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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
1898006557London: Henry Frowde 1898. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. RARE in the First Edition. Very Good from the collection of the Richard M. Dorson Memorial Library Folklore Institute Indiana University its bookplate namestamp half-title page and blindstamp title page gilt titles and designs cloth a bit faded at spine end pages toned light rubbing to cloth at tips overall a well-cared for and lovely copy. Henry Frowde Hardcover
1853004458Schoonhoven: S.E. Van Nooten 1853 160 pagina's. 1 Gravure / titelplaat door W.F. Wehmeyer / H.F.C. ten Kate. Vertaling door C.M. Mensing. Kleine gebruiksspoortjes. 1ste / 1st. cloth / linnen hardcover. good / goed. A5 formaat. S.E. Van Nooten 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
1899009612No Place: Juvenile Publishers 1899 Unpaginated. Pictorial boards accented in gilt cloth spine corners worn edges rubbed clean overall with a few signs of use internally. The publishers really tried to pack a lot into this one little book! We start out with an alphabet with two examples and brief verse for each letter then we go on to counting then days of the week then months and finish off with some natural history. Peppered throughout the book are Mother Goose rhymes. The book is illustrated in two-color plus line art printed with blue ink and there is a color frontis depicting Little Red Riding Hood. There are even some Wain-esque cats! Something for everyone really. . Pictorial Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Various. 8vo. Juvenile Publishers unknown
1886009502New York: McLoughlin Bros 1886 Covers printed in red green & black cover illustration signed W Momberger small loss to corner of cover base of spine with later stitching occasional soil but clean overall. A rather gruesome version of the Three Little Pigs illustrated with colored engravings printed on one side of paper only. AAS dates this version from around 1886. Pictorial Wraps. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by William Momberger and Other Engravings. Large 8vo. McLoughlin Bros unknown
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
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
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
19000005500Chicago: George M. Hill Company 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Good. W.W. DENSLOW. Quarto 84 pages pictorial boards rubbed edgeworn corners worn rebacked in brown leather with new endpapers. <br/><br/>Verse by L. Frank Baum. Music by Alberta N. Hall. There was only one printing of this edition. Bienvenue & Schmidt p. 171 report no known copies with a dust jacket. Illustrated by W. W. Denslow who of course also did THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ. George M. Hill Company hardcover
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
18916815London: Walter Scott 1891. First edition. 8vo vii 372 4pp. publisher's ads at rear. Burgandy cloth stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. Bookplate of H. Ringwood Peace an expert on Irish fairy tales to front pastedown. Later ownership signature on ffep. Spine sunned with wear at ends and corners. Very good and sound. <br /> <br /> Interesting work from Hartland 1848-1927 whose works focused on folklore and mythology from a ethnological perspective. This book contains sections on Fairy Births and Human Midwives Changelings The Supernatural Lapse of Time in Fairyland Swan-Maidens and others. Walter Scott unknown
189025090187George Allen UK 1890. Third Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. 233 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: George Allen UK 1890. Third Edition. CONDITION: This book is in good condition but dust jacket is not included. More specifically: Covers have superficial rubbing/wear. Edges of boards have moderate edgewear and corners are moderately bumped. Pages are reasonably tanned. Previous owner's name in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Myths Legends & Folklore; History. Inventory No: 25090187. George Allen hardcover
1897006554London and Chicago: David Nutt and Way and Williams 1897. Book. Very Good. Paper Covered Boards. Limited and Numbered First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. # 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. David Nutt and Way and Williams 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
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
189313006London: Lawrence & Bullen 1893. Limited ed. Hardcover. Weguelin J.R. #123 of 150 numbered copies 4to imitation parchment stamped in gilt. Translated by R. Nisbet Bain. J.R. Weguelin's illustrations were printed on tissue and mounted to the page then protected with tissue guards. Owner's name and date to front pastedown lightly edgeworn with soiling to cover and mild foxing to preliminaries else a very good copy of an uncommon collection of classic tales. Lawrence & Bullen 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
1900DEMO015089IBaltimore: John Murphy Company 1900. First edition. printed wrappers. Good . 8vo 77 pages chipped printed wrappers light waterstain on bottom edge <br/><br/>Prof. Krapp's doctoral dissertation. A later history of the legend of St. Patrick's Purgatory. Also gives a typical example of the later forms of the legend in the " Vision of William Staunton" here edited for the first time from the two manuscripts of the "Vision" in the British Library. John Murphy Company unknown
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
183238233Philadelphia: Carey & Lea. Good with no dust jacket. 1832. 1st. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. Light to moderate spotting. Paper covered boards. Unopened. Half titles present. Morgenthauer vol II c. Sound copies. A novel of 16th century Germany that focuses on the friction between the classes and the darker side of the Reformation. . Carey & Lea hardcover
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
189946900George Newnes London 1899. First Thus. Hardcover. Fair Condition. Illustrator: W. H. Robinson Helen Stratton A. D. McCormick A. L. Davis & A. E. Norbury. Size: 4to <12". viii 472pp. Pencil illustration to rear end paper. Hinges cracked. Rear joint mostly split with spine coming away from rear board. Scattered foxing but text mostly clean. Previous owner's signature in ink. All edges gilt in good condition. Rear end paper nearly loose. Several hundred illustrations. Illustrator: W. H. Robinson Helen Stratton A. D. McCormick A. L. Davis & A. E. Norbury. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-5 kilos. Category: Myths Legends & Folklore; Early & Medieval 10th to 15thc; History. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 46900. . This book is extra heavy and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. George Newnes hardcover
1898010120Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin 1898. Book. Very Good Plus. Decorative Cloth. Later Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good Plus in original brown cloth lettered in gilt and blindstamped with red decorations black end papers professionally restored small rubs to cloth at corners scattered marginal stamps of a hand with pointing finger no other markings clean and tight. xv 1 379 pages 12 illustrations. Originally published 1884 title page date of 1898. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover
1884000390James R. Osgood and Company 1884. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo. pp. 225 1. Original publisher's yellow-green cloth with black oriental design on front cover. Re-hung / re-cased preserving end papers ; small repairs to head and tail caps of spine and to outer corner tips of boards.; spots of wear to extremities; some fading or discoloration along the upper edge of the rear board. Inner hinges are neatly strengthened; color book plate on inside front cover. Pages are clean. This edition contains the JR.O & Co insignia at the bottom of the spine. Lafcadio Hearn's first book. The contents contain supernatural stories based on folklore from Buddhist and Indian literature the Finnish Kalavala The Jewish Talmud Muslim literature Egyptian papyri etc. Many of the stories deal with the themes of the pursuit of wisdom and of the spectral lover. BAL 7912. <br/> <br/> James R. Osgood and Company hardcover
