How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin
Garden City: Garden City Publ. Co. (1942). 8vo. pictorial boards; “Just So Stories Series” Illustrated by F. Rojankovsky. very good in chipped dust jacket.
Fables, Myths, Folk and Fairy Tales
Just So Stories
NY: Henry Holt and Co., (1987). Stated First American edition with a 1 present in the number line; small 4to.; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, hardcover; 96 pages; color illustrations; former owner’s name written in ink on front free endpaper and some light foxing on last page...
The Rumor of Pavel and Paali
NY: Harper & Row (1988). Stated First edition with a 1 present in the number line; 4to.; cloth backed boards, hardcover; color illustrations; A Ukrainian Folktale; a very good clean tight copy in a very good dust jacket.
Little Red Riding Hood
Chicago, IL: Merrill Co. (1949). 4to.; pictorial linen wraps with stapled binding, softcover; color illustrations; #3401-10; edgeworn and torn wraps especially at spine with some light internal soiling else very good.
Peter And The Rabbits
NY; Atheneum (1969). Stated First USA Edition; 4to.; cloth backed pictorial boards; hardcover; an old tale retold and illustrated by Arthur Kubler; very good in a lightly rubbed and chipped dust jacket.
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.
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...
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;...
Cloud Eyes.
San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Co. (1994). Stated 1st edition, boards, illustrated by Barry Moser, very good in very good dust jacket.
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.
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...
The Elves and The Shoemaker
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1959. 4to.; glossy pictorial boards, hardcover; color illustrations; A Rand McNally Giant Book #82-8800; gift inscription on front endpaper and boards are rubbed and chipped at spine ends and bottom spine has a 1 inch split else a clean tight copy.
Soldier Boy
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., (N/D). 16mo; pictorial boards; hardcover; color and black and white illustrations; sunned and chipped covers with sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Highland Lore and Legend
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1938. 12mo; gilt decorated cloth covered boards; hardcover; 90 pages; black and white glossy frontispiece; Foreword by The Rt. Hon. W.S. Morrison; originally written and Gaelic; corners of boards are lightly rubbed else a very good clean tight copy in a soiled, edgeworn, and clipped...
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...
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.
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.
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.
Folk Tales From The Far East
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co. (1927). First edition; 8vo.; green cloth covered boards with pictorial label paste-on, hardcover; xiii, 254 pages; color frontispiece and black and white illustrations; former owner’s name and date and small tear on front free endpaper with pages age-toned else very good in edgeworn and...
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.