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8vo., with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and illustrations in monochrome (a number full-page) in the text, tiny inscription on half-title, some light and occasional marginal browning; publisher's brown pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt and blocked in red, gilt top, patterned endpapers, expertly recased with original endpapers, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE.
As New English Paperback. Pbo. Mint state. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 215 p. Traditional Azerbaijani folk-tales. Geleneksel Azerî masallari. Preface: Nizami Caferov. Translator: Yasemin Bayer.
Pasted down illustration on front cover has spots on it. Interior pages are clean and unmarked. Full brown cloth boards. 11 1/2"w x 8 3/4"h. 108 pages. Color illustrations throughout by Frederick Richardson.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Possibly inscribed by author on title page. 320 pages.
Book is in excellent condition save top corners of HB: lightly bumped. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears; Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Small format, 51 pages on heavy paper.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name label inside. Remainder mark. 386 pages. Includes mythological stories, mythical incidents, trickster tales, heo tales, journeys to the other world, animal wives and husbands, miscellaneous tales, tales borrowed from europeans, and bible stories; notes; bibliography. 386 pages.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). Articles in English, French, German, and Turkish. [vii], [1], 119, [1] p. First International Congress of Turcology. Summary of communications.= Türkiye Cumhuriyetinin 50. Yildönümü dolayisiyle Istanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türkiyat Enstitüsünce düzenlenen I. Milletlerarasi Türkoloji Kongresi. Bildiri özetleri. 15-20 / X / 1973, Istanbul.
Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book.207 pages, contents include: Fairytale hero, Beauty and it's shock effect, Style and composition: perfection and imperfection, Contrasts, polarities, and extremes, etc.
8vo., First Edition, some light pencilled annotation in a neat scholarly hand; newly bound in brown cloth, gilt back, hand-made endpapers, uncut, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Collects twenty-nine fairy tales and six fairy songs. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
Book is in excellent condition with illustrated cover and spine; as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows light wear with chipping at edges, small closed tears, now wrapped in clear protective cover. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 35 tales illustrated by children from eighteen nation with large, color prints.
344 p. Illustrated by numerous woodcuts. Foxed. 12mo. Worn original decorated full blue cloth binding. Very unusual illustrated mid-19th century American Aesop. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 5
Good English Paperback. Pbo. Foolscap 8vo (18 x 12 cm). In French. 31 p. B/w ills. Fables d'Esope. racontees par: Rasim Gemici. Illustrations by: Saim Onan.
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 152 pages. Full blue cloth boards.
Excellent condition in every respect, book is as-new, dust jacket shows very very light shelfwear, no tears. Signed by author on front end paper.
No date of publication shown; circa 1930. Full black cloth boards with pasted-down illustration and illustrated endpapers by Victor Candell. Interior illustrations by Kay Nielsen (one taped). Worn at top and bottom of spine. 6 1/4"w x 9"h. 204 pages. Illustrated endpapers and previous owner's name inside. Loose hinges. A few smudges to pages, but no marking or writing.
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 197 pages. Contents include: Role of the pilgrim, Shape of performance, Substance of the game, Social base of angry speech in Chaucer's London, Insult strategies fo the pilgrims, License to lie: the Churls' rhetoric of fiction, Gentil folk: back to court
8vo., First Edition thus, with 16 plates; handsomely bound in full burgundy morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, uncut, pictorial gilt from original upper board and backstrip preserved and mounted on new and separate leaves, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. The first English edition of Andersen's 'Eventyr' was published by Pickering as 'Danish Fairy Tales and Legends' in 1846. The fourteen tales contained therein were translated by Mrs. Howitt. In 1852 the scarce second edition appeared, containing forty-five tales and at the time the sole complete collection in English. The translations were made from the original Danish and not from any of the later German versions. Enhanced by Heath Robinson's inimitable illustrations, this edition comprises a verbatim reprint of the fourteen tales of the 1846 edition and the remaining thirty-one tales of the second edition of 1852. AN ELEGANT COPY OF A VERY SCARCE EDITION.
8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 15 plates, endpapers mildly spotted; original red cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, backstrip faintly chafed at head else a remarkably bright, crisp copy. With contemporary prize bookplate and trade ticket of Combridges of Hove on front paste-down. The first English edition of Andersen's 'Eventyr' was published by Pickering as 'Danish Fairy Tales and Legends' in 1846. The fourteen tales contained therein were translated by Mrs. Howitt. In 1852 the scarce second edition appeared, containing forty-five tales and at the time the sole complete collection in English. The translations were made from the original Danish and not from any of the later German versions. Enhanced by Heath Robinson's inimitable illustrations, this edition comprises a verbatim reprint of the fourteen tales of the 1846 edition and the remaining thirty-one tales of the second edition of 1852. AN ELEGANT COPY OF A VERY SCARCE EDITION.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Pictorial cover. Text in French. 126 pages. 8 7/8"w x 11 1/4"h.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured titles, 4 coloured illustrations (2 tipped-in), numerous black-and-white illustrations in silhouette and printed endpapers; ivory boards blocked and lettered in gilt, ivory cloth backs lettered in gilt, a near fine set in publisher's blocked board slip-case lettered in gilt. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 COPIES. High-quality facsimiles of the de luxe versions of the first editions (Cinderella, 1919; The Sleeping Beauty 1920).
xiv, 234 paginated pages. Small tear to joint at top of spine. Heavily crossed out inscription on front pastedown and inscription on front free endpaper. Foxing on pastedowns. Stamp of St Peter's Hospital Chelsea on end pastedown. Covers slightly marked and grubby overall.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 124 pages. 8 1/4"w x 10 1/4"h. Tear on dust jacket. Twelve full-page color illustrations by Laszlo Gal. "Drawn from the French, Irish and British oral tradition of the people who first settled Canada, these tales were transformed by the settlers' encounter with the new land. Ture fairy tales, they document the collision of the "normal world" with the mysterious and irrational world of faerie, and confirm that Canada has its own rich magic tradition."
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Embossed imitation leather covers. Picture endpapers. Small piece of top corner of first few pages torn off. A quarter page of last printed page is torn off. 320 pages. Volume 6 only.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 72 p. Bir seftali, bin seftali. Bir çocuk masali. Translator: Ömer Polat. Illustrator: Ferruh Dogan.
Book is in excellent condition with bright green quarter cloth covers, gilt print at spine, publisher emblem embossed on yellow portion of boards. Very clean. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears, now wrapped in protective clear cover. Previous owner's sticker at front, 519 pages with b&w illustrations throughout. Contents include: Petsetilla's Posy, The wanderings of Arasmon, Tinykin's transformations, Goblin market.
