Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1898. Altemus' Young People's Library. Hardcover. Fall into a fairy tale with this 1898 collection of classic stories by Hans Christian Andersen. Inside these hundred-year-old pages, you’ll find favorites from “Thumbelina” to “The Ugly Duckling,” "The Red Shoes" to "The Little Match Girl," along with lesser..... More
![Item #10305 Hans Andersen's Stories for the Young [Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen]....](/pictures/thumb/10305_1.JPG?v=1644786844)
London: Frederick Warne and Co., circa 1900. Hardcover. Like the north wind 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 features translations by Susannah Mary Paull and..... 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
New York: Penguin Books, 1987. Paperback. 7 3/4" X 5". MIld wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing, creasing, and light toning to covers, corners, and edges. Dust-spotting to edges of text blocks. Foxing and toning to endpapers and to insides of covers. Pages of all volumes are free of..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1903. Hardcover. Allow the impish fairy flying across its front cover to guide you inside this fairy-sized 1903 collection of legends and fairy tales from across France. Princesses and mermaids and giants, enchanted rings and castles hung in air, and, of course, fairies..... 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
New York: Rizzoli Ex Libris, 2013. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 7". 477pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Gentle bumps to bottom edges of white cloth over boards. Pages are bright and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A fascinating illustrated tour..... 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: George G. Harrap & Company, 1913. Hardcover. "If there is a phrase in our tongue which connotes the atmosphere of romance it is that of 'the Middle Ages.' Do but mention the words, and it is as another opening of Pandora's box. Out there streams a retinue of goodly..... 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
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
![Item #3027 Andrew Lang's Rainbow Fairy Books [Complete 12 Volume Set]. Andrew Lang, H. J. Ford,...](/pictures/thumb/3027_1.jpg?v=1507847750)
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
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
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1928. Hardcover. This swoon-worthy 1928 collection of fairy tales from around the world is sure to make any reader's sense of enchantment and adventure bloom! Featuring fairy tales both beloved and lesser-known, from France's "Cinderella," Denmark's "The Little Mermaid," and Russia's "The Firebird," to..... 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
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
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
