, The..... 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
London: W. & R. Chambers, Limited, [1899]. Hardcover. "Once upon a time there was a little Princess who was very fond of reading and learning. But, curiously enough, she was not fond of other good things, such as...running about in the open air..." So begins this fairy tale of science..... More
Seattle: Greenfire Press, 2012. Paperback. 9" X 6". 331pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Drawing on the experiences of his life, traditional wisdom stories..... More
New York: Feiwel and Friends, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at front endpaper. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 485pp. Book is in Near Fine condition in Near Fine dust jacket. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Be still now..... More
Essex: Desert Island Books, 2000. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2". 256pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Black cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Was Vlad the..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xv, 357pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Wear to jacket with rubbing, toning, creasing, and chipping to covers, corners, and edges. Sunning to spine of jacket. Bound in black paper over..... More
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. This festive, holly-stamped and candle-lit 1915 collection of Christmas stories for children gathers together material from the Bible, mystic tales, traditional legends, and prose and poetry by such authors as John Milton, Leo Tolstoy, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow..... More
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1906. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. "It is not surprising that the beauty of woman--in praise of which both literature and art have from the earliest period lavished some of their grandest works--should have given rise in most countries to a host of..... More
London: Methuen & Co., 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. In this fantastically infernal and impishly illustrated treatise on demonology, the British ecclesiologist James Charles Wall (1860–1943) explores all things demonic, including: the origins and history of devils, not only in Judeo-Christian theology but in classical paganism, Persian mythology, East and South..... More
New York: Tor Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition, September 1992, with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Gentle bumping to extremities of unclipped dust jacket designed by Thomas Canty. Bound in purple cloth over..... More
