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By: A Children's Treasury of Folk and Fairy Tales
Price: $17.00
Publisher: NY, Channel Press, Inc.: 1963
Seller Id: 46007
Condition: Very Good
Possible first printing hardcover in yellow textured paper covered boards with a black cloth backstrip. Bit of splotchyness to head of frt board, rear board has one micro indentation. Corners lightly rubbed but not frayed. Tips fairly sharp. 211 pp text is crisp and unmarked. Unclipped dj is super colorful having a line of color loss along frt panel flap fold, a bit of a sticker pull with a bit of sticker remnants near head of frt panel is not too noticeable on yellow background there. Irregular chip at foot of spine/gutter lower gutter area. Tiny rubs/color loss at dj tips, still displa... View more info
By: Andersen, H.C.; LeGallienne, Eva
Price: $10.00
Publisher: NY, Harper & Row Publishers: 1959
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 38612
Condition: Good +
1st edition dark blue blindstamped hardcover with dull gilt on slightly cocked front board, light soil and rubbing on tips, head & foot of spine. 128 pages show some rippling from past moisture, no musty smell. An enchanting version of seven tales from Hans Christian Andersen, which in the hands of a gifted translator and an inspired artist take on new dimensions. Four of the stories are familiar to every child: The Ugly Duckling, The Fir Tree, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and The Princess and the Pea. The Sendak exquisite sketches, full pages in tones that might have come from a medieval manu... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: NY, Exeter Books: 1983
Edition: Reprint
Seller Id: 42116
ISBN: 0671061909
Condition: Near Fine
Lovely oversized reprint hardcover with bumped tips and spine ends. Internally crisp and unmarked. Too large for flat rate envelope. Includes: Thumbelina, The Princess and the Swineherd, The Sheperdess and the Chimney-Sweep. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: NY, Hurst & Co:
Edition: Possible First
Seller Id: 41895
Condition: Fair
Fair copy in faded red embossed boards with dull gilt spine title. All edges rubbed to boards, hinge papers cracked, page block solid, no loose leaves. Personal library bookplate on fep. No Hurst date but on verso title page is copyright 1864 by R. Worthington. 351 pp with b/w illustrations throughout. Rare edition in shaky condition. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: NY, L. B. Fischer: 1945
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 23458
Condition: Fair
First edition hardcover has chipping along spine paper, bumped corners, slight cloudiness on cover illustration, internally tight and bright with former owner's name addy sticker on pictorial fep. Full page color illustrations, in-text color and black and white illustrations, unpaginated. Includes: "The Real Princess", "Thumbelina" and "The Little Tin Soldier". View more info
By: Andersen, Hans Christian; Retold By Bell, Anthea
Price: $17.00
Publisher: NY, North-South Books: 1997
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Seller Id: 36684
ISBN: 155858689X
Condition: Very Good
1st paperback edition with light corner wear, 30 pp welll illustrated text is crisp and unmarked. No names, tears or soil. Just a bit of surface wear on rear cover. Wonderful large book (12.5" tall) with full page color plates by Dorothee Duntze. View more info
By: Andersen, Hans Christian; Translated By Erik Blegvad
Price: $12.00
Publisher: NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.: 1958
Edition: Possible First
Seller Id: 30427
ISBN: 0152837159
Condition: Fair
Exlib with all pages and pocket present. Some finger soil, few small closed tears on some page edges, small split in rear hinge paper, page block sewing a tad wobbly but holding. Unclipped dj has a closed tear on frt flap, wear at tips, few small chips, displays well in new mylar. Rare volume illust and translated by Blegvad, an artist from Andersen's own Denmark. With delicate humor and gentle truth this tale tells of the foolish princess who valued material things more than Nature's gifts, who preferred a trinket to a perfect rose or a golden-voiced nightingale, and who did not recognize tru... View more info
By: Andersen, Hans Christian; Zwerger, Lisbeth; Translated from the Danish By Anthea Bell
Price: $12.00
Publisher: NY, North-South Books: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 33502
ISBN: 0735811180
Condition: Near Fine
Not exlib. DJ flaps affixed to boards, tips sharp, lovely glossy hardcover in matching dj. Gift dedication on fep, small area of color loss from erasure on upper right hand corner of green fep. Pages tight, bright and unmarked. 32 pp. Though the emperor banishes the nightingale in preference for a jeweled mechanical imitation, the little bird remains faithful and returns years later when the emperor is near death and no one else can help him. View more info
By: Anholt, Laurence
Price: $12.00
Publisher: London, Orchard Books: 2000
Edition: Possible First
Seller Id: 14602
ISBN: 1860399908
Condition: Very Good
Glossy, tight, bright exlib hardcover. 64 pp. This is the 11th title in the series which reworks traditional fairy tales with a new twist. Eco-Wolf is a peace-loving and environmentally friendly pig, whose country home is ruined when three bad pigs start building on it. View more info
By: Beck, Ian
Price: $12.00
Publisher: NY, Barnes & Noble: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 40978
ISBN: 076071942X
Condition: Near Fine
Crisp, bright copy, NOT exlib. Tips barely bumped, not rubbed. 92 pp crisp and clean. View more info
By: Brooks, Danny
Price: $28.00
Publisher: TN, Danny Brooks Inc: 2005
Seller Id: 40786
Condition: Very Good +
Tight bright glossy hardcover with sharp tips and spine ends. Spine quite cocked, no names in space provided. Small format book, illustrations from 1897. Uncommon edition of this classic children's fairy tale. View more info
By: Carruth, Jane
Price: $10.00
Publisher: CT, Joshua Morris Publishing Company: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 37172
ISBN: 0887050794
Condition: Very Good
Solid 1st edition hardcover in glossy colorful yellow background boards. Bumped and lightly brushed tips, inner page block cracked in two places but all pages tight and holding fine. Top edge of page block lightly foxed. Lovely illustrated endpapers. Uncommon, collectible collection of most-loved Fairy Tales. No names, or soil. View more info
By: Collodi, C. [Adapted By Allen Chaffee]
Price: $12.00
Publisher: NY, Random House: 1946
Edition: Possible First
Seller Id: 42449
Condition: Very Good +
Edges bumped and lightly rubbed, white background boards with large colorful illust of Pinocchio's head and knitted stocking cap display well. Tidy gift ded on illust endpapers, text is tight and bright. Rear cover is solid green with ISBN at foot of rear board. View more info
By: Collodi, C. [Adapted By Allen Chaffee]
Price: $10.00
Publisher: NY, Random House: 1946
Edition: Reprint
Seller Id: 37209
Condition: Very Good
Edges bumped and lightly rubbed, white background boards with large colorful illust of Pinocchio's head and knitted stocking cap display well. Illust endpapers, text is tight and bright with BOOK SALE stamped on foot of first pg of text, obscuring nothing. Rear board has other titles by Random House and colorful illustrations present. View more info
Price: $85.00
Publisher: London, Blackie & Son Ltd.:
Edition: Possible First
Seller Id: 36969
Condition: Good +
Color glossy illustrated boards showing a chubby child in a blue snowsuit riding a wheeled toy which looks like some sort of yellow bird with a orange beak and green eyes. Corners and edges of boards rubbed, red cloth backstrip has rubbing at head. Undated copy with gift dedication on fep dated 1933. Tiny vintage Woodward & Lothrop DC bookstore sticker on rear pastedown. Unpaginated, 68 heavy gauge pages including color glossy frontice illust by M.B. Jones. Rear hinge cracked, spine has been properly reglued with ph neutral bookbinder's adhesive. No tears or soil within. # E 203 on corner of c... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: The Society for The Study of Myth and Tradition: 2003
Seller Id: 28490
Condition: Fine
Fine magazine with barely brushed tips, no major curl, looks fab, inside is pristine. Contains "POINT OF VIEW: Iron Lock, Iron Chain, Iron Net" by Roger Lipsey and Lobsang Lhalungpa; "Locked Away" by Nan Runde - The innocent imprisoned in fairy tales; "Plato's Fetters" by David Appelbaum - The chains that bind us; "Practice within the Cell" - An interview with Fleet Maull; "Help beyond the Walls" by Madonna Holden - Allies who help us escape; "The Hawk in the Prison" by Joseph Bruchac - The Native American experience; GALLERY: "The Art of Pi... View more info
Price: $250.00
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 27832
Condition: Very Good +
VG box with some clear tape reinforcements, some splits to box edges but all intact and holding well. Full set of 18 books are lightly rubbed at tips, internally fine. No names, tears soil or markings. Rare complete boxed set from the 60's with Babar on one side of the box and Trubloff the mouse on the other (small abrasion and pen doodle on the side with Trubloff but it is not an eyesore. More than presentable, total blast from the past and a perfect gift from yesteryear for any book fanatic. Titles include: Babar and his Children & The Tale of Benjamin Bunny / The Uncle Wiggly Book & Stories... View more info
By: Crump, Fred Jr.
Price: $38.00
Publisher: TN, Winston-Derek Publishers Inc.: 1993
Edition: Second Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller Id: 43917
ISBN: 1555231519
Condition: Fine
Nice 2nd printing paperback with uncreased glossy cover. SIGNED by the author's sister on title page. 28 pages of tight & bright text with no writing, tears, soil or blemishes. A wonderful retelling of The Beauty and The Beast. View more info
By: Crump, Fred Jr.
Price: $38.00
Publisher: TN, Winston-Derek Publishers Inc.: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller Id: 43918
ISBN: 1555231942
Condition: Fine
Nice 1st edition illustrated paperback with uncreased glossy cover. SIGNED by the author's sister on title page. 28 pages of tight & bright text with no writing, tears, soil or blemishes. A wonderful retelling of traditional Mother Goose Tales. View more info
By: Dalesman
Price: $75.00
Publisher: England, The Abbey Press: 1947
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller Id: 23494
Condition: Very Good
1st edition signed and dedicated by the author on the fep: " Best Wishes & Fond Remembrance of the Rotte Valley. Dalesman April 1968 Cumberland". Light green boards with dark green cloth spine slightly marked but display well. DJ in new mylar is a photo-reproduced copy. 140 tight and bright pages without soil or tears. This book has various stories that will charm the lover of field sports everywhere. Not just for children, the list of contents is as follows: Preface/ This Foxhunting (For Children)/ Tale of Captain O'Ruffian and the Beagles/ The Land of Aipolas/ The Master and the ... View more info
