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Fairy Tales

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Slim octavo. Blue paper covered boards, titles in red gilt to spine. Original pictorial DJ. Fine. A collection that "splinters" original tales (as well as Arthur Rackham illustrations throughout) to tell them in more "empowering" ways. Dedicated to "everyone who deserves a better story than the one they have."

A Spindle Splintered

Alix E. Harrow, Arthur Rackham (illust)
Tom Doherty Associates
New York, 2021
1st edition, 1st printing
Slim octavo. Blue paper covered boards, titles in red gilt to spine. Original pictorial DJ. Fine. A collection that "splinters" original tales (as well as Arthur Rackham illustrations throughout) to tell them in more "empowering" ways. Dedicated to "everyone who deserves a better story than the one they have."
Quarto. Mustard yellow and white covered boards with titles in gilt to spine. Fine in a fine DJ.

A Treachery of Swans

A.B. Poranek
Margaret K. McElderry Books
New York, 2025
1st edition, 1st printing
Quarto. Mustard yellow and white covered boards with titles in gilt to spine. Fine in a fine DJ.
Folio, pictorial laminated boards with matching DJ. Gorgeous pictorial endpapers that match the DJ flaps and interior illustraions. Signed by the author on the title page. Both fine.

Rapunzel

Grimm Brothers, Paul O. Zelinsky (retold and illust.)
Dutton Children's Books
New York, 1997
1st edition, 1st printing
Folio, pictorial laminated boards with matching DJ. Gorgeous pictorial endpapers that match the DJ flaps and interior illustraions. Signed by the author on the title page. Both fine.
An erotic retelling of Sleeping Beauty, part of a series. Paperback with pictorial wrappers, scratches to wrappers and spine bent. Only good condition.

Ravish: The Awakening of Sleeping Beauty

Cathy Yardley
Avon Red
New York, 2013
Reissued paperback
An erotic retelling of Sleeping Beauty, part of a series. Paperback with pictorial wrappers, scratches to wrappers and spine bent. Only good condition.
Slim folio, pictorial plastic boards with matching pictorial DJ. Slight bumping to corners and tail, some small nicks to inside flap of DJ and fading to DJ and FFEP, otherwise fine. A beloved book from my childhood.

Rose Red & Snow White

Brothers Grimm; Ruth Sanderson (retold and illust. by)
Little, Brown & Co.
Boston, 1997
1st edition, 1st printing
Slim folio, pictorial plastic boards with matching pictorial DJ. Slight bumping to corners and tail, some small nicks to inside flap of DJ and fading to DJ and FFEP, otherwise fine. A beloved book from my childhood.
Octavo. Mild wear to binding, with some small, faint spots of soiling to cloth, glue to very tip of rear lower corner, and very gentle bumping to extremities. Previous owner's ownership label to front pastedown. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very good. Hardcover. This alluring 1925 book collects four tales by Mimei Ogawa (1882-1961), known today as the Hans Christian Andersen of Japan as well as the father of modern children's literature in Japan, publishing more than 1,200 fairy tales in his lifetime. His life and work serves as the focus of the Mimei Ogawa Literature Museum in Joetsu. His social and political beliefs as a humanist, anarchist, and socialist informed his writing as he penned literary and complex stories for children, departing from the simple morality tales for children popular in the Taisho Era. This 1925 San Francisco printing is the first English language edition of this charming collection of four stories by Ogawa, including the title story, "Rose and Witch," which was first published in 1910 in Japan as well as three other stories from later in his career, each introduced by a supremely lovely color illustration by Seison N. Yoshioka.

Rose and Witch & Other Stories

Mimei Ogawa; Myrtle B. McKenney (transl); Seison N. Yoshioka (illust)
Overland Publishing Company
San Francisco, 1925
1st edition
Octavo. Mild wear to binding, with some small, faint spots of soiling to cloth, glue to very tip of rear lower corner, and very gentle bumping to extremities. Previous owner's ownership label to front pastedown. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very good. Hardcover. This alluring 1925 book collects four tales by Mimei Ogawa (1882-1961), known today as the Hans Christian Andersen of Japan as well as the father of modern children's literature in Japan, publishing more than 1,200 fairy tales in his lifetime. His life and work serves as the focus of the Mimei Ogawa Literature Museum in Joetsu. His social and political beliefs as a humanist, anarchist, and socialist informed his writing as he penned literary and complex stories for children, departing from the simple morality tales for children popular in the Taisho Era. This 1925 San Francisco printing is the first English language edition of this charming collection of four stories by Ogawa, including the title story, "Rose and Witch," which was first published in 1910 in Japan as well as three other stories from later in his career, each introduced by a supremely lovely color illustration by Seison N. Yoshioka.
Slim folio. Laminated pictorial boards with matching pictorial DJ, both fine. Quarter cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Gorgeous pictorial endpapers that match interior illustrations.

Rumpelstiltskin

Brothers Grimm; Paul O. Zelinsky (retold & illust by)
E.P. Dutton
New York, 1986
1st edition, 1st printing
Slim folio. Laminated pictorial boards with matching pictorial DJ, both fine. Quarter cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Gorgeous pictorial endpapers that match interior illustrations.
Translated from the collections of Aleksandr Afanasyev. Second edition, though cover, spine, and title page still bear the Pantheon Books logo and name from first edition of 1945. Paperback, pictorial covers.

Russian Fairy Tales

Norbert Guterman (transl); Alexander Alexeieff (illust)
Random House
New York, 1973
2nd edition
Translated from the collections of Aleksandr Afanasyev. Second edition, though cover, spine, and title page still bear the Pantheon Books logo and name from first edition of 1945. Paperback, pictorial covers.
Translated from the Russian with introduction and notes by Leonard Magnus. Octavo. Green cloth decorated and titled in pink, blue, and white. Slight rubbing to extremities and spine ends. A very good copy.

Russian Folk-Tales

Leonard A. Magnus (transl)
Kegan Paul, Trench, Turner & Co.
London, 1915
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Translated from the Russian with introduction and notes by Leonard Magnus. Octavo. Green cloth decorated and titled in pink, blue, and white. Slight rubbing to extremities and spine ends. A very good copy.
Original boards with black illustrated cloth, twelve tipped-in color plates and eight pages of publisher’s advertising. Some shelf wear with spine creases and repairs; a very good copy.

Russian Wonder Tales

Post Wheeler (transl, intro); Ivan Bilibin (illust)
Adam and Charles Black
London, 1912
1st edition, 1st printing
Original boards with black illustrated cloth, twelve tipped-in color plates and eight pages of publisher’s advertising. Some shelf wear with spine creases and repairs; a very good copy.
Quarto. Finely bound in 1906 in full vellum, binder's monogram and date to rear turn-in, ornate leaf, vine, and blossom pattern featuring Tudor roses on spine and both covers, each rose hand coloured in red, front cover lettered in gilt with central rose roundel, edges gilt, turn-ins ruled in gilt, white cloth ties, 3 of the 4 retained. Text printed within illustrated woodcut frames throughout. Bookplate of one Marguerite Gautier on FFEP. Boards sprung and faintly soiled, color to roses faded, remaining brightest on rear board, light foxing to contents, a very good copy. First edition of this "masterpiece" of the Birmingham arts and crafts movement, in a stunning vellum binding by noted binder Frank Garrett. This is a beautiful example of the work of the Birmingham Group, an informal collective of painters and craftsmen. The Birmingham Post reviewed the work as "a refined little book which accomplishes much." Amy Mark was "a pupil of the Birmingham School of Art and her pathetic allegory found a perfect echo in Bernard Sleigh's wood engravings." She had previously published a collection of fairy poems, New Pictures in Old Frames (1894), illustrated by Gertrude M. bradley, and exhibited an ebroidered hanging entitled "The Enchanted Sea" at the sixth Arts & Crafts Exhibition in 1899. The illustrator Bernard Sleigh is now best known for his work, An Ancient mappe of Fairyland published in 1920. The map depicted a sprawling imaginary landscape populated by fabled characters. Sleigh likewise attended the Birmingham School of Art and was a student, and later close friend, of Arthur Gaskin who had worked with Edward Burne-Jones. He was a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists between 1923 and 1928 and produced numerous engravings for contemporary private presses. The work was published ina. trade issue of foolscap quarto bound in green cloth, and a limited issue of 50 copies of crown quarto in a white vellum binding. The binder of this copy, Frank Garrett, was associated with the Birmingham Municipal School of Art, and regularly exhibited at arts and crafts exhibitions of the period. Garrett learned the craft from Douglas Cockerell, who in turn learned from T. J. Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Press bindery, and both men's influence can be seen in the intricate floral design.

Sea King's Daughter and Other Poems

Amy Mark, Bernard Sleigh (decorated y designs), Louisa A. Talbot (engraved)
Press of the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft Limited for G. Napier & Company
Birmingham, 1895
1st edition
Quarto. Finely bound in 1906 in full vellum, binder's monogram and date to rear turn-in, ornate leaf, vine, and blossom pattern featuring Tudor roses on spine and both covers, each rose hand coloured in red, front cover lettered in gilt with central rose roundel, edges gilt, turn-ins ruled in gilt, white cloth ties, 3 of the 4 retained. Text printed within illustrated woodcut frames throughout. Bookplate of one Marguerite Gautier on FFEP. Boards sprung and faintly soiled, color to roses faded, remaining brightest on rear board, light foxing to contents, a very good copy. First edition of this "masterpiece" of the Birmingham arts and crafts movement, in a stunning vellum binding by noted binder Frank Garrett. This is a beautiful example of the work of the Birmingham Group, an informal collective of painters and craftsmen. The Birmingham Post reviewed the work as "a refined little book which accomplishes much." Amy Mark was "a pupil of the Birmingham School of Art and her pathetic allegory found a perfect echo in Bernard Sleigh's wood engravings." She had previously published a collection of fairy poems, New Pictures in Old Frames (1894), illustrated by Gertrude M. bradley, and exhibited an ebroidered hanging entitled "The Enchanted Sea" at the sixth Arts & Crafts Exhibition in 1899. The illustrator Bernard Sleigh is now best known for his work, An Ancient mappe of Fairyland published in 1920. The map depicted a sprawling imaginary landscape populated by fabled characters. Sleigh likewise attended the Birmingham School of Art and was a student, and later close friend, of Arthur Gaskin who had worked with Edward Burne-Jones. He was a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists between 1923 and 1928 and produced numerous engravings for contemporary private presses. The work was published ina. trade issue of foolscap quarto bound in green cloth, and a limited issue of 50 copies of crown quarto in a white vellum binding. The binder of this copy, Frank Garrett, was associated with the Birmingham Municipal School of Art, and regularly exhibited at arts and crafts exhibitions of the period. Garrett learned the craft from Douglas Cockerell, who in turn learned from T. J. Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Press bindery, and both men's influence can be seen in the intricate floral design.
Quarto. Green cloth decoratively stamped in blind, with spine stamped in gold and blind. Color pictorial endpapers; color illustrations on every page. Light sunning to upper edge of boards, spine ends a tad rubbed, endpapers lightly toned, else a clean, bright copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (no medal affixed, some chipping and wear to folds and edges). A Russian fairy tale about seven brothers who work together to find a wife for the King. Artzybasheff's light and airy drawings, in gorgeous shades of red, green, and gold, capture the mannered life of a royal court while highlighting the humor and majesty of this wonderful tale. This was one of two titles (the other was by Robert Lawson) to be awarded the first Caldecott Honor in 1938, the first year the medal was awarded.

Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale

Boris Artzybasheff
Viking Press
New York, 1937
1st edition
Quarto. Green cloth decoratively stamped in blind, with spine stamped in gold and blind. Color pictorial endpapers; color illustrations on every page. Light sunning to upper edge of boards, spine ends a tad rubbed, endpapers lightly toned, else a clean, bright copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (no medal affixed, some chipping and wear to folds and edges). A Russian fairy tale about seven brothers who work together to find a wife for the King. Artzybasheff's light and airy drawings, in gorgeous shades of red, green, and gold, capture the mannered life of a royal court while highlighting the humor and majesty of this wonderful tale. This was one of two titles (the other was by Robert Lawson) to be awarded the first Caldecott Honor in 1938, the first year the medal was awarded.
Fine in glossy pictorial boards as issued. Basis for the film series featuring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murpy, and Cameron Diaz. Shrek was the first winner of the Best Animated Feature Oscar.

Shrek!

William Steig
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
New York, 1990
1st edition
Fine in glossy pictorial boards as issued. Basis for the film series featuring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murpy, and Cameron Diaz. Shrek was the first winner of the Best Animated Feature Oscar.
Quarto, tan cloth with blue floral decoration to background and gilt titles and gilt embossed design of a ship in full sail passing before a Persian Palace. Decorative endpapers. Twenty three color plates mounted in a decorative border and protected by captioned tissue guard. Contemporary ownership signature to half-title. Slight rubbing to corners, otherwise bright and fine.

Sinbad the Sailor & Other Stories From the Arabian Nights

Edmund Dulac (illust)
Hodder & Stoughton
London, 1914
1st edition, 1st printing
Quarto, tan cloth with blue floral decoration to background and gilt titles and gilt embossed design of a ship in full sail passing before a Persian Palace. Decorative endpapers. Twenty three color plates mounted in a decorative border and protected by captioned tissue guard. Contemporary ownership signature to half-title. Slight rubbing to corners, otherwise bright and fine.
Octavo. Yellow and navy blue paper covered boards, title in gilt to spine. Pictorial DJ. Fine.

Skin of the Sea

Natasha Bowen
Random House
New York, 2021
1st edition, 1st printing
Octavo. Yellow and navy blue paper covered boards, title in gilt to spine. Pictorial DJ. Fine.
Octavo. Original quarter blue cloth over pictorial paper-covered boars. Concertina-folded pop-ups, the colors vibrant, with several moving parts throughout. Pictorial design to the covers, with eight color pop-ups. A very good copy indeed, all pop-ups and moving parts in good working order, with just one small repair. A beautiful copy of this popular fairy tale. Vojtêch Kubašta, regarded as one of the pre-eminent creators of children's pop-up books, artfully combined his artistic and architectural talents in the creation of spatial books such as this.

Sleeping Beauty

Vojtech Kubasta
Bancroft & Co.
Artia Prague, 1961
1st edition
Octavo. Original quarter blue cloth over pictorial paper-covered boars. Concertina-folded pop-ups, the colors vibrant, with several moving parts throughout. Pictorial design to the covers, with eight color pop-ups. A very good copy indeed, all pop-ups and moving parts in good working order, with just one small repair. A beautiful copy of this popular fairy tale. Vojtêch Kubašta, regarded as one of the pre-eminent creators of children's pop-up books, artfully combined his artistic and architectural talents in the creation of spatial books such as this.
Saddle-stapled in blue card wraps, with green stock inside. Illustrated. Oblong octavo. Some sunning at the extremities of the wrappers, else near fine. Lesbian retelling of Sleeping Beauty issued by a short-lived woman’s printing collective in Atlanta. Authored by former Weather Underground member Vicki Gabriner. In this illustrated fairy tale, the protagonist Stephen finds her lesbian happily ever after in “The Land” with Lilith, a woman who awakens her from a 99-year-long slumber—the result of a lesbian witch’s curse—with a kiss.

Sleeping Beauty: A Lesbian Fairy Tale

Vicki Gabriner, drawings by Gail, calligraphy by Ginny
Sojourner Truth Press
Atlanta, 1971
1st edition
Saddle-stapled in blue card wraps, with green stock inside. Illustrated. Oblong octavo. Some sunning at the extremities of the wrappers, else near fine.

Lesbian retelling of Sleeping Beauty issued by a short-lived woman’s printing collective in Atlanta. Authored by former Weather Underground member Vicki Gabriner.

In this illustrated fairy tale, the protagonist Stephen finds her lesbian happily ever after in “The Land” with Lilith, a woman who awakens her from a 99-year-long slumber—the result of a lesbian witch’s curse—with a kiss.
Folio. Patterned paper covered boards with cloth and titles in gilt to spine. Some bend to tail of spine and small tears to original pictorial and price-clipped DJ. Pictorial endpapers. Contains three stories from Grimm: Snow White, Rose-White and Rose-Red, and The Traveling Musicians of Bremen.

Snow White and Other Stories From Grimm

Brothers Grimm; Jeanne Cappe (retold by); J.L. Huens (illust)
Grosset & Dunlap
New York, 1957
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Folio. Patterned paper covered boards with cloth and titles in gilt to spine. Some bend to tail of spine and small tears to original pictorial and price-clipped DJ. Pictorial endpapers. Contains three stories from Grimm: Snow White, Rose-White and Rose-Red, and The Traveling Musicians of Bremen.
Oblong octavo. Illustrations in black & white and color, attributed to Gustaf Tenggren, minor splitting to front endpapers at hinge; publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial patterned boards. A very good copy with the original pictorial DJ.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Walt Disney; Gustaf Tenggren (likely illustrator)
Grosset & Dunlap
New York, 1938
1st thus
Oblong octavo. Illustrations in black & white and color, attributed to Gustaf Tenggren, minor splitting to front endpapers at hinge; publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial patterned boards. A very good copy with the original pictorial DJ.
Side-stapled green, marbled wrappers (11 ¼” x 8 ¾”) with typed label to the front wrapper, 22 leaves mimeographed from typescript on rectos only. Some edgewear, else Fine. Not found in OCLC. A play by the little known Jewish actor, playwright, and Communist Party member [Morris] Muni Diamond, in which Snow White learns about union organizing from the seven dwarfs who are all members of Local 333 Dwarf Miners Union. She returns to the castle and organizes the butcher, baker and candlestick maker into a union, and along with the Dwarf Miners Union, goes on strike against the Queen until she agrees to their demands of more money and better working conditions. Morris Muni Diamond was born in NYC in 1906 to a Jewish family. He tried to make his way in show business, but with little success as an actor, radio writer, or playwright. In 1949 he attempted suicide and was confined to Camarillo State Hospital where he escaped after seven years. He wrote stories, poems and plays and became a street puppeteer in Los Angeles and later San Francisco where he died in 1996.

Snow White and the Union Dwarfs

Muni Diamond
Educational Department Junior Section, International Workers Order
New York, circa 1930s
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Side-stapled green, marbled wrappers (11 ¼” x 8 ¾”) with typed label to the front wrapper, 22 leaves mimeographed from typescript on rectos only. Some edgewear, else Fine. Not found in OCLC. A play by the little known Jewish actor, playwright, and Communist Party member [Morris] Muni Diamond, in which Snow White learns about union organizing from the seven dwarfs who are all members of Local 333 Dwarf Miners Union. She returns to the castle and organizes the butcher, baker and candlestick maker into a union, and along with the Dwarf Miners Union, goes on strike against the Queen until she agrees to their demands of more money and better working conditions. Morris Muni Diamond was born in NYC in 1906 to a Jewish family. He tried to make his way in show business, but with little success as an actor, radio writer, or playwright. In 1949 he attempted suicide and was confined to Camarillo State Hospital where he escaped after seven years. He wrote stories, poems and plays and became a street puppeteer in Los Angeles and later San Francisco where he died in 1996.
Quarto. Pictorial laminated boards. Color illustrations by the author. A fine copy. A modern day twist on the classic fairy tale, involving two jazz singers battling for fame, with wonderful art nouveau-style illustrations which won the book the 1986 Kate Greenaway Award, given annually for an outstanding illustrated book for children.

Snow White in New York

Fiona French
Oxford University Press
Oxford, 1986
1st edition, 1st printing
Quarto. Pictorial laminated boards. Color illustrations by the author. A fine copy. A modern day twist on the classic fairy tale, involving two jazz singers battling for fame, with wonderful art nouveau-style illustrations which won the book the 1986 Kate Greenaway Award, given annually for an outstanding illustrated book for children.
Japanese comic book retelling of Snow White, in which the feature that sets her apart is her naturally bright-red hair, causing a prince to want her all to himself until she escapes. Octavo paperback, pictorial wrappers. Fine. First in a series.

Snow White with the Red Hair

Sorata Akiduki, Caleb Cook (transl), Brandon Bovia (touch up art and lettering), Alice Lewis (design), Marlene First (editor)
Hakusensha
Tokyo, 2021
1st edition
Japanese comic book retelling of Snow White, in which the feature that sets her apart is her naturally bright-red hair, causing a prince to want her all to himself until she escapes. Octavo paperback, pictorial wrappers. Fine. First in a series.
Quarto. Pictorial boards and endpapers with a full-page color frontispiece. Slight bend to spine, otherwise fine.

Snow, Glass, Apples

Neil Gaiman; Colleen Doran (illust)
Dark Horse Books
Milwaukee, 2019
1st edition, 1st printing
Quarto. Pictorial boards and endpapers with a full-page color frontispiece. Slight bend to spine, otherwise fine.
Octavo. Quarter bound, spine in brown cloth and boards in patterned black and white cloth. Spine lettered in gilt with additional line design. Some rubbing to bottom and top edges, slight bumping to head and tail. Green endpapers, with Camden School for Girls bookplate stating the book is "Presented to Gertrude E. Sabin(?) for Diligence and Attention in Scripture, 1895-1896," along with what might be the school motto, "Onwards and Upwards." Bookplate by Allman & Son Ltd. Lengthy poem inscribed on back of FFEP. A VG copy.

Songs and Poems of Fairyland

Arthur E. Waite (ed.)
Walter Scott, Ltd.
London, circa 1888
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Octavo. Quarter bound, spine in brown cloth and boards in patterned black and white cloth. Spine lettered in gilt with additional line design. Some rubbing to bottom and top edges, slight bumping to head and tail. Green endpapers, with Camden School for Girls bookplate stating the book is "Presented to Gertrude E. Sabin(?) for Diligence and Attention in Scripture, 1895-1896," along with what might be the school motto, "Onwards and Upwards." Bookplate by Allman & Son Ltd. Lengthy poem inscribed on back of FFEP. A VG copy.
Black paper covered boards, title to spine in gilt. Original pictorial dustjacket. Signed by author on front flyleaf. Fine.

Spinning Silver

Naomi Novik
Del Rey
New York, 2018
1st edition, 1st printing
Black paper covered boards, title to spine in gilt. Original pictorial dustjacket. Signed by author on front flyleaf. Fine.
Quarto, original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, with gilt vignette and black lettering on the upper cover. Top edge red. Thirty-two color plates, all protected by captioned tissue guards. A little spotting to page edges and contemporary ownership signature to front endpaper, else about fine.

Stories from the Pentamerone

Giambattista Basile, Warwick Goble (illust), J.E. Taylor (transl)
Macmillan
London, 1911
1st edition
Quarto, original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, with gilt vignette and black lettering on the upper cover. Top edge red. Thirty-two color plates, all protected by captioned tissue guards. A little spotting to page edges and contemporary ownership signature to front endpaper, else about fine.
Octavo. Green pictorial boards with gilt vine design to front board with images from tale illustrations and titles in white to spine and front board. Fine. Also with three postcards that came with pre-order and signed bookplate from R.J. Julia Bookstore in Connecticut (bookplate from virtual author event).

Tales From the Hinterland

Melissa Albert; Jim Tierney (illust)
Flatiron Books
New York, 2021
1st edition, 1st printing
Octavo. Green pictorial boards with gilt vine design to front board with images from tale illustrations and titles in white to spine and front board. Fine. Also with three postcards that came with pre-order and signed bookplate from R.J. Julia Bookstore in Connecticut (bookplate from virtual author event).
Pictorial boards and matching DJ. Fine. A mixture of popular tales and literary lore, this anthology celebrates Hispanic culture and its many roots -- Indigenous, African, Arab, Hebrew, and Spanish. F. Isabel Campoy and Alma Flor Ada retell twelve beloved stories that embody the lively spirit and the rich heritage of Latino people, featuring the work of four Latino artists and illustrators.

Tales Our Abuelitas Told: A Hispanic Folktale Collection

F. Isabel Campoy and Alma Flor Ada. Felipe Dévales, Viví Escrivé, Susan Guevara, Leyla Torres (illusts)
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
New York, 2006
1st edition
Pictorial boards and matching DJ. Fine. A mixture of popular tales and literary lore, this anthology celebrates Hispanic culture and its many roots -- Indigenous, African, Arab, Hebrew, and Spanish. F. Isabel Campoy and Alma Flor Ada retell twelve beloved stories that embody the lively spirit and the rich heritage of Latino people, featuring the work of four Latino artists and illustrators.
Small octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in gilt, Wide Wide World Library publisher's device in gilt to spine and front cover in gilt, and in blind to rear cover, frames blocked in blind to covers, edges gilt, yellow coated endpapers. FFE removed. Neat later ownership inscription of Doris Gregg of 3 Charles Street, Gomersal, in ink to the first blank. Spine cocked and lightly toned, slight rubbing to cloth, touch of wear to tips, browning to first blank, intermittent faint foxing, overall contents clean. A very good copy. Expanded second edition of this scarce collection of historically important fairy and mythic tales by a significant writer of the Romantic period. First published anonymously in 1825 and though previously attributed to George Borrow has been confidently tied to the Scottish writer, under their birth name of Mary Diana Dods, by Betty T. Bennett in 1980. Dods often published anonymously and under the pseudonym of David Lyndsay, and publicly presented and wrote as Walter Sholto Douglas from 1827 onwards. The work chimed with the contemporary desire for Germanic fairy tales and was published in an American edition in 1826, and this 2nd English edition in 1867 which includes two additional stories. Douglas was the illegitimate child of Scottish aristocrat George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton, their illegitimacy causing their wealthy father to ignore repeated petitions for money. As a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine between 1821 and 1828, Douglas became known to Mary Shelley, and they became close friends attending the same unconventional salons in London. Shelley championed their writings and was a key supporter in the publication of the present work. In 1827 Shelley also helped them elope to Paris with a pregnant mutual frind Isabella Robinson by providing a passport under the name Walter Sholto Douglas (derived from Dod's grandfather's name). Douglas and Robinson even married under this guise, and the child when born was christened Adeline Douglas. In Paris Douglas dressed exclusively as a man and entered Anglo-French society.

Tales of the Wild and the Wonderful

Mary Diana Dods aka Walter Sholto Douglas
Milner & Sowerby
London, 1867
Expanded 2nd edition
Small octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in gilt, Wide Wide World Library publisher's device in gilt to spine and front cover in gilt, and in blind to rear cover, frames blocked in blind to covers, edges gilt, yellow coated endpapers. FFE removed. Neat later ownership inscription of Doris Gregg of 3 Charles Street, Gomersal, in ink to the first blank. Spine cocked and lightly toned, slight rubbing to cloth, touch of wear to tips, browning to first blank, intermittent faint foxing, overall contents clean. A very good copy. Expanded second edition of this scarce collection of historically important fairy and mythic tales by a significant writer of the Romantic period. First published anonymously in 1825 and though previously attributed to George Borrow has been confidently tied to the Scottish writer, under their birth name of Mary Diana Dods, by Betty T. Bennett in 1980. Dods often published anonymously and under the pseudonym of David Lyndsay, and publicly presented and wrote as Walter Sholto Douglas from 1827 onwards. The work chimed with the contemporary desire for Germanic fairy tales and was published in an American edition in 1826, and this 2nd English edition in 1867 which includes two additional stories. Douglas was the illegitimate child of Scottish aristocrat George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton, their illegitimacy causing their wealthy father to ignore repeated petitions for money. As a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine between 1821 and 1828, Douglas became known to Mary Shelley, and they became close friends attending the same unconventional salons in London. Shelley championed their writings and was a key supporter in the publication of the present work. In 1827 Shelley also helped them elope to Paris with a pregnant mutual frind Isabella Robinson by providing a passport under the name Walter Sholto Douglas (derived from Dod's grandfather's name). Douglas and Robinson even married under this guise, and the child when born was christened Adeline Douglas. In Paris Douglas dressed exclusively as a man and entered Anglo-French society.
Part of the Taschen 40th Anniversary collection. Brings together stories from Grimm and Andersen in one volume, that you flip upside down and turn around for the different author collections. Octavo, shiny pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers with a matching paper guard that fits around the whole text block. Gathers illustrations from Golden Age of Illustration through today as well, and comes complete with mini artist biographies. Some bumping to corners, else fine.

Taschen Fairy Tales

Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Noel Daniel (ed. & transl.), Matthew R. Price (transl.)
Taschen
Köln, 2020
1st edition
Part of the Taschen 40th Anniversary collection. Brings together stories from Grimm and Andersen in one volume, that you flip upside down and turn around for the different author collections. Octavo, shiny pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers with a matching paper guard that fits around the whole text block. Gathers illustrations from Golden Age of Illustration through today as well, and comes complete with mini artist biographies. Some bumping to corners, else fine.
Light blue cloth with navy blue slipcase. Title and drawing stamped to front board and title to spine in silver. Signed and numbered, 88/250. VG. Light wear to slipcase.

Tetrascroll: Goldilocks & The Three Bears, a Cosmic Fairy Tale

R. Buckminster Fuller
ULAE, Inc. and St. Martin's Press
New York, 1982
1st thus
Light blue cloth with navy blue slipcase. Title and drawing stamped to front board and title to spine in silver. Signed and numbered, 88/250. VG. Light wear to slipcase.
Octavo. Recent red half morocco to style, lettering and decorative motifs in gilt direct to spine, marbled boards. Engraved title with hand-coloured vignette, 8 engraved plates coloured in contemporary hand. Contemporary ownership inscription at end of preface, “C. T. Haddelsey, Surgeon”; Charles Turner Haddelsey MRCS, of the London Hospital. The binding sound and unfaded, long closed tear to lower half of plates facing pp. 85 and 195 expertly repaired, heavy spotting to pp. 264–69, else internally fresh; still an attractive copy. First edition in English of the Comtesse de Choiseul’s fairy tales, which was first published in Paris in 1818 (“Le Retour des fées contes”). This is a rare find: Library Hub locates a single copy at the National Library of Wales and WorldCat adds a further four, all in the US (Morgan Library, University of Chicago, Indiana University, and Princeton). The tales in the present work include “The King of Cocaque”, “The Black Cat”, “The Woodcutter’s Daughter”, and “The Double Enchantment”. Charlotte Herdman translated several works out of French, including a second collection of fairy tales, written by Julie Delafaye-Bréhier. While little biographical information is known about Comtesse Félicité de Choiseul-Meuse (1767–1838) she was a prolific and highly successful author. Writing at least 27 novels, she is now best known for her erotic novels, notably Julie ou j’ai sauvé ma rose (1807), which despite being censored for its explicit lesbian content established her as one of the key figures in late 18th-century French clandestine literature.

The Return of the Fairies

Madame la Comptesse de Choiseul; Charlotte Herdman (transl)
For John Cumming
Dublin, 1824
1st edition
Octavo. Recent red half morocco to style, lettering and decorative motifs in gilt direct to spine, marbled boards. Engraved title with hand-coloured vignette, 8 engraved plates coloured in contemporary hand. Contemporary ownership inscription at end of preface, “C. T. Haddelsey, Surgeon”; Charles Turner Haddelsey MRCS, of the London Hospital. The binding sound and unfaded, long closed tear to lower half of plates facing pp. 85 and 195 expertly repaired, heavy spotting to pp. 264–69, else internally fresh; still an attractive copy. First edition in English of the Comtesse de Choiseul’s fairy tales, which was first published in Paris in 1818 (“Le Retour des fées contes”). This is a rare find: Library Hub locates a single copy at the National Library of Wales and WorldCat adds a further four, all in the US (Morgan Library, University of Chicago, Indiana University, and Princeton). The tales in the present work include “The King of Cocaque”, “The Black Cat”, “The Woodcutter’s Daughter”, and “The Double Enchantment”. Charlotte Herdman translated several works out of French, including a second collection of fairy tales, written by Julie Delafaye-Bréhier. While little biographical information is known about Comtesse Félicité de Choiseul-Meuse (1767–1838) she was a prolific and highly successful author. Writing at least 27 novels, she is now best known for her erotic novels, notably Julie ou j’ai sauvé ma rose (1807), which despite being censored for its explicit lesbian content established her as one of the key figures in late 18th-century French clandestine literature.
Quarto, signed by illustrator. Two-toned boards. With the complete number line. Signed on the title page with a short personalization by Shannon, the illustrator. An excellent copy, nearly fine in like dust jacket. Not price clipped. A retelling of the Native American Cinderella.

The Rough-Face Girl

Rafe Martin, David Shannon (illust.)
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
New York, 1992
1st edition, 1st printing
Quarto, signed by illustrator. Two-toned boards. With the complete number line. Signed on the title page with a short personalization by Shannon, the illustrator. An excellent copy, nearly fine in like dust jacket. Not price clipped. A retelling of the Native American Cinderella.
White cloth covered boards with pictorial covers and title to spine. Published without dustjacket. Fine.

The Seas

Samantha Hung; Maggie Nelson (intro)
Tin House Books
Portland, 2018
2nd edition, limited issue
White cloth covered boards with pictorial covers and title to spine. Published without dustjacket. Fine.
A handmade book on paper and board, accomplished entirely in watercolor by Mitchell. Folded approximately 9 x 7”; the front cover is of a palace at the end of a forest road; on the verso is a closer view of the castle; another leaf is a watercolor of a forest and lettering, “Lincoln Kirstein. 80th Birthday Celebration. New York City Ballet. May 18, 1987.” On the verso is another view of the castle, and in the center a drawing of the palace lettered “The Sleeping Beauty. Act. III. New York City Ballet.” These gates open to reveal a drawing of the happy couple, and the entire page lifts up to reveal a complex pop-up of the stage setting of the marriage scene, complete with dancers in costume and “Perrault” lettered on the floor. Unfolded, this pop-up is placed between watercolors of the castle. The bottom leaf is lettered as in the title above. Aside from some minor smudges on this leaf, in excellent condition. Kirstein, scion of the Filene’s Boston department store fortune, was a founder of the New York City Ballet. In his honor, the ballet’s intention to mount this production was announced on his birthday, May 4, 1987, although it was not staged until 1991 in a complex presentation involving over 100 dancers. Mitchell’s stage design, of which this was clearly an early conception, was highly praised for its evocative fairy tale setting.

The Sleeping Beauty

David Mitchell (booklet and scenery by), Pyotr Tchaikovsky (music by), Patricia Lipprodt (costumes by), Charles Perrault (story by)
New York City Ballet
New York, 1987
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A handmade book on paper and board, accomplished entirely in watercolor by Mitchell. Folded approximately 9 x 7”; the front cover is of a palace at the end of a forest road; on the verso is a closer view of the castle; another leaf is a watercolor of a forest and lettering, “Lincoln Kirstein. 80th Birthday Celebration. New York City Ballet. May 18, 1987.” On the verso is another view of the castle, and in the center a drawing of the palace lettered “The Sleeping Beauty. Act. III. New York City Ballet.” These gates open to reveal a drawing of the happy couple, and the entire page lifts up to reveal a complex pop-up of the stage setting of the marriage scene, complete with dancers in costume and “Perrault” lettered on the floor. Unfolded, this pop-up is placed between watercolors of the castle. The bottom leaf is lettered as in the title above. Aside from some minor smudges on this leaf, in excellent condition. Kirstein, scion of the Filene’s Boston department store fortune, was a founder of the New York City Ballet. In his honor, the ballet’s intention to mount this production was announced on his birthday, May 4, 1987, although it was not staged until 1991 in a complex presentation involving over 100 dancers. Mitchell’s stage design, of which this was clearly an early conception, was highly praised for its evocative fairy tale setting.
Quarto. Brown cloth boards with elaborate gilt design and angels to boards and spine, titles in gilt to front board and spine. Contains all 30 color plates tipped in. Some rubbing to spine head, tail, and tips, and light foxing to fore-edge, otherwise bright and clean. Overall very good.

The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales From the Old French

Arthur T. Quiller-Couch; Edmund Dulac (illust)
Hodder & Stoughton
London, 1910
1st edition
Quarto. Brown cloth boards with elaborate gilt design and angels to boards and spine, titles in gilt to front board and spine. Contains all 30 color plates tipped in. Some rubbing to spine head, tail, and tips, and light foxing to fore-edge, otherwise bright and clean. Overall very good.
Small octavo. Half-title and title pages printed in red and black. Illustrated throughout by Enrico Mazzanti. Some light foxing affecting just the first blank leaf, half-title, and last leaf. Publisher's off-white cloth stamped in blue in a floral and leaf pattern, with matching endpapers and edges. Contemporary pencil inscription on front blank leaf. Small stain on front and rear covers, binding very slightly cocked and sunned, otherwise a very good copy.

The Story of a Puppet or the Adventures of Pinocchio

Carlo Lorenzini Collodi, translated by M.A. Murray, illustrated by C. Mazzanti
T. Fisher Unwin
London, 1892
1st edition in English
Small octavo. Half-title and title pages printed in red and black. Illustrated throughout by Enrico Mazzanti. Some light foxing affecting just the first blank leaf, half-title, and last leaf. Publisher's off-white cloth stamped in blue in a floral and leaf pattern, with matching endpapers and edges. Contemporary pencil inscription on front blank leaf. Small stain on front and rear covers, binding very slightly cocked and sunned, otherwise a very good copy.
Red marbled paper covered boards with portrait of Desperaux on front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Fore-edge untrimmed. Some rubbing to top of spine and tips, otherwise fine in a very good original pictorial dustjacket.

The Tale of Desperaux: being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread

Kate DiCamillo, Timothy Basil Ering (illust.)
Candlewick Press
Cambridge, 2003
1st edition, 1st printing
Red marbled paper covered boards with portrait of Desperaux on front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Fore-edge untrimmed. Some rubbing to top of spine and tips, otherwise fine in a very good original pictorial dustjacket.
Quarto. Pictorial front cover, spine and back in maroon. Slight nick to bottom right of front boards, otherwise clean and tight. Fine.

The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones

Giambattista Basile, Nancy L. Canepa (transl), Jack Zipes (foreword), Carmelo Lettere (illust.)
Wayne State University Press
Detroit, 2016
1st hardcover edition
Quarto. Pictorial front cover, spine and back in maroon. Slight nick to bottom right of front boards, otherwise clean and tight. Fine.
Quarto. Turquoise/green pictorial cloth stamped in black; black lettering on spine; numerous lovely whimsical color illustrations throughout by the author; the tale of what happens after Aladdin married the princess; very fine copy in scarce pictorial dust jacket, price-clipped. This title has an Oz connection - because of this work, Langley was chosen to adapt Baum's WIZARD OF OZ for the cinema production in 1939.

The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger

Noel Langley
William Morrow & Co.
New York, 1938
1st American edition
Quarto. Turquoise/green pictorial cloth stamped in black; black lettering on spine; numerous lovely whimsical color illustrations throughout by the author; the tale of what happens after Aladdin married the princess; very fine copy in scarce pictorial dust jacket, price-clipped. This title has an Oz connection - because of this work, Langley was chosen to adapt Baum's WIZARD OF OZ for the cinema production in 1939.
Octavo, brown morocco-patterned boards, corner pieces and centerpiece to front board of silver metal with blue faux gems, metal clasp, green silk bookmark. Protected in a maroon velvet string-top bag, bearing the gilt embroidered signature of J.K. Rowling, housed in a book-shaped clamshell case with a collection of original prints. Fine.

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

J.K. Rowling
Children's High Level Group
London, 2008
Limited edition
Octavo, brown morocco-patterned boards, corner pieces and centerpiece to front board of silver metal with blue faux gems, metal clasp, green silk bookmark. Protected in a maroon velvet string-top bag, bearing the gilt embroidered signature of J.K. Rowling, housed in a book-shaped clamshell case with a collection of original prints. Fine.
Caldecott Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book. Pictorial boards and DJ. Fine in a very good pictorial DJ.

The Talking Eggs: A Folktale From the American South

Robert D. San Souci, Jerry Pinkney (illust)
Dial Books for Young Readers
New York, 1989
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Caldecott Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book. Pictorial boards and DJ. Fine in a very good pictorial DJ.
Trade paperback comic, white pictorial covers, illustrated throughout. Fine.

The Tea Dragon Society

Katie O'Neill (writer & illust), Saida Teemofonte (letterer), Hilary Thompson (designer), Ari Yarwood (ed.)
Oni Press
Portland, 2019
Limited edition
Trade paperback comic, white pictorial covers, illustrated throughout. Fine.
Signed by the author on the title page. Oblong duodecimo, gray and brown boards with image of the three pigs stamped on the front board and spine lettered in gold. Fine in a fine DJ.

The Three Pigs

David Wiesner
Clarion Books
New York, 2001
1st edition, 1st printing
Signed by the author on the title page. Oblong duodecimo, gray and brown boards with image of the three pigs stamped on the front board and spine lettered in gold. Fine in a fine DJ.
Beautifully illustrated edition of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," oblong octavo. Paper covered boards with illustration border stamped to front board. Cloth covered spine with titles in gilt. Original pictorial DJ. Inscribed on FFEP "To Jean Torgerson With Best Wishes Errol Le Cain" dated 12/4/86.

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Brothers Grimm; Errol Le Cain (illust.)
The Viking Press
New York, 1978
1st American edition, 1st printing
Beautifully illustrated edition of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," oblong octavo. Paper covered boards with illustration border stamped to front board. Cloth covered spine with titles in gilt. Original pictorial DJ. Inscribed on FFEP "To Jean Torgerson With Best Wishes Errol Le Cain" dated 12/4/86.
Octavo. Red paper covered boards, titles in gilt to spine. Pictorial DJ. Both fine.

Thistlefoot

GennaRose Nethercott
Anchor Books
New York, 2022
1st edition
Octavo. Red paper covered boards, titles in gilt to spine. Pictorial DJ. Both fine.
Bound in full crushed red morocco (modern) with small gilt impressed cover illustration in center on both covers, gilt spines. A marvelous double fore-edge, with two longitudinal paintings visible in both directions (but hidden when the pages are un-flanged), depicting two illustrations in the book. Executed by Martin Frost, the premier fore-edge painter alive today, with his bookplate of authentication. Housed in folding felt-lined case with gilt Morocco label. Fine.

Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

Lewis Carroll; John Tenniel (illust)
Macmillan and Co.
Londong, 1887
1st edition
Bound in full crushed red morocco (modern) with small gilt impressed cover illustration in center on both covers, gilt spines. A marvelous double fore-edge, with two longitudinal paintings visible in both directions (but hidden when the pages are un-flanged), depicting two illustrations in the book. Executed by Martin Frost, the premier fore-edge painter alive today, with his bookplate of authentication. Housed in folding felt-lined case with gilt Morocco label. Fine.
Slim octavo. Pictorial front board with matching original DJ. Illustrations throughout. Price clipped DJ. Fine.

Turkish Fairy Tales

Vera Bock (illust.)
Peter Pauper Press
Mount Vernon, 1964
1st edition
Slim octavo. Pictorial front board with matching original DJ. Illustrations throughout. Price clipped DJ. Fine.

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