New York: Brentano's, [1916]. Clarke, Harry. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition, quarto size, 320 pp. Hans Christian Andersen's (1805-1875) "Fairy Tales" have been beloved by both children and adults ever since they were first published, with some tales appearing as early as 1835. Often containing a moral story clothed... More
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
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
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
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
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
London; New York: William Heinemann; Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912. Rackham, Arthur. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited deluxe edition, number 66 of 1450 copies, quarto size, [248] pp., signed by Arthur Rackham. This is the first edition of the new translation by V.S. Vernon Jones of those ancient Fables credited to... More
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
[London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [1914]. Dulac, Edmund. First Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition, quarto size, 224 pp. First trade edition of Edmund Dulac's "Sindbad the Sailor"; also included are "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp", "The Story of the Three Calendars", and "The Sleeper Awakened"; beautifully illustrated with twenty-three Dulac plates... More
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
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1910. Pogany, Willy. First Edition. Hardcover. With Willy Pogany illustrations, first printing, octavo size, 295 pp. This collection of tales features numerous and charming stories not often told in the tradition of English folk tales; many draw from countries such as Hungary, Serbia, and... More
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, complete, no. 143 of 350 copies, quarto size, 724 total pp. This two-volume set is the Shakespeare Head Press's edition of Sir Thomas Malory's (ca. 1415-1471) most enduring and... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
![[LEAF BOOK] Thomas Bewick & the Fables of Aesop; With an original leaf from the first edition (1818) of The Fables of Aesop and a new impression from one of Bewick's original wood engravings. Thomas Bewick, John W. Borden, Janet S. Krueger, Biographical Sketch, History of the Fables.](/pictures/thumb/CNBR142_1.JPG?v=1531942520)
![Prinz Grunewald und Perlenfein mit ihrem lieben Eselein [Prince Grunewald and Perlenfein with their Dear Little Donkey]. Heinrich Hoffmann, Dr.](/pictures/thumb/17071607_1.JPG?v=1501889086)
![[King Arthur] The Byrth, Lyf, and Actes of Kyng Arthur;; Of His Noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Table, Theyr Merveyllous Enquestes and Adventures, Thachyevyng of the Sanc Greal; and in the End Le Morte Darthur, with the Dolourous Deth and Departyng out of thys Worlde of them Al. Sir Thomas Malory, Introduction, Notes, Robert Southey, Esq., William Upcott.](/pictures/thumb/PTTB062_1.JPG?v=1531184585)
![[Oriental Tales] The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night... ; Tales From the Arabic... ; Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp...; Now First Completely Done Into English Prose and Verse, from the Original Arabic, by John Payne. John Payne.](/pictures/thumb/14021501_1.JPG?v=1509825365)
