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195128287New York NY: Weird Tales 1951. Mild edge wear U.K. price to upper front cover 13 mm closed tear to lower front cover which also affects the first 15 ages a nearly fine copy. Uncommon. 28287. Octavo single issue cover art by Bill Wayne pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Contents identical to the January 1951 U. S. edition most of the adverts in the rear are the U. S. ads. Includes stories by Frank Belknap Long Greye La Spina H. Beam Piper and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Weird Tales unknown
1869AQ22121London and Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers 1869. 224pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary half-calf marbled boards tooled in gilt and blind contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed. FFEP torn away else internally clean and crisp. The sixth volume of short stories selected from Chamber's Journal including Anna Maria Sargeant's 'The lie of expediency' Percy B. St John's 'The rifle: a tale of Arkansas' Camilla Toulmin's 'To slay or to save' and several unattributed others such as 'Story of an Edinburgh sedan-carrier' and 'The work-girl'. . 8vo. William and Robert Chambers hardcover
AQ32533s.i.: s.n. s.d. 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Bound with: Drop-head title: The waggon load of gold. Part II. s.i. s.n. s.d. 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. And: Drop-head title: The house that jack built. s.i. s.n. s.d. 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. And: Drop-head tile: Jack jingle. s.i. s.n. s.d. 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. And: Drop-head tile: The child's new year's gift. s.i. s.n. s.d. 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. And: Drop-head tile: Little red riding hood. s.i. s.n. s.d. 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. And: Drop-head tile: Nursery rhymes. s.i. s.n. s.d. 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. And: Drop-head tile: The history of the children in the wood. s.i. s.n. s.d. 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. And: Drop-head tile: History of jumping joan. s.i. s.n. s.d. 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. And: Drop-head tile: Death & burial of cock robin. s.i. s.n. s.d. 7pp 1. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. And: Drop-head tile: Tom tucker. s.i. s.n. s.d. 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. And: Drop-head tile: Cinderella s.i. s.n. s.d. 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. And: Drop-head tile: The history of simple simon. s.i. s.n. s.d. 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. And: Drop-head tile: The history of Mother Goose. s.i. s.n. s.d. 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. And: Drop-head tile: London cries. s.i. s.n. s.d. 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. And: Drop-head tile: The history of old Mother Hubbard. s.i. s.n. s.d. 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. 16mo. Contemporary red morocco richly tooled in gilt and blind lettered in gilt 'Tales and stories' to upper board A.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. An attractively bound sammelband of sixteen diminutive chapbooks intended for a juvenile readership. The titles within all illustrated with crude yet charming wood-engravings include staples of the Victorian street literature market; compendious retellings of perennially popular nursery rhymes such as Cinderella Little Red Riding Hood and the Children in the Wood. An exception is a remarkably rare version of a recherché didactic verse curiosity The Waggon Load of Gold. Issued in two seemingly separately published parts; the work is comprised of a total of sixteen unassociated stanzas calculated to amuse the young reader and each - unusually for chapbook fare of the era - accompanied by illustrations which actually relate to the text; for example the opening couplets of the second part a celebration of the library is partnered with a depiction of a bookcase: 'The chief prize of the whole Here you now may behold 'Tis a library of choice books From the Waggon Load of Gold.' OCLC records a single copy of The Waggon Load of Gold. Part II. at Richmond Public Library Virginia Part I. is apparently unrecorded. The copy retains the original publisher's wrappers bearing the imprint 'London: Printed and published at 60 St. Martin's Lane' with the date recorded as '1820'. This would suggest that the other titles contained within this sammelband - all printed on similar paper stock and some reusing woodcut ornaments - where issued contemporaneously from the same location. . [s.n.], [s.d.] unknown
182634041Edinburgh and London: Archibald Constable and Co. and Longman Rees et al. 1826. 3 volumes. First Edition. With fine Scottish provenance being Ex-libris of the Bellfield Library Kilmarnock and James Buchanan merchant of Glencoe. With half-titles in each volume. 8vo handsomely bound in vellum over blue paper-covered boards with the publisher's original printed paper labels on the spines top edge gilt others untrimmed xvi 315; 332; 370 pp. A set in beautiful condition the text fresh and as pristine but for a bit of the typical mellowing or occasional age evidence. The bindings are sturdy and strong and show little wear or use a little bit of spotting from age to the bindings publisher's printed labels are fresh and very legible. Ownership signature of James Buchanan unobtrusively at top of the titlepage and stamp of the Bellfield Library on each title-page and occasionally at chapter openings no other markings within hard-to-see evidence of small circular shelf labels once being on the spine tops. FIRST EDITION OF A SCARCE AND EXCELLENT WORK THIS SET IN UNCOMMONLY FINE AND WELL-PRESERVED CONDITION and with all half-titles as is often not the case. Sir Walter Scott was considered to be the inventor of the historical novel and the success of his Waverley series was immediate and long lasting throughout the English speaking world.<br> Set shortly after the English Civil War WOODSTOCK was inspired by the legend of the Good Devil of Woodstock which in 1649 supposedly tormented parliamentary commissioners who had taken possession of a royal residence at Woodstock Oxfordshire. The story deals with the escape of Charles II in 1652 during the Commonwealth and his final triumphant entry into London on 29 May 1660. David Hume's HISTORY OF ENGLAND gave Scott most of the historical background.<br> As with all the Waverley novels prior to 1827 WOODSTOCK was published anonymously. Archibald Constable and Co. and Longman, Rees, et al. hardcover
65993Hamburg Grillen-Presse 1955. . Vom Künstler im Impressum mit Bleistift SIGNIERT. Eines von 650 Exemplaren auf weißem Kupferdruck-Bütten für die Mitglieder der Maximilian-Gesellschaft GA: 830. W. Arnold Malerbuch 2498. - Unt. Kap. bestoßen; sonst gutes sauberes Exemplar (Hamburg, Grillen-Presse, ( 1955). unknown
35536London: William Darton Jun. 1815. . 12mo. pp.191xviiadverts quarter red roan gilt plain paper-covered boards engraved frontispiece; neat ink ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper dated 1830 rubbing to extremities with wear to paper covering of boards along edges and at corners a very good copy. OSBORNE p.267 for this edition. London: William Darton, Jun., 1815. hardcover
AQ33026London: Printed and published by W. S. Johnson s.d. c. 1850 84pp 24. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's blind-stamped dark green cloth lettered in gilt to upper board. Heavily rubbed and marked shaken loss to head and foot of dulled spine corners exposed. Scattered spotting. A moralistic tale for young children centred around Selima Stanly the 'Juvenile Protectress' whose exploits in assisting the poor and downtrodden awaken 'the joy she felt at relieving the distress of a fellow creature". The author promoting Christian charity wishes that 'may all you my young readers feel the never fading delight of mitigating the sorrows of others'. . 12mo. Printed and published by W. S. Johnson, [s.d., c. 1850] hardcover
1850AQ30927Glasgow: Printed for the booksellers 1850. 24pp. Disbound. A trifle creased. A Victorian anthology of twelve traditional Irish tales intended for a juvenile readership including an account of Anne Boney ‘the female pirate’. . 12mo. Printed for the booksellers unknown
184913615061903Boston: Rand and Mann 1849. Brown cloth. Binding lightly cracking spine lightly rubbed small holes in front joint waterstain at bottom of front endpapers: VG-/no dj. 12mo. Illustrated with black and white wood engravings. Rand and Mann hardcover
170687605Nürnberg: Joh. Leonhard Buggel 1706. Second edition. First published 1701; reissued by the same publisher under revised title in 1718. 12mo 125cm. 19th-c. mottled calf over marbled boards; gilt spine title; 123146pp; engraved extra-title. Pressure-stamp of a 20th-century owner to base of title page David B. Dickens. Two small ink-spots to the engraved extra-title; mild age-darkening to text but overall a very clean and attractive copy. Very Good. Text entirely in German. <br /> <br /> Uncommon collection of brief parables and humorous vignettes each intended to illustrate a particular virtue vice or crime - Rejuvenation Kindness Friendship Industry; Superstition Jealousy Fratricide Adultery etc - built around the author's conceit of a book organized as a pleasure-garden wherein "Just as a garden lover tired from office business and worries is refreshed again and.comes alive when he strolls around in his sweet-smelling flower field picking a little flower here and there.so a person recovers his spirits when he occasionally devotes an hour to reading various moral stories picking their morals as he would flowers and fruits and applying their beneficial use." from the author's Foreword; translation ours. Apparently the only published work by Caspar Blanckard to whom we can find no reference beyond his authorship of the current work. Very scarce; OCLC and KVK find only three physical locations for any edition; we note another apparently unindexed copy in the Harold Jantz Collection of at Duke University. This copy from the collection of David B. Dickens long-time professor of German Language and Literature at Washington & Lee University. Joh. Leonhard Buggel unknown
0582160510.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
193255142New York: Garden City Publishing Co. Inc. 1932. Tall 8vo. 272 pp. Colour frontisp. 7 colour plates woodcut-engraved borders illustrations by Nielsen. Red publisher’s cloth colour plate by Charles Augustus Federer 1880-1966 on front cover minor rubbing slight shelfwear toning to endpapers w/ d.j. cover art by Federer minor chipping head of spine some rubbing edgewear minor closed tear still VG/VG- copy. First Garden City Books edition of this work with the magnificent Art Nouveau illustrations of Kay Nielsen. The famed Danish artist and illustrator took 12 years to complete the original edition published in 1924 and the resulting plates are filled with long sweeping lines macabre and ephemeral qualities with stylized figures. Federer 1880-1966 illustrated several of the Garden City Books edition dustjackets and covers and is best remembered for his spectacular fairy tale murals in the Danbury CT library. Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., hardcover
19269071Prague: Prokop Laichter 1926. First edition. 4to 81 1pp. Illustrated initials and full page illustrations by Laichter Prokop. Publisher's cloth backed purple paper boards with large paste on illustration on front cover. Boards somewhat toned and faded around edges internally clean and bright. A near fine copy. <br /> <br /> A stunning production from the Czech painter illustrator set designer and actor Laichter Prokop 1898-1975 who was also son of the influential publisher Jan Laichter. In 1924 Prokop's first wife the author of this book Annuše died prematurely of tuberculosis and Laichter printed this book as a remembrance two years later. The introduction translates as "A few words spoken over the grave of a prematurely deceased fairy-teller." Likely printed in a very small number for friends and family we find 3 copies only in OCLC: Princeton and 2 in the Czech Republic. Prokop Laichter unknown
18858996N.p.: Privately Printed 1885. First edition. 7x5" 19pp. Vignette on title page. String bound in beige printed card wrappers. Light chipping to edges of wraps clean internally and very good. <br /> <br /> Rare booklet from one of the early pioneers of the Puget Sound Edward Jay Allen 1830-1915. Unusual for immigrants heading west Allen was college-educated and single. He settled near Olympia in 1852 after his overland journey from Pennsylvania. Interestingly Allen negotiated with the local Native Americans to pay for the land before he took up residence. He played an important role in early surveys and road building in the area before returning east in 1855.<br /> <br /> This story likely written for his children is told by a fater to his 7-year-old and begins "Once upon a time there was a Prince." An epic battle ensues between the Fairy Godmother and the Great White King to preserve the wildflowers the Prince loved so well. "If you build these Walls of Sand around the Prince's flowers the power of the Great White King shall be naught and the flowers may bloom on forever."<br /> <br /> OCLC cites a single holding at the University of Pittsburgh and we find no mention of this booklet elsewhere. <br /> <br /> . Privately Printed unknown
1895830091895. EHON - FAIRY TALES BARBATOU P. FABLES CHOISES DE FLORIAN. The first volume only. Paris: Librairie Marpon & Flammarion; Tokyo: Shueisha Meiji 28 1895. Fukuro toji cord-bound in printed paper covers. This first volume is 26.6 X 19.8 cm with 14 full page color woodcuts by Kano Tomonobu and Kajita Hanko. #167 of 200 from a deluxe edition on Japanese hosho paper. Covers soiled and a bit edgeworn one cvorner chipped. The contents are very good and the impressions and colors are quite lovely. This work despite its French text may be seen as squarely in the tradition of the Japanese ehon and it shares many characteristics of the revival of picture book printing in mid to late Meiji demonstrated by other works: an emerging Nihonga style skilled printed increasingly restrained coloration etc. In that context the large scale of its illustrations renders it particularly interesting. The first volume only of two. unknown
67764Oldenburg Gerhard Stalling 1929. . Erste Ausgabe Doderer Lex. KJL IV S. 506. - Zu dem Maler Graphiker u. Illustrator Helmut Skarbina 1888-1945 siehe a.a.O. - Zu dem Zoologen Mundartdichter u. Kinderbuch-Verfasser Max Gottfried Dingler 1883-1961 siehe E. Klee Personenlex. zum Dritten Reich 2. Aufl. S. 112. - Gelenke gelockert Kanten mäßig bestoßen u. berieben; innen vereinz. leicht fingerfl.; gutes Exemplar Oldenburg, Gerhard Stalling, (1929). unknown
1334920990.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19782110502150411862Seikosha 1978. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Seikosha paperback
198728691New York: Dial 1987. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine. Spirin Gennady. 1st ptg. Five stories illustrated in color by Gennady Spirin: MacDonald's "Little Daylight" Pushkin's "The Princess and the Seven Brothers" Hoffman's "The Nutcracker" de Cervantes' "The Beautiful Kitchen Maid" and Andersen's "The Emperor's New Clothes." Signed and dated by Spirin on the title page. Fine in fine unclipped dj no previous owner's marks. Signed by the artist. Dial hardcover
18900072139Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication 1890. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. No date c. 1890. Hardcover cloth-backed marbled boards. 36 pp. 2 engravings including one captioned "A Polish Jew with Fur Cap." Text lightly foxed but readable. Boards worn along edges and corners. Bright gilt title on spine. 4 short stories. Scarce. Digital images available upon request. Presbyterian Board of Publication hardcover
1900120811London: Religious Tract Society c.1900. 1st ed. thus. Nice copy. large octavo. pictorial boards 360pp. col. frontis. illusts. Essentially a bound volume of 24 copies of Penny Tales for the People. Nice coloured engraved frontispiece & many nice illusts. in text Religious Tract Society hardcover
71655Atlanta Turner Publishing Inc. 1994. . Erste Ausgabe. - Terry eigtl. Terence Graham Parry Jones geb. 1942 britischer Komiker Filmregisseur u. Schriftsteller wurde bekannt als Mitglied der Gruppe Monty Python der er 1969-1983 angehörte. - Brian Froud geb. 1947 ist ein englischer Fantasy-Illustrator u. Kostümbildner u. hat mehrfach mit Terry Jones an Kinderbüchern zusammengearbeitet. - Gutes sauberes Exemplar Atlanta, Turner Publishing, Inc. (1994). unknown
65606Mainz Jos.-Scholz-Verlag ca. 1915. . Die Deckelillustration zeigt eine Szene aus "Frau Holle": die fleißige Tochter den Apfelbaum schüttelnd. - Georg Albert Stroedel geb. 1870. - Rücken beschabt mäßig fingerfl. Gelenke mit durchsichtigem Klebestreifen verstärkt; im Ganzen gut Mainz, Jos.-Scholz-Verlag, [ca. 1915]. unknown
1887DEMO013716IBoston: Roberts Brothers 1887. Deluxe Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Wilhelm von Kaulbach. 4to 342 pages new full dark morocco leather spine label original pictorial top cover bound in at rear .top edge gilt fore-edge untrimmed; ex libris A. Freiberg of Cincinnati. <br/><br/>No. 224 of 400 copies printed for America of the English Edition De Luxe. Twelve India Proof steel engravings after Joseph Wolf engraved by Augustus Fox. Modern form of the traditional legend of REINHART FUCHS. "Under the veil of animals the symbolic representations of the diverse passions of men stand boldly in relief ." Roberts Brothers hardcover
