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1947009948Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1947. Book. Very Good. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page-" To my colleague and friend James W. Marchand with greetings Clair Hayden Bell 28th March 1960". Four volumes in original red cloth Very Good no jackets spines slight sunning spine lean Marchand's name stamp front end page with laid in photocopy of a review of the book published in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology Vol. I No. 4 October 1951. Bell's monumental study of Meistergesang one of the most characteristic forms assumed by German literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With presentation inscription to the noted medieval scholar linguist and polyglot James W Marchand. A wonderful scholarly Association Copy. University of California Press Hardcover
198836444Oxford Clarendon Press. 1988. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Scholar's name to ffeps D. Gerber. Vol. 2 has light bumping to 1 corner. Djs have a few tiny tears.; A three-volume commentary compiled by an international team of scholars includes an introduction discussing previous research on the Odyssey its relation to the Iliad the epic dialect and the transmission of the text. Vol. I: 1988 396 pp ISBN: 0198140371; Vol. II: 1989 300 pp ISBN: 0198140479; Vol. III: 1992 447 pp ISBN: 0198140487;; 3 Volume Set COMPLETE. Commentary on Homer's Odyssey.; 1-3; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1143 pages . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
1923008095New York: Knopf 1923 1923. TEG. 170 pgs. Blue green cloth with gilt titling and pictorial design. Gorgeous tissue guarded color frontis many beautiful b&w illustrations throughout including chapter heads in text and full page. The original box is included though in poor condition but rarely ever present. Also included with the book is a note from the previous owner whose family was close with De La Mare. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Fine. Illus. by Dorothy P. Lathrop. 8vo. Knopf hardcover
000480Freiburg im Breisgau: Adolph Emmerling. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. 4 individual volumes 1839 1840 1841 and 1844 of this annual periodical handbook of southern German history and folklore which was published between 1839 and 1846. The 1839 volume is re-backed preserving the original publisher's blue paper boards with a decorative title printed on the front cover. The volumes for 1840 and 1844 are bound in early blue paper boards; the 1840 volume is re-backed and the 1844 volume is carefully strengthened along the hinges. The volume for 1841 is bound in brown cloth. Both the 1841 and 1844 volumes contain the remnants of original paper spine labels and also paper institutional shelf tickets. The boards and extremities to all volumes show some rubbing wear and spotting. Personal bookplates present on inside front covers; institutional blind stamp on title pages and two other leaves in each book; a shelf number is handwritten on the bottom margin of the second leaf in each volume. Pages are generally clean but with some light scattered foxing; occasional leaves are uncut; the volume for 1839 is untrimmed; the upper corner of the final leaf in the 1840 volume shows some wear - a couple small marginal tears and a tiny hole are neatly sealed. Contents include interesting articles on local historical events; superstition and folklore; Celtic Germanic and Roman antiquities folk songs Volkslieder and folk tales; church and reformation history etc. Three of the volumes contain fold out plates depicting Celtic antiquities manuscript and sheet music facsimiles a land chart showing ancient graves and an ancient wall in the Alps. <br/> <br/> Adolph Emmerling hardcover
19582091202133200157Japan Folklore Society 1958. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 201 Japan Folklore Society paperback
19892111902160302248enterprise 1989. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 230 pages average Size: 46 enterprise paperback
1894010101New York: The Century Co. 1894. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x 239 pp.; beige cloth pictorially stamped in gold orange & green; frontis. & 22 illustrations reproducing George Wharton Edwards' drawings after the author's photographs. Very Good spine darkened slight soiling to boards interior clean tight and unmarked. SCARCE. The Century Co. Hardcover
200310522NY: Knopf 2003. First trade edition first prnt. 1st issue dustjacket. Preceded by a self-published paperback edition. Signed and dated "'03" by Paolini on the title page. A 4 x 6 inch color digital photograph of Paolini at the booksigning laid in. One dustjacket corner just touched not immediately apparent; otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Volume 1 in Paolini's Inheritance trilogy. Paolini's first novel. Signed & Dated by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover
1959008083Newport RI: Board of Directors Newport Folk Festival 1959. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. RARE program for the First Newport Folk Festiaval 24 pp. featuring daily programs and two artist biographies with black and white photos per page Introduction by Billy Faier editor and publisher of CARAVAN magazine. In original stapled pictorial wrappers Very Good foxing and slight discoloration to wrappers. Featured artists included are: Pete Seeger Odetta Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry Josh White The New Lost City Ramblers Memphis Slim The Stanley Brothers The Kingston Trio Earl Scruggs Jean Ritchie and Bo Diddley among others. Board of Directors, Newport Folk Festival Paperback
1955008277London: Workers' Music Association Ltd. 1955. Journal. Very Good. No Binding. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Founded in 1936 by composer and radical Alan Bush and still in operation the Workers' Music Association has long been a beacon for the rights and music of workers. This collection consists of 49 issues of the WMA Bulletin from the years 1955 -1959; May-Dec 1955 Annual Report 9 issues; 1956 11 issues including Annual Report; 1957 12 issues; 1958 8 issues; and 1959 9 issues. Additionally 14 related separate pieces of ephemera from both the WMA and Topic Records assorted brochures flyers and price lists. RARE collection individual copies of the Bulletin unfound in online market searches. Overall Very Good or better mailing stampings small corner creases. Workers' Music Association, Ltd. unknown
1928011137<p>London: Cassell & Company 1928 251 pgs. TEG. Blue cloth with parchment spine titled and ruled in gilt some fraying and soil to cloth occasional light foxing but clean overall. 12 wonderful color illustrations by Dulac in the style he adopted later in his career. Tales by Charles Perrault Mme. D'Aulnoy Ct. Anthony Hamilton. Copy #389 / 1000 signed by Edmund Dulac. . Signed by Illustrator. Signed Limited Edition. Cloth Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Edmund Dulac. 8vo.</p> Cassell & Company hardcover
1911011154<p>London: Macmillan 1911 Red cloth pictorially stamped and titled in gilt gilt bright spine slightly sunned front and rear pasted down endpapers with adhesive residue else clean and bright internally. A selection of folk tales collected primarily from Italy and Greece in the 17th Century. Illustrated here with 32 beautiful color plates by Warwick Goble. Uncommon in such lovely condition. First Trade Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Warwick Goble. Thick 4to.</p> Macmillan hardcover
73119Pfullingen Günther Neske 1973. . Normalausgabe. Titelblatt mit einer kleinen signierten ORIGINAL-BLEISTIFTZEICHNUNG flatternder Rabe monogrammiert und datiert "75" gewidmet "für Axel" Widmung und Zeichnung 165 x 13 cm. - 1950 zeichnete und schrieb Horst Janssen dieses Bilderbuch in einer hochdeutschen Fassung des Märchens. Faszinierend wie Janssen der bodenständigen Geschichte allein durch ein paar Details im Outfit der Igelfrau dekolletiertes Trägerkleid Ohr-Clipse Lippenrot und Wangen-Rouge zu einem Hauch Mondänität verhilft. Beiligend die plattdeutsche Originalversion der Geschichte von Wilhelm Schröder die dieser zuerst 1840 im "Hannoverschen Volksblatt" veröffentlichte und die schon wenige Jahre später Eingang in die Märchensammlung der Brüder Grimm fand. - SU stellenweise angestaubt u. mit wenigen kl. geklebten Randeinrissen Cellophan mit Ausrissen. Sonst gutes sauberes Exemplar (Pfullingen, Günther Neske, 1973). unknown
19722080202106300348Not Available 1972. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Not Available paperback
67349Sankt Peterburg Izd. Ekspedicii zagotovlenija Gosudarstvennych bumag 1902. . Erste Ausgabe Doderer Lex. KJL IV S. 64; Bilderwelt 2730; Bode S. 62. - Das Federchen von Finist dem herrlichen Falken. - Märchen in russischer Sprache in alter Orthographie. - Die Umschlag-Illustration von 1899 die Märchen-Illustrationen 1900. - Ivan Jakovlevic Bilibin 1876-1942 Maler Buchillustrator u. Theaterschaffender war Mitglied der Vereinigung "Mir Iskusstva" für deren gleichnamige von S. Djagilev hrsg. Zeitschrift er Illustrationen schuf Mitbegründer des "Sojuz russkich chudoznikov" u. ab 1937 Mitglied des "Sojuz chudoznikov SSSR"; 1936-1941 lehrte er an der Allrussischen Künstlerakademie u. setzte seine Arbeit als Illustrator u. Bühnendesigner fort. Besonderen Ruhm erlangte er durch seine Illustrationen russischer Märchen u. Sagen die vielfach nachgedruckt wurden Andreas Bode: I. Ja. Bilibin 1997; vgl. Doderer a.a.O. S. 62ff. - Umschlag flächig stockfleckig u. mit Randläs. Rückendeckel mit größerem Eckabriß; innen mäßig stockfleckig; sonst gutes Exemplar (Sankt Peterburg), Izd. Ekspedicii zagotovlenija Gosudarstvennych bumag, ( 1902). unknown
1929011153<p>New York: E P Dutton 1929 209 pgs. Red cloth pictorially stamped and titled in gilt gilt dulled faint marks to boards extremities bumped and fraying bookplate to endpaper one page creased clean text and images. The book contains 48 plates in black and red by Beverley and Ellender about which little is known. Their style walks the line between Art Nouveau and Art Deco combining bold geometric shapes with fine elaborate line work reminiscent of Harry Clarke and Kay Nielsen. . First Trade Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Katharine Beverley & Elizabeth Ellender. 8vo.</p> E P Dutton hardcover
1917009853New York: G. P Putnam's Sons 1917. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxviii 341 ps. oroginal blue gloth with gilt lettering top edge gilt. Very Good gilt at spine dulled front hinge cracked yet holding nicely 3 pages of Introduction with top corner creases. Originally from the collection of Anne F. Oberndorfer her signature in pencil front end page. Anne Shaw Faulkner Oberndorfer 1877-1948 a prominent Chicago music educator and a frequent contributor to Better Homes & Gardens The Ladies' Home Journal and Child Life magazines during the 1920s. Later from the collection of noted music professor John Planer of Manchester University his bookplate front paste down. G. P Putnam's Sons Hardcover
1913010418London: Hodder and Stoughton 1913 113 pgs. White cloth decoratively stamped in teal and gilt light wear to top of spine 3 tiny marks to lower cover else a bright beautiful copy. Tipped in color frontis & 9 other very beautiful tipped in color plates with captioned guards. Dulac most celebrated for his "Arabian Nights" illustrations continues his heavily mid-east influenced style in this fabulous volume. Hughey 31a. First Trade. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Edmund Dulac. Thick 4to. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
73118Pfullingen Günther Neske 1973. . Normalausgabe mit einer kleinen signierten ORIGINAL-BLEISTIFTZEICHNUNG tränendes Auge ca. 16 x 11 cm auf dem Titel. - 1950 zeichnete und schrieb Horst Janssen dieses Bilderbuch in einer hochdeutschen Fassung des Märchens. Beiligend die plattdeutsche Originalversion der Geschichte von Wilhelm Schröder die dieser zuerst 1840 im "Hannoverschen Volksblatt" veröffentlichte und die schon wenige Jahre später Eingang in die Märchensammlung der Brüder Grimm fand. - Gutes sauberes Exemplar (Pfullingen, Günther Neske, 1973). unknown
67760Stuttgart G. Weise 1903. . Erste Ausgabe. Krahé Spielwelt 57. - Außentitel: "Hans im Glück. Ein Märchen von L. Meggendorfer". - Das bekannte Märchen von Hans der zum Lohn für seine Arbeit einen Klumpen Gold erhält u. durch vermeintlich günstige ständige Tauschhandel endlich doch mit leeren Händen heimkehrt wurde von Ida Bosch-Ibo in etwas holprige Reime gebracht von den leicht karikierenden Illustrationen augenzwinkernd begleitet. - Zu dem Illustrator Karikaturisten u. Bilderbuch-Künstler L. Meggendorfer 1847-1925 siehe Doderer Lex. KJL II S. 459 f. ohne diesen Titel. - Einband mäßig bestoßen u. angestaubt RDeckel u. letzte Bll. mit kleinen Wurmlöchlein außerhalb der Darstellung Klammerheftung angerostet Buchblock lose; im Ganzen gut erhaltenes Exemplar. - Selten! [Stuttgart, G. Weise, 1903]. unknown
1929007595New York: Longman's Green and Co 1929 Translated by Clara V. Winlow. Illustrated boards with red cloth spine edge and corner wear pages age-toned. A rare and stunning children's book featuring humanized mice and frogs printed on thick paper with vibrant and rich colors. "Spread happiness with your playing everywhere and some will also come your way and bread to eat as well." See Five Years of Children's Books by Bertha Mahoney pg 76. First Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. Oblong Folio. Longman's Green and Co hardcover
1919007478New York: Frederick A Stokes 1919 Red cloth pictorially stamped in black titled in gilt with die-cut color pastedown to front cover light wear to extremities frontis tissue creased else nice internally; the dust jacket is missing large pieces with old repairs on verso heavily worn. A beautifully illustrated Mother Goose with 24 color plates plus full and partial page line art. A beautiful copy rare with the dust jacket. First Edition. Very Good/Good Minus. Illus. by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis. Thick 4to. Frederick A Stokes hardcover
Rockwell, JoanIn Pristine Condition. unknown
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