London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1900, 1893. Hardcover. This charming pair of educational fairy books are the work of “A.L.O.E.” (A Lady of England), the prolific writer and missionary Charlotte Maria Tucker (1821-1893). In Fairy Know-A-Bit a “spoilt little boy” and his companion learn a thing or two from the..... More

Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1877. Hardcover. If these brilliantly gilt-stamped and beautifully decorated covers don't stir your heart, mind, and soul, the heroic deeds recounted within surely will. This 1877 collection includes tales of heroism in verse from Shakespeare, Tennyson, Browning, Burns, Longfellow and many others, including "Curfew Must..... More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1882. 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

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. This collection of creation and animal myths, legends, and tales from the Wintu and Yana indigenous peoples of Northern California is the work of the ethnographer, folklorist, and translator Jeremiah Curtin (1835–1906), who from 1883 to 1891 served as a field..... More

New York: Dorset Press, 1988. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 845pp. Wear to unclipped dust jacket with foxing, rubbing, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Foxing to inside of jacket. Blue paper over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in gilt. Light rubbing to edges and..... More

New Hyde Park: University Books Inc., 1969. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xvi, 301pp. Unclipped dust jacket presents nicely in protective archival sleeve. Light creasing to edges and sunning to spine of dust jacket. Price has been marked out in pen at front flap. Orange cloth over boards with..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1869. Hardcover. A very charming 19th Century edition of this collection of fairy tales by Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne PC (1829–1893). Knatchbull-Hugessen's fairy stories were wildly popular and highly regarded at the time, considered equivalent to masters of the form such as Grimm..... More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1908. New Impression. Hardcover. This splendid, stage-ready guide to fourteen fairy tale plays is complete with full scripts, music scores, dance directions, costume designs, and even detailed directions for making an ogre's head, all illustrated in equally instructive and enchanting images at place in any..... More

London: George Redway, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Evelyn Lillian Haseldine Carrington, Countess Martinengo-Cesaresco (1852-1931), folklorist, historian, and author of this study of folk-songs, which, after its later publication as a cheap Everyman's Edition, became one of the most widely distributed works of folk-song scholarship in the Victorian era. This first..... More

New York: Basic Books, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xiii, 289pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Red cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and..... More

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1880]. Hardcover. The gilt-stamped fairies shining from the covers of this 1880 children's book welcome you to Elfin Hollow....a deep, gloomy valley in the countryside where animals talk, elfin fairies fly, a witch turns children into chickens, and stories are told of phantom hounds..... More

Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1900. Hardcover. "All round the woods stood tall and dense, old woods of pine and hemlock, with here and there great smooth, squat beeches, and ragged, glistening yellow birches..." From the elegant Art Nouveau forest gracing its cover to the enchanted woods awaiting you within..... More

Cincinnati: Walden and Stowe, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. As Belle Tevis Speed writes in her preface, "A simple story of patriotism or devotion may serve as a model or basis for future action quite as effectively as the deeds of valor and of might rehearsed in the pages of authentic..... More