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
Fables, Myths, Folk and Fairy Tales
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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
Zoo of the Gods Animals in Myth, Legend, & Fable
NY: Harper & Row 1974. Stated First edition; 8vo., red cloth covered boards, hardcover; a very good clean tight copy in a very good dustjacket. More
Who’s Who In Egyptian Mythology
NY: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1978. Stated First edition; 8vo.; pictorial stiff glossy wraps, softcover; xxi, 231 pages; black and white illustrations; very good. More
Knights Beasts And Wonders Tales and Legends from Mediaeval Britain
Leicester: Brockhampton Press (1969). Stated 1st edition; 8vo.; 128 pages; cloth; illustrated by Charles Keeping; very good in very good dust jacket. More
Shaun and the Boat An Irish Story
New York: Hastings House (1965). First Edition. 8vo., cloth; illustrated in color and black & white by Barbara Cooney. erasures on colored pictorial endpapers else very good in lightly soiled and chipped dust jacket. More
Favorite Tales
Newark, NJ: Charles E. Graham & Co., no date [ca 1900s]. Small 4to.; cloth backed pictorial boards, hardcover; black and white illustrations; contains: Puss In Boots, Jack The Giant Killer, When Tony Laughed, The Little Mermaid, Tom Thumb, The Three Bears, and The Three Little Pigs; non-authorial gift inscription on..... More
Puss In Boots
NY;Platt & Munk, 1934. Series # 3000F. Square 8vo., color pictorial wraps, softcover; illustrated by Eulalie, a very good, clean, tight copy. More
The Three Bears
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing (1949). 4to.; pictorial cloth-like wraps with stapled binding, softcover; color illustrations; No. 956-10; wraps are edgeworn and rubbed else very good. More
The Tongue Cut Sparrow Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 2
Tokyo, Japan: T. Hasegawa, no date [ca 1900s]. 16mo.; hand painted crepe paper wraps with silk tied binding, softcover; color illustrations from woodcuts; wraps are soiled and edge worn with wraps separating else very good. More
The Deliverers Of Their Country
Natick: Picture Book Studio (1985). First edition; Small 4to., glossy pictorial boards, hardcover; color illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger; Effie and Harry are the first to discover the dragons and they go off to find St. George; very good in very good unclipped dust jacket. More
Beware The Man Without A Beard And Other Greek Folk Tales
NY: Alfred A. Knopf (1969). 8vo.; cloth; illustrated with woodcuts by Marjorie Auerbach; very good in lightly soiled dust jacket. More
My Book of Fairy Tales
Kenosha, Wis.: John Martin's House, Inc. 1945. 8vo., red pictorial boards; 24 pages; 14 full color plates illustrate the condensed fairy tales: Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, The Golden Goose, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Flying Trunk, The King of the Golden Mountain, Jack the Giant Killer, The Enchanted Wood, The..... More
The Magic Butterfly And Other Fairy Tales Of Central Europe
NY: Golden Press (1963). First edition; Folio; glossy pictorial boards, hardcover; A Giant Golden Book #15977; 63 pages; color illustrations; a very good clean tight copy in lightly soiled and edgeworn boards with bottom corners bumped. More
Ariadne, Awake!
New York: Viking (1994). 1st edition; small 4to.; boards; illustrated by Barry Moser; Orgel retells the story of Ariadne, the daughter of Minos the king of Crete, who helps Theseus find his way through the maze and escape the Minotaur; a very good clean tight copy in a very good..... More
Favorite Greek Myths
NY: Scholastic Inc. (1989). First Scholastic Printing; 4to; cloth backed pictorial boards with gilt picture and lettering; hardcover; 81 pages; color and black and white illustrations; lightly sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy in a lightly sunned pictorial dust jacket. More
The Princess and the Beggar A Korean Folktale
NY: Scholastic Inc., (1993). 4to.; glossy pictorial boards, hardcover; color illustrations; a princess finds happiness after marrying a beggar; a very good clean tight copy in a very good dust jacket. More
The Traveling Musicians of Bremen
Boston: Joy Street Books/Little, Brown and Company (1992). First U.S. Edition with 1 present in the number line; oblong small 4to; glossy pictorial boards with pictorial endpapers; hardcover; color illustrations; non-authorial inscription taped in; a very good clean tight copy in a very good pictorial dust jacket. More
The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks
New York: Lodestar/Dutton, (1990). Stated First Edition. 4to., cloth backed boards; Illustrated woodcuts in the style of 18th century Japanese by Leo & Diane Dillon; how a grateful drake and his mate repay Yasuko, the kitchen maid and the one-eyed servant Shozo; very good in very good dust jacket... More
The Squirrel Wife
NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1971. First American Edition; 8vo.; cloth covered boards; hardcover; color illustrations by Derek Collard; very good in very good dust jacket with one small closed tear. More
The Yellow Slicker A Fable for Women
Manchester, CT: Knowledge, Ideas & Trends, Inc. (1992). Stated First Edition; 4to; cloth covered boards; hardcover; 23 pages; original black and white illustrations by author; lightly edgeworn covers in a lightly soiled edgeworn pictorial dust jacket. More
Cinderella and other Tales from Perrault
NY: Henry Holt and Company (1989). First Edition; small 4to; cloth backed boards with color pictorial endpapers; hardcover; 78 pages; color illustrations; slightly edgeworn boards else a very good clean tight copy in a lightly sunned color pictorial dust jacket. More
Cinderella
Hannover, Western Germany: Maxi Publishers, no date [ca 1900s]. 32 mo.; glossy pictorial boards, softcover; 20 unnumbered pages; from the Pictorial Fairy Tales Chest Series; lightly edge-rubbed else very good. More
Cinderella or The Little Glass Slipper
NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons (1954). Later Printing; small 4to.; illustrated cloth covered boards, hardcover; Reinforced Binding; color illustrations and endpapers; Caldecott Medal Book; boards are foxed on edges else very good in a price clipped and edgeworn dust jacket. More
Puss In Boots
Michael Di Capua Books, Farrar Straus Giroux (1990). Stated First Edition; 4to.; brown covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, hardcover; color illustrations; a fine clean tight copy in a very good, price clipped dust jacket with a Caldecott medallion present. More