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189932639NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. History French; B&W Illustrations; 9; xv212 pages; Gilles de Retz was the basis for 'Bluebeard'. One of the leading figures in the kingdom he was executed for horrific crimes against children. 5 illustrations and facsimiles. . G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
187662914Henry S. King & Co London 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. Size: 12mo 6 3/4 - 7 3/4". xxiv 328 47pp. Front hinge cracking. Spine slight cocked with slight chips and bumps to ends. Scattered foxing but text mostly clean. Edges foxed and browned. Ex-library with minimal stamps and markings. Covers slightly marked. Corners slightly bumped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Myths Legends & Folklore; Poetry. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 62914. . Henry S. King & Co hardcover
188063769Unwin Brothers 1880. Limited edition no. 49 of 257 copies. Hardcover. Good Condition ex-library. Signed by Editor. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". xvi h 120pp. Front hinge cracked. Slight loss to top of spine. Split to top of rear joint with horizontal tear to spine at base of split causing top section of spine to come away from rear board. Edges foxed and browned. Ex-library with usual stamps and markings. Corners bumped. English Scholar's Library of Old and Modern Works no. 1. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Myths Legends & Folklore; Medieval 10th to 15thc; Signed by Editor. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 63769. . Unwin Brothers hardcover
1865biblio268<p>"The Old Blacksmith Jacob's Stories" in 19th century German an excellent copy from a prolific story teller. A treasure.</p><p>Photo on request.</p> Robler hardcover
188361764Whittaker & Co London 1883. Fourth Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". cxvi 448 / lxviii 570 / x 541pp. 3-volume set complete. Text is in English & Latin. School prize binding with gilt emblems embossed on both boards. Title pieces and gilt decoration to spines. Bindings firm. Slight foxing front/rear pages but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's address in ink. Edge marked. Boards bowed. Covers marked. This set is published over the period 1881-3. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-5 kilos. Category: Poetry; Rome; Ancient BC; English & Latin Language; Myths Legends & Folklore. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 61764. . This is a SET of books therefore heavier than a standard volume and will involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Whittaker & Co hardcover
1897000015247Philadelphia: William Finley & Co 1897. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 10 vol. 8vo. For pagination please inquire. Half contemporary brown sheep over marbled paper boards ruled in gold gold lettering and decorations on the spines; top edges gilt fore-edges and bottom edges deckled. Green floral endpapers and pastedowns. Title pages in red and black. Illustrated with over 100 photogravures from paintings by the world's best artists these are plates. Edited by Julian Hawthorne and Professor J.P. Lamberton. The Imperial edition limited to 1000 copies numbered 430 on the limitation page and signed by the editor. With excerpts from the literature of the Celts Greeks Chinese Hindus Native Americans Middle Eastern peoples Ango-Saxons and from many other cultures with literary and oral traditions. This is a large set and may require extra shipping. Light wear to the boards' edges. Overall a sharp set. William Finley & Co hardcover
1880009032London Paris & New York: Cassell Petter Galpin & Co 1880 60 leaves printed on rectos only. Color pictorial boards with a 2" abrasion to front cover heavy shelf wear losss to spine ends gift inscriptions and a few small marks inside but generally clean. Entertaining verse accompanied by color artwork on every page. The verses and images range from everyday scenes whimsy and nearly fantastical including a humanized kite cat and insects. Originally published in booklet format in 3 volumes. Scarce. Pictorial Boards. Good/No Jacket. 4to. Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co unknown
1845DEMO015623ILondon: E. Appleyard 1845. Roscoe's Library edition. Hardcover. Very Good. linecuts. 8vo 554 pages half black leather extra gilt spine rehinged <br/><br/>Possibly the first book appearance in English of Sue's August 25 1845 letter to his dedicatee. "This romance was one of the most popular specimens of the roman feuilleton the episodic melodramatic novel published by the cheap dailies of the mid-nineteenth century. The Jew who refused hospitality to Jesus has been doomed to a life of sorrow and wandering until his last descendant shall have died. . It is an interesting very compelling story as good as the best of Alexandre Dumas per - THESAURUS OF BOOK DIGESTS." Illustrated with linecuts. E. Appleyard hardcover
18904555F. A. Brockhaus. 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. Leather spine and corners with gilt lettering and raised bands. May have been rebound at one time. Attractive.; Foxing to prelims and textblock. Text is in German and ancient Greek.; 223 pages . F. A. Brockhaus hardcover
1845007972London: Printed for Thomas Tegg 1845. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. New Edition. Tall 8vo. Very Good in contemporary half pebbled brown morocco over marbled boards spine with five raised bands and lettered in gilt marbled end papers the bookplate of noted Celtic language and folklore scholar Edgar M. Slotkin front paste down along with a small bookseller's label. Prior owner name top edge verso front end page. Boards rubbed at edges binding solid contents quite clean and unmarked. A scholar's copy. Printed for Thomas Tegg Hardcover
1880009319New York: Thomas Nelson 1880 Date based on institutional holdings. 64 pgs.Pictorial boards edges worn and rubbed through binding shaken small marginal loss from one page offsetting opposite illustrations else clean. Juvenile verse with lovely color artwork on every page by artists Sowerby and Emmerson. Beautifully printed by the Dalziel Brothers Brain and Co. and Clay Son and Taylor. First American Edition. Pictorial Boards. Good to Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by John George Sowerby & Henry Hetherington Emmerson. 4to. Thomas Nelson unknown
1856901095Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1856. Cloth. Good. Cloth. 303 pages with illustrations by Hammatt Billings. Wear and tear at the spine ends. Wear at corners. A few corner creases to interior pages and a few instances of foxing brown spotting. Moderate spine slant. <br /> Ticknor and Fields hardcover
1898010303London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head 1898 Blue cloth pictorially stamped and titled in gilt gilt and cloth darkened stain to upper cover roughness to inner rear hinge A collection of 12 fairy tales illustrated with detailed and imaginative b&w line art by Charles Robinson. . First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Charles Robinson. 8vo. John Lane The Bodley Head hardcover
18200007051London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1820. New edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo; xii iii-lxxiv 240 pages tea spots p. lxiii; 20th century full brown morocco raised bands. <br/><br/>Ritson's collection first appeared in 2 volumes in 1795. This work was designed to appeal to youth so many of Ritson's notes were removed to better appeal to young persons. Woodcuts by Thomas Bewick. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown hardcover
189401809New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1894. First edition. Twelvemo. Brown pictorial cloth stamped in gilt; v 437 1 pp.; illustrations. The scarce first edition of Twilight Land a collection of fairy tales written and illustrated by Howard Pyle and the result of Pyle's "untrammelled imagination an inexhaustible vocabulary and a long-practised pencil." Illustrated with black & white illustrations profusely throughout. A Very Good copy with some rubbing to cloth; gilt to spine rubbed and dulled; corners bumped; owner's penciled name to front endpaper bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown else clean throughout. We find no other copies of this first edition in commerce 2015. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
18545677Weidmannsche Buchhandlung. 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Marbled boards with gilt lettering and tooling on spine. Fraying to top of spine. Edgewear to boards. Small discoloration spot on spine. Ffep has traces of removed plate. Small institution stamp on titlepage only trace of ex-library. Former owner's name in ink on ffep. Heavy foxing or browning throughout.; 528 & 365 pages . Weidmannsche Buchhandlung hardcover
1897140428-B02Washington D. C.: Government Printing Office 1897. Good hard cover. 1897. 366 pages. color plates . Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Government Printing Office Hardcover
1847011072<p>Leipzig: Chez Baumgaertner 1847 1847 per institutional copies Gumuchian dates it at 1835. 6.5 x 4 inches 16.5 x 10 cm. 16 pgs. Yellow paper over boards titled in black ink some cover soil occasional light foxing offsetting opposite artwork. One in a series of books meant to teach young Germans how to read French. An abbreviated version of Perrault's tale in French with explanations of French idioms in German. Illustrated with brightly colored engravings. Some of the scenes depicted are quite violent and gruesome. Rare. Gumuchian 4454. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Oblong 16mo.</p> Chez Baumgaertner hardcover
1899006605Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh Limited 1899. Book. Very Good. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. RARE in the 1899 First Edition. Very Good sticker abrasion bottom front and rear wrappers rubbing and a few small stains to wrappers. From the collection of the Richard M. Dorson Memorial Library Folklore Institute Indiana University its bookplate namestamp half-title page and blindstamp title page and a few interior pages with blindstamp as well. 48 pp. A Lecture delivered at the request of the Senate of University College Liverpool. Edward Harper Parker 1849-1926 was a barrister and noted China scholar and although not a trained linguist his greatest contribution historically may well be his unusual outlook on colloquial Chinese language. Kelly and Walsh, Limited Paperback
18974471Stuttgart: Loewes Verlag Ferdinand Carl 1897 . Seventeenth edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 56 iv pages clothbacked chromolithographed boards <br/><br/>With 6 chromolithographs by the team of Offterdinger & Leutemann with fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. The excellent frontispiece shows Gretel pushing the witch into the oven. Loewes Verlag Ferdinand Carl hardcover
1895003263London: Lawrence and Bullen 1895 Mauve patterned cloth pictorially stamped in gilt gilt slightly dulled spine sunned boards slightly bowed. Fairy stories set in Ireland written by Irish poetess Moira O'Neill. Illustrated with lovely b&w plates by Britten. Scarce. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by W. E. F. Britten. 8vo. Lawrence and Bullen hardcover
1897006573London: David Nutt 1897. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Near Fine in the original green cloth wonderfully decorated in gilt top edge gilt purple end pages illustrated chiefly from photographs by A. M. Dixon 351 pp. fold-out map Fine from the collection of the Richard M. Dorson Memorial Library Folklore Institute Indiana University its bookplate namestamp half-title page and blindstamp title page no other markings or indications. Golspie is a village in Scotland on the North Sea coast. David Nutt Hardcover
1869007788Melbourne Australia: George Robertson 1869. Book. Near Fine. Morocco. New Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New Edition containing prefaces to First and Second Editions xliii 255 pp with six full page color illustrations and numerous black and white illustrations. Master Tyll Owlglass is the Anglicized name for the German jokester Till Eulenspiegel. Finely bound in lovely Art Deco brown morocco with vertical sets of double gilt rules five raised bands with gilt lettering decorative end pages all edges gilt wide inner dentelles with double gilt rules. Likely an early 20th c. California binding. Bearing the small leather bookplate of Alfred Sutro General Counsel of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company of which organization he had been a director since 1940 and noted bibliophile whose leadership as President of the Book Club of California was indtrumental in its growth. Near Fine original cloth covers bound in front and rear moderate toning to end pages and first few pages two small rubs to morocco at rear joint prior owner name half-title page. George Robertson Hardcover
1882010134<p>New York: McLoughlin Bros 1882 Circa 1882. 10.75 x 8.5 in. 27 x 21 cm. Color printed card covers with light soil and surface wear 2 inch tear to rear cover. Mother Goose rhymes illustrated with four full-page chromolithographs a dual-page sepia centerfold and in-text artwork in sepia throughout. Illustrated by Walter Satterlee per American Antiquarian Society. Pictorial Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by W. Bruton Attrib cover & Walter Satterlee . 4to.</p> McLoughlin Bros
1880011085New York: McLoughlin Bros 1880 Circa 1880. AAS dates it to 1882 but this copy differs from their copy with no advertisements for Over the Hills by Ida Waugh. Upper cover printed in red blue and blac spine reinforced chipping to lower corner cover soil. A selection of popular Mother Goose rhymes illustrated with 6 vibrant color plates plus a dual-page centerfold. Rhymes include Pussy Cat Pussy Cat; Ride-a-Cock-Horse; Mary Mary quite contrary; Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater; Jack and Jill etc. Pictorial Wraps. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Uncredited. Small 4to. McLoughlin Bros unknown
