New York: Random House, Shambhala, 1980/ 1903, first paperback edition thus; tan SOFTCOVER, coloured illustrations; 9x11; 79 pp. Picture Book softcover. From a set of six tales collected by "the Russian Grimm" at the turn of the century and published separately in 1901- 1903. Bright Bilibin reproductions. Ivan Tsarevich, The.....
New York: The Children's Book Council, 67 Irving Place, 1975; Translated by Erik Christian Haugaard; large poster two sided about 23 x 66. in brown mailing envelope from CBC, with page laid in showing how to transform the poster into a large booklet. Toploader large, softcover. A fairy tale poster.....
Copenhagen: Thaning & Appel, 1955 on title page, no date on publication page; grey paper boards with tiny rose and dot pattern and photo of Andersen within a frame, pink spine, each page with couplet in Danish, letter highlighted in pink, in the. Small hardback. A very nice little book.....
London: Andre Deutch, 1978, 1st printing thus; top edge red. 7x9.6, 191 pp. Juvenile hardback. A selection by Ardizzone of his favorite tales for which he provides numerous illustrations. Who better to illustrate Andersen!
New York: Wiley & Putnam, 161 Broadway 1847 on title page/1846, second American printing of the 1845 British first English translation by Howitt, brown cloth binding with blindstamped ruled and decorated borders top and bottom, and a delicate gil. Small hardback. Mary Howitt, a children's author and a sometime friend.....
Tokyo: "Y. Nishinomiya (late T. Hasegawa)"; probably 1937 or 38, crepe paper book with red silk ties ,double stab silk binding and grey silk spine backing, on bottom cover a flock of little paper birds surrounding a larger paper bird, nine interior f. Toploader small. A reprint of the first.....
New York: Cupples and Leon, (1917), on verso "40 cents" (not "35 cents"), and listing the titles which appeared in the first three boxed sets and also the Night Before Christmas (1918) but not Mickie (1919); brown paper boards, dark green titles, wit. Small hardback. A dear little book, just.....
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, Little Dot Series, late 19th c; green paper covers with red and black illustration and verse; black and white illustrations within, 7 pages of text; 4x6" Softcover. Toploader small softcover chapbook. Romantic half page pictures, center spread.
Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1949/1941/[1931]; red cloth back boards with Sultan and Princess mounted on flying horse and crowd below, frontis and one plate in text tipped in, numerous full page and in text illustrations; tall 8vo; 127 pp. French language hardback. medium. Histoire du cheval enchanté, de l'aveugle Baba-Abdalla, d'un.....
London: Figurehead, 1930 on title page, grey cloth boards with black illustrations, with 3 coloured plates including frontis, 3 b/w single sided drawings, and map; 7.5x9.8; 48 pp. Juvenile hardback. The complex epic is told at length but clearly, and a bit of the folk process discussed, well illustrated.
Chicago, New York: Rand McNally Company, 1931/1926, early printing of the large Once Upon a Time Series; black paper boards with design of white squares, on the top board a large coloured illustration of the fairies looking at the tiny baby, on the b. Picture book hardback tall. A series.....
Paris, Duchesne, Rue Saint Jacques au Temple du Goût. 1754, 1st, Edition originale. Avec Approbation & Privilège du Roi. (document appended April 4, 1752); thick boards covered in stiff dark brown calf, spine with stamped title and g. French language small hardback. A book for all lovers of fables with.....
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1856, 1st (entered 1855); stereotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton & Co. Riverside, Cambridge; red blindstamped boards with full design and title in large print; gilt title on spine, yellow endpapers, with. Juvenile hardback. Little Jacket is stranded with his companions on the island.....
New York: Henry Holt, 1994, stated 1st; red shiny boards with twining gold vines and little fantastic and realistic animals among them, center golden cartouche of the firebird; in white endpapers with gold entwined around the same little animals, in. Picture Book hardback. A beautiful book, and inexpensive because of.....
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, probably 1st US, not JLG, 1933 on title page, Printed in Germany; blue cloth boards with full pasted on green plate with Aunty Twinkle-Toes and Runzel-Punzel ready to go out the door of their sod house to the to. Picture Book Hardback. A town mouse.....
Rio de Janeiro: Grosset & Dunlap original, (1940); Serviçio Grafico do Ministerio da Educaçao e Suade. lithography by Genaro; paper boards with coloured lithograph, white leatherette spine; large 10.5x12.5; np. Picture Book hardback. After the rains came a long dry spell, forcing the little boy and his parents to move.....
Harcourt Brace World, 1994, 1st printing. Picture Book hardback. "Mole loves her burrow near the pond. It's safe and cozy underground, and best of all--it's home. So when Fox says Mole has to move her home to make room for a new path, Mole must do some quick thinking--and digging--to.....
Paris: Librairie de Firmin Didot Freres, Imprimeurs de l'Institute, 1847/[1699], black quarter leather over green marbled boards, multicoloured marbled endpapers, speckled page edges, frontis portrait of Fenelon, 12mo; 536 pp. (In French). French language 19thc hardback juvenile. In 1689 Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambrai, became the tutor of the 7 year.....
Wien: Kunstverlag Anton Schroll & Co., stated 2nd printing of the 1925 edition; orange red cloth binding with black panel with creatures, red top edge; endpapers with green gallery of animals within pink and green lattice. 16.5 x 21.5 cm; 52 pp +. German language hardback juvenile. Sixty-five very short.....
London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co Ltd, (1949); printed in Great Britain; green cloth with black pictorial stamp; pictorial endpapers, 8 colored plates, as issued,,30 b/w drawings in text, photo of Fairy Fountain; 164 pp. Juvenile hardback. "You come on it in the cool of the dawning, or.....
Millbrook, 1997, 1st printing. Shiny full colour pictorial binding, 8.6x11; c 24 pp. Picture Book hardback. Coyote, the Creator, asks each animal to sculpt the "Lord of the Animals" but he is the only one who stays awake and completes his figure, the first Miwok Indian. Bright, abstract animals and.....
London and New York: Frederick Warne Ltd. 1923, 1st thus, edition limited to 250 copies for London and New York of which this is #84; olive green buckram with gilt titles, borders, and filled pattern, top edge gilt, deckle edged, laid paper; with 68. Juvenile hardback. John Gay (1685 -.....
New York: North-South Books, an imprint of Swiss Nord-Sud Verlag, 2001/2001, 1st international English edition, translated by Anthea Bell; shiny covers with the two dancing in delight at having found the little house on the front and sleeping while t. Picture Book Hardback. Elegant and very expressive pictures by a......
Nürnberg: Sebaldus-Verlag, 1944, probably 1st, Published under the order of the Military Government - Information Control License Number US-E 112, (United States Occupation) Märchen der Weltliteratur, I Reihe, Erstes bändchen. first vo. German language hardback. medium. Hansel and Gretel, Snow White and Rose Red and Foundling-Bird. Bright little coloured pictures.....
New York: J. L. Schilling Co, 1944; large card folder with four flaps intended to be cut and formed into an illustrated carousel as well as a ticket office and a balloon lady; laid inside the folder envelope are four freestanding card "indestructible. Toploader large. The Merry-go-round can be set.....