[c. 1920]. One of a series of five photographs known as The Cottingley Fairy pictures -- one of the great photographic hoaxes. Two young girls cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright, produced the five pictures (two in 1917 and three... More about COTTINGLEY FAIRY PHOTOGRAPH #4. FAIRY OFFERING POSY OF HAREBELLS TO ELSIE. SILVER-GELATIN PRINT
Paris: A La Librairie Nationale et Etrangere | Imprimerie de Poulet, 1821. 24mo. Full Leather. A rare edition, with only three copies found on OCLC. The Mythologie de la Jeunesse, ou Histoire Fabuleuse, a history of Greco-roman mythology in French... More about MYTHOLOGIE DE LA JEUNESSE, OU HISTOIRE FABULEUSE POUR SERVIR A L’INTELLIGENCE DES POETES ET DES...
n.d. Hard Cover. Souvenir album in the publisher’s red cloth, with decorative stamping in gold and black. With birds-eye view of the Exposition, and 12 additional photo-lithographic views, folded accordion style and tinted blue. One has a discreet repair on..... More about WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION AT CHICAGO [From the cover
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1849. Hard Cover. A French text of Aesop, with a French-English dictionary at the end of the book. Scant pencil margin notes. Quarter leather over paper-covered boards, with a small japanese tissue patch to the bottom... More about AESOP'S FABLES, IN FRENCH; WITH A DESCRIPTION OF FIFTY ANIMALS, MENTIONED THEREIN AND A FRENCH...
New York: James Milller, Publisher, 1880. Quarto. Hard Cover. First Edition. Green boards with black and gold decorations; one plate is bound upside down; an additional copy of that same plate is also present loose (added, we presume, by the... More about WELLES' ILLUSTRATED FABLES
Sandgate: Folkestone, 1990. Octavo. Hard Cover. Binding sound; very light soiling to dust jacket; dust jacket protected in a new mylar cover; slight sticker residue to front free endpaper otherwise no markings to text. Digital images available upon request. More about HUNTERS AND CROCODILES : NARRATIVES OF A HUNTER’S BARD : RECORDED IN MANDINKA DURING A...
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, [1960]. Hard Cover. First Edition thus. First Edition thus of The Grimms’ German Folk Tales, translated by Francis P. Magoun, Jr. and Alexander H. Krappe. With no marks of any kind. Tan cloth. Top edge... More about THE GRIMMS’ GERMAN FOLK TALES
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978. Soft Cover. First Edition. Signed. A clean First Edition, signed by the author with a personal insription on the front free endpaper. Creasing to the top left corner of the rear and another along the spine. More about SHUCKIN’ AND JIVIN’ | FOLKLORE FROM CONTEMPORARY BLACK AMERICANS
London: E. Grant Richards, 1907. Second Printing. This edition bound in maroon suede, with yapp edges. A rondel bust of Wagner is stamped in gold to the front board. What must certainly be an uncommon dusjtacket is present, and is... More about THE WAGNER STORIES
Santa Fe, New Mexico: The Seton Village Press, 1939. Hard Cover. First Edition. Signed. Sadly, the bottom corner of the boards are a bit chewed, perhaps by puppy (Bad dog!). Signed by H. Clark Brown with a personal inscription on... More about THE STONE MAIDEN (Signed
New York; London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928. Hard Cover. A collection of folk tales from Arabic sources, compiled by H. I. Katibah. Complete with eight plates. Red cloth with gilt lettering. More about OTHER ARABIAN NIGHTS
Paris: Librairie Steriotype de Th. Dabo | Imprimerie Stereotype de Tremblay, 1819. Full Leather. In rather unexuberant tree tree caf; double rules to the spine, with morocco label.Some wear to the top of the spine. With the label of “Bibliotheque... More about FABLES DE LA FONTAINE. STEREOTYPE D’HERHAN
Paris: P. Didot the Elder, and F. Didot, 1813. Quarter Leather. A pretty little production by Didot, bound in quarter black calf over marbled boards. With marbled endpapers. There is some light and scattered foxing. More about FABLES BY JOHN GAY, IN TWO PARTS; TO WHICH ARE ADDED FABLES BY EDWARD MOORE
New York: The McClure Company, 1907. Octavo. Hard Cover. First Edition. A lovely copy in publisher’s red cloth with title and decoration stamped in gold on the front cover and the spine; light shelfwear; top edge gilt; fore-edge deckled and..... More about MAGIC CASEMENTS: A SECOND FAIRY BOOK
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1992. Quarto. Hard Cover. Second Printing 1997. Binding sound; small amount of rubbing to bottom spine. Dust jacket unevenly toned and protected in a new mylar cover. No markings to text. Illustrated with photographs throughout. More about FOLK CUSTOMS OF CHINA
Privately Printed, 1930. Three Quarters Leather. Limited Edition. A Limited Edition of Apuleius’s The Golden Ass, translated by Harold Berman, with illustrations by Rene Gockinga. Numbered 820 of 900 copies. Three quarters blue morocco with gilt lettering and designs, over... More about THE GOLDEN ASS
Avon, CT: The Limited Editions Club, 1957. Signed. #135 of 1500 copies, Signed by the illustrator Paul Landacre. A clean copy, housed in publisher’s Very Good slipcase. Binding is blue pebbled morocco, with raised bands and tilt decorations at the... More about DE RERUM NATURA. ON THE NATURE OF THINGS
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, [2004]. Hard Cover. First Printing. A clean First Printing copy. Dustjacket is clean and bright, with minor wear to the extremities of the spine. More about SECRETS BEYOND THE DOOR. THE STORY OF BLUEBEARD AND HIS WIVES
Grantsville, West Virginia: Seneca Books, [1975]. Hard Cover. First Edition. Stated First Edition of Patrick Gainer’s Witches, Ghosts and Signs: Folklore of the Southern Appalachians. With no marks of any kind. Very Good dustjacket, with minor shelfwear at the top..... More about WITCHES, GHOSTS AND SIGNS. FOLKLORE OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
Barcelona: Henrich Y Co., 1913. An uncommon translation of these Arab tales -- The Story of Nerudin and the Beautiful Princess Camaralzaman Badura. With both in text and full page engraved illustrations. Scattered foxing throughout. An uncommon translation -- we... More about HISTORIA DE NERUDIN Y DE LA BELLA PERSA Y DEL PRINCIPE CAMARALZAMAN Y LA PRINCESA BADURA. ...
Pakistan: Royal Book Company, 1992. Octavo. Hard Cover. some light smudging to the textblock edges; contents clean and binding sound; dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover. More about ROMANTIC TALES FROM THE PUNJAB WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY NATIVE HANDS COLLECTED AND EDITED FROM...
Philadelphia | Boston: E. L. Carey & A. Hart | Allen & Ticknor, 1833. Hard Cover. First American Edition. First American Edition, complete in two volumes, preceded by the First UK Edition the year prior, which was published in three... More about LEGENDS OF THE RHINE AND OF THE LOW COUNTRIES. VOL. I & II. (IN TWO VOLUMES
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1883. First Edition. In the publisher’s blue-gray cloth binding, with some shelfwear, to the corners and the joints; slightly cocked, but a sturdy and serviceable copy. With previous owner name on the first blank and at..... More about THE NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS. SELECT TALES NOT INCLUDED BY GALLAND OR LANE
Baltimore: William R. Lucas, 1832. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Edition of A Catechism of Mythology, by William Darlington, a deaf and dumb author, educator, and (arguably) community rights representative. He resigned his first teaching position in protest to discriminatory... More about A CATECHISM OF MYTHOLOGY; CONTAINING A COMPENDIOUS HISTORY OF THE HEATHEN GODS AND HEROES,...
Kessinger. Soft Cover. This a clean Kessinger reprint in Facsimile. It’s clean with no marks of any kind. More about LEGENDS OF THE SAINTS: IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY VI (Volume 6