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Fairy Tales

F - K

Quartos, trade paperbacks, some creases to pages, overall VG/fine. Includes the 22 issues of the primary Fables series as well as companion books 1001 Nights of Snowfall and Peter & Max.

Fables graphic novel series

Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Craig Hamilton, Steve Leialoha, Lan Medina, Andrew Pepoy, P. Craig Russeel, et al.

Vertigo

New York, 2002-2015

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Quartos, trade paperbacks, some creases to pages, overall VG/fine. Includes the 22 issues of the primary Fables series as well as companion books 1001 Nights of Snowfall and Peter & Max.
Quarto, blue cloth binding with elaborate gilt design and gilt design of Pre-Raphaelite painting to front board. 32 fine colored plates and colored frontispiece. Gilt top edge. By the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." Some rubbing to tips, otherwise clean and bright.

The Fairy Book

Craik, Dinah Maria, Warwick Goble (iillust)

Macmillan & Co.

London, 1913

1st edition

Quarto, blue cloth binding with elaborate gilt design and gilt design of Pre-Raphaelite painting to front board. 32 fine colored plates and colored frontispiece. Gilt top edge. By the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." Some rubbing to tips, otherwise clean and bright.
Octavo. Near-contemporary red zigzag wave cloth, titles and foliate design in gilt to spine, boards blocked in blind with foliate cornerpiece frame, yellow coated endpapers, edges gilt. Engraved second title page, frontispiece, and illustrated tailpiece at pg. 279. A very good copy. This work features Burne-Jones's first book illustrations, done while still at Oxford and published anonymously at his own request. This copy appears to have been bound for the liberal politician and medieval scholar Allan Heywood Bright, with his and his brother's bookplates to the front endpapers.

The Fairy Family, A Series of Ballads & Metrical Tales illustrating the Fairy Mythology of Europe

Archibald MacLaren, illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones

Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts

London, 1857

1st edition

Octavo. Near-contemporary red zigzag wave cloth, titles and foliate design in gilt to spine, boards blocked in blind with foliate cornerpiece frame, yellow coated endpapers, edges gilt. Engraved second title page, frontispiece, and illustrated tailpiece at pg. 279. A very good copy. This work features Burne-Jones's first book illustrations, done while still at Oxford and published anonymously at his own request. This copy appears to have been bound for the liberal politician and medieval scholar Allan Heywood Bright, with his and his brother's bookplates to the front endpapers.
Duodecimo. Original blue quarter cloth, printed label to spine, brown paper boards. Portrait frontispiece and engraved title page, with the publisher's advertisements tipped in. Very minor wear to extremities, slights stain at foot of spine, front hinge splitting, some soiling to contents. A very nice copy of this fragile book. Dagley's tales articulate "the problems and misery of economic insecurity, particularly in a fairy tale about a needle - that indispensable tool of women's labour." These tales "provide a detailed account not just of the kinds of objects found in a workbox, but also the various attitudes towards needlework and female employment, both for leisure and income... from the lowly chores of patching shoes and darning socks to laborious dressmaking to the fancy work performed with skill for pleasure... In these fairy tales about needles, women's work is shaped by social attitudes, their agency effectively that of a needle or pin" (Rozario, pg. 146-148).

Fairy Favours with Other Tales

Elizabeth Frances Dagley

William Cole

London, 1825

1st edition

Duodecimo. Original blue quarter cloth, printed label to spine, brown paper boards. Portrait frontispiece and engraved title page, with the publisher's advertisements tipped in. Very minor wear to extremities, slights stain at foot of spine, front hinge splitting, some soiling to contents. A very nice copy of this fragile book. Dagley's tales articulate "the problems and misery of economic insecurity, particularly in a fairy tale about a needle - that indispensable tool of women's labour." These tales "provide a detailed account not just of the kinds of objects found in a workbox, but also the various attitudes towards needlework and female employment, both for leisure and income... from the lowly chores of patching shoes and darning socks to laborious dressmaking to the fancy work performed with skill for pleasure... In these fairy tales about needles, women's work is shaped by social attitudes, their agency effectively that of a needle or pin" (Rozario, pg. 146-148).
Two volumes, octavo. Contemporary half calf, spines in compartments with raised bands and gilt rules, dark red morocco title label gilt to each, marbled sides with gilt rule, grey-green coated endpapers, speckled edges. Woodcuts and copperplate etchings by W.H. Brooke. 12 plates and numerous vignette illustrations in the text. Some light wear and scuffing to covers, but still an attractive set, sound, and internally fresh, very good overall. First edition, first issue, of this influential anthology of fairy tales and lore by the Irish writer Thomas Keightley (1789-1872). It is a notably international survey, with chapters on Persian and Arabian romance, the Icelandic Sagas and Eddas, Scandinavian elves, dwarves, and mermaids, German, Swiss, Greek, Italian, French, Spanish, Finnish, Slavic, African, and Jewish tales, as well as from the British and Celtic heritage. A German translation by Wolff, published in the same year, is said to have been praised by Jacob Grimm, and Keightley's work was expanded and reprinted several times in the 19th century and beyond. The first edition is very seldom encountered. Keightley is notable for sharing with the Grimms a comparative approach to the national mythologies, coming to the eventual conclusion that to attempt tracing comparable fairytales and myths to an original source was to miss the point, arguing instaed that similar stories could emerge across the world independently, a testament to the shared aspects of human experience.

The Fairy Mythology

Thomas Keightley

William Harrison Ainsworth

London, 1828

1st edition, 1st printing

Two volumes, octavo. Contemporary half calf, spines in compartments with raised bands and gilt rules, dark red morocco title label gilt to each, marbled sides with gilt rule, grey-green coated endpapers, speckled edges. Woodcuts and copperplate etchings by W.H. Brooke. 12 plates and numerous vignette illustrations in the text. Some light wear and scuffing to covers, but still an attractive set, sound, and internally fresh, very good overall. First edition, first issue, of this influential anthology of fairy tales and lore by the Irish writer Thomas Keightley (1789-1872). It is a notably international survey, with chapters on Persian and Arabian romance, the Icelandic Sagas and Eddas, Scandinavian elves, dwarves, and mermaids, German, Swiss, Greek, Italian, French, Spanish, Finnish, Slavic, African, and Jewish tales, as well as from the British and Celtic heritage. A German translation by Wolff, published in the same year, is said to have been praised by Jacob Grimm, and Keightley's work was expanded and reprinted several times in the 19th century and beyond. The first edition is very seldom encountered. Keightley is notable for sharing with the Grimms a comparative approach to the national mythologies, coming to the eventual conclusion that to attempt tracing comparable fairytales and myths to an original source was to miss the point, arguing instaed that similar stories could emerge across the world independently, a testament to the shared aspects of human experience.
Quarto. Original brown molded card wrappers, printed on handmade paper. Black and white line drawings throughout by Charles Carlin. A very good copy of this delightful book of fairy stories. A selection of fairy stories and poems for each of the seasons by husband and wife team Ethel Lillian and Charles Carlin, who together wrote and published various books of a religious nature, under the address of St. Mary's Studio, Chaddesden. Ethel Carlin (nee Birkin) found fame as one of the original recipients of the OBE, awarded in 1917 for her services in caring for injured soldiers in both England and Belgium during World War I. An enigmatic seasonal series of fairy songs and poems, by a husband and wife team. `

The Fairy Sign Post

Etheldreda Carlin, Charles Carlin (illust.)

Privately printed by the Author, St. Mary's Studios

Chaddesden, Derbyshire, circa 1922

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Quarto. Original brown molded card wrappers, printed on handmade paper. Black and white line drawings throughout by Charles Carlin. A very good copy of this delightful book of fairy stories. A selection of fairy stories and poems for each of the seasons by husband and wife team Ethel Lillian and Charles Carlin, who together wrote and published various books of a religious nature, under the address of St. Mary's Studio, Chaddesden. Ethel Carlin (nee Birkin) found fame as one of the original recipients of the OBE, awarded in 1917 for her services in caring for injured soldiers in both England and Belgium during World War I. An enigmatic seasonal series of fairy songs and poems, by a husband and wife team. `
Octavo. Navy blue paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt. Pictorial DJ. Some marking to the back of the DJ, otherwise both fine.

Fairy Tale

Stephen King

Scribner

New York, 2022

1st edition, 1st printing

Octavo. Navy blue paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt. Pictorial DJ. Some marking to the back of the DJ, otherwise both fine.
Signed 1st/1st of the six books in the Datlow & Windling fairy tale anthologies, featuring tales retold by various authors: SNOW WHITE, BLOOD RED (signed by Datlow, Windling, Charles de Lint, Nancy Kress, Wendy Wheeler, Kathe Koja, Steve Rasnic Tem, Esther Friesner, Patricia McKillip); BLACK THORN, WHITE ROSE (signed by Datlow, Nancy Kress, and Peter Straub); RUBY SLIPPERS, GOLDEN TEARS (signed by Datlow, Roberta Lannes, Lisa Goldstein, Nancy A. Collins, Susan Palwick, Anne Bishop, Kathe Koja, & Jane Yolen); BLACK SWAN, WHITE RAVEN (signed by Datlow, Karen Joy Fowler, Esther M. Friesner, Joyce Carol Oates, Steve Rasnic Tem, Anne Bishop, Pat Murphy, John Crowley, Nancy Kress, & Jane Yolen); SILVER BIRCH, BLOOD MOON (only one not signed); BLACK HEART, IVORY BONES (signed by Datlow, Windling, Neil Gaiman, Delia Sherman, Charles de Lint, Esther Friesner). All VG paper and cloth covered boards with titles to spine, all original pictorial DJs.

Fairy Tale Anthologies

Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (editors)

AvoNova Morrow / Avon Books

1993 - 2000

1st edition, 1st printing

Signed 1st/1st of the six books in the Datlow & Windling fairy tale anthologies, featuring tales retold by various authors: SNOW WHITE, BLOOD RED (signed by Datlow, Windling, Charles de Lint, Nancy Kress, Wendy Wheeler, Kathe Koja, Steve Rasnic Tem, Esther Friesner, Patricia McKillip); BLACK THORN, WHITE ROSE (signed by Datlow, Nancy Kress, and Peter Straub); RUBY SLIPPERS, GOLDEN TEARS (signed by Datlow, Roberta Lannes, Lisa Goldstein, Nancy A. Collins, Susan Palwick, Anne Bishop, Kathe Koja, & Jane Yolen); BLACK SWAN, WHITE RAVEN (signed by Datlow, Karen Joy Fowler, Esther M. Friesner, Joyce Carol Oates, Steve Rasnic Tem, Anne Bishop, Pat Murphy, John Crowley, Nancy Kress, & Jane Yolen); SILVER BIRCH, BLOOD MOON (only one not signed); BLACK HEART, IVORY BONES (signed by Datlow, Windling, Neil Gaiman, Delia Sherman, Charles de Lint, Esther Friesner). All VG paper and cloth covered boards with titles to spine, all original pictorial DJs.
Quarto, original green pictorial cloth, elaborate gilt and black design to front cover, blind stamped centerpiece and panel to rear cover, gilt edges, brown coated endpapers. Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown, binder’s ticket to rear pastedown, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper. Spine ends a little bumped, marking and scratch to rear cover, short taped tear to contents page, occasional slight blemishes to contents. Overall a very good copy of a scarce book.

Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen, Eleanor Vere Boyle (illus), H.L.D. Ward and Augusta Plesner (transl)

Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle

London, 1872

1st edition

Quarto, original green pictorial cloth, elaborate gilt and black design to front cover, blind stamped centerpiece and panel to rear cover, gilt edges, brown coated endpapers. Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown, binder’s ticket to rear pastedown, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper. Spine ends a little bumped, marking and scratch to rear cover, short taped tear to contents page, occasional slight blemishes to contents. Overall a very good copy of a scarce book.
Octavo. First edition in English, number 69 of a total edition of 100 copies only of this translation. Original dark green cloth, titles to spine in gilt, untrimmed. Cocked, corners gently bumped, a little rubbed, browning to free endpapers, else a very good copy.

Fairy Tales

Claude-Henri dee Fusée, Abbé de Voisenon; R.B. Douglas (transl), Will Rothenstein (illust)

Erotika Biblion Society for Private Distribution Amongst Its Members

Athens [London], 1895

1st edition

Octavo. First edition in English, number 69 of a total edition of 100 copies only of this translation. Original dark green cloth, titles to spine in gilt, untrimmed. Cocked, corners gently bumped, a little rubbed, browning to free endpapers, else a very good copy.
Containing stories from France, Russia, Germany, Denmark, and the Middle East. Pink pictorial boards and pictorial DJ. Slight chipping to DJ, otherwise fine.

Fairy Tales

Berlie Doherty, Jane Ray (illust)

Candlewick Press

Cambridge, 2000

1st American edition

Containing stories from France, Russia, Germany, Denmark, and the Middle East. Pink pictorial boards and pictorial DJ. Slight chipping to DJ, otherwise fine.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and snowflake to front board in silver, top edge blue. With the pictorial dust jacket. With 10 color plates and 30 monochrome vignettes by Tasha Tudor. Spine slightly rolled, ends a little bruised. A very good copy in the bright dust jacket, spine a little sunned, shallow chips to spine ends and tips, a couple of closed tears and some rubbing and creasing to extremities. First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the illustrator on the front free endpaper, "To Ned with best wishes from Tasha Tudor," together with an original drawing by her of a small girl sat on a stool reading. The recipient was Ned Hills, who, with his sister Charlotte, owned the Dutch Inn gift shop in Mill Hall, Pennsylvania. The Hills were longtime family friends of Tudor, and their shop had her original artwork on view, occasionally hosting special exhibits and book signing events.

Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen, Tasha Tudor (illus)

Oxford University Press

New York, 1945

1st edition, 1st printing

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and snowflake to front board in silver, top edge blue. With the pictorial dust jacket. With 10 color plates and 30 monochrome vignettes by Tasha Tudor. Spine slightly rolled, ends a little bruised. A very good copy in the bright dust jacket, spine a little sunned, shallow chips to spine ends and tips, a couple of closed tears and some rubbing and creasing to extremities. First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the illustrator on the front free endpaper, "To Ned with best wishes from Tasha Tudor," together with an original drawing by her of a small girl sat on a stool reading. The recipient was Ned Hills, who, with his sister Charlotte, owned the Dutch Inn gift shop in Mill Hall, Pennsylvania. The Hills were longtime family friends of Tudor, and their shop had her original artwork on view, occasionally hosting special exhibits and book signing events.
4to. Original red cloth, gilt lettering and decorations to the upper cover and spine, in the original pictorial dustwrapper, with light blue lettering and decorations. Pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece, 11 tipped-in colour plates, and numerous line drawings throughout, including head- and tail-pieces. A fine copy, very bright and clean, in a very good dustwrapper, with one small chip to the head of the spine, and a small number of minor closed tears to the extremities and back flap. Seldom seen in this binding. A beautifully illustrated book containing a number of Hans Andersen’s popular tales, including The Nightingale and The Snow Queen.

Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen, Kay Nielsen (illust.)

Hodder and Staughton

London, 1924

1st thus

4to. Original red cloth, gilt lettering and decorations to the upper cover and spine, in the original pictorial dustwrapper, with light blue lettering and decorations. Pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece, 11 tipped-in colour plates, and numerous line drawings throughout, including head- and tail-pieces. A fine copy, very bright and clean, in a very good dustwrapper, with one small chip to the head of the spine, and a small number of minor closed tears to the extremities and back flap. Seldom seen in this binding. A beautifully illustrated book containing a number of Hans Andersen’s popular tales, including The Nightingale and The Snow Queen.
Illustrated throughout. Some bumping to spine, otherwise fine.

Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories From the French Decadent Tradition

Gretchen Schultaz and Lewis Seifert (editors)

Princeton University Press

Princeton, 2019

1st paperback edition

Illustrated throughout. Some bumping to spine, otherwise fine.
Octavo. Blue cloth with gilt title and decorative borders. Fine in original publisher’s box and protective glassine. Inscribed by the author on an initial blank page: “To Mr. F.T. Birchall respectfully Eugenie Mutt, New York, 30 x 1930.” Eight deco-style color plates and black & white illustrations. Glassine is slightly chipped but otherwise is almost as new.

Fairy Tales from Baltic Shores: Folk-Lore Stories from Estonia

Eugenie Mutt, Jeanette Berkowitz (illust)

Penn Publishing

New York, 1930

1st edition, 1st printing

Octavo. Blue cloth with gilt title and decorative borders. Fine in original publisher’s box and protective glassine. Inscribed by the author on an initial blank page: “To Mr. F.T. Birchall respectfully Eugenie Mutt, New York, 30 x 1930.” Eight deco-style color plates and black & white illustrations. Glassine is slightly chipped but otherwise is almost as new.
Octavo. Blue cloth covered boards with titles and geometric decoration in gilt to front board and spine. All edges gilt. Some foxing to front endpapers but otherwise clean and bright. Bookplate of Nina Stolterfold affixed to inside front board, and inscribed “from Frank Gweetie(?) Xmas 1908.” Some rubbing to corners and spine, small mark on back board, overall very good. Fairy tales “collected from original native sources,” though in the introduction the authors comment that the indigenous people they spoke with, the Kafirs, “often fought against one another.” They call them “savage people,” and say “they no longer make war on one another, for the white people oblige them to dwell in peace.” They finish the introduction by noting that the customs of the people are changing and that they wanted to write these stories down “for your amusement” before they disappear. There is an awareness of the erasure of culture and the desire to protect it, alongside the clear belief that one way of life, that of the colonizer, is better than the indigenous way of life. Though these things are hard to read (and certainly change the way we might read the stories collected here), it is important to maintain this historical record and keep it in mind when assessing stories from colonial sources.

Fairy Tales from South Africa

Mrs. E.J. Bourhill and Mrs. J.B. Drake, W. Herbert Holloway (illust)

Macmillan and Co.

London, 1908

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Octavo. Blue cloth covered boards with titles and geometric decoration in gilt to front board and spine. All edges gilt. Some foxing to front endpapers but otherwise clean and bright. Bookplate of Nina Stolterfold affixed to inside front board, and inscribed “from Frank Gweetie(?) Xmas 1908.” Some rubbing to corners and spine, small mark on back board, overall very good. Fairy tales “collected from original native sources,” though in the introduction the authors comment that the indigenous people they spoke with, the Kafirs, “often fought against one another.” They call them “savage people,” and say “they no longer make war on one another, for the white people oblige them to dwell in peace.” They finish the introduction by noting that the customs of the people are changing and that they wanted to write these stories down “for your amusement” before they disappear. There is an awareness of the erasure of culture and the desire to protect it, alongside the clear belief that one way of life, that of the colonizer, is better than the indigenous way of life. Though these things are hard to read (and certainly change the way we might read the stories collected here), it is important to maintain this historical record and keep it in mind when assessing stories from colonial sources.
Quarto. Blue green cloth covered boards, ornately decorated front board and titles to spine in gilt. Colored endpapers. 24 color plates and black and white illustrations throughout by Harry Clarke. Some shelf wear but otherwise very good.

The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault Illustrated by Harry Clarke

Charles Perrault, Harry Clarke (illust.)

George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.

London, 1922

1st edition

Quarto. Blue green cloth covered boards, ornately decorated front board and titles to spine in gilt. Colored endpapers. 24 color plates and black and white illustrations throughout by Harry Clarke. Some shelf wear but otherwise very good.
First expanded Minerva Press edition. Many of the tales were first published by William Lane in 1788 under the title "The Palace of Enchantment," and republished by his Minerva Press in another edition of the same title in 1794. These tales constitute volume II of the present edition, renamed to "Fairy Tales," with the first volume holding new tales. William Lane published many books of fairy tales over his career, but their fragility and child readership ensured that few survive. The present edition is scarce both institutionally and in commerce, with 12 copies known in institutions worldwide, and only one auction recrod since 1922. 2 volumes, duodecimo. Contemporary tree calf, twin red and green morocco labels, spine gilt to compartments. With half-title to volume 1, final advertisement leaf to volume 2, and 4 engraved illustrations; lacking the frontispieces to each volume. Contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper of volume 1. Expert repair to former wear to calf and spines, rear covers with earlier calf onlays with marginally different marbling styles, color and gilt enhanced; as a result, now an attractive, well preserved copy.

Fairy Tales, Selected From the Best Authors

William Lane (ed.)

Minerva Press

London, 1794

1st expanded edition

First expanded Minerva Press edition. Many of the tales were first published by William Lane in 1788 under the title "The Palace of Enchantment," and republished by his Minerva Press in another edition of the same title in 1794. These tales constitute volume II of the present edition, renamed to "Fairy Tales," with the first volume holding new tales. William Lane published many books of fairy tales over his career, but their fragility and child readership ensured that few survive. The present edition is scarce both institutionally and in commerce, with 12 copies known in institutions worldwide, and only one auction recrod since 1922. 2 volumes, duodecimo. Contemporary tree calf, twin red and green morocco labels, spine gilt to compartments. With half-title to volume 1, final advertisement leaf to volume 2, and 4 engraved illustrations; lacking the frontispieces to each volume. Contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper of volume 1. Expert repair to former wear to calf and spines, rear covers with earlier calf onlays with marginally different marbling styles, color and gilt enhanced; as a result, now an attractive, well preserved copy.
Illustrated throughout. Complete with 31 pages of ads and Stanford catalogue at rear. Decorated publisher's cloth with gilt page edges. Binding shows light rubbing with some shelfwear to spine cords. Uncommon. Arabella Buckley was a writer and science educator. She started her career at the age of 24 as secretary to Charles Lyell, staying with him until his death in 1875. Following that, she began lecturing and writing on science. The Fairy-Land of Science was her third, and perhaps most well-known, book in which she put her views of science in a children's book seetting, much like a mother eeducating her child. Onee of her lectures, "The Two Great Sculptors - Water and Ice," desecribes the process of erosion as similar to how a sculptor creates a statue using a chisel. She saw no contradiction in using fancy to present fact, writing of the natural world: "Can any magic tale be more marvellous, or any thought grander, or more sublime than this?"

Fairy-Land of Science, The

Arabella B. Buckley

Edward Stanford

London, 1878

1st edition, 1st printing

Illustrated throughout. Complete with 31 pages of ads and Stanford catalogue at rear. Decorated publisher's cloth with gilt page edges. Binding shows light rubbing with some shelfwear to spine cords. Uncommon. Arabella Buckley was a writer and science educator. She started her career at the age of 24 as secretary to Charles Lyell, staying with him until his death in 1875. Following that, she began lecturing and writing on science. The Fairy-Land of Science was her third, and perhaps most well-known, book in which she put her views of science in a children's book seetting, much like a mother eeducating her child. Onee of her lectures, "The Two Great Sculptors - Water and Ice," desecribes the process of erosion as similar to how a sculptor creates a statue using a chisel. She saw no contradiction in using fancy to present fact, writing of the natural world: "Can any magic tale be more marvellous, or any thought grander, or more sublime than this?"
Collection of poems that are fairy tale retellings, often with a feminist twist - per the flap, the tales are given a "modern makeover." Octavo, paperback with pictorial wrappers. Signed by the author on the half-title. Fine.

Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

Nikita Gill

Hachette Books

New York, 2018

1st American edition, 1st printing

Collection of poems that are fairy tale retellings, often with a feminist twist - per the flap, the tales are given a "modern makeover." Octavo, paperback with pictorial wrappers. Signed by the author on the half-title. Fine.
White pictorial paperback covers. Fine.

The First Book of Calamity Leek

Paula Lichtarowicz

Flatiron Books

New York, 2016

1st US edition, 1st printing

White pictorial paperback covers. Fine.
Small octavo. Engraved frontispiece and five similar plates. Original marbled paper-covered boards, red roan strip, smooth spine divided by gilt fillets, edges sprinkled blue, printed label on front cover. Spine skillfully refurbished, wear to edges, sides a little rubbed and toned, inner hinges repaired, traces of removed inscriptions on rear pastedown and endpaper, mark to margin of frontispiece. A very good copy of a scarce edition.

The Flowers, or, the Sylphid Queen: A Fairy Tale.

Alice Lefanu

J. Harris

London, 1809

1st edition

Small octavo. Engraved frontispiece and five similar plates. Original marbled paper-covered boards, red roan strip, smooth spine divided by gilt fillets, edges sprinkled blue, printed label on front cover. Spine skillfully refurbished, wear to edges, sides a little rubbed and toned, inner hinges repaired, traces of removed inscriptions on rear pastedown and endpaper, mark to margin of frontispiece. A very good copy of a scarce edition.
As Illustrated by Legendary and Traditionary Tales, Folk-Rhymes, Proverbial Sayings, Superstitions, etc. Hardcover. Fine. The first American edition. An examination of proverbs about women from a variety of cultural traditions, organized under such headings as Woman's Characteristics, Woman's Beauty, Woman's Dress, Bad Women, Love Tests, Red-Haired Girls, Women and Marriage, Widows, Superstitions About Women, Daughters, etc. Replete with Victorian stereotypes, this work enumerates traditional male attitudes toward women and gender roles. From the library of noted collector Donald Beaty Bloch, with a bookplate to the front pastedown. Octavo: 253 p. Original green cloth binding, with decorative black stamping and gilt titles. An especially fresh example, previously largely uncut and unopened. Very light fading along the spine, with just a hint of wear to the corners and tips; else fine.

Folk-Lore of Women

T.F. Thiselton-Dyer, M.A. Oxon

A.C. McClurg & Co.

Chicago, 1906

1st American edition

As Illustrated by Legendary and Traditionary Tales, Folk-Rhymes, Proverbial Sayings, Superstitions, etc. Hardcover. Fine. The first American edition. An examination of proverbs about women from a variety of cultural traditions, organized under such headings as Woman's Characteristics, Woman's Beauty, Woman's Dress, Bad Women, Love Tests, Red-Haired Girls, Women and Marriage, Widows, Superstitions About Women, Daughters, etc. Replete with Victorian stereotypes, this work enumerates traditional male attitudes toward women and gender roles. From the library of noted collector Donald Beaty Bloch, with a bookplate to the front pastedown. Octavo: 253 p. Original green cloth binding, with decorative black stamping and gilt titles. An especially fresh example, previously largely uncut and unopened. Very light fading along the spine, with just a hint of wear to the corners and tips; else fine.
Octavo. Blue paper-covered boards with titles in gilt to spine. Original pictorial DJ. Some creases to DJ, otherwise both fine.

Folklorn

Angela Mi Young Hur

Erewhon Books

New York, 2021

1st edition, 1st printing

Octavo. Blue paper-covered boards with titles in gilt to spine. Original pictorial DJ. Some creases to DJ, otherwise both fine.
Folio. Pictorial boards with illustrations of various tales. Fine.

Forgotten Fairy Tales of Brave and Brilliant Girls

Susanna Davidson, Rosie Dickins, Andy Prentice, Rob Lloyd Jones; Kate Pankhurst (foreword), Isabella Grott, Alessandra Santelli, Maria Surducan (illusts), Lesley Sims (ed)

Usborne Publishing Ltd.

London, 2019

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Folio. Pictorial boards with illustrations of various tales. Fine.
Number 293 or 326 copies signed by the translator and illustrator, 26 of which were not for sale. Octavo, original blue stitched card wrappers, titles to front cover in black. Title page and text printed in blue and black, 3 black and white plates and an illustration to the text, all by Sendak. Light fading to spine and onto covers, creasing to top edge, an excellent copy. This story was first published by Madame D'Aulnoy in her collection of fairy tales, Les Contes des Fées, in 1697. Andrew Lang later included it in his Blue Fairy Book in 1889.

Fortunia

Marie Catherine D'Aulnoy, Richard Shaubeck (transl.), Maurice Sendak (illust.)

Frank Hallmann

New York, 1974

1st edition, signed limited issue

Number 293 or 326 copies signed by the translator and illustrator, 26 of which were not for sale. Octavo, original blue stitched card wrappers, titles to front cover in black. Title page and text printed in blue and black, 3 black and white plates and an illustration to the text, all by Sendak. Light fading to spine and onto covers, creasing to top edge, an excellent copy. This story was first published by Madame D'Aulnoy in her collection of fairy tales, Les Contes des Fées, in 1697. Andrew Lang later included it in his Blue Fairy Book in 1889.
Four Fairy Tales: octavo. Original blue cloth, front cover lettered and tooled with floral design in gilt initialled H.N.A., green ivy leaf-patterned endpapers. Spine faintly toned, extremities rubbed, sporadic light foxing; an excellent copy. Manuscript of “The Ugly Prince”: quarto (198 × 165 mm). Original commercial dark blue diaper-grain limp cloth, title label made from paper tape on front cover written in manuscript (“The Ugly Prince”), edges blue, 64 pages written entirely in manuscript, 20 lines per page. Slight scuffing and marking to covers, outer leaves and margins a little browned, text all legible, a very good copy. First and sole edition of this collection of fairy tales, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “Félicité Hardcastle, With good wishes for her birthday, July 1 from the authoress, 1911”, with a textual correction on p. 71. Accompanying the printed work is an earlier manuscript version of one of the tales, “The Ugly Prince”, written entirely in Blagg’s hand and inscribed to her niece, Alice Nancy Bowers: “The Ugly Prince By M. A. Blagg. For Miss A. N. Bowers. From the author, January 1906”. Blagg’s Four Fairy Tales was published in her hometown of Cheadle, Staffordshire, and appears to have been issued in a small print run for private circulation. It is consequently scarce, with only one copy traced institutionally worldwide (British Library). The publisher, Jesse Lowndes, listed in the 1911 census as a letterpress printer, was part of a local well-respected family of photographers. That the recipient of “The Ugly Prince” was Mary’s niece indicates that the stories eventually published as Four Fairy Tales were initially written for her loved ones. Mary Adela Blagg (1858–1944) was a noted astronomer. In 1916 she was among the first four women elected to the Royal Astronomical Society, with reports at the time stating that “it was largely in consequence of Miss Blagg’s work that the RAS recently altered its constitution so that ladies might be admitted” (Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal, 4 February 1916). Blagg was appointed to collate the various named lunar forms and adapt them into a definitive state. Her Collated List of Lunar Formations (1913, with S. A. Saunder) laid the groundwork for her authoritative text defining lunar nomenclature, Named Lunar Formations (1935, with Karl Müller). This copy of Four Fairy Tales has a superb association: Félicité Hardcastle was the daughter of the astronomer Joseph A. Hardcastle; it was through his university extension course that Blagg first began studying astronomy in 1905. Hardcastle also arranged her first astronomical publication – her analysis of a year’s worth of star observations, totalling 4,000 in all. The work was presented to Félicité for her tenth birthday, and is suggestive of the longstanding friendship Blagg and Hardcastle developed. Félicité went on to become an archaeologist, historian, and amateur botanist noted for her work in the area of Burley, Hampshire.

Four Fairy Tales, with accompanying manuscript for The Ugly Prince

Mary Bragg

J. Lowndes

Cheadle (Manchester UK), 1911 (manuscript 1906)

1st and only

Four Fairy Tales: octavo. Original blue cloth, front cover lettered and tooled with floral design in gilt initialled H.N.A., green ivy leaf-patterned endpapers. Spine faintly toned, extremities rubbed, sporadic light foxing; an excellent copy. Manuscript of “The Ugly Prince”: quarto (198 × 165 mm). Original commercial dark blue diaper-grain limp cloth, title label made from paper tape on front cover written in manuscript (“The Ugly Prince”), edges blue, 64 pages written entirely in manuscript, 20 lines per page. Slight scuffing and marking to covers, outer leaves and margins a little browned, text all legible, a very good copy. First and sole edition of this collection of fairy tales, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “Félicité Hardcastle, With good wishes for her birthday, July 1 from the authoress, 1911”, with a textual correction on p. 71. Accompanying the printed work is an earlier manuscript version of one of the tales, “The Ugly Prince”, written entirely in Blagg’s hand and inscribed to her niece, Alice Nancy Bowers: “The Ugly Prince By M. A. Blagg. For Miss A. N. Bowers. From the author, January 1906”. Blagg’s Four Fairy Tales was published in her hometown of Cheadle, Staffordshire, and appears to have been issued in a small print run for private circulation. It is consequently scarce, with only one copy traced institutionally worldwide (British Library). The publisher, Jesse Lowndes, listed in the 1911 census as a letterpress printer, was part of a local well-respected family of photographers. That the recipient of “The Ugly Prince” was Mary’s niece indicates that the stories eventually published as Four Fairy Tales were initially written for her loved ones. Mary Adela Blagg (1858–1944) was a noted astronomer. In 1916 she was among the first four women elected to the Royal Astronomical Society, with reports at the time stating that “it was largely in consequence of Miss Blagg’s work that the RAS recently altered its constitution so that ladies might be admitted” (Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal, 4 February 1916). Blagg was appointed to collate the various named lunar forms and adapt them into a definitive state. Her Collated List of Lunar Formations (1913, with S. A. Saunder) laid the groundwork for her authoritative text defining lunar nomenclature, Named Lunar Formations (1935, with Karl Müller). This copy of Four Fairy Tales has a superb association: Félicité Hardcastle was the daughter of the astronomer Joseph A. Hardcastle; it was through his university extension course that Blagg first began studying astronomy in 1905. Hardcastle also arranged her first astronomical publication – her analysis of a year’s worth of star observations, totalling 4,000 in all. The work was presented to Félicité for her tenth birthday, and is suggestive of the longstanding friendship Blagg and Hardcastle developed. Félicité went on to become an archaeologist, historian, and amateur botanist noted for her work in the area of Burley, Hampshire.
Single volume, measuring 11x8 inches. Original pictorial turquoise cloth stamped in black, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations on every page. Publisher's review slip tipped to title page. First American edition, publisher's review copy, of this picture book based on Chaucer's Franklin's Tale, a legend adapted from Boccaccio. The story of a strong marriage threatened by a magic trick, the tale ends happily for all concerned, with a final question that invites readers to judge which character behaved most nobly: "which of them seems to you the most generous?" or, in Chaucer's words, "which was the ooste fre, as thynketh yow?" Philip Gough's vibrant illustrations were inspired by medieval art and manuscripts, by way of Walt Disney. A fine copy.

The Franklin's Tale

Geoffrey Chaucer; Ian Serraillier; Philip Gough (illust)

Frederick Warne and Co.

New York, 1972

1st American edition, publisher's review copy

Single volume, measuring 11x8 inches. Original pictorial turquoise cloth stamped in black, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations on every page. Publisher's review slip tipped to title page. First American edition, publisher's review copy, of this picture book based on Chaucer's Franklin's Tale, a legend adapted from Boccaccio. The story of a strong marriage threatened by a magic trick, the tale ends happily for all concerned, with a final question that invites readers to judge which character behaved most nobly: "which of them seems to you the most generous?" or, in Chaucer's words, "which was the ooste fre, as thynketh yow?" Philip Gough's vibrant illustrations were inspired by medieval art and manuscripts, by way of Walt Disney. A fine copy.
Quarto. original orange cloth, front cover lettered in green, floral handmade paper endpapers. Housed in the original solander case. Illustrated frontispiece with laid-in tissue guard, 4 illustrated plates. A fine copy. Signed limited edition, number 51 or 130 copies signed by the author and illustrator. Mamet's adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale was first performed in Chicago at the Goodman Theatre on May 17th, 1982 and was first published in 1983.

The Frog Prince: A Play

David Mamet, Edward Koren (illus)

Vincent FitzGerald & Company

New York, 1984

Signed limited edition

Quarto. original orange cloth, front cover lettered in green, floral handmade paper endpapers. Housed in the original solander case. Illustrated frontispiece with laid-in tissue guard, 4 illustrated plates. A fine copy. Signed limited edition, number 51 or 130 copies signed by the author and illustrator. Mamet's adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale was first performed in Chicago at the Goodman Theatre on May 17th, 1982 and was first published in 1983.
Folio with white cloth covered boards featuring a vibrant illustration of a male Rapunzel letting his hair out of the tower for a woman knight to climb up. Similarly spectacular pictorial endpapers.

Gender Swapped Fairy Tales

Karrie Fransman & Jonathan Plackett

Faber & Faber Limited

London, 2020

1st edition

Folio with white cloth covered boards featuring a vibrant illustration of a male Rapunzel letting his hair out of the tower for a woman knight to climb up. Similarly spectacular pictorial endpapers.
First American edition of this tale from beloved Japanese children's book authors - from the library of noted storyteller/folklorist Diane Wolkstein. Slim folio. Original dark brown boards. Original unclipped color pictorial DJ. Yellow endpapers. Illustrated in color. Pencil notes by Wolkstein throughout. Jacket with some edgewear, small hole to spine. Sharp and bright, near fine in a very good plus DJ.

Gengoroh and the Thunder God

Matsutani, Miyoko, Yasuo Segawa (illust)

Parents' Magazine Press

New York, 1970

1st edition

First American edition of this tale from beloved Japanese children's book authors - from the library of noted storyteller/folklorist Diane Wolkstein. Slim folio. Original dark brown boards. Original unclipped color pictorial DJ. Yellow endpapers. Illustrated in color. Pencil notes by Wolkstein throughout. Jacket with some edgewear, small hole to spine. Sharp and bright, near fine in a very good plus DJ.
First edition under this title of the earliest English translation of Grimm’s fairy tales. Octavo, contemporary blue calf, titles to red Morocco label to spine, spine tooled in gilt in compartments with floral motifs, gilt fillet and dotted roll frame to covers, marbled endpapers and edges. Spine lightly faded, minor rubbing to spine ends and tips, a couple of faint scuffs to covers, light foxing to title page, else contents clean and bright. Near fine.

German Fairy Tales and Popular Stories, As Told by Gammer Gethel

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Edgar Taylor (transl), George Cruikshank and Ludwig Grimm (illust)

Joseph Cundall

London, 1846

1st edition under this title

First edition under this title of the earliest English translation of Grimm’s fairy tales. Octavo, contemporary blue calf, titles to red Morocco label to spine, spine tooled in gilt in compartments with floral motifs, gilt fillet and dotted roll frame to covers, marbled endpapers and edges. Spine lightly faded, minor rubbing to spine ends and tips, a couple of faint scuffs to covers, light foxing to title page, else contents clean and bright. Near fine.
Two 12mo volumes. First English edition, second issue of the title-page of Volume 1, with an umlaut over the "a" in "Märchen" in the title, complete with half-titles and the 12 page advertisements at the end of volume 1. Aside from the additional umlaut, this has all of the first issue points. 22 etched plates by George Cruikshank, including two vignette titles. Early 20th-century full blue orocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, covers triple ruled in gilt, front covers with George Cruikshank's signature in gilt. Spines with five raised bands elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments, small circular red morocco onlays to four panels. Gilt ruled board edges and decorative gilt turn-ins, marbles endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Light rubbing to joints, otherwise near fine. House together in a fleece-lined, blue cloth slipcase.

German Popular Stories, Translated from the Kinder und Haus Marchen, Collected by M.M. Grimm, From Oral Tradition

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Vol 1: C. Baldwyn; Vol 2: James Robins & Co.

London, 1823 and 1826

1st English edition, second printing of title page

Two 12mo volumes. First English edition, second issue of the title-page of Volume 1, with an umlaut over the "a" in "Märchen" in the title, complete with half-titles and the 12 page advertisements at the end of volume 1. Aside from the additional umlaut, this has all of the first issue points. 22 etched plates by George Cruikshank, including two vignette titles. Early 20th-century full blue orocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, covers triple ruled in gilt, front covers with George Cruikshank's signature in gilt. Spines with five raised bands elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments, small circular red morocco onlays to four panels. Gilt ruled board edges and decorative gilt turn-ins, marbles endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Light rubbing to joints, otherwise near fine. House together in a fleece-lined, blue cloth slipcase.
Slim octavo. Blue and purple paper covered boards, with a question mark stamped in gilt to front board and titles to spine in gilt. Some fading to tail and bottom edge of boards, some warping to first several pages (likely water damage), in pictorial DJ. Overall very good. A humorous tale of a group of creatures, called the Giggler's, who punish adults who are mean to children, thereby wreaking havoc on the lives of one family.

The Giggler Treatment

Roddy Doyle, Brian Ajhar (illust)

Arthur A. Levine Books

New York, 2000

1st edition

Slim octavo. Blue and purple paper covered boards, with a question mark stamped in gilt to front board and titles to spine in gilt. Some fading to tail and bottom edge of boards, some warping to first several pages (likely water damage), in pictorial DJ. Overall very good. A humorous tale of a group of creatures, called the Giggler's, who punish adults who are mean to children, thereby wreaking havoc on the lives of one family.
Octavo. Black paper covered boards, titles in gilt to spine. Pictorial DJ. Fine.

Gilded

Marissa Meyer

Feiwel and Friends

New York, 2021

1st edition, 2nd printing

Octavo. Black paper covered boards, titles in gilt to spine. Pictorial DJ. Fine.
Octavo. White paper covered boards, quarter beige paper, titles in gilt to spine. Riverhead feather logo stamped on front board. Price-clipped, pictorial DJ. Remainder copy indicated by red dot on the bottom edge. Both fine.

Gingerbread

Helen Oyeyemi

Riverhead Books

New York, 2019

1st edition

Octavo. White paper covered boards, quarter beige paper, titles in gilt to spine. Riverhead feather logo stamped on front board. Price-clipped, pictorial DJ. Remainder copy indicated by red dot on the bottom edge. Both fine.
Oblong duodecimo, hardcover, pictorial boards and endpapers, full-color illustrations throughout. Signed by all three contributors on the title page. Fine copy in publisher’s original full-color pictorial DJ.

The Girl Who Spun Gold

Virginia Hamilton, Leo and Diane Dillon (illusts)

The Blue Sky Press

New York, 2000

1st edition, 1st printing

Oblong duodecimo, hardcover, pictorial boards and endpapers, full-color illustrations throughout. Signed by all three contributors on the title page. Fine copy in publisher’s original full-color pictorial DJ.
Small quarto, grey boards with publisher’s logo stamped to front board and titles to spine in white. Fine in a very good DJ.

Girls Made of Snow and Glass

Melissa Bashardoust

Flatiron Books

New York, 2017

1st edition, 1st printing

Small quarto, grey boards with publisher’s logo stamped to front board and titles to spine in white. Fine in a very good DJ.
Slim folio. Original pale green cloth spine lettered in gilt, green pictorial boards stamped in gilt, pictorial endpapers, original clipped color pictorial DJ. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Inscribed by Violette Verdy and Marcia Brown on verso of FFEP. Comes with August 1970 book launch invitation from McGraw-Hill, and September 1970 New York Times feature on Verdy. First edition of this illustrated introduction to the 1841 ballet Giselle, adapted by NYCB principal ballerina Violette Verdy from Théophile Gautier's scenario. Verdy was known for her own performance in the role of Giselle. Marcia Brown is a two-time Caldecott winner. Fine.

Giselle, or the Wilis

Théophile Gautier, Violette Verdy (transl), Marcia Brown (illust)

McGraw-Hill Book Company

New York, 1970

1st edition

Slim folio. Original pale green cloth spine lettered in gilt, green pictorial boards stamped in gilt, pictorial endpapers, original clipped color pictorial DJ. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Inscribed by Violette Verdy and Marcia Brown on verso of FFEP. Comes with August 1970 book launch invitation from McGraw-Hill, and September 1970 New York Times feature on Verdy. First edition of this illustrated introduction to the 1841 ballet Giselle, adapted by NYCB principal ballerina Violette Verdy from Théophile Gautier's scenario. Verdy was known for her own performance in the role of Giselle. Marcia Brown is a two-time Caldecott winner. Fine.
Small quarto, purple and yellow boards with title to spine in gilt. Fine in a fine pictorial DJ.

Gods of Jade and Shadow

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Del Rey

New York, 2019

1st edition

Small quarto, purple and yellow boards with title to spine in gilt. Fine in a fine pictorial DJ.
Slim folio. Laminated pictorial boards with matching pictorial DJ, both fine. Signed by David Wisniewski on copyright page.

Golem

David Wisniewski (story and pictures)

Clarion Books

New York, 1996

1st edition, 1st printing

Slim folio. Laminated pictorial boards with matching pictorial DJ, both fine. Signed by David Wisniewski on copyright page.
Vernacular collection of eight original fairy tales, self-published and dedicated to the memory of Rosendale's late daughter (deceased) and granddaughter. Slim octavo. Original typescript bound in burgundy boards with gilt title stamping to front cover. Scuffing and bumping to corners. Frontispiece portrait of the author tipped in, inscribed and dated: "to my friend, Mrs. Pearson / from the "Perpetrator" / Samuel Rosendale / Dec. 22nd, 1912." Occasional authorial edits and corrections to text handwritten in ink. Moderate page toning. Very good plus. Prefaced by a modest "Apology" for alleged deficiencies in the stories (which are, as it happens, polished and charming though clearly derivative of the Arabian Nights, Andrew Lang, and various traditional sources). The author, born in Albany NY in 1844, died in Minneapolis in 1917 after spending much of his life in Milwaukee. His name is recorded as a director of the Milwaukee and Superior Railroad Company. No references to this title or other writings by Rosendale were found in COLC or elsewhere. Potentially unique copy.

Grandfather's Fairy Tales

Rosendale, Samuel

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circa 1912

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Vernacular collection of eight original fairy tales, self-published and dedicated to the memory of Rosendale's late daughter (deceased) and granddaughter. Slim octavo. Original typescript bound in burgundy boards with gilt title stamping to front cover. Scuffing and bumping to corners. Frontispiece portrait of the author tipped in, inscribed and dated: "to my friend, Mrs. Pearson / from the "Perpetrator" / Samuel Rosendale / Dec. 22nd, 1912." Occasional authorial edits and corrections to text handwritten in ink. Moderate page toning. Very good plus. Prefaced by a modest "Apology" for alleged deficiencies in the stories (which are, as it happens, polished and charming though clearly derivative of the Arabian Nights, Andrew Lang, and various traditional sources). The author, born in Albany NY in 1844, died in Minneapolis in 1917 after spending much of his life in Milwaukee. His name is recorded as a director of the Milwaukee and Superior Railroad Company. No references to this title or other writings by Rosendale were found in COLC or elsewhere. Potentially unique copy.
Octavo. 271pp. Moderate edgewear to binding, with rubbing and bumping to extremities, light soiling, and faint scattered rubbing. Gift inscription to front free endpaper: "To Marthe and Jean Fay, from Mother, Christmas 1923, and the added good wishes of an old school friend of Mother's—Loretta Ellen Brady." Binding is sound. Faint round dampstain to margin of pages 201-111, occasional smudge or light toning, and occasional small open tear to margin, else pages are clean and unmarked. Very good. Hardcover. An enchanted forest full of fairy tales awaits you in this 1920 first edition collection of 11 woodland fantasies by Loretta Ellen Brady. In these pages, you'll meet Yvonne, "The Beggar Princess," who, armed only with "courage and a good heart" and slippers made of bark, must save the imprisoned prince she fell in love with in the forest, you'll listen to "The Little Tree that Never Grew Up," a lonely late-bloomer left behind in the fast-growing forest and her friend the North Wind who carries her songs to the stars, you'll accompany Antone and his sister Babette on their "Halloween frolic" in the forest with vegetables dancing, witches flying on broomsticks, glowworms lighting the way, and frogs humming music in "A Tale for Halloween," and so much more, all illustrated in frontispiece and 7 fanciful, full-color plates by fairy illustrator Alice Bolam Preston (1888-1958).

The Green Forest Fairy Book

Loretta Ellen Brady

Little, Brown and Company

Boston, 1920

1st edition

Octavo. 271pp. Moderate edgewear to binding, with rubbing and bumping to extremities, light soiling, and faint scattered rubbing. Gift inscription to front free endpaper: "To Marthe and Jean Fay, from Mother, Christmas 1923, and the added good wishes of an old school friend of Mother's—Loretta Ellen Brady." Binding is sound. Faint round dampstain to margin of pages 201-111, occasional smudge or light toning, and occasional small open tear to margin, else pages are clean and unmarked. Very good. Hardcover. An enchanted forest full of fairy tales awaits you in this 1920 first edition collection of 11 woodland fantasies by Loretta Ellen Brady. In these pages, you'll meet Yvonne, "The Beggar Princess," who, armed only with "courage and a good heart" and slippers made of bark, must save the imprisoned prince she fell in love with in the forest, you'll listen to "The Little Tree that Never Grew Up," a lonely late-bloomer left behind in the fast-growing forest and her friend the North Wind who carries her songs to the stars, you'll accompany Antone and his sister Babette on their "Halloween frolic" in the forest with vegetables dancing, witches flying on broomsticks, glowworms lighting the way, and frogs humming music in "A Tale for Halloween," and so much more, all illustrated in frontispiece and 7 fanciful, full-color plates by fairy illustrator Alice Bolam Preston (1888-1958).
Edition de Luxe limited to 500 copies. Quarto, 40 color plates tipped-in onto heavy brown stock, with captioned tissue guards. Original vellum over boards, front cover lettered and pictorially stamped in gilt, spine lettered in gilt. Original yellow silk ties. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Lower edge of spine very lightly creased but still an exceptionally fine copy. Housed in a blue cloth slipcase.

Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales

Grace James, Warwick Goble (illust)

Macmillan & Co.

London, 1910

Edition de Luxe

Edition de Luxe limited to 500 copies. Quarto, 40 color plates tipped-in onto heavy brown stock, with captioned tissue guards. Original vellum over boards, front cover lettered and pictorially stamped in gilt, spine lettered in gilt. Original yellow silk ties. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Lower edge of spine very lightly creased but still an exceptionally fine copy. Housed in a blue cloth slipcase.
Publisher’s red cloth with color plate on cover, pictorial endpapers illustrated by Fritz Kredel. Frontispiece, black & white, and color illustrations throughout. Cloth a little dusty with fading to spine, otherwise a very good copy.

Grimms' Fairy Tales

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Fritz Kredel (illust), Mrs. EE.V. Lucas, Lucy Grane, and Marian Edwardees (transls)

Grosset & Dunlap

New York, 1945

1st thus

Publisher’s red cloth with color plate on cover, pictorial endpapers illustrated by Fritz Kredel. Frontispiece, black & white, and color illustrations throughout. Cloth a little dusty with fading to spine, otherwise a very good copy.
Oblong octavo. Unpaginated, 14 pages. Original staple-bound illustrated multicolored heavy cardstock stiff wrappers with red and black lettering on the front cover. This work is a Hebrew translation of the classic children's fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood" illustrated throughout with 6 full pages of color lithographic illustrations as well as additional in-text illustrations in b/w. Text in Hebrew. Wrappers with some age toning and minor water stains to the covers. light rubbing to extremities. Front cover with a 1" closed tear at the upper left corner. Covers slightly bowed. Interior with some browning to pages. Images remain mostly clean and bright. Wrappers in good, interior in good+ condition overall. Scarce. Protected by modern mylar. Good to good+. Softcover.

Ha-Kippah Ha-Adumah (Little Red Riding Hood)

L. Av-Even (Lev Dickstein) (illust)

Barlevy/Barlevi

Tel Aviv, circa 1945

1st edition

Oblong octavo. Unpaginated, 14 pages. Original staple-bound illustrated multicolored heavy cardstock stiff wrappers with red and black lettering on the front cover. This work is a Hebrew translation of the classic children's fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood" illustrated throughout with 6 full pages of color lithographic illustrations as well as additional in-text illustrations in b/w. Text in Hebrew. Wrappers with some age toning and minor water stains to the covers. light rubbing to extremities. Front cover with a 1" closed tear at the upper left corner. Covers slightly bowed. Interior with some browning to pages. Images remain mostly clean and bright. Wrappers in good, interior in good+ condition overall. Scarce. Protected by modern mylar. Good to good+. Softcover.
Octavo. Black paper covered boards, title to spine in silver gilt. Fine with a very good, publisher's pictorial DJ.

Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

Carolyne Larrington (preface), various others

Virago

Great Britain, 2020

1st thus; first published by Audible on the podcast HAG released in 2019

Octavo. Black paper covered boards, title to spine in silver gilt. Fine with a very good, publisher's pictorial DJ.
First edition of Michael Rosen's collection of comical spins on classic tales. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by the author on the verso of the half title page, "Michael Rosen, August 15, 2004." In near fine condition. English children's novelist and poet Michael Rosen authored 140 books throughout his career and served as British Children's Laureate from June 2007 to June 2009. Hariy Tales and Nursery Crimes is composed of 24 spin-offs on classic folk and fairy tales including: Jack and the Tinstalk, Goldisocks and the Wee Bears, and The Three Little Wigs.

Hairy Tales and Nursery Crimes

Michael Rosen

Collins

London, 1995

1st edition

First edition of Michael Rosen's collection of comical spins on classic tales. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by the author on the verso of the half title page, "Michael Rosen, August 15, 2004." In near fine condition. English children's novelist and poet Michael Rosen authored 140 books throughout his career and served as British Children's Laureate from June 2007 to June 2009. Hariy Tales and Nursery Crimes is composed of 24 spin-offs on classic folk and fairy tales including: Jack and the Tinstalk, Goldisocks and the Wee Bears, and The Three Little Wigs.
Octavo. Good rarity with the subtly rich imagery of Cecile Walton. Black full cloth boards, gilt cover and spine design, and titles. Moderate corner, edge wear, rubbing, toning, and light discoloration. Deckled pages very good, internally clean and bright. Golden metallic deco patterned endpapers. Gilt top edge. 24 plates in color by Cecile Walton. Includes the Snow Queen plate at page 64, often removed or not present. Cecile Walton was a Scottish painter, illustrator and sculptor. Considered a moving spirit of the Symbolist movement in Edinburgh presenting elements of spirituality, the imagination, and dreams. She was the daughter of E.A. Walton, one of the "Glasgow Boys."

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

Andersen, Hans Christian. H. Oskar Sommer (transl), Cecile Walton (illust)

T.C. & E.C. Jack

London and Edinburgh, 1911

1st edition

Octavo. Good rarity with the subtly rich imagery of Cecile Walton. Black full cloth boards, gilt cover and spine design, and titles. Moderate corner, edge wear, rubbing, toning, and light discoloration. Deckled pages very good, internally clean and bright. Golden metallic deco patterned endpapers. Gilt top edge. 24 plates in color by Cecile Walton. Includes the Snow Queen plate at page 64, often removed or not present. Cecile Walton was a Scottish painter, illustrator and sculptor. Considered a moving spirit of the Symbolist movement in Edinburgh presenting elements of spirituality, the imagination, and dreams. She was the daughter of E.A. Walton, one of the "Glasgow Boys."
Octavo. First collected American edition, containing 27 of Hans Andersen’s stories translated into English by Mary Howitt and Charles Boner. Original green cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, titles and vignette to front board gilt, decoration in blind, rear panel decorated in blind, all edges gilt. Engraved portrait frontispiece from a painting by Carl Hartmann with tissue guard, engraved title page, two full page plates, numerous decorated initials. Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown, two near-contemporary gift inscriptions to front free endpaper. Spine faded to brown, a few old faint marks to contents, but generally clean internally. A very good copy.

Hans Andersen's Story Book

Hans Christian Andersen, Mary Howitt (transl. and memoir of Andersen), Charles Boneer (transl)

C.S. Francis & Co., J.H. Francis

Boston, 1849

1st American edition

Octavo. First collected American edition, containing 27 of Hans Andersen’s stories translated into English by Mary Howitt and Charles Boner. Original green cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, titles and vignette to front board gilt, decoration in blind, rear panel decorated in blind, all edges gilt. Engraved portrait frontispiece from a painting by Carl Hartmann with tissue guard, engraved title page, two full page plates, numerous decorated initials. Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown, two near-contemporary gift inscriptions to front free endpaper. Spine faded to brown, a few old faint marks to contents, but generally clean internally. A very good copy.

Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen

Svend Jensen

Denmark, 1949

Theater-style box set of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales. Contains 11 miniature volumes. Books all in sound condition. Fair bit of wear to the box: top banner has been taped back on, general rubbing with small tear to one side, but still a very good example of a rare set. Illustration of Hans Christian Andersen reading to children in a wood with a castle in the background to exterior panels, which open to show a king going to open the "doors" (aka interior panels) that open to reveal the books.

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Original glossy color pictorial boards, color illustrations throughout. Illustrator's inscription "Anthony Browne / September 1982" to veerso of front free endpaper. Half-inch abrasion to base of rear board. 1st edition of this unsettling modeern traetment of "Hansel and Gretel," which effeectiveely recapturees the terror of the classic fairy tale. The Grimm brothers' 19th-century text is set alongsidee Anthony Browne's detailed illustrations of Thatcherite england, from the jobless woodcutteer's waterstained rooms to the cruel stepmother's TV and cigarettes. Twicee a winneer of the Kate Greenaway Medal, Browne would become the first English recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the highest international award in the field of children's literature, in 2000. A near-fine copy, scarce signed by Browne.

Hansel and Gretel

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm; Browne, Anthony (illust)

Julia MacRae Books

London, 1981

1st edition

Original glossy color pictorial boards, color illustrations throughout. Illustrator's inscription "Anthony Browne / September 1982" to veerso of front free endpaper. Half-inch abrasion to base of rear board. 1st edition of this unsettling modeern traetment of "Hansel and Gretel," which effeectiveely recapturees the terror of the classic fairy tale. The Grimm brothers' 19th-century text is set alongsidee Anthony Browne's detailed illustrations of Thatcherite england, from the jobless woodcutteer's waterstained rooms to the cruel stepmother's TV and cigarettes. Twicee a winneer of the Kate Greenaway Medal, Browne would become the first English recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the highest international award in the field of children's literature, in 2000. A near-fine copy, scarce signed by Browne.
First trade edition in a richly decorated binding. Quarto, contemporary yellow full calf by Weitz of New York, titles in gilt to red and green Morocco labels to spine, spine tooled in gilt in compartments, gilt motifs on purple Morocco onlays in four compartments, circular green Morocco onlays featuring bee design in gilt and inlaid red and purple Morocco butterflies tooled in gilt to covers within double rule gilt frames. With 12 color plates tipped-in and 10 monochrome full page illustrations. Gift inscription to half-title. Slight discoloration of leather to spine and covers, a couple of faint scratches to covers, touch of rubbing to tips, slight ripple to final few leaves; a very good copy.

Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Kay Nielsen (illust)

George H. Doran Company

New York, 1925

1st trade edition

First trade edition in a richly decorated binding. Quarto, contemporary yellow full calf by Weitz of New York, titles in gilt to red and green Morocco labels to spine, spine tooled in gilt in compartments, gilt motifs on purple Morocco onlays in four compartments, circular green Morocco onlays featuring bee design in gilt and inlaid red and purple Morocco butterflies tooled in gilt to covers within double rule gilt frames. With 12 color plates tipped-in and 10 monochrome full page illustrations. Gift inscription to half-title. Slight discoloration of leather to spine and covers, a couple of faint scratches to covers, touch of rubbing to tips, slight ripple to final few leaves; a very good copy.
Signed by the author on the title page. Gray paper boards with limited edition pictorial DJ, elaborately decorated in gilt on front and stamped in gilt on spine.

The Hazel Wood

Melissa Albert

Flatiron Books

New York, 2018

Limited edition

Signed by the author on the title page. Gray paper boards with limited edition pictorial DJ, elaborately decorated in gilt on front and stamped in gilt on spine.
Quarto. Fine in a fine DJ, with edges sprayed an arsenic-like green.

Hemlock and Silver

T. Kingfisher aka Ursula Vernon

Tor

New York, 2025

1st edition, 1st printing

Quarto. Fine in a fine DJ, with edges sprayed an arsenic-like green.
Quarto, black paper and cloth boards with Virginia Hamilton’s signature stamped in gilt to front board and titles in gilt to spine. Signed by Virginia Hamilton and Leo and Diane Dillon on the title page, with the Dillon’s signature dated 4/29/1996. Fine in a fine pictorial DJ.

Her Tales: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales

Virginia Hamilton, Leo and Diane Dillon (illusts)

The Blue Sky Press

New York, 1995

1st edition, 1st printing

Quarto, black paper and cloth boards with Virginia Hamilton’s signature stamped in gilt to front board and titles in gilt to spine. Signed by Virginia Hamilton and Leo and Diane Dillon on the title page, with the Dillon’s signature dated 4/29/1996. Fine in a fine pictorial DJ.
Small octavo. Full-page black and white illustrations throughout. Bound in 19th century morocco, all edges gilt, painting to front fore-edge, title in gilt to spine, gilt dentelles. Some light fading to spine, slight rubbing to tips, contents with occasional foxing, but overall a very good copy.

Heroes, Or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children, The

Charles Kingsley

Macmillan and Co.

London, 1881

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Small octavo. Full-page black and white illustrations throughout. Bound in 19th century morocco, all edges gilt, painting to front fore-edge, title in gilt to spine, gilt dentelles. Some light fading to spine, slight rubbing to tips, contents with occasional foxing, but overall a very good copy.
Duodecimo. Comtemporary mottled sheep, red morocco spine label lettered gilt, board edges tooled in gilt. Lacks the English title page. French title page printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece and 7 numbered plates all captioned in French. Numerous typographical head- and tailpieces. Light wear to extremities, front joint starting, very occasional faint stains. Short closed tear to fore margin of pg. 123-124. Very good. First volume only, complete in itself, of this early bilingual edition of Perrault's tales, with the French and English texts on facing pages, which "probably served as exercises in teaching foreign language to young students. Despite the imprint, typefaces and decorations suggest the printing is far more likely to have taken place in Brussels" (Schiller). Containing most of the celebrated short fairy tales, this first volume is often found alone. It comprises "Little Red Riding Hood," "The Fairy," "Blue Beard," "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood," The Master Cat, or, Puss in Boots," "Cinderilla, or, The Little Glass Slipper," and "Riquet with the Tuft." Volume 2 contained one further plate, the last fairy tale, Hop O' my Thumb, and two stories: The Discreet Princess by M.J. L'Heretier de Villandon and The Widow and her Two Daughters by Madame Le Prince de Beaumont. Has the 18th-century bookseller's label of Thomas Hookham, New Bond Street, pasted to the front pastedown, and the later ink stamp of "Fürstlich-Starhemberg'sche Familien Bibliothek, Schloss Eferding," the Fürstlich-Starhemberg's family library at Eferding Castle in Austria. The library was partly sold at auction in 1956. The head of the family, Prince Ernst Rüdiger Camillo von Starhemberg, had been a leader of the Heimwehr and Fatherland Front governments in Austria trying to hold off the Nazis and was forced to flee with his Jewish actress wife Nora Gregor after the Anschluss.

Histoires du Temps Passé, ou, Les Contes de la Mere L'Oye: Avec Des Moralités (The Histories of Passed Times, or the Tales of Mother Goose. With Morals

Charles Perrault

B. Le Francq

London (maybe Brussels), 1785

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Duodecimo. Comtemporary mottled sheep, red morocco spine label lettered gilt, board edges tooled in gilt. Lacks the English title page. French title page printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece and 7 numbered plates all captioned in French. Numerous typographical head- and tailpieces. Light wear to extremities, front joint starting, very occasional faint stains. Short closed tear to fore margin of pg. 123-124. Very good. First volume only, complete in itself, of this early bilingual edition of Perrault's tales, with the French and English texts on facing pages, which "probably served as exercises in teaching foreign language to young students. Despite the imprint, typefaces and decorations suggest the printing is far more likely to have taken place in Brussels" (Schiller). Containing most of the celebrated short fairy tales, this first volume is often found alone. It comprises "Little Red Riding Hood," "The Fairy," "Blue Beard," "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood," The Master Cat, or, Puss in Boots," "Cinderilla, or, The Little Glass Slipper," and "Riquet with the Tuft." Volume 2 contained one further plate, the last fairy tale, Hop O' my Thumb, and two stories: The Discreet Princess by M.J. L'Heretier de Villandon and The Widow and her Two Daughters by Madame Le Prince de Beaumont. Has the 18th-century bookseller's label of Thomas Hookham, New Bond Street, pasted to the front pastedown, and the later ink stamp of "Fürstlich-Starhemberg'sche Familien Bibliothek, Schloss Eferding," the Fürstlich-Starhemberg's family library at Eferding Castle in Austria. The library was partly sold at auction in 1956. The head of the family, Prince Ernst Rüdiger Camillo von Starhemberg, had been a leader of the Heimwehr and Fatherland Front governments in Austria trying to hold off the Nazis and was forced to flee with his Jewish actress wife Nora Gregor after the Anschluss.
Octavo, with large hand-colored woodcuts and the text in verse. Very good. There is an indication that this issue was bound in green pictorial wraps, but this copy was bound without them. While it appears complete, it is classified as disbound. It is lightly toned with a few stray pencil marks and string binding. Early ownership name in pencil along the top of page 1, a very good copy. Scarce. No copies found at auction nor in the standard references; one possible match in the OCLC.

History of Little Red Riding Hood

Anonymous

likely Sprague

likely Albany, 1850

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Octavo, with large hand-colored woodcuts and the text in verse. Very good. There is an indication that this issue was bound in green pictorial wraps, but this copy was bound without them. While it appears complete, it is classified as disbound. It is lightly toned with a few stray pencil marks and string binding. Early ownership name in pencil along the top of page 1, a very good copy. Scarce. No copies found at auction nor in the standard references; one possible match in the OCLC.
55 pp. 16.5x12.5 cm (6¼x5"), printed french wrappers. Light wear and soiling to wrappers, outer wrapper detached from spine strip; binding slightly shaken; very good internally. A series of tongue-in-cheek fairy tales satirizing aspects of the early Hollywood film industry. OCLC locates copies held in 3 institutions; University of Pennsylvania, California State University Fullerton and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

Hollywood Fairy Tales

Conrad Seiler

Hollywood Fairy Tales Press

Hollywood, 1931

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55 pp. 16.5x12.5 cm (6¼x5"), printed french wrappers. Light wear and soiling to wrappers, outer wrapper detached from spine strip; binding slightly shaken; very good internally. A series of tongue-in-cheek fairy tales satirizing aspects of the early Hollywood film industry. OCLC locates copies held in 3 institutions; University of Pennsylvania, California State University Fullerton and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
Octavo, bright blue cloth covered boards with elaborate gilt to boards and spine. Frederick Warne patterned endpapers. Minor rubbing to spine. Ownership signature to FFEP. Illustrated throughout. Undated but binding resembles other Warne titles released around the 1880s/1890s. Overall very good. Holme Lee was the pseudonym of Harriet Parr. The daughter of a commercial traveler, Parr was born in the English city of York on 31 January 1828. She never married and worked initially as a governess before finding success as a writer with her first book, Maude Talbot, in 1854. From then until 1883, Parr produced approximately one novel a year, all published by the London firm Smith, Elder & Co., under the pen name Holme Lee. Charles Dickens, having enjoyed one of Parr’s early books, purchased three stories from her for the Christmas numbers of his weekly magazines. One of these included a hymn that would later be republished in various Protestant hymnals in Britain and the United States. Parr also wrote several volumes of fairy tales for children, plus some works of non-fiction, most of the latter under her real name.

Holme Lee's Fairy Tales

Holme Lee

Frederick Warne and Co.

London, likely 1880s/1890s

Revised edition

Octavo, bright blue cloth covered boards with elaborate gilt to boards and spine. Frederick Warne patterned endpapers. Minor rubbing to spine. Ownership signature to FFEP. Illustrated throughout. Undated but binding resembles other Warne titles released around the 1880s/1890s. Overall very good. Holme Lee was the pseudonym of Harriet Parr. The daughter of a commercial traveler, Parr was born in the English city of York on 31 January 1828. She never married and worked initially as a governess before finding success as a writer with her first book, Maude Talbot, in 1854. From then until 1883, Parr produced approximately one novel a year, all published by the London firm Smith, Elder & Co., under the pen name Holme Lee. Charles Dickens, having enjoyed one of Parr’s early books, purchased three stories from her for the Christmas numbers of his weekly magazines. One of these included a hymn that would later be republished in various Protestant hymnals in Britain and the United States. Parr also wrote several volumes of fairy tales for children, plus some works of non-fiction, most of the latter under her real name.
Quarto. Original green cloth-backed pale brown boards, titles and decoration to spine in gilt, front board elaborately decorated and titled in orange with peacock, pomegranate and fountain design in gilt, pictorial endpapers. Engraved title page, 4 plates and numerous illustrations in the text. Gilt to slightly cocked spine crisp, slight bumps to spine ends, foxing to boards, borwning to portion of front cover, inner hinges cracked but firm, very occasional spot of foxing to otherwise bright contents. A very good copy. One of 1000 copies, containing "more ornate fairy-stories than the Happy Prince collection and more directly socialist" (ODNB). This edition features notably well-defined examples of Shannon's plates, which are often found distinctly faded after they printed with a strange dust and had to be rubbed with soft flannel. Comes from the library of book dealer and co-founder of the Society for Theatre Research, Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, with his neat pencil notes on the front free endpaper verso. Sold by him to Helen Hambro, nee Boyson, an editorial assistant for the Society's Theatre Notebook, and bought from her estate.

A House of Pomegranates

Oscar Wilde, C. Ricketts & C.H. Shannon (illust)

James R. Osgood McIlvaine & Co.

London, 1891

1st edition

Quarto. Original green cloth-backed pale brown boards, titles and decoration to spine in gilt, front board elaborately decorated and titled in orange with peacock, pomegranate and fountain design in gilt, pictorial endpapers. Engraved title page, 4 plates and numerous illustrations in the text. Gilt to slightly cocked spine crisp, slight bumps to spine ends, foxing to boards, borwning to portion of front cover, inner hinges cracked but firm, very occasional spot of foxing to otherwise bright contents. A very good copy. One of 1000 copies, containing "more ornate fairy-stories than the Happy Prince collection and more directly socialist" (ODNB). This edition features notably well-defined examples of Shannon's plates, which are often found distinctly faded after they printed with a strange dust and had to be rubbed with soft flannel. Comes from the library of book dealer and co-founder of the Society for Theatre Research, Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, with his neat pencil notes on the front free endpaper verso. Sold by him to Helen Hambro, nee Boyson, an editorial assistant for the Society's Theatre Notebook, and bought from her estate.
1st Crane edition and "perhaps the best of Crane's more ambitious works. The book is a triumph in his characteristic mode of decoration, yet its designs, even the headpieces and initial letters, remain true illustrations" (Ray). Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt with elaborate frames and decorations of cranes and other animals, green endpapers, edges gilt. Wood-engraved frontispiece, title, and half-title, to further wood-engraved plates, prolific historiated initials and head- and tailpieces, after Walter Crane. A little rubbing to bright cloth, inner hinges split but sound, contents fresh. A very good copy indeed.

Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm: From the German by Lucy Crane

Brothers Grimm, Walter Crane (illust)., Lucy Crane (transl.)

Macmillan & Co.

London, 1882

1st thus

1st Crane edition and "perhaps the best of Crane's more ambitious works. The book is a triumph in his characteristic mode of decoration, yet its designs, even the headpieces and initial letters, remain true illustrations" (Ray). Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt with elaborate frames and decorations of cranes and other animals, green endpapers, edges gilt. Wood-engraved frontispiece, title, and half-title, to further wood-engraved plates, prolific historiated initials and head- and tailpieces, after Walter Crane. A little rubbing to bright cloth, inner hinges split but sound, contents fresh. A very good copy indeed.
First trade edition. Octavo; pictorial paper over whie/cream boards; plain endpapers; 10 lovely color tipped-in plates on heavy brown paper; b/w tipped-in photographs including one double-page spread; 1 color tipped-in photographic plate; some darkening of covers and some edgewear as typical of this type of fragile binding. Somewhat scarce. Scottish illustrator Jessie Marion King began studying at the Glasgow School of Art in 1892 and was made a tutor in 1899. Her work there was held in high enough esteem that when Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed a new building for the school, it was her artwork that illuminated the history in the cornerstone’s time capsule. Over her career, she wrote or decorated over 100 books and in 1902 won a gold medal at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art for her binding of L’Evangile de L’Enfance. While working in Paris after WWI, she met California artist Frank Zimmerer, who each day wore a new shirt he had batik-dyed himself. He taught the art to King, who was enraptured. In the foreword to How Cinderella Was Able to Go to the Ball, King explains that she has chosen to use the story of Cinderella to capture the reader’s attention and “awake your imagination to that point where you want to look farther into the wonderland of ‘BATIK.’” It is illustrated with drawings by King and photographs of batik fabrics and supplies. Between 1907-1924 she illustrated over 20 books for the Edinburgh publisher T.N. Foulis. Cinderella is among the last of these, published shortly after Foulis was bought by London publisher G.T. Marshall. King's distinctive style and prolific work made her internationally influential in early twentieth century book illustration, and her designs for Liberty of London's textiles were similarly widespread. While her binding designs were not as far-reaching, their connection to the Book Club of California is possibly closer. Her time in Paris overlapped with Rose Adler's Parisian studies, and considering King's prominence in European book design, it is highly unlikely Adler would not have been familiar with King's work. Adler later had a solo exhibition of design bindings in San Francisco; Belle McMurtry Young studied with her; and her work was influential upon Florence Walter.

How Cinderella Was Able to Go to the Ball (A Brochure on Batik)

Jessie M. King

G.T. Foulis

London, 1924

1st edition

First trade edition. Octavo; pictorial paper over whie/cream boards; plain endpapers; 10 lovely color tipped-in plates on heavy brown paper; b/w tipped-in photographs including one double-page spread; 1 color tipped-in photographic plate; some darkening of covers and some edgewear as typical of this type of fragile binding. Somewhat scarce. Scottish illustrator Jessie Marion King began studying at the Glasgow School of Art in 1892 and was made a tutor in 1899. Her work there was held in high enough esteem that when Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed a new building for the school, it was her artwork that illuminated the history in the cornerstone’s time capsule. Over her career, she wrote or decorated over 100 books and in 1902 won a gold medal at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art for her binding of L’Evangile de L’Enfance. While working in Paris after WWI, she met California artist Frank Zimmerer, who each day wore a new shirt he had batik-dyed himself. He taught the art to King, who was enraptured. In the foreword to How Cinderella Was Able to Go to the Ball, King explains that she has chosen to use the story of Cinderella to capture the reader’s attention and “awake your imagination to that point where you want to look farther into the wonderland of ‘BATIK.’” It is illustrated with drawings by King and photographs of batik fabrics and supplies. Between 1907-1924 she illustrated over 20 books for the Edinburgh publisher T.N. Foulis. Cinderella is among the last of these, published shortly after Foulis was bought by London publisher G.T. Marshall. King's distinctive style and prolific work made her internationally influential in early twentieth century book illustration, and her designs for Liberty of London's textiles were similarly widespread. While her binding designs were not as far-reaching, their connection to the Book Club of California is possibly closer. Her time in Paris overlapped with Rose Adler's Parisian studies, and considering King's prominence in European book design, it is highly unlikely Adler would not have been familiar with King's work. Adler later had a solo exhibition of design bindings in San Francisco; Belle McMurtry Young studied with her; and her work was influential upon Florence Walter.
Grey paper boards with dragon stamped in gilt on front cover. Title to spine in gilt. Pictorial dustjacket with bonus poster by Luis Royo on the back of the DJ. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine. Originally published in collection Dragons of Light (1980).

The Ice Dragon

George R.R. Martin, Luis Royo (illust)

Tor Teen

New York, 2014

1st thus

Grey paper boards with dragon stamped in gilt on front cover. Title to spine in gilt. Pictorial dustjacket with bonus poster by Luis Royo on the back of the DJ. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine. Originally published in collection Dragons of Light (1980).
Octavo. Brown cloth covered boards with swirl design stamped on boards, illustration pasted to front board with titles in gilt to board and spine. Some rubbing to tips, spine head and tail. Top edge gilt. Frederick Warne patterned endpapers. Illustrated throughout. Contents clean and bright, overall very good.

Icelandic Fairy Tales

Mrs. A.W. Hall; E.A. Mason (illust)

Frederick Warne and Co.

London, 1897

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Octavo. Brown cloth covered boards with swirl design stamped on boards, illustration pasted to front board with titles in gilt to board and spine. Some rubbing to tips, spine head and tail. Top edge gilt. Frederick Warne patterned endpapers. Illustrated throughout. Contents clean and bright, overall very good.
Fine octavo with pictorial boards and original pictorial DJ with titles in gilt to spine and cover. Originally published in individual chapters online during COVID-19, during which illustrations were chosen from Twitter submissions by children. Illustrated throughout with chosen illustrations from participating children from around the globe.

The Ickabog

J.K. Rowling

Scholastic, Inc.

New York, 2020

1st edition, 1st printing

Fine octavo with pictorial boards and original pictorial DJ with titles in gilt to spine and cover. Originally published in individual chapters online during COVID-19, during which illustrations were chosen from Twitter submissions by children. Illustrated throughout with chosen illustrations from participating children from around the globe.
Quarto. Twenty-four mounted color plates with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's quarter gray cloth over pictorial boards with spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Miniscule rubbing to gray cloth spine and corners. Still one of the best examples of this beautifully illustrated book that we have seen, totally free of the usual foxing. This is Quiller-Couch's third collection, which includes a version of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses."

In Powder and Crinoline: Old Fairy Tales Retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Kay Nielsen (illust)

Hodder & Stoughton

London, 1913

1st trade edition

Quarto. Twenty-four mounted color plates with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's quarter gray cloth over pictorial boards with spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Miniscule rubbing to gray cloth spine and corners. Still one of the best examples of this beautifully illustrated book that we have seen, totally free of the usual foxing. This is Quiller-Couch's third collection, which includes a version of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses."
Octavo, original cloth boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Signed by all three contributors on the half-title. “Once upon a time… James Lapine.” “For John- Best wishes from Stephen Sondheim.” “Wishing you safe travels on your journey through the woods- Hudson Talbott.” Fine in the original, near-fine DJ.

Into the Woods

Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine; Hudson Talbott (illust)

Crown Publishers

New York, 1989

1st edition, 1st printing

Octavo, original cloth boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Signed by all three contributors on the half-title. “Once upon a time… James Lapine.” “For John- Best wishes from Stephen Sondheim.” “Wishing you safe travels on your journey through the woods- Hudson Talbott.” Fine in the original, near-fine DJ.
Former library copy. A collection of Irish folktales. Octavo, blue cloth-covered boards with titles in gilt to spine. Rubbing to head and tail, with some fraying at head. Original DJ with some chipping and staining. Evidence of a removed bookplate (likely from the library). Pages clean. A VG copy.

Irish Folk Tales

Jeremiah Curtin (collected by), Séamus O Duilearga (edited by)

Talbot Press Limited

Dublin, 1964

1st edition

Former library copy. A collection of Irish folktales. Octavo, blue cloth-covered boards with titles in gilt to spine. Rubbing to head and tail, with some fraying at head. Original DJ with some chipping and staining. Evidence of a removed bookplate (likely from the library). Pages clean. A VG copy.
Very Good+. Facsimile printing. Hardcover. 14 cm. Sound and square binding in fabric-covered boards which have elaborate designs in gilt and colorful stick drawings of fairies in a ring around the title. Queen Mary's cypher stamped to front and back. Gilt edges. Minor wear to the corners. Original plastic protector has some shelf rubbing. Inside pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. Based on the original work by Cyril Kenneth Bird (Fougasse), this is a reproduction of one of the 200 miniature books that were created especially for the Library of Queen Mary's Dolls' House at Windsor Castle in 1922.

J. Smith, A Fairy Story

Cyril Kenneth Bird (Fougasse)

Walker Books

London, 2012

1st thus

Very Good+. Facsimile printing. Hardcover. 14 cm. Sound and square binding in fabric-covered boards which have elaborate designs in gilt and colorful stick drawings of fairies in a ring around the title. Queen Mary's cypher stamped to front and back. Gilt edges. Minor wear to the corners. Original plastic protector has some shelf rubbing. Inside pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. Based on the original work by Cyril Kenneth Bird (Fougasse), this is a reproduction of one of the 200 miniature books that were created especially for the Library of Queen Mary's Dolls' House at Windsor Castle in 1922.
Slim octavo. Brown cloth covered boards with titles in gilt to spine. Pictorial DJ that notes this is a signed limited edition on front inside flap. Copy 399 of 2000 signed by author on pictorial FFEP. A Latinx retelling of Robin Hood that adds in a little magic.

Jack in the Green

Charles De Lint, Charles Vess (illust)

Subterranean Press

Burton MI, 2014

Limited edition

Slim octavo. Brown cloth covered boards with titles in gilt to spine. Pictorial DJ that notes this is a signed limited edition on front inside flap. Copy 399 of 2000 signed by author on pictorial FFEP. A Latinx retelling of Robin Hood that adds in a little magic.
Sextodecimo. Hand-printed Japanese woodblock illustrations and text throughout on crepe paper, executed by Kobunsha/Hasegawa artists. Original Fukuro-toji binding (pouch binding), sewn with light blue-colored silk ties through two punch holes (Yamato toji). Minor wear, very small stain, and crease rub to front cover, still a very good copy. Later printing, crepe paper issue of No. 1 in the famed series, by the renowned publishers of Japanese color woodblock books, Takejiro Hasegawa, listing to 2nd Series, No. 3 on rear leaf. After 1891, this beautifully printed series was published under the Hasegawa impriint on both plain and crepe paper. This tale tells the story of a young boy found in a peach who travels to the ghost island to battle demons, with the aid of his friends, a dog, a monkey, and a pheasant. See: Sharf; Takejiro Hasegawa: Meiji Japan's preeminent publisher of wood-block illustrated crepe=paper books. One of the most famous and oldest wonder tales in Japan, dating possibly to 1392, but earliest full version we have is from 1723. Was included in Japanese textbooks, so almost everyone in the country read it, and in the 40s it was used as war propoganda with the demons the boy fights being the Allies.

Japanese Fairy Tale Series #1: Momotaro

Rev. David Thomson (transl)

T. Hasegawa

Tokyo, circa 1900

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Sextodecimo. Hand-printed Japanese woodblock illustrations and text throughout on crepe paper, executed by Kobunsha/Hasegawa artists. Original Fukuro-toji binding (pouch binding), sewn with light blue-colored silk ties through two punch holes (Yamato toji). Minor wear, very small stain, and crease rub to front cover, still a very good copy. Later printing, crepe paper issue of No. 1 in the famed series, by the renowned publishers of Japanese color woodblock books, Takejiro Hasegawa, listing to 2nd Series, No. 3 on rear leaf. After 1891, this beautifully printed series was published under the Hasegawa impriint on both plain and crepe paper. This tale tells the story of a young boy found in a peach who travels to the ghost island to battle demons, with the aid of his friends, a dog, a monkey, and a pheasant. See: Sharf; Takejiro Hasegawa: Meiji Japan's preeminent publisher of wood-block illustrated crepe=paper books. One of the most famous and oldest wonder tales in Japan, dating possibly to 1392, but earliest full version we have is from 1723. Was included in Japanese textbooks, so almost everyone in the country read it, and in the 40s it was used as war propoganda with the demons the boy fights being the Allies.
Publisher's cloth-like wrappers, small format printed on crepe paper with color woodblock illustrations on covers and throughout, white string binding. Very good, with wear and fraying to spine, small chip to foot of spine, else bright and clean. Overall an attractive copy of this early book in the series. Japanese Fairy Tale Series was published by Hasegawa Takejiro between 1885 and 1902. The earliest books appear under the Konbusha imprint with a 10 Hiroshicho address, includingthe first 6 books of the colophon printed on the inner front of the wrapper. Hasegawa featured Japanese subjects in European languages, combining the talents of well-known Japanese artists and celebrated foreign translators. The Fairy Tales were printed on traditional crepe papeer, or chirimen-bon, with color woodblock illustrations. The Man Who Made the Dead Trees Blossom, or Hanasaki Jiji, was first publihsed in 1885. It tells the story of a childless couple and their dog, who is killed by a spiteful neighbor. Bad luck befalls the neighbor, and when the couple buries the dog under a tree, their rice turns into gold and the cherry trees begin to blossom. The story was featured in Andrew Lang's Violet Fairy Book (1901) under the title "The Envious Neighbor" and in Tales of Old Japan (1871) by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford.

Japanese Fairy Tale Series #4: The Old Man Who Made the Dead Trees Blossom

Kobayashi Eeitaku (illust), David Thompson (transl)

T. Hasegawa

Tokyo, 1885

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Publisher's cloth-like wrappers, small format printed on crepe paper with color woodblock illustrations on covers and throughout, white string binding. Very good, with wear and fraying to spine, small chip to foot of spine, else bright and clean. Overall an attractive copy of this early book in the series. Japanese Fairy Tale Series was published by Hasegawa Takejiro between 1885 and 1902. The earliest books appear under the Konbusha imprint with a 10 Hiroshicho address, includingthe first 6 books of the colophon printed on the inner front of the wrapper. Hasegawa featured Japanese subjects in European languages, combining the talents of well-known Japanese artists and celebrated foreign translators. The Fairy Tales were printed on traditional crepe papeer, or chirimen-bon, with color woodblock illustrations. The Man Who Made the Dead Trees Blossom, or Hanasaki Jiji, was first publihsed in 1885. It tells the story of a childless couple and their dog, who is killed by a spiteful neighbor. Bad luck befalls the neighbor, and when the couple buries the dog under a tree, their rice turns into gold and the cherry trees begin to blossom. The story was featured in Andrew Lang's Violet Fairy Book (1901) under the title "The Envious Neighbor" and in Tales of Old Japan (1871) by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford.
Later edition. Publisher's cloth-like wrappers, small format printed on crepee paper with color woodblock illustrations on covers and throughout, white string binding, front cover features the titular eight-headed dragon. Very good, two light stains to front coveer, two darker stains to rear cover, small stain to foreedge, front cover with bottom corner bent, intact spine. Overall, a well-preserved copy of an early book in the series. The Serpent with eight Heads, or Yamata no orichi, was first published in 1886. It was translated by B.H. Chamberlain, a British-born professor of Japanese at Tokyo Imperial University. He wrote many travel and language handbooks, including Things Japanese (1890), and he translated Kojiki, an early work of Japanese myths, plus many haiku poems.

Japanese Fairy Tale Series #9: The Serpent With Eight Heads

Kobayashi Eeitaku (illust), Basil Hall Chambeerlain (transl)

T. Hasegawa

Tokyo, 1886

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Later edition. Publisher's cloth-like wrappers, small format printed on crepee paper with color woodblock illustrations on covers and throughout, white string binding, front cover features the titular eight-headed dragon. Very good, two light stains to front coveer, two darker stains to rear cover, small stain to foreedge, front cover with bottom corner bent, intact spine. Overall, a well-preserved copy of an early book in the series. The Serpent with eight Heads, or Yamata no orichi, was first published in 1886. It was translated by B.H. Chamberlain, a British-born professor of Japanese at Tokyo Imperial University. He wrote many travel and language handbooks, including Things Japanese (1890), and he translated Kojiki, an early work of Japanese myths, plus many haiku poems.
Hand-made book of silk-stitched, crepes wraps. Some foxing and warping to pages, otherwise very good with a secure binding. A Japanese Snow White story in which a mirror serves as a bond between a girl and her late mother.

Japanese Fairy Tale Series #10: The Matsuyama Mirror

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Y. Nishinomiya

Tokyo, 1937

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Hand-made book of silk-stitched, crepes wraps. Some foxing and warping to pages, otherwise very good with a secure binding. A Japanese Snow White story in which a mirror serves as a bond between a girl and her late mother.
Publisher's cloth-like wrappers, large format, printed on crepee paper with color woodblock illustrations on covers and throughout, white string binding, front cover feeatures a woman and two men on straw mats. Very good, with wear and fraying to spine, some closed tears to spine, two small stains to front coveer, else bright and cleaen. An attractive copy. Chin Chin Kobakama or Chiichii Kobakama was first published in 1903. It tells the story of a warrior and his wife. When the husband is often away from home, his wife is visited by hundreds of tiny meen who keeep her up at night by singing and dancing. When the warrior returns home, he slays the tiny men with his sword and they becomee toothpicks that fall into the woven straw mats on the floor. While best-known for his stories and books about Japan, Lafcadio Hearn also translated books from French.

Japanese Fairy Tale Series #25: Chin Chin Kobakama

Lafcadio Hearn (trans)

T. Hasegawa

Tokya, 1903

1st edition, 1st printing

Publisher's cloth-like wrappers, large format, printed on crepee paper with color woodblock illustrations on covers and throughout, white string binding, front cover feeatures a woman and two men on straw mats. Very good, with wear and fraying to spine, some closed tears to spine, two small stains to front coveer, else bright and cleaen. An attractive copy. Chin Chin Kobakama or Chiichii Kobakama was first published in 1903. It tells the story of a warrior and his wife. When the husband is often away from home, his wife is visited by hundreds of tiny meen who keeep her up at night by singing and dancing. When the warrior returns home, he slays the tiny men with his sword and they becomee toothpicks that fall into the woven straw mats on the floor. While best-known for his stories and books about Japan, Lafcadio Hearn also translated books from French.
Octavo, original green cloth and pictorial boards. Five full page illustrations by E. Strellett and J. Marks. Published under the pseudonym “Aunt Naomi.” Slight rubbing to tips and top of spine, overall a very good copy.

Jewish Fairy Tales and Fables

Gertrude Landa aka Aunt Naomi

Bloch Publishing Co.

New York, 1908

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Octavo, original green cloth and pictorial boards. Five full page illustrations by E. Strellett and J. Marks. Published under the pseudonym “Aunt Naomi.” Slight rubbing to tips and top of spine, overall a very good copy.
Octavo, original red cloth boards, contemporary inscription, 22 full page illustrations. Published under the pseudonym “Aunt Naomi.” Fine with very good DJ.

Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends

Gertrude Landa aka Aunt Naomi

Bloch Publishing Co.

New York, 1943

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Octavo, original red cloth boards, contemporary inscription, 22 full page illustrations. Published under the pseudonym “Aunt Naomi.” Fine with very good DJ.
Octavo, Brown cloth covered boards, cypher in gilt to front board and titles in gilt to spine. Original publisher's DJ. Both Fine, and signed by Sendak on the title page. Revised edition of this collection of tales selected by Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak.

The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm

Brothers Grimm, Lore Segal and Randall Jarrell (transl.), Maurice Sendak (illust)

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

New York, 1973

1st thus (revised)

Octavo, Brown cloth covered boards, cypher in gilt to front board and titles in gilt to spine. Original publisher's DJ. Both Fine, and signed by Sendak on the title page. Revised edition of this collection of tales selected by Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak.
Slim octavo. Paperback, pictorial cover with title stylized so KIN S FUR is in red. Throughout, the poems have bolded words that form a different meaning from the fuller poem. A multilayered retelling of Donkeyskin, a Cinderella variant.

Kin S Fur (All Kinds of Fur): Erasure Poems & New Translation of a Tale from the Brothers Grimm

Brothers Grimm, Margaret Yocom

Deerbrook Editions

Cumberland ME, 2018

1st edition

Slim octavo. Paperback, pictorial cover with title stylized so KIN S FUR is in red. Throughout, the poems have bolded words that form a different meaning from the fuller poem. A multilayered retelling of Donkeyskin, a Cinderella variant.
Rare WWII-era anti-Nazi illustrated children's book about a forest gnome with subtly subversive elements, likely printed in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. Kriebeltje the forest gnome encounters a self-pitying Hitler-headed caterpillar in this strikingly illustrated Dutch children's book. Potentially a product of the underground press active during the occupation of the Netherlands, the book offers no publication information and attributes the illustrations only to "CLIA." The Hitler-headed caterpillar is eventually eaten by an ant. A wonderful document of wartime resistance. Original saddle-stapled pictorial wraps. Illustrated in color. 8 pages. Light scattered foxing and touches of soil to wraps; moderate shelfwear and light creasing. Very good plus.

Kriebeltje de Boskabouter

Clia (illust)

unknown

The Netherlands, circa 1943

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Rare WWII-era anti-Nazi illustrated children's book about a forest gnome with subtly subversive elements, likely printed in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. Kriebeltje the forest gnome encounters a self-pitying Hitler-headed caterpillar in this strikingly illustrated Dutch children's book. Potentially a product of the underground press active during the occupation of the Netherlands, the book offers no publication information and attributes the illustrations only to "CLIA." The Hitler-headed caterpillar is eventually eaten by an ant. A wonderful document of wartime resistance. Original saddle-stapled pictorial wraps. Illustrated in color. 8 pages. Light scattered foxing and touches of soil to wraps; moderate shelfwear and light creasing. Very good plus.

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