![Fairy Know-A-Bit; Or, A Nutshell of Knowledge [and] Fairy Frisket; Or, Peeps at Insect Life. A L....](/pictures/thumb/6277_1.JPG?v=1604892845)
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: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1940. Hardcover. 6 3/4" X 4 1/2". 437pp. Unclipped dust jacket is somewhat brittle with moderate wear including chipping and tears to edges and toning and creasing to covers. Large open tear to bottom edge of spine. Blind stamp from PSI Upsilon House..... More
Sonoma: Arcus, 1992. Paperback. 10 3/4" X 8 1/2". 320pp. Very mild wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Very light dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Black-and-white charts, spreads, and other methodology tools throughout. Explores tarot symbols from..... More
London: Chatto & Windus Piccadilly, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. From the dancing sailor adorning its front cover in gilt to the 56 woodcuts illustrating its ballads within, this 1888 first edition of Modern Street Ballads is an ode to a tradition lost to centuries past, when, as the author so..... More
![Ballads of Beauty and Ballads of Bravery [Two Volumes]. George M. Baker](/pictures/thumb/7730_1.JPG?v=1618708025)
Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1875-1877. Hardcover. If these brilliantly gilt-stamped and beautifully decorated covers don't stir your heart, mind, and soul, the dozens of dreamy poems and daring deeds held within surely will. Ballads of Beauty collects poetry from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1881. 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 1881 collection includes tales of heroism in verse from Shakespeare, Tennyson, Browning, Burns, Longfellow and many others, including "Curfew Must..... More
New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers, 2001. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiv, 337pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Yellow paper over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in gilt. Remainder mark to bottom edge of text block. Pages..... More
London: Bickers & Son, 1871. Faithfully Reprinted from the Rare Newcastle Edition published by T. Saint in 1784. Hardcover. This 1871 collection boasts a splendid binding without and superb illustrations within that are truly worthy of the age-old fables it holds. Each of its 142 fables features its own wood..... More
London: Edward Stanford, 1887. Twentieth Thousand. 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 invisible..... More
![Fairyland Science [The Fairy-land of Science]. Arabella B. Buckley, Mrs. Arabella Burton Fisher](/pictures/thumb/6980_1.JPG?v=1612749364)
n.p. H. M. Caldwell Co., circa 1880. Pastel Edition. 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..... More
New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, Circa 1935. Staplebound. 8 1/2" X 7 1/4". Unpaginated, about 10 pages each. Staplebound color pictorial wraps show moderate to heavy wear, with tears to spine, tape repairs, occasional closed tear, crease, smudge, or scattered foxing to wraps. Some spines torn and tape-repaired..... 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
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1912. Hardcover. Ghosts, goddesses, and goblins, tea ceremonies and tree spirits, haunted caves, holy crystals, phantom cats, and corpse-eaters await their reader within the peacock and dragon-bedecked covers of this 1912 edition of Myths & Legends of Japan, collected by Frederick Hadland Davis and..... More
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co., circa 1920. Hardcover. Feast your eyes on this circa 1920s fairy tale collection, fully illustrated by Gustave Dore and many others! Inside these hundred-year-old pages, you’ll find favorites from "Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper" to "Beauty and the Beast," charmingly illustrated throughout in black-and-white..... More
Boston: Shambhala, 1992. Paperback. 9" X 6". xiii, 304. Mild rubbing and creasing to covers and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book is about the individual's journey to psychological wholeness, known in analytical psychology as the process of individuation..... 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
London: J. F. Dove, 1826. Dove's English Classics. Leather bound. 5" X 3". xvi, [iii], 18-354pp. Bound in full early 19th century red calf, with spine stamped in gilt and lettered in kind over black leather title label. Moderate wear to binding, with corners bumped and turned in, stains to..... 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: Haper Colophon Books, 1976. Paperback. 8" X 5 1/4". xvi, 256pp. Wear to pictorial paper wraps with toning, rubbing, and light creasing to covers and edges. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Crease to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Here is a...... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6". xi, 207pp. Scattered rubbing, toning, and wear to white pictorial wraps. Slight curl to front and rear cover. Previous owner's stamp to half-title page. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From the temptation of Eve to..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1876. Hardcover. The Catskill Fairies opens upon the lonely Job, a twelve-year-old boy, who finds himself all alone in his grandfather's cabin nestled in the snowy Catskills mountains on Christmas Eve when he discovers that his grandfather clock, a seashell, and Job's own Angora..... 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
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
New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2016. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xxiv, 356pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Black paper over boards with spine lettered in metallic silver. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: For thousands..... More
