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

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

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

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

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

New York: Alfred A Knopf. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4". Books present nicely with unclipped dust jackets encased in protective archival sleeves. Mild wear to jackets with rubbing and toning to covers and chipping to corners and edges. 1 3/4" open tear to rear top edge of jacket of..... 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 Impaler the..... More

Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English, 1974. Staplebound. 8 1/45" X 5 1/2". 61pp. Very mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with light rubbing to corners and edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this collection of papers relating to the..... More

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. A boy who discovers a house with windows made of gold and diamonds, a woman with a sword in her heart, and a host of angels all await you within the gilt-stamped covers of this collection of more than forty original..... More

Boston: A. Williams and Company, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in stunning, sunburst-stamped scarelt cloth, this 1881 collection of charming stories, poems, plays, and fairy tales by Eliza Winchell Smith is illustrated in tissue-guarded frontispiece and intricate and abundant head- and tailpieces throughout. 7 7/8" X 6 1/8". 278pp. Bound..... 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

Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 376pp. Mild shelf wear to unclipped dust jacket with light scattered rubbing to covers and mild creasing to edges. Bottom of spine gently bumped. Black cloth over boards with spine lettered in metallic silver. Pages are clean and..... More