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1949009557New York: Limited Editions Club 1949 Three volumes #1302 of an edition of 2500 books Near Fine with slightly sunned spines one volume with a tiny pen mark to cover lacking glassine dust wrappers slip case chipped with wear. Ali Baba signed by Ardizzone Sleeping Beauty unsigned Ugly Duckling signed by the editor Jean Hersholt and Everett Gee Jackson. Signed by Artist. First Limited Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Everett Gee Jackson Sylvain Sauvage and Edward Ardizzone. 4to. Limited Editions Club hardcover
0116G2IYN91Very Good. VG- black cloth in no DJ. FIRST Am. ed. in no DJ. Silver decor. type on spine some fading: about 1/2 faded though embossing still pronounced on spine. Hinges good. Prev. ownership plate from Edith R. Paul the Baltimore puppeteer. Below Paul's bookplate is Tracy L. Johnson's signature. Else unmarked. large 4to cloth with elaborate silver pictorial cover and spine spine faded else FINE. 1st U.S. trade ed. Illustrated by Kay Nielsen with 12 bright tipped in color plates plus many full page black and whites to accompany sixteen fairy tales. hardcover
003816New York: Saml Gabriel Sons 1937. Pictorial boards with cloth spine edges rubbed pictures completed; matching dust jacket with wear and soil small losses at corners and spine ends. A collection of fairy tales originally published in 1927 with Becker's illustrations but not a "Put-Together" book. The pictures have all been very neatly completed and are actually very nice to look at. The text is surrounded by lovely green pictorial borders. First Thus. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Saml Gabriel Sons hardcover
1947004410Chicago: Ziff-Davis 1947 1947. Illustrated boards with light shelf wear small abrasion on endpaper in matching dust jacket with minor wear child's sticker over jacket price. A selection of familiar fairy tales arranged for bedtime reading and illustrated in b&w and full color by Violet LaMont. Scarce. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Violet LaMont. 4to. Ziff-Davis hardcover
196053KSIU000BJCWonder Books 1/1/1960 12:00:00 AM. paperback. Very Good. . Fairy Tales to Read Aloud paperback; no writing or tears; lightly tanned pages; hv Wonder Books paperback
1955010837Culver City CA: Radex 1955 Circa 1950s. Color printed book-shaped box with light wear slide images are slightly dusty or perhaps it's the viewer. Inside the box is a Radex stereoviewer and six slides with brief text and scenes from Jack and the Beanstalk to be viewed through the viewer appearing 3-dimensional. Uncommon to find complete sets in the original box and with Radex order form laid in. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Radex. Radex unknown
1942006961<p>New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1942 Pictorial boards spine lean faint child's name on endpaper and half title; dust jacket with small losses and light wear price intact $.50. Tales include GoldilocksChicken Little Gingerbread Man Three Little Pigs Red Riding Hood Three Little Kittens and Little Red Hen. Illustrated in line and full color. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Small Square 4to.</p> Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
1933009349Racine WI: Whitman Publishing 1933 Color printed covers light soil and wear clean inside the entire book is printed on stiff card with a linen-like finish. The tale of goldilocks told in 12 pages including covers each page with color artwork by Charlotte Stone. Pictorial Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Illus. by Charlotte Stone. 4to. Whitman Publishing unknown
20152090502113713127Not Available 2015. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1953007687Karlsruhe / Baden Germany: Jonathan Williams Publisher 1953. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. Octavo. 131 pp table of contents with titles almost completely faded - titles appear in the text else binding tight & square pages unmarked clean with very light age-toned edges in DJ with spine sun-tanned very faint tide-mark across rear panel top spine edge worn slightly and inner flap clipped. 6.4" x 9.4" white folding wrappers in clipped DJ. with glassine protector. Jonathan Williams, Publisher Paperback
Asbjørnsen, Moe, NauthelIn Pristine Condition. unknown
198233107New York: Dutton 1982. 1st ed. Hardcover. Jeffers Susan. 1st ptg. large 4to picture book pictorial boards the classic tale illustrated in delicate color throughout by Susan Jeffers and signed by her on the title page. Fine in near fine unclipped dj no previous owner's marks. signed by the artist. Dutton hardcover
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193717443<p>Text in Norwegian/Teksten i norsk. Good HC no DJ. Blue and white paper over boards backed with red cloth; front cover with pictorial design; rear cover plain but for publisher's device; gilt stamped title on spine. Covers are lightly scuffed; clean but for a faintly mottled appearance perhaps from past mildew; slight rubbing wear at fore corners; spine is slightly faded; gilt titles on spine are somewhat dulled; tightly bound; gift inscription and date 1937 on front free end paper; bright clean interior. 8vo 93 pp; illustrated.</p> Oslo: A.M. Hanches hardcover
194533415New York: Weird Tales 1945. Pulp Magazine Near Fine. Lee Brown Coye. New York: Weird Tales: 1945. Pulp Magazine Near Fine 128 pp.<br/> Cover artwork by: Lee Brown Coye Clean straight tight complete spine no tape no tears still glossy. Remarkably well-preserved. Allison V. Harding Manly Wade Wellman Robert Bloch Edmond Hamilton Carl Jacobi Reeder Gould Ray Bradbury and Irwin J. Weill. Cover art by Lee Brown Coye. Weird Tales unknown
189724<i>This book is over 122 years old. <br />"The Raven"</i> in particular—Poe investigates the loss of ideal beauty and the difficulty in regaining it. These pieces are usually narrated by a young man who laments the untimely death of his beloved. <i>"To Helen"</i> is a three stanza lyric that has been called one of the most beautiful love poems in the English language. The subject of the work is a woman who becomes in the eyes of the narrator a personification of the classical beauty of ancient Greece and Rome. <i>"Lenore"</i> presents ways in which the dead are best remembered either by mourning or celebrating life beyond earthly boundaries. In <i>"The Raven"</i> Poe successfully unites his philosophical and aesthetic ideals. In this psychological piece a young scholar is emotionally tormented by a raven's ominous repetition of "Nevermore" in answer to his question about the probability of an afterlife with his deceased lover. Charles Baudelaire noted in his introduction to the French edition of <i>"The Raven"</i>: "It is indeed the poem of the sleeplessness of despair; it lacks nothing: neither the fever of ideas nor the violence of colors nor sickly reasoning nor drivelling terror nor even the bizarre gaiety of suffering which makes it more terrible." Poe also wrote poems that were intended to be read aloud. Experimenting with combinations of sound and rhythm he employed such technical devices as repetition parallelism internal rhyme alliteration and assonance to produce works that are unique in American poetry for their haunting musical quality. In <i>"The Bells"</i> for example the repetition of the word "bells" in various structures accentuates the unique tonality of the different types of bells described in the poem.Poe's stature as a major figure in world literature is primarily based on his ingenious and profound short stories poems and critical theories which established a highly influential rationale for the short form in both poetry and fiction. Regarded in literary histories and handbooks as the architect of the modern short story Poe was also the principal forerunner of the "art for art's sake" movement in nineteenth-century European literature. Whereas earlier critics predominantly concerned themselves with moral or ideological generalities Poe focused his criticism on the specifics of style and construction that contributed to a work's effectiveness or failure. In his own work he demonstrated a brilliant command of language and technique as well as an inspired and original imagination. Poe's poetry and short stories greatly influenced the French Symbolists of the late nineteenth century who in turn altered the direction of modern literature. It is this philosophical and artistic transaction that accounts for much of Poe's importance in literary history.<br /><br />This book contains the first collection of Poems Poems and Tales. See Pictures Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
19272Berlin Hans Lüstenöder 1890. . Wiedergabe e. gereimten Erzählung über den "lustigen Geistlichen" Vincenz Weigand "Der Pfaffe von Kahlenberg" die Georg Rudolf Widman Achilles Jason Widman von Hall zugeschrieben wird. Mit ausführlicher Einleitung. Berlin, Hans Lüstenöder, 1890. unknown