New York: Warner Books, 1975. Mass market paperback. 7" X 4". 320pp. Wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing, creasing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Toning and dust-spotting to edges of text block. Bookstore stamp to inside of front cover. Age-toning to pages. Pages are free of..... More
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 insightfully as..... 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
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". xxvii, 356pp. Very mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in red cloth over boards with spine and front cover stamped in black and gilt. Slight lean to spine. Pages 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
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
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
Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1990. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". xvi, 256pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Here is a classic study of the feminine principle in myths, dreams, and..... More
London: Cecil Palmer, 1927. Third Edition. Hardcover. "This is the time for ghost stories. Switch off that electric light...for much illumination is fatal to such talk as we are to have. It is a talk of ghosts, of family curses and of the inexplicable..." So does Charles George Harper (1863–1943)..... 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
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 8". xxxvii, 474pp. Wear to price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing and toning to covers, creasing and chipping to edges, and sunning to spine. Jacket sits somewhat loosely on boards. Tan cloth over boards with spine backed in red and lettered in..... More
Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1970. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 6 1/4". Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of red and black cloth over boards. Soiling to cloth at top of spine of Volume II. Pages of both volumes are clean and unmarked. Bindings are sound..... More
![Item #3027 Andrew Lang's Rainbow Fairy Books [Complete 12 Volume Set]. Andrew Lang, H. J. Ford,...](/pictures/thumb/3027_1.jpg?v=1674582844)
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
Rosebud: lulu.com, 2016. Paperback. 9" X 6". 74pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Title has been neatly taped to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this collection of stories about the historical, seedy..... 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
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
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 Impaler the..... More
![Item #10288 Princess Girlikin or the Fairy Thimble and Other Fairy Tales [On a Pincushion]. Ida...](/pictures/thumb/10288_1.jpg?v=1644015752)
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1892. Hardcover. This enchanting fairy tale collection includes Ida Preston Nichols' Princess Girlikin, the story of a princess who saves (and clothes) a prince led astray in Fairyland, as well as the entirety of On a Pincushion, a fairy tale collection by the..... More
Newburyport: Weiser Books, 2019. Paperback. 9" X 6". xvii, 398pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In this new edition of the classic work on Tarot and Jungian symbolism, Sallie Nichols demonstrates..... More
London and New York: Routledge, 1996. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". viii, 296pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Crease to spine. Toning and faint dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS..... 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
