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1925010664<p>New York: George H Doran 1925 310 pgs. Red cloth with pictorial pastedown in metallic gold black & red a few spots to edge of text block else a fine copy housed in the original pictorial box which is worn and soiled with a couple of breaks but complete. A gorgeous copy of Kay Nielsen's magnificent illustrated edition of Grimm's fairy tales featuring 12 tipped-in color plates and 10 full page b&w plates and decorative initials. This was the last of Nielsen's lavish gift books and no British trade edition was issued. . First Trade Edition. Pictorial Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Kay Nielsen. Large Thick 4to.</p> George H Doran hardcover
1892006542London: T. Fisher Unwin 1892. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. First Trade Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The First Trade Edition there was also a limited edition of 100 copies. Very Good in the original salmon cloth with black decorations to boards; title in red on front and spine Unwin monogram likewise on rear. Color frontispiece. Spine darkened and red title dulled 3" tear top edge half-title page light foxing to end pages period interesting bookplate front pastedown. From the collection of the Richard M. Dorson Memorial Library Folklore Institute Indiana University the only library indicators being its stamp verso of frontispiece and blindstamp to title page. With RARE and important three page ALS tipped to front end page sent from Leland at the Hotel Victoria Florence Italy to Mr Sampson noted linguist John Sampson possiby dated 1899 with "99" after heading. "Dear Mr Sampson I have written and sent you separately by this mail that which I contribute to our book." He then discusses his wishes for the Preface and Introduction before adding "The Tinkers. This is quite unfinished. It needs a great deal from you. Please note that I have got some queer items as to the Tinkers of old times." In the next paragraph he mentions Shelta Shelta Thari being an esoteric language spoken by the tinkers which Leland had discovered in 1876. He goes on to ask "Can you send me an Old Irish alphabet' and later "I hope it will not take you long to put together what you and Professor Meyer will give" referring to Professor Kuno Meyer a German scholar distinguished in the field of Celtic philology and literature. Then an address in Hamburg Germany where he can be reached after June and "Sincerely Charle G. Leland". While I can find no book that these three men published together Sampson and Meyer did much work later to carry forward research and knowledge of the Shelta language and customs. A quite fascinating correspondence and ASSOCIATION COPY. T. Fisher Unwin Hardcover
19922080202105101520Not Available 1992. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 5 Not Available paperback
1904010920<p>Boston: Old Corner Book Store 1904 464 pgs. Beige cloth pictorially stamped in color on all panels mild surface rubbing light shelf wear overall a lovely clean copy. Originally published in this format in 1900 but this edition replaces the pictorial endpapers with plain all else is identical. Illustrated with a color frontis & title page the balance in b&w as full- and partial-page plus chapter heads and decorations. All iterations of Rackham's Grimm fairy tales are elusive. This one is made even more special by an autograph letter signed by Rackham addressed to Canadian author Howard Angus Kennedy declining an invite to a party held by the Candian Author's Association. Reprint. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Arthur Rackham. Thick 8vo.</p> Old Corner Book Store hardcover
19882080202102900240Daiichishobo 1988. Soft Cover. Fine. Books: 5 books Daiichishobo paperback
19882080202102600143Daiichishobo 1988. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Daiichishobo paperback
18992221708<p>ORIGINAL 14 PARTS</p><p>First edition in the original 14 parts. 11" x 8 1/2" circa 400 b/w illustrations by Lemercier and Helen Stratton who gets sole credit on the title page. Original stitched green pictorial wrappers. Part 14 with half title title page contents and list of illustrations 320 pages. No dust jacket. Very good minor rubbing; signs of handling and some light foxing. Scarce.</p><p>Printed by Butler & Tanner The Selwood Printing Works.</p><p>Some illustrations in first two parts are signed "Lemercier" in the plate.</p> George Newnes paperback
199661434Motilal Banarsidass Delhi 1996. Reprint. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". 57 volumes only of set or series. Internally clean. Bindings firm spines faded. Edge marked. Covers marked. This set is published over the period 1986-96. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 5 kilos. Category: Religion & Theology; India; Myths Legends & Folklore. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 61434. . This is a SET of books therefore heavier than a standard volume and will involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Motilal Banarsidass hardcover
20042081402109701222Women's Folklore Research Society 2004. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Women's Folklore Research Society paperback
1918L0253<p>i-ii i-x-175printer's imprint with frontispiece and 7 plates. Small octavo 7 1/4" x 4 7/89" bound original publisher tan cloth with brown lettering to spine and pictorial cover in original jacket. BAL: 7168 First edition.</p><p>Uncle Remus Returns is a posthumous collection of African American folktales compiled by Joel Chandler Harris and published in book form in 1918. The volume serves as a sequel to his highly popular yet historically controversial plantation folklore series. The text originally appeared as stories published between 1905 and 1906 in the <em>Metropolitan Magazine</em> before being consolidated into a single volume. Folklore scholars note that the stories in this specific volume weave together a mix of traditional African European and regional indigenous folklore themes.</p><p>Joel Chandler Harris was an American journalist fiction writer and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton Georgia where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent the majority of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution. Harris led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris he supported a vision of the New South with the editor Henry W. Grady 1880–1889 stressing regional and racial reconciliation after the Reconstruction era. As Joel Chandler Harris fiction writer and folklorist he wrote many 'Brer Rabbit' stories from the African-American oral tradition and helped to revolutionize literature in the process.<br /><br /><strong>Condition:</strong><br /><br />Some staining to back cover previous owner's neat ink gift inscription to front end paper. Jacket edges and spine ends chipped else a very good copy in like jacket.</p> Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
1968009856London Melbourne Toronto: Macmillan 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at title page -"John Johnson with best wishes Margaret Laurence". Review Copy with publisher's review slip laid in. Near Fine small corner bumps in a Very Good dust jacket light edge wear mainly at corners and spine ends. With Johnson's blind stamp front end page. John William Johnson 1942 is a noted folklorist with a distinguished teaching and publishing career and who spent a year and a half translating and editing for the renowned Somali folklorist and poet Haaji Muuse Galaal. A great folkloric Association Copy. Macmillan Hardcover
1930008099Cambridge MA: Folk - Song Society of the Northeast 1930. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. RARE Worldcat shows 3 holdings worldwide all in Europe and no individual numbers found in any commercial database. The complete 12 issue run of this seminal folksong journal published 1930-1937 from the collection of noted folklorist Frank A. Hoffmann his folk music-inspired bookplate front paste down. Bound in green cloth with two black leather labels at spine lettered in gilt Near Fine staining to rear board and rear paste down the bulletins are all Fine. The Folk-Song Society was founded by Phillips Barry American academic and collector of traditional folk ballads in New England in 1930 and he edited this journal until his death in 1937. Folk - Song Society of the Northeast Hardcover
1927009657Garden City N.Y.: Doubleday Page and Co. 1927. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Trade Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presentation Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at dedication page in blue ink -"And now Margaret here's another of those books so gaily planned." CJF" . Tipped in at rear end page is the author's original manuscript in black ink of his recording of the songs Doo Me Ama and The Female Smuggler which is printed in facsimile in the book at page 4 where Finger states at bottom page 3 and top of p. 4 "Such notes as I made were made furtively and as this book aims to set forth things correctly by way of showing how I made my notes in places where blank paper was scarce here is a facsimile." And indeed the music for those two songs was written on the back of a letter 6' x 7 3/4" with ragged edges dated 10 Mars. March '90 1890 presumably sent to Finger by an unknown writer which includes part of the lyrics for the French folksong Les Trois Hussards. Additionally laid in is a publisher's 3 1/4' x 5 1/2' advertising card for the book The Incredible Marquis : Alexander Dumas by Herbert Goodman. In 1889 at age twenty Finger began to travel extensively visiting first Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia. In Chapter One at ps. 15-20 he starts the book with his description of recording these two songs - "Aboard the three-master "The Fairy Queen" .Bill Curzon who was a sailor of the old school sang a song called Doo Me Ama a ballad with a faint Rabelaisian flavour about it ". Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering and decorations front cover and spine Near Fine small rubs at corners in a Very Good dust jacket spine sunned small chips at edges. A remarkable Presentation Copy of the First Trade Edition. While Finger is best remembered for his 1925 Newberry Medal Winner "Tales From Silver Lands" his contributions to folklore were also considerable and he numbered Carl Sandburg among his friends and supporters. . Doubleday, Page and Co. Hardcover
189631358London: Dent 1896. 1st ed. Hardcover. Rackham Arthur. 1st ptg. 8vo full green pebbled cloth with pictorial gilt titling. The earliest book showing Rackham identified as illustrator on the title page and the first to display his classic style of fantastical illustration. Toning to endpapers else a fine bright interior. Dent hardcover
1864009973London and Cambridge: Macmillan & Co. 1864. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. lvi 190 pages. In original brick cloth gilt lettering back Near Fine faint name in ink front end page tiny rubs to corners the small bookseller's ticket of Gustav E. Stechert of New York verso front end paper. SCARCE and important edition and study of the Stanzaic or Harleian Le Morte Arthur. Collectible copies uncommon in current market. Macmillan & Co. Hardcover
1930011104<p>New York: Coward McCann 1930 Orange cloth pictorially stamped in blue a few minuscule nicks from board edges previous owner's name else Fine and clean; color pictorial dust jacket with some darkening and tiny losses original price intact $3.50. An early printing bound in orange instead of blue but retaining the original design originally issued at $2.50. One of the Hader's most desirable titles. Their Picture Book of Mother Goose is illustrated on every page either in b&w or full color and printed on thick stock. First and early printings of this title are notoriously difficult to find in nice condition and almost never with a dust jacket and /or signed!. Signed by Illustrators. Early Edition. Pictorial Cloth Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Berta and Elmer Hader. Large Square 8vo.</p> Coward McCann 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
1959190810-MYB09Berkeley: University of California Press 1959. Very Good Hardcover 1959 first edition scarce. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Cover. University of California Press Hardcover
19982111902160200586Matsumotoichi 1998. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 11 volumes Matsumotoichi paperback
19692090502124900219Academic Book Publishing Association 1969. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Academic Book Publishing Association paperback
1970009855Cardiff: University of Wales Press 1970. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. One of Griffiths two most important works. "This is the first modern commentary on Plutarch's De Iside et Osiride to be accompanied by a new recension of the greek text and also the first to be undertaken by a classical scholar who is at the same time an Egyptologist." front flap. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket tiny tear at top edge of spine faint staicker shadow rear panel. University of Wales Press Hardcover
1920008871London: William Heinemann 1920 110 pgs. Pictorial paper-covered boards backed in pink cloth light shelf wear foxing to edge of text block and marginally to text pages bottom corner slightly bumped; pictorial dust jacket sunned overalll moreso to spine minor wear. One of Rackham's loveliest creations illustrated with a tipped-in color frontis numerous 2 & 3 color silhouettes as well as full page silhouetted drawings. Rare in dustwrapper. . First Trade Edition. Illustrated Boards. Very Good/Very Good Minus. Illus. by Arthur Rackham. 4to. William Heinemann hardcover
1928007607Springfield MA: Milton Bradley 1928 Black cloth with a faux-leather pattern pictorially stamped and titled in yellow ink rubbing to extremities top corner slightly bumped previous owner's name and bookplate. 12 fantasy stories illustrated with 6 color plates by Tenggren and 14 b&w plates by Carl Wehde. Rare Tenggren title. First Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Gustaf Tenggren & Carl Emil Wehde. 4to. Milton Bradley hardcover
1951008276Palmer Michigan: National Hillbilly Record Collectorss Exchange 1951. Journal. Very Good. No Binding. First Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. RARE. 16 issues of Disc Collector; Official Organ of National Hillbilly Record Collectors' Exchange later renamed Disc Collector: "The Country Record Collectors Bible". This mimeographed country and folk music journal which has been called a veritable "research discography". Published quarterly starting in 1951 the 16 issues are Vol. 1 Nos.1-4 1951; Vol. 2 Nos. 1-3 1952; and Nos. 10 12-19 1957-1961. With a hand-written artist index on 4" x 6" index cards giving artist name issue number and page number no indication of author but from the collection of noted folklorist Frank Hoffman. Additionally Disc Collectors New Letter Nos. 1-5 Jan.-Sept. 1964 along with 2 pages of New Releases and a blank application for membership to Disc Collectors Record Club. Very Good or better overall slight musty smell assorted small corner creases. A remarkable and RARE treasure trove for the collector of early country and folk music. National Hillbilly Record Collectorss Exchange unknown
18938837London: David Nutt 1893. First edition thus Bibliotheque de Carabas Vol. VIII. 8vo lxv 5 92 2pp ads at rear. Frontis plate by Lockhart Bogle and one other vignette illustration preceding the Kirk text. Stitched in publisher's plain card wraps with printed paper jacket. Deaccession stamps and labels from Boston library to title and inner front cover worming to edge of ffep else clean internally. Staining to jacket spine mostly chipped away with remaining portion neatly adhered. A good sound copy. <br /> <br /> Gaelic folklorist Robert Kirk's 1644-1692 famous treatise on fairly folkore witchcraft and second sight. This edition published by David Nutt contains a lengthy introductory commentary by Andrew Lang. Scarce. . David Nutt unknown
