China Tells How the World Began! Asian Folktales Retold
Berkley, CA: Heian (2001). 4to.; glossy pictorial boards, hardcover; 30 pages; color illustrations; a very good clean, tight copy in an edgeworn dust jacket. More
Fables, Myths, Folk and Fairy Tales
La Fontaine Fabeln
Hamburg, Germany: Verlag Heinrich Ellermann, 1965. 4to.; cloth backed pictorial boards, hardcover; German Text; 12 fables from La Fontaine; color illustrations; edges of boards lightly rubbed else a very good clean tight copy. More
The Rainbow Fairy Book
NY: Books of Wonder, William Morrow and Co. (1993). First edition with a 1 present in the number line; small 4to.; cloth backed boards, hardcover; 288 pages; 23 full-color illustrated plates and 47 black and white pencil drawings; a collection of fairy tales from Andrew Langs fairy tale books of..... More
Saint Francis and the Wolf
Boston: David R. Godine (2007). Stated First edition; sm 4to.; embossed cloth covered boards, hardcover; color illustrations; a large non-authorial gift inscription on half title page else a very good clean tight copy in a very good unclipped dust jacket. More
Salt A Russian Folktale
NY: Hyperion, (1992). Stated 1st edition; translated by Alice Plume; small 4to., glossy pictorial boards; illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner, Ilse Plume; traditional Russian tale about three sons who are sent out in the world and how the youngest, Ivan the Fool, triumphs; the author is a Newberry Honor winner;..... More
Cloud Eyes.
San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Co. (1994). Stated 1st edition, boards, illustrated by Barry Moser, very good in very good dust jacket. More
The King of the Peacocks
NY: Thomas Y Crowell, 1971. Stated First American Edition; small 4to.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; color illustrations; a very good clean, tight copy in an edgeworn dust jacket with a hole on back cover. More
Seven Tales by H.C. Andersen
NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1959. 8vo; decoratively embossed cloth covered boards with gilt lettering; hardcover;128 pages; color and black and white illustrations; 5 colored plates by Sendak; Translated from the Danish; lightly sunned covers else a very good clean tight copy. More
The Maker of Rainbows, and Other Fairy-Tales and Fables
NY & London: Harper and Brothers, 1912. 1st edition, 8vo, black cloth covered boards, hardcover; color pictorial paste-on with some scratches, color and b&w illustrations by Elizabeth Green; 15 tales including: The Old Coat of Dreams, The Maker of Rainbows, The Man with Something in His Eye; Mother of Pearl..... More
The Stepsister
New York: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers (1987). Stated 1st edition; small 4to., glossy pictorial boards; illustrated by Allison Reed ; very good in very good dust jacket. More
The Mud Snail Son
NY: Atheneum, 1971. Stated First Edition; large 8vo.; pictorial boards; illustrated by Fuku Akino; tale of a Japanese couple and their mud snail son with the usual fairy tale ending; very good in edgeworn and lightly soiled dust jacket. More
Peter And The North Wind
NY: Scholastic Inc. (1988). Stated First Scholastic Printing with a 1 present in the number line; square 8vo.; cloth backed boards, hardcover; 32 pages; color illustrations; very good in a very good unclipped dust jacket. More
The Dwarf Giant
NY: Holiday House (1991). Stated First Edition; small 4to; cloth backed boards with gilt lettering; hardcover; color illustrations; slightly edgeworn else a very good clean tight copy in a lightly edgeworn pictorial dust jacket. More
Crow and Weasel
San Francisco: North Point Press (1990). First edition; 4to.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 63 pages; color illustrations; Lopez is a winner of Nat'l Book Award; very good in a very good unclipped dust jacket. More
Old Noah’s Elephants An Israeli Folktale
NY: A Whitebird Book, G. P. Putnam’s Sons (1991). Stated First Impression, First edition with a 1 present in the number line; small 4to.; glossy pictorial boards, hardcover; color illustrations; a very good clean tight copy in a very good dust jacket. More
Yakov and the Seven Thieves
NY: Callaway, 2004. Stated First Edition with the 1 present in the number line; small 4to.; pictorial covered boards, hardcover; 32 pages; color illustrations; a very good clean tight copy in a very good unclipped dust jacket. More
Yakov y los Siete Ladrones (Spanish Edition)
NY: Callaway, 2004. Stated First Edition with the 1 present in the number line; small 4to.; pictorial covered boards, hardcover; 32 pages; color illustrations; Spanish Text; a very good clean tight copy in a very good unclipped dust jacket. More
The Sun Princess and Her Deliverer A Lithuanian Folk Tale
Moscow: Progress Publishers, no date [ca 1970s]. 4to.; illustrated wraps with stapled binding, softcover; color illustrations; wraps are lightly soiled, rubbed and bottom corner bumped else very good. More
The Crab Prince An Entertainment For Children
NY: Henry Holt & Co. (1991). Stated First edition with a 1 present in the number line; oblong 8vo.; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, hardcover; color illustrations; the Italian folklore of Rosella and her one true love; a very good clean tight copy in a very good..... More
Hansel and Gretel
NY: Dial Books For Young Readers (1990). Second Printing; small 4to.; glossy pictorial boards, hardcover; color illustrations; a very good clean, tight copy in a very good unclipped dust jacket. More
The Monkey Bridge
NY: Alfred A. Knopf (1997). 1st edition; 4to., glossy pictorial boards; illustrated by Fahimeh Amiri; very good in very good dust jacket. More
The Leopard’s Daughter A Folk Tale from Liberia Translated from The Vai Language
Boston: Bruce Humphries Publishers (1961). small 4to; pictorial boards; hardcover; 14 pages; black and white illustrations; signed by illustrator; a very good clean tight copy in a price clipped; sunned and edgeworn pictorial dust jacket. More
King Arthur and the Grail Quest: Myth and Vision form Celtic Times to the Present
London: Blandford (1994). small 4to., cloth backed boards; illustrated by Steven Brown; very good in very good dust jacket. More
Patrick Menasche’s Fairy Tales
NY: Jay Street Publishers (2000). 8vo.; red boards with gilt lettering on spine, hardcover; 132 pages; black and white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy in a very good dust jacket. More
Stupid Emilien
NY: Stewrt, Tabori & Chang (1991). First edition with a 1 present in the number line; 4to.; light blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, hardcover; 32 pages; color illustrations; A Russian folktale of a peasant who outwits the Czar and marries his daughter.; a very good clean..... More