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Fairy Tale-Inspired

Downers Grove IL, 2005
Downers Grove IL, 2005

And She Lived Happily Ever After: Finding Fulfillment as a Single Woman

Skip McDonald
InterVarsity Press
Downers Grove IL, 2005

Quarto - a large print, paperback edition of a book that appears to have originally been published in 1955. A Christian publication with many quotes from the Bible (and that was distributed by Evangelical groups of students on campuses). Pictorial cover bordered in red. Fine.

Kansas City, 2017

Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles

Taisia Kitaiskaia
Andrews McMeel
Kansas City, 2017
1st trade edition, 1st printing

Octavo. Pictorial paperback. Fine.

New York, 2019

Fairytale Baking: Delicious Treats Inspired by Hansel & Gretel, Snow White, and Other Classic Stories

Christin Geweke, photos by Yelda Yilmaz
Skyhorse Publishing
New York, 2019
1st thus

Small folio. Hardcover without DJ. Pictorial covers. Fine. Originally published in German in 2018.

Carol Stream IL, 2022

Part of My World: What I've Learned from The Little Mermaid About Love, Faith, and Finding My Voice

Jodi Benson with Carol Traver, foreword by Paige O'Hara
Tyndale Momentum
Carol Stream IL, 2022
1st edition, 1st printing

Octavo, hardcover. Original pictorial DJ, both fine. With a foreword by fellow Disney Princess Paige O'Hara (voice of Belle in Beauty and the Beast). Most chapters are titled with quotes from Disney's Little Mermaid. Inscribed by Jodi Benson on the FFEP.

Boston, 2020

Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

Adam Hochschild
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Boston, 2020
1st edition, 1st printing

Orange and brown paper covered boards, title to spine in gilt. Original pictorial DJ. Fine.

New York, 2006

Spinning Straw Into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life

Joan Gould
Random House Trade Paperbacks
New York, 2006
1st edition

Pictorial wrappers. Fine. A self-help book with academic leanings.

New York, 2003

Tales of Innocence and Experience: An Exploration

Eva Figes
Bloomsbury
New York, 2003
1st U.S. edition, 1st printing

First US edition. Navy blue cloth covered boards, titles in gilt to spine. Small tear to head of DJ and small white mark on front. Near fine with a very good DJ. The author recounts conversations with her granddaughter that arose from sharing fairy tales. Through these stories, she ventures into her past as a young girl who had to escape Nazi Germany, and finds a measure of peace. "Even as the inquisitive child opens a door into the dark, by doing so she also allows her grandmother the chance we all dream of: to sneak back into the garden of innocence."

November, 2015

Telling Fairy Tales in the Board Room: How to Make Sure Your Organization Lives Happily Ever After

Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
Palgrave Macmillan
November, 2015

New York, 2021

Wonderland

Annie Leibovitz (photographer), Anna Wintour (intro)
Phaidon Press Ltd.
New York, 2021
1st trade edition

Quarto (folio?); beige linen covered boards, titles in red to front and spine. Edges red. Large coffee table-style photography book of Annie Leibovitz's fashion photography for Vogue and Vanity Fair especially, many of the photographs with a fairy tale setting or inspiration. Advertising one sheet laid in. Fine.

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