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19382367New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1938. Hardcover. Blue illustrated boards. Very good in good dust wrapper. 137 pages. 19.5 x 14 cm. Songs and poems for children. Illustrated throughout by Isobel and John Morton Sale. Interior clean dust wrapper soiled and chipped. <br/><br/> Frederick A. Stokes Company hardcover books
19002440Port Sunlight U.K.: Lever Brothers Ltd. c. 1900. Staplebound. Color illustrated wraps. Very good. Neilson Harry B. Unpaginated. 8 pp. 12 x 9 cm. Charming advertising pamphlet establishing a connection between big business and the homemaker's new purchasing power. The solid yellow bar of soap first introduced in 1884 was one of the first packaged branded soap used to clean clothes dishes and hair. Some light bleeding to illustrations staple rust to spine. <br/><br/> Lever Brothers Ltd. paperback books
001075Farrar Straus and Giroux 1972 Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. F. Cloth. As New/As New. First Edition. Presentation By Author. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ISBN:0-374-37126-1. Presentation by the author original art a man coat and top hat. Price clipped 1/8 missing from heel. Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1972 Hardcover books
200020818NY: Atheneum. As New in As New dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0689824823 . First printing. As new in like dust jacket. . Atheneum hardcover books
1978006092Bloomington Indiana: Indiana University Turkish Studies 1978. SCARCE. Indiana University Turkish Studies No. 1. Near Fine wrappers evenly browning. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo. Indiana University Turkish Studies Paperback books
197830282NY: Norton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. 0393090485 . Second edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Norton hardcover books
19946354NY:: Dutton. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 0525452710 . 1995 Caldecott Honor Book. First printing. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket folds are slightly off center price clipped dust jacket. . Dutton, hardcover books
200230004NY: North-South Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0735817022 . Retold and illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger. Translated by Marianne Martens. First printing thus. Remainder dot on bottom edge else fine in a near fine dust jacket. . North-South Books hardcover books
200334826Cambridge: Candlewick Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 0763617229 . The 2004 Newbery Medal winner. Illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering. Tenth printing. About fine in a fine dust jacket Newbery emblem on front panel. . Candlewick Press hardcover books
200341984Cambridge:: Candlewick Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 0763617229 . The 2004 Newbery Medal winner. Illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering. First printing. Fine in a near fine light vertical crease to rear flap dust jacket with no Newbery Medal emblem on the front panel. . Candlewick Press, hardcover books
200227596NY: Philomel Books. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0399235841 . Illustrated by the author. Translated from the Russian by Tatiana Popova. Second printing thus. Previous owner's name on front paste-down else fine in a fine dust jacket. . Philomel Books hardcover books
199941131NY:: Clarion Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0395698529 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Clarion Books, hardcover books
1978007893Bloomington Indiana: Folklore Institute / Indiana University 1978. RARE. Vol. 4 Monograph Series of the Folklore Publications Group. Near Fine slight curl bottom corner. 92 pp. . First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Folklore Institute / Indiana University Paperback books
1965006465Monuments Serica 1965. RARE. Reprint from Monumenta Serica Vol. XXIV 1965. Near fine slight soiling rear cover. Paginated 207-272. Addenda sheet laid in. . Reprint. Pamphlet. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Monuments Serica Paperback books
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
1987007409Athens OH: Swallow Press/ Ohio Univ. Press 1987. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TRANSLATOR John Matthias on title page to a colleague and friend. Fine in Wraps as Issued. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Trade Paperback Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Fine in Wraps as Issued/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Swallow Press/ Ohio Univ. Press Paperback books
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 books
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
197321349New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1973. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. Sendak Maurice. 1st ptg. 2 vol. 12mo full brown cloth with the delicate Maurice Sendak drawings. Fine in fine djs and lightly sunned full cloth slipcase with separate chemise of the individual plates. The volumes are not signed having been presumably replaced by the previous owner with the regular 1st ptg. <br/><br/> Farrar Straus Giroux hardcover books
1869007788Melbourne Australia: George Robertson 1869. 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. Bearing the small bookplate of Alfred Sutro English author dramatist and translator of the works of Maurice Maeterlinck. 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. . New Edition. Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. George Robertson Hardcover books
1897006554London and Chicago : David Nutt and Way and Williams 1897. # 218 of an edition of 300 copies on hand-made paper for America there were also 50 copies on Japan paper for America and the same 350 copies with the same papers for London. Translated from the edition of the abbe J.J. Bourasse Tours 1858 by Andrew Lang. Very Good from the collection of the Richard M. Dorson Memorial Library Folklore Institute Indiana University its bookplate namestamp front end page and blindstamp title page spine a bit darkened closed 2" tear at top edge of spine. Illustrations by Selwyn Image. . Limited and Numbered First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. David Nutt and Way and Williams Hardcover books
1959008263Sacramento California: Folk Music Society of Sacramento 1959. RARE. Nineteen separate issues - Vol. 1 Nos. 911; Vol.2 Nos. 2-5 7 11 12; Vol.3 Nos. 2 5-8; Vol. 4 Nos. 1-3 5 6. Spanning the period September 1959 through September 1962. Mimeograph newsletters each one or two pages if two pages then stapled top left. Size 8 1/2" w x 14" h. Fine as Issued. . First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Fine as Issued/No Jacket As Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Folk Music Society of Sacramento Paperback books
1936029077N.pl: Pennsylvania German Folklore Society 1936. 137p. b/w illus. original cloth partially unopened. Pennsylvania German Folklore Society unknown books
1909007965N. Wales: Llanbedrog: Issued to Subscribers only 1909. Near Fine in original beige publisher's cloth Series of Welsh Texts emblem stamped in black front cover small bottom corner bump the bookplate of noted Celtic language and folklore scholar Edgar M. Slotkin front paste down. Colophon states " Six hundred copies of this work were printed at the Private Press of the Editor in 1900-03; Nos. 1-110 on Japanese Vellum paper; 111-285 on toned linen-made paper; 286-600 on deckle-edge paper." This copy unnumbered on toned linen-made paper unnumbered and copy right page date of MDCCCCix 1909. Volume xi of the Series of Old Welsh Texts. . Limited Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. Llanbedrog: Issued to Subscribers only Hardcover books
1932006650New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1932. First Edition stated. Very Good no jacket small sticker shadow bottom edge of spine stamp and blindstamp of Folklore Institute Indiana University front end page and title page respectively. light soiling to cloth. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Woodcuts by Richard Bennett. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover books