New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1904. Hardcover. Fall into a fairy tale with this 1904 princess-adorned collection of classic stories by Hans Christian Andersen. Inside these hundred-year-old pages, you’ll find favorites from “The Princess and the Pea” to “The Ugly Duckling,” along with lesser known tales like “The Flying Trunk” and..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1900. Authorized 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
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
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6". 514pp, plus 32 plates bound at rear. Rather heavy wear to binding, with damstaining to binding and text block throughout, creasing, and edgewear. Tears to upper edges of beginning pages. Rippling to pages due to exposure to moisture. Extensive notes..... 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: The Macmillan Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. A 1925 book of plays fit for the finest players in any faraway kingdom, Goldtree and Silvertree winds and unwinds the strands of folk-tales, bringing together accusations of witchcraft, fairy stars, talking cats, a boy named Jack and a golden goose..... More
[London]: Chapman & Hall Ltd., circa 1910. Hardcover. "Many poets affirm that if we only kept our own eyes open we should discover that the true fairy-land is really our own world, or a part of it..." So the poet Alfred Noyes writes in his circa 1910 treasure trove of..... More
Waco: Baylor University Press, 2011. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xviii, 277pp. Scattered rubbing and wear to covers of dust jacket. Sticker residue to bottom cover of rear panel of dust jacket. Creasing and wear to edges of dust jacket with 1 1/4" tear to bottom. Black cloth over..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, The Clarendon Press, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/2". xxiv, 327pp; 315pp. Red cloth over boards, with spines lettered in gilt. Very mild edgewear and gentle bumping to corners, with boards rather bowed inward. Bookplate of Lt. Colonel V. S. M. de Guinzbourg..... More
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London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., circa 1915 to 1920. Hardcover. Allow this two-volume circa 1915 collection of traditional plant games to whisk you back to summer days basking in the sun, fashioning daisy-chains for friends real and imaginary. Among lesser known games are how to the weather by means..... More
New York: Little Simon, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2010. Second Printing. Hardcover. 10 3/4" X 8 1/4". Unpaginated. Signed by Robert Sabuda to label adhering to rear board. Pictorial paper over boards. Hard bumping to tail of spine and closed tear to edge of head of spine at rear..... More
London: S. W. Partridge & Co., circa 1907. Hardcover. Underground fairylands, bottled sunshine, and flesh-eating plants are only a handful of the marvels recorded in The Fairyland of Nature. The "Underground Fairyland" of the first chapter is none other than Kentucky's Mammoth Cave, the "Bottled Sunshine" is coal, questionably enough..... More
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Like the beautiful black birds gracing its covers, this 1904 collection of eight fairy tales from Japan is ready to burst into imaginative flight with you on its wings. Who and what will you see on your journey? A tea-kettle that..... More
