Fairy Tales, Mythology, & Folklore
Lima, Peru: [Editora Médica Peruana], 1953. Paperback. 9 5/8" X 6 7/8". 101-293pp, plus one page index. Text in Spanish. Rather heavy wear to printed paper wraps, with bumping and chipping to head and tail of spine, open tears to bottom corner of rear wrap, moderate foxing, sunning, and pencilled... More
New York: Collins & Brother, circa 1856. Hardcover. 7" X 4 3/4". 240pp. Green cloth over boards with spine stamped in gilt. Moderate edgewear to binding, with corners turned in, fraying and small tears to head and tail of spine, scattered rubbing. and light soiling. Front hinge starting, with webbing... More
London: Privately Printed, 1900. Limited Edition. Leather bound. 7" X 5". 37pp, plus 11 blank leaves. Edition privately printed for Bibliophiles, limited to 300, this copy being number 7. Halfbound in leather with marbled paper over boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Very heavy edgewear to binding, with edges rubbed to... More
de Florian, Jean-Pierre Claris; Phelps, Gen. J. W. (Trans.); Grandville, J. J. (Illust.)
New York: John B. Alden, 1888. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 6 1/8". 122pp. Warm rust-colored cloth over bevelled boards, with upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Moderate wear to binding, with edgewear, bumping to extremities, scattered rubbing, and mild soiling, including inkstains to rear. All edges gilt. Both hinges... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". xv, [iii], 237pp. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket featuring the art of Tom Lea, with chipping to top edge of front panel, 1" tear to edge of spine at head, chipping to head and tail... 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. W. Arrowsmith, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". xii, 532pp. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Mild edgewear to dust jacket, with a few minor nicks to edges, corners, head and tail of spine. Green cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt... More
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 7/8" X 7 5/8". 176pp. Heavy wear to dust jacket, now enclosed in protective archival sleeve, with dampstaining, soiling, sunning, and large open tears to edges and extremities, only loss of text being the publisher's information to front panel... More
Madrid: Tipografía de la Revista de Archivos, 1914. Segunda Edicion, Aumentada. Leather bound. 7 5/8" X 5 1/8". 440pp, plus 4 leaves of ads. Halfbound in green leather, spine tanned to brown, with marbled paper over boards. Mild edgewear to binding, with gentle bumping to corners. Red topstain with matching... More
Tortosa: Imprenta Querol, 1934. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6 1/2". 749pp. Inscribed by Joan Moreira to title page. Text in Catalan. Heavy edgewear to paper wraps, with chipping along all edges, no losses. Sunning and darkening to wraps. Very heavy creasing to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903. Hardcover. 7 1/4" X 5 1/8". xi, 319pp, plus 4pp ads. Ex Libris noted classics scholar Elizabeth Gould Zenn, chair of the Department of Classics at Agnes Scott College, which annually awards the Elizabeth Gould Zenn Classics Award in her honor, with her bookplate... 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
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
Baltimore: Cushings & Bailey, 1852. Hardcover. 7 3/8" X 4 3/4". viii, 9-366pp. Brown ribbed cloth over boards, with spine backed in embossed black leather and lettered in gilt. Losses to top 1 1/2" of spine, with tears to cloth, heavy edgewear, scattered rubbing, and chipping. Previous owner's name to... More
