Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., The Riverside Press, Cambridge; 1954, 1st; blue cloth with white titles and snowflakes, coloured illustrated endpapers with king and queen, bright pictures of medieval Portugal throughout, small quarto, 20 pp. PIcture Book hardcover. From Kirkus 1954 "A news correspondent with a solid reputation for European reporting.....
London: Macmillan, 1978/1977, 1st UK, orange boards, green endpapers, in black jacket with green and orange titles and shadowy North West dancer in white; smaller 5x8"; 115 pp incl.. Story Sources. Juvenile hardback. "Mouse Woman is the smallest of the 'narnauks' the supernatural beings who inhabit the mythology of the.....
Boston: Little Brown and Company, (1961), 6th printing; turquoise boards with bear and titles in brown, white snow and dark starry sky jacket with view of village in turquoise and touches of red; 7x9.4"; 86 pp. Juvenile hardback. To Your Good Health, Vasilisa the Beautiful, Snegourka the Snow Maiden, The.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884, 1st printing American thus, Limited Edition #125/250; white quarter vellum with three gilt animal vignettes, green cloth with stamped gilt birds lifting turtle above brown landscape; 8x10.75"; frontis plus 24 fine steel cut plates with tissue guards, vii + 304 pp. includes Preface, Life of La.....
Paris: La Bonne Compagnie, 1946, limited edition 1576 of 3500 rebound in half leather, brown calf with nine bands in a contemporary design, brown marbled paper boards, brown marbled endpapers (smaller pattern) gilt titles, top edge gilt, ribbons, spine of original softcover bound in volume two, two full page watercolours.....
New York, London, and Bombay: Longmans Green and Co., 91 and 93 Fifth Avenue, 1903, 1st; crimson cloth boards with tiny flowers, fairies, and a Knight and the Dragon; a standing knight on the spine; pink front endpapers with crimson drawing of fairy heralds in the sky, rear endpapers blue.....
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993, 1st printing; oblong. Picture Book hardback. Raven, the trickster and benefactor of mankind, feels sad that the people have no light. How can he coax the ball of light from the Sun god? The vivid paintings of Sky Chief, Raven, and his world are.....
Akron, O (Ohio): The Saalfield Pub Co., 1939, "Paste without Paste" series,, full colour illustrated card cover with instructions on the back; 4 pages facing pages of coloured stickers to cut out; oblong 10.75 x 8.5" Toploader large. Sticker books, designed to replace the mess of wheat paste, bring back.....
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1972 , stated 1st; heavy illustrated boards with large colourful man encircling the title panel, little children's faces peering out of blue and green stripes on the back. Juvenile hardback tall. Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, The Fairies, Puss in Boots, Cinderella, Ricky with.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, "First Published 1929, 1st printing US trade edition (Hughey 74b); blue cloth with gilt titles, tinted top edge, 12 colour plates with blindstamped borders by Dulac, all present, as issued, in thick, orange, all over gold-veined jacket with blue pasted on title plates on top.....
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie 79 Boulevard Saint-Germain, 79 Boulevard Saint-Germain, Bibliothèque Rose Illustrée, Nouvelle Edition, 1908, reprint thus, red cloth stamped gilt decorations and titles; illustrés de 65 vignettes de Bertall, Beaucé, etc, 8vo; 405 pp. French language 19thc hardback juvenile. Perrault: La Barbe Bleue, Le Petit Chaperon Rouge.....
London: Bancroft & Company Ltd, Westminster Books, (co. 1961 by Artia, Prague]; front cover as a medieval castle where the princess sits at one window and the prince approaches at the other BUT the tab can be pulled to reveal the witch who will keep him out. 8 pop-up scenes.....
Leningrad, [Kandozhniki], 1971, 15x11. Children's reference hardback. A feast of Yuri Vasnetsov's masterful illustrations of fairy tales, closely tied to colourful Russian folk art, yet always surprising and original, With an English essay and abbreviated index with the source of the paintings and illustrations. Laid in is a Fine 1957.....
NY: Oxford University Press, 1994, 1st printing; 190 pp. Juvenile hardback. Enchanting original fairy tales picked from her own favorites by Picard, a modern master.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.; 1936, stated 1st printing; green cloth boards with yellow decorations and stamped picture, green endpapers, in jacket identical to boards, 5.3x7.75; 126 pp. Juvenile hardback. Poor Man and the Flask of Oil, Murdoch's Rath, Man Who Was Going to Mind the House, Hans.....
Milano, s. A. Editrice Genio, (1936); A.A Coop. Ligatore, Milano printer; blue boards with full plate of sun woman and round deep blue field of flowers; in white, gilt stamped frame with light blue blindstamped border back; gilt decorated spine; 8 pasted in in coloured plates, as issued and many.....
New York: Greenberg Publisher, issued by New Library, Inc. 1943, 1st and presumed only edition; one contiuous board covered in cream pebbled paper is creased to receive white plastic ring binding, full coloured endpapers of stork and baby arriving in the world, fairly thick pages illustrated on one side, in.....
London: Juvenile Productions LTD, no date, (c. 1950's); the "Golden Gift" series; red cloth spine, light turquoise boards with painting of a rabbit with a cigar box fiddle, an elf on a flute, and other little animals making music, on the back, a little boy fairy blowing a flute; endpapers.....
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie 79 Boulevard Saint-Germain, Bibliothèque Rose Illustrée, Nouvelle Edition, 1907 reprint, illustré de 46 vignettes par Gustave Doré and Jules Didier, red stamped boards, aeg, toutes tranches dorées; 8vo; 304 pp. + 20 pp catalogue including a list of 1st and 2nd Series. French language 19thc.....
Bruges: Desclée de Brouwer (1947); blue gray wraps with the moon and the son in yellows, 18 x 21 cm; 21 pp. French language softcover. medium. The moon and the sun descend from the cloudless sky to play with Minette and the two kids she is tending. When they leave.....
New York: Charles Scribner's (1928); orange colour boards with Princess Rosalie and the Dwarf, 5x7; 191 pp. Juvenile hardback. An attempt, with tales and essays, to teach children about the essence of various countries through their folklore.
New York: Random House, Pantheon, 1977, 1st printing; re paper boards blind-stamped with monkey, about 14 full page illustrations in tones of sepia; black spine decorated endpapers in sepia tones, in matte jacket with the warrior Monkey leaping through the blue sky, 8vo; 114 pp. Juvenile hardback. An enchanting retelling.....
New York, Toronto: Longmans, Green & Company, 1932, stated 1st; blue cloth boards with silver unicorn, silver titles, blue endpapers with characters walking through a starry forest, frontis and decorated title page, 8 black and white plates with blank verso, illustrated half titles for each story, and drawings in text.....