London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1924]. Nielsen, Kay. First Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition, quarto size, 197 pp., in original dust jacket. The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) have been beloved by both children and adults ever since they were first published, with some tales appearing as early as... More about Fairy Tales
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San Francisco: The Book Club of California [designed by Jack Werner Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press], 1983. Bewick, Thomas. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 518 copies, quarto size, 59 pp., with an original leaf from the first edition of Bewick's "The Fables of Aesop" (1818) tipped in. English engraver Thomas... More about LEAF BOOK] Thomas Bewick & the Fables of Aesop; With an original leaf from the first edition...
New York: Pantheon Books, (1980). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the US edition, octavo size, 319 pp. This collection of Norse myths is gathered by children's author and translator Kevin Crossley-Holland (b. 1941), best known for his historical novels in the Arthur trilogy and as well as translating the... More about The Norse Myths
London: Luzac & Co., 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 216 pp. The turn of the last century was a time of a great number of missionaries, most with only the best of intentions, visiting the far corners of the world to assist in education. Bess Allen Donaldson (1879-1974) and... More about The Wild Rue, A Study of Muhammadan Magic and Folklore in Iran
London, New York, Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, [1916]. Dulac, Edmund. First Edition. Hardcover. First English trade edition, quarto size, 180 pp., fifteen colour plates. This book received a lot of attention in New York with the illustrations forming the centrepiece of Edmund Dulac's (1882-1953) first American exhibition. The tales in... More about Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book; Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 552 pp. First edition of the first book published by Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz (1878-1965) who is best remembered for his studies on Tibetan Buddhism and the subsequent publication of "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" in 1927. Of... More about The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, [1938]. Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 1450 copies, duodecimo size, 70 pp. This collection of fables contains ten stories from the Chinese fairy tale tradition, with myths and morals drawn from ancient legends. This volume is decorated and illustrated by Italian printmaker and... More about Chinese Fairy Tales; Being a Collection of Ancient Legends
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1970. Etchemendy, Teje. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500, quarto size, 218 pp., with announcement and prospectus. This collection of Russian folk tales contains stories of magic and enchantment, of harrowing adventure, and of love lost and found; they were collected and edited... More about Russian Folk Tales
London: William Heinemann, 1909. Rackham, Arthur. First Edition. Leather bound. First trade edition with Arthur Rackham illustrations, in a custom binding by Bayntun, octavo size, 142 pp. The charming fairy tale of a water nymph who falls in love with a knight, by German writer Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué... More about Undine
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1987. Gheeraerts, Marcus. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 425 copies, octavo size, 355 pp., in a custom binding. This collection of fables, published by the Arion Press, takes its text from Arthur Golding's (ca. 1506 - 1606) translation of the Latin "Mythologia ethica", originally published... More about A Moral Fable-Talk
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1962. Corcos, Lucille. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Four volumes (complete), no. 351 of 1500 copies, quarto size, 990 total pp., signed by Lucille Corcos, with LEC Monthly Letter and announcement. Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm (1785-1863 and 1786-1859, respectively), known as the Brothers Grimm, have popularised... More about Grimm's Fairy Tales
Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, [1931]. Reprint. Self Wrappers. Sixteenmo size, [22] pp. One of the five-volume set printed in Japan by T. Hasegawa, publisher, illustrated as the original edition of 1899. Hasegawa employed leading foreign residents as translators and noted Japanese artists as illustrators. This copy is translated by Patrick Lafcadio... More about The Goblin Spider; Japanese Fairy Tales. Second Series, No. 1
Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, (1902). First Edition. Self wrappers. First printing, duodecimo size, [24] pp. Printing B (for identification only, no sequence is suggested) of those noted in BAL 7937, with the colophon at the foot of p. 23, with the uncorrected "Dumplings" at the head of the text, and the... More about The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling; Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 24
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, c. 1904. Takenouchi, Keishu. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 254 pp. Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), born in Greece, raised in Ireland, emigrated to the United States at the age of nineteen, spending time in Cincinnati and New Orleans; he eventually travelled to the West Indies and thence to... More about Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Frankfurt: Rutten & Loening, ca. 1905. Cardboard covers. 15th edition, 4to - over 9.75" to 12" tall, 24 pp., all text in German. Heinrich Hoffmann (1809-1894) although a successful psychiatrist, is remembered primarily for his children's stories - Struwwelpeter, his first book, being one of the most famous. While the... More about Prinz Grunewald und Perlenfein mit ihrem lieben Eselein [Prince Grunewald and Perlenfein with...
[London]: Hoddder and Stoughton, 1913. Dulac, Edmund. First Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition, quarto size, 119 pp., illustrated with ten colour plates. Edmund Dulac (1882-1953) was the only illustrator of his day on a par with Arthur Rackham and was known for his exquisite colours, oriental influence, and the versatility... More about Princess Badoura; A Tale from the Arabian Nights Retold by Laurence Housman, Illustrated by...
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1907). Dulac, Edmund. First and Limited Edition. Vellum. Number 119 of 350 copies, quarto size, 133 pp., plus 50 color plates, signed by Edmund Dulac. This a lovely copy, in the original full vellum binding, with the original yellow silk ties. The "stories from the Arabian... More about Stories from the Arabian Nights; Retold by Laurence Housman
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1907. Rackham, Arthur. First Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition with additional Rackham illustrations on enlarged paper, quarto size, 568 pp., in original dust jacket. This book was first published in 1898 with only twelve illustrations, this being the first trade edition of the newly enlarged... More about The Ingoldsby Legends; Or Mirth & Marvels
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars, 1817. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, quarto size, [984] pp. Sir Thomas Malory's (c. 1415-1471) most enduring and impactful work, originally titled "The Whole Book of King Arthur and his Noble Knights of the Round Table". Intended to... More about King Arthur] The Byrth, Lyf, and Actes of Kyng Arthur;; Of His Noble Knyghtes of the Rounde...
Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 1985. Beardsley, Aubrey. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), number 307 of 500, quarto size, 1120 pp. This collection by Sir Thomas Malory is a reworking of the legendary tales of King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table: Malory interprets existing... More about Le Morte d'Arthur: The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur
Greenbrae, California: The Allen Press, 1986. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 140 copies, quarto size, [53] pp., with original prospectus. This fifty-second limited edition from The Allen Press. A spiritual romance themed around a man's fight to attain eternal life, with parables and stories to spark the imagination. Based on... More about Barlaam and Josephat; A Christian Legend of the Buddha
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London: Printed for Subscribers Only [Atheaeum], 1901. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 202 of 500 copies, the "Luristan Edition", 13 volumes, octavo size, (see below for pagination), illustrated. A fantastically illustrated set of these classic Middle Eastern Folk tales from the Islamic Golden Age, all translated by John Payne from the... More about Oriental Tales] The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night... ; Tales From the Arabic... ;...
Munich: Orchis-Verlag, (1922). Masjutin, Wassilij. Hardcover. Folio size, 68 pp., in German. Russian poet and novelist Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837), considered the founder of modern Russian literature, wrote "Ruslan and Ludmilla", an epic fairy tale filled with adventure, magic, and love; it tells of the knight Ruslan who goes on... More about Ruslan und Ludmilla; Ein Phantastisches Marchen
New York: The Limited Editions Club [Printed at the Fanfare Press], [1950]. Dulac, Edmund. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 1382 of 1500, 4to - over 9.75” - 12” tall, 44 p., Signed by Illustrator. After Nicholas I, the newly crowned Tsar of Russia, had suppressed the revolutionary rising of December 1825... More about The Golden Cockerel
(London): The Golden Cockerel Press, [1936]. Gibbings, Robert. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 35 of 100, with prospectus, twenty-fourmo size, 23 pp., signed by the translator. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837) was an esteemed Russian poet and novelist considered the founder of modern Russian literature; "The Tale of the Golden Cockerel" is... More about The Tale of the Golden Cockerel