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1937006611Lincoln Nebraska: University of Nebraska 1937. A notable folklore Association Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page - "To Stith Thompson - "Hop skip down the wilderness" BA Botkin 6/30/37". Botkin is best remembered for his "A Treasury of American Folklore" and for his government positions at the Federal Writers Project Joint Committee on Folk Arts of the Works Progress Administration and as chief editor of the Writers Unit of the Library of Congress Project. Stith Thompson is best known for his work on the classification of motifs in folk tales. His six-volume "Motif-Index of Folk-Literature "1955-1958 is considered the international key to traditional material. The book is Good only mostly because of wrappers- old tape mends at spine 1/3 approx. of rear wrapper torn and missing label taped at spine and stamped "Folklore Institute Reading Collection" title page. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. A SCARCE thesis and 1st book for this noted folklorist. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy. University of Nebraska Paperback books
1939009767London: Hatchard & Co 1939 190 pgs. Vellum backed cloth boards blue spine label. a tiny bit of wear to edge of spine label else fine and clean housed in a later slip case which has a long abrasion to one panel. Illustrated with 2 color plates there would have been more if the book had not been rushed to publication to avoid WWII paper restrictions. Limited Edition #371/500 signed by Dulac and Crary on the limitation page. A delightful modern fairy tale. Hughey 91a. . Signed by Author & Illustrator. First Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Edmund Dulac. 4to. Hatchard & Co hardcover
192030412New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1920. 1st edition US. Hardcover. Fine. Rackham Arthur. 1st separate US ed. a subset of the complete tales issued in 1909. 4to full red cloth decorated gilt spine and cover illustrated with 20 mounted tissue guarded color plates by Arthur Rackham plus 29 line drawings. Ink 1924 gift inscription to front free endpaper darker thread across front board else fine. E.P. Dutton & Co hardcover
192230401New York: Doran 1922. 1st ed. Hardcover. Rackham Arthur. 1st US edition. 4to full red cloth with pictorial gilt cover design.16 tipped in color plates and 8 additional pastel colored illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 208pp. A fine bright copy no previous owner's marks. Doran hardcover
1843008932Hartford CT: S. Andrus and Son 1843. Recent expert reback with new back with 4 raised bands and gilt lettering and rules original embossed calf boards new end papers original marbled edges. Three frontis illustrations numerous illustrations in text 520 pages. Early prior owner gift inscription in pencil preserved at front paste down prior owner gift inscription in ink at title page. Uniform browning to pages scattered spotting. Overall a quite handsome copy. . First American Edition. Calf. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. S. Andrus and Son Hardcover books
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
19921121 O42<p>SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING stated complete number line to 1 Cambridge Candlewick Press 1992 ISBN #156402072X. Deluxe Limited Slipcased Edition #7 of 350 numbered copies. Signed by Sendak and Iona Opie. New and includes publishers paper with original price of $75 and Limitation Number No. 7 on the label. A collection of traditional children's poems and riddles illustrated by Maurice Sendak mostly in color. Books are Carefully Packed and Shipped Daily with Delivery Confirmation from Dry Smoke-Free shop. Complete Satisfaction Guaranteed.</p> Candlewick Press hardcover
1929009180Paris: Chez Firmin-Didot 1929 Printed paper wraparound covers over card light soil creasing to spines in a worn marbled slip case. Facsimile reprints of the 1695 editions of Perrault's poems fairy tales and fables limited to a total of 500 copies the first 185 on vellum. This is number 419 or 479 on arches paper. Scarce. Limited Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo. Chez Firmin-Didot hardcover
1979006600Paris: Private Bibliophile's Edition 1979. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition copy number 50 of 909 printed and SIGNED BY AUTHOR on copyright page. RARE. Near Fine front board bowed in a Very Good dust jacket light edge wear dampstains bottom edge mostly visible inside of jacket. About 1.050 sketches of graves and mortuary objects typically found in the cemeteries of Greece. With map showing the over 100 cemeteries where the graves and mortuary objects are located. From the collection of the Richard M. Dorson Memorial Library Folklore Institute Indiana University the only library indicators being its stamp of and blindstamp to front end page. . Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Private Bibliophile's Edition Hardcover books
1935003221Los Angeles: Suttonhouse 1935 181 pgs. Blue cloth hardcover titled in gilt mild discoloration of cloth near spine else fine in color pictorial dust jacket with wear at folds small chips to spine ends and corners spine slightly darkened slip case is wornand dusted. A collection of seven prize winning stories illustrated by Pogany with 7 full page color plates and small b&w drawings on almost every page. Uncommon with wrapper and slipcase. First Trade. Hard Cover. Very Good to Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Willy Pogany. 4to. Suttonhouse hardcover
1926010499Philadelphia & London: J B Lippincott Co 1926 229 pgs. Top edge stained red. Burgundy cloth pictorially stamped and titled in gilt minor wear to extremities; pictorial dust jacket sunned and worn with small losses price-clipped. A selection of folk and fairy tales from India retold for a modern audience. Illustrated with 12 full-page color plates. . First Edition. Cloth Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fair. Illus. by Katharine Pyle. Large 8vo. J B Lippincott Co hardcover
193830284Philadelphia: David McKay 1938. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. Marge. 4to full red cloth with color cover plate and interior color plates and line drawings by Marge of Littel Lulu fame. Ogres pirates robbers and wizards in the vein of Thompson's Oz continuation tales. Sticker from Green Dolphin Bookshop affixed to rear pastedown. Fine no dj or previous owner's marks. David McKay hardcover
1913700006Macmillan 1913. This is the scarce and desireable edition that contains 32 full color illustrations by Warwick Goble. This book is a former library copy and does not have the original binding. It has a library binding in red with black designs. Simple black text on spine. Original book has no library markings new rear endpaper attached to library binding show some remnants of card slot removal. No other markings that I can find. 32 colour illustrations by Warwick Goble with captioned tissue-guards all present. List of illustrations indicated that there should be a plate on page 299 "They were very friendly however and inquired her name. Snowdrop' answered she." is actually bound in at page 304. Pages show some soil and foxing wear at edges a few pages have small closed tears. All illustrations were printed on glossy stock paper and show much less soil. 7 inches by 9 inches with 379 pages. Ex-Library. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by WARWICK GOBLE. Macmillan Hardcover
As New English Original bdg. in publisher's special slip-case. Mint. 4to. (32 x 23 cm). In Turkish and English abstracts. 3 volumes set: ([26], 1046 p.; [30], 1047-1926 pp.; [30], 1927-2876 pp). Ills. Mersin Sempozyumu. 19-22 Kasim 2008. 3 volumes set in special slip-case.
181450686London, Farton, Harvey, & Darton, 1814. (63x60 mm). Contemp. (original ?) full longgrained morocco. Spine gilt. 96 pp. and 47 engraved plates. A few brownspots.
185656706Christiania, C. Werner & Comp., 1856. Ubeskåret i originalt lyseblå kartonnage. Forpermen lidt løs. En smule tab af det blå overtrækspapir ved false og på ryg. XXIII,(1),262,(2) pp. Aldeles frisk og rent eksemplar.
180132085Uden sted, (Stockholm ?), 1801. Ca 27x21 cm. Små marginale brunpletter.
London, Farton, Harvey, & Darton, 1814. (63x60 mm). Contemp. (original ?) full longgrained morocco. Spine gilt. 96 pp. and 47 engraved plates. A few brownspots.
Christiania, C. Werner & Comp., 1856. Ubeskåret i originalt lyseblå kartonnage. Forpermen lidt løs. En smule tab af det blå overtrækspapir ved false og på ryg. XXIII,(1),262,(2) pp. Aldeles frisk og rent eksemplar.
Uden sted, (Stockholm ?), 1801. Ca 27x21 cm. Små marginale brunpletter.
100120Chambéry, 1920, 290x225mm, IX- 101pages, reliure d'éditeur. Percaline bleue, titre au dos doré, armes polychromes de la Savoie au centre du plat supérieur. Très bel exemplaire.
19341312157Stockholm, (Selbstverlag), 1918 - 1934. 4to. Zus. über 2200 S. m. sehr zahlr. Abb. u. Karten im Text u. auf einigen Taf. 5 Lwdbde (begriffen) u. 13 OKartbde (Stempel a. Titelrücks., teils unaufgeschnitten).
In Lucca, nella stamperia di Iacopo Giusti, 1766, in-8, bella br. coeva in carta decorata (lievi tracce d'uso), pp. 34, [2], l'ultima c. bianca. Al recto della penultima carta è presente, sul margine bianco, una correzione al testo, manoscritta in epoca coeva. Prima edizione.
53270, Leipzig : Insel, 1921 originele uitgave, 40 pages, met buiten tekst 6 originele etsen van F. Timmermans getekend in de plaat en gedateerd. Gebonden in halfperkamenten uitgeversband met goudopdruk. tekst in het Duits. In-4 ,.
Very Good Russian First Edition of this early Soviet compilation of Nart and Ossetian epics. Valentina Aleksandrovna Dynnik-Sokolova was a Russian and Soviet literary critic and translator, member of the Union of Writers of the USSR. Dynnik-Sokolova has articles, where she considered, among other researchers, the question of the similarity of the ancient Russian composition of the 12th century with the works of Western European medieval poetry. Original cloth bdg. Foolscap 8vo. (17 x 13 cm). In Russian. 78 p., ills. OCLC 4925492.
