Frankfurt: Rutten & Loening, ca. 1905. Cardboard covers. 15th edition, quarto size, 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 stories may strike us today..... 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
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
London: George C. Harrap & Co. Ltd., (1933). Rackham, Arthur. First Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition, octavo size, 287 pp. The work of Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), an eminent illustrator of many books which often depict fantasy and fairy tale subjects, is still loved and collected today. Rackham contributed illustrations to..... More
London: George Harrap & Co. Ltd., (1932). Rackham, Arthur. First and Limited Edition. Vellum. First edition with Rackham illustrations, one of 575 copies, octavo size, 48 pp., signed by Arthur Rackham. A perfect convergence of "one of the earliest English examples of a fantasy written specifically for a child" (which..... More
London: George C. Harrap & Co. Ltd., (1932). Rackham, Arthur. First Edition. Wraps. First trade with Rackham illustrations, octavo size, 48 pp. A perfect convergence of "one of the earliest English examples of a fantasy written specifically for a child" (which may have had a direct effect upon George MacDonald..... More
San Francisco: Didymus Press [printed at The Press in Tuscany Alley], 1974. Arnold, Ann. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, quarto size, [51] pp. The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (Märchen or Das Märchen) is a fairy tale by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), first published in 1795..... More