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
![LEAF BOOK] Thomas Bewick & the Fables of Aesop; With an original leaf from the first edition...](/pictures/thumb/CNBR142_1.JPG?v=1531942520)
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, 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
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
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: 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
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: 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
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
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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
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, quarto size, 44 pp., signed by Edmund Dulac. After Nicholas I, the newly crowned Tsar of Russia, had suppressed the revolutionary rising of December 1825, Alexander Pushkin, who had..... More
[Santa Cruz, California]: Foolscap Press, 2009. Gotthold, Peggy. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 34 of 110 copies (including 10 hors commerce), quarto size, [51] pp. "Herakles and the Eurystheusian Twelve-Step Program" is a comedic dialogue between Herakles (Hercules) and Eurystheus, two heroes from Greek mythology set against each other as rivals..... More
![Pryderi, [A Tale from the Mabinogin]. Welsh Traditional Literature, Kyffin Williams, Artist](/pictures/thumb/CNJL1101_1.JPG?v=1496112596)
(Newton, Powys): (Gwasg Gregynog, 1998), 1998. Williams, Kyffin. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 41 pp. Signed by Artist. No. 245 of 350, signed by the artist. The four tales known as "The Four Branches of the Mabinogi" together constitute the chief glory of Welsh medieval..... More
![Stone Soup [Deluxe edition, with signed etching and with prospectus]. Cas Willing, Paula Rego,...](/pictures/thumb/CNJL1153_1.JPG?v=1506482747)
London: Enitharmon Editions, [2014]. Rego, Paula; Willing, Cas. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 7 of 75 deluxe editions, elephant folio size, 16 unnumbered leaves, signed by Paula Rego and Cas Willing, with signed etching by Paula Rego. Full of the macabre touches and dark humour that have made Paula Rego's reputation..... More
[Chefoo, China]: [Women's Bible School, Self Help Dept., Presbyterian Mission], [1930]. Stiff wraps. Wraps covered with cloth, oblong octavo size, [8] leaves of heavy paper, [7] leaves of glassine with text. An amazingly detailed craft book made by women at the The American Presbyterian Mission of the Chefoo Station, as..... More