Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Rhee. Clear plastic protective cover.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by Domanska. After doing three errands for his family in his own way, the simple Marek is content to sit on the stove catching flies all day long. A Slavic folk tale. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Book Club edition, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Translated from Yiddish by author and Elizabeth Shub. Covers and dust jacket completely illustrated, dust jacket with acetate protective covering, lovely large, full-color illustrations by Margot Zemach. A retelling of a classic tale pits Mazel, the debonair spirit of good luck, against Shlimazel, the wicked spirit of bad luck, in a confrontation that enables a poor but honest lad to win and marry a king's daughter. Rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, foxing to covers, especially at edges, pages clean, crisp and unmarked.
Hardcover. New York , HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Kellogg and SIGNED WITH A DRAWING of an alligator by Kellogg. A funny and energetic picture book portrayal of one of America's most famous frontiersmen and larger-than-life heroes. Mike Fink was king of the keelboatmen--the strongest, rowdiest bunch of fellows ever to work on the Mississippi. Mike was a whole lot more than a keelboater--yes, sir! He was a crack shot and the best grizzly and gator wrestler on the river. They don't make 'em like Mike these days, now do they? But what will Mike do when the larger, faster, smoke-spewing steamboats attempt to take over the rivers?
NY, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. Color illustrations by Reynold Ruffins. No dust jacket. From Angola to Zanzibar, this treasury is as varied and bountiful as Africa itself! Master storyteller Verna Aardema retells 12 tales of justice and revenge, greed and generosity, sly trickery, and off-the-wall silliness with her trademark humor and flair. Nearly 50 illustrations vibrantly reflect the spirit of these read-aloud delights, while a map of Africa, story source information, and a personal note from the author make this a rich volume for folk-tale lovers of all ages.
Hardcover. NJ, Silver Burdett, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Alfonso Ruano. Light soil to covers.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead and Co., 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 153 pages, illustrated in b&w by Enver Ahmed. In a chipped but bright dust jacket that's unclipped. Hindu & Muslim village boys fight monkeys over possession of a tree; all make peace; boys & monkeys rescue Muslim villagers from city ruffians.
New York , Bedrick/Blackie, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 24 pages. Color illustrations by Ambrus. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. After laughing at a bear, a farmer must do some thinking in order to keep from losing his cow and his hens.
Chicago, Follett, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Sylvie Selig. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Soil and light edgewear to dust jacket. Through Elephant's greediness, Hare and his family lose the magic spoon that makes life easy for them and acquire in its place a magic stick that makes life miserable but also brings them revenge on Elephant.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.Color illustrations by Young.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black with gilt title on front and spine. No date on title page but states Twenty-First Edition. 416 pages. An early printing of the second Uncle Remus book, illustrated with frontispiece and 19 plates by Frederick Church. While working for the Atlanta Constitution in 1876, Harris "invented Uncle Remus" He published Uncle Remus pieces regularly in the Constitution, and they were extremely popular. In 1880 he collected them into his first book. Remus was a composite of three elderly slaves he had known, the stories themselves were his retellings of old African American tales. He rigorously researched his material, often collecting several versions of the same story until he felt he had the most authentic one. Hinges cracked, but generally a bright, clean copy of this title.
Hardcover. Chicago, Whitman, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pgs w/ color & 2-color Illustrations throughout by Eleanor Mussey Young. Small blemish to back boards otherwise a clean, tight copy.
New York , Philomel Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. A story from Poland retold by Anne Pellowski. Illustrated in color by Charles Mikolaycak. After following the advice of an old woman known for her wisdom, a beleaguered young mother is finally able to quiet her crying infant--but then the rest of the town's babies start wailing.
Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial cloth in a matching bright dust jacket. 223 pages with b&w drawings by Victor Ambrus. Discard stamp to front and rear endpapers but otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Oslo, Dreyers Forlag, 1st thus, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt titles in a bright dust jacket, 189 pages. Ever since they first appeared in translation more than a hundred years ago, the Norwegian folk tales collected by Asbjornsen and Moe have maintained unrivaled popularity on both sides of the Atlantic. The best of these tales are presented, with b&w illustrations by Erik Werenskiold and Theodor Kittelsen. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Judy Sierra's retellings are humorous, spirited, respectful of the stories' origins, and attuned to the needs of young listeners. She offers advice for the storyteller as well as source notes and a bibliography. Images and motifs from the traditional artwork or each country appear in Stefano Vitale's splendid illustrations. Eighteen simple stories from international folklore, grouped around six themes. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace World, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 153 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white woodcuts by Enrico Arno. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Tight copy.
New York, Macmillan , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Judy Pedersen. Dust jacket with edgewear. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Blitt. A fresh approach to fractured fairy tales: take one small child's insatiable demand for Just one more story and add a sleepy parent's wish to get the bedtime ritual over with as quickly as possible. The result is this collection of eight condensed folktales. For example, Goldilocks and the Bears begins, There were some bears;/It doesn't really matter how many./There was a bunch./Let's get to the point: and ends, When the bears came back,/They found her asleep./She woke up, screamed, and ran home/So she could sleep in her own bed./Just like you. A few nursery rhymes (Hickory, dickory, dock,/A mouse ran up the clock./The clock struck eight./Oh, my, it's late!/So the mouse went straight to bed) and jokes round out the book. Blitt's ink-and-watercolor illustrations are amusing, with fine lines and soothing colors underscoring the comedy in the characters and situations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Red Ozier Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR. Singer's signature to last story page in pen. Interior color lithographic frontispiece signed in pencil by Callner. Illustrated with three colored lithographs, each signed by Richard Callner in pencil. Violet morocco leather spine, sides, and corner-tips. Blue boards. Translated from the original Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Pollet. Light age toning to top text block edge. Heavy fading to spine. Rough-cut fore edge. Of 155 copies, this is number 76. Scarce. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Dirk Zimmer. The monster family portrait on the cover sets the tone of comic exaggeration in this Ukrainian-Hutzul version of an age-old story. When a traveler is lost in the woods, the witch Three Eyes agrees to help him find his way back if he agrees to give her his most precious possession. Only when he gets home does he realize that he has bargained away his beloved daughter, Larissa.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, oblong format in a bright unclipped ($4.95) dust jacket. Color illust. by Hogrogian. 1972 Caldecott Medal Winner with sticker on front panel. Second printing in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Armenian folktale about a greedy fox's adventures. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY - Ind., Bobbs Merrill, 1st , 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Bill Tinker. Three stories -- one based on a Scottish ballad, another on a Japanese folktale, and the other on Greek mythology, with the common thread that the character in each story is taken out of this world, then back again.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with a color paste-down on cover, 263 pages, A collection of 35 Native American animal folklore tales. Wood-lore (or, the ways of wild things) are told in an engaging format - a wise old chief holds evening "story-time" sessions with his very curious grandson, Little Beaver. Running through the linked narrative is the little black bear Moween, of whom Little Beaver is particularly fond. Illustrated with 8 color plates, a color title page and an endpapers drawing by Paul Bransom. Light shelf wear.
NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 70 pages, hardcover like new in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Haughton Mifflin, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 45 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white by Helen Rhodes. Cover faded.
Hardcover. Boston , Houghton Mifflin , unknown, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Kurt Wiese. 68 pages. Decorated light tan cloth binding. Previous owner's inscription on front pastedown. A solid G+ copy of this fragile book. No date on title page, assume reprint.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with illustrated yellow cloth. Vigorously brings to life the story of the western folktale hero. Dramatic two-color drawings by Watson. 177 pages. Only date is 1949 but titles listed in front were printed in 1950s so a reprint. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 177 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illust. by Leo & Diane Dillon. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Atheneum, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards with a yellow cloth spine. 32 pages with color illustrations throughout by Michel-Dansac. Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 3rd Ed., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, faded gilt title on spine, 480 pages. Contains local folklore under various heading such as Giants, fairies, Tregeagle, mermaids, sorcery & witchcraft etc. A few black and white illustrations by George Cruikshank. Previous owner's stamp to front fly leaf. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR WITH DRAWING OF AN AX OPPOSITE TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Deborah Nourse Lattimore. Light shelfwear to covers/dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 113 Pages. White cloth beautifully decorated in pale green and gilt to front cover. Pale green end papers. 10 tipped-in paper-guarded richly colored plates by Edmund Dulac. A tale from The Arabian Nights retold by Housman. Spine and corners bumped. Cloth is slightly grubby and the spine is a little bit browned. Previous owner's name on front end paper, previous owner's sticker on rear end paper. Light wood smoke odor. Tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Century Co., Revised from 1894 ed., 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 257 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings by George Wharton Edwards. Missing front endpaper. Illustrated front cover. Soil, spotting to binding.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. SIGNED BY PAUL O. ZELINSKY ON TITLE PAGE. Caldecott Winner for 1998. Acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition. First printing. no sticker.
Hardcover. New York , Roy Publishers, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 222 pages, b&w illustrations by C. Walter Hodges.In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.
NY, Collins World, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ed Young. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tears.
Hardcover. Paris, Baudry's European Library, 1st, 1838, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, calf binding with title label on spine. Illustrated with 8 b&w engravings. Well written, entertaining legends, history and folklore of the Rhine, including the Mouse Tower, Hildegard von Bingen, St. Ursula, etc. Cover is scuffed with surface scars, but binding is firm. 354 pages. Minor foxing. Aside from cover appearance, very good.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 279 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color, black & white illustrations by Will Crawford. Dust jacket with some heavy chipping.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with red decoration, 279 pages. B&w, some color illustrations by Will Crawford. Previous owner's bookplate on inside cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
hardcover. New York, Dutton, 6th PR., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ZELINSKY on title-page. Newbery Honor Book Sticker on front of dust jacket, cover and dust jacket completely illustrated, gorgeous full-page color illustrations. Very minor rubbing to dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a beautiful children's book in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped, edgeworn dust jacket, B&w drawings by Rita Fava. Collection of 9 French Canadian folk stories, told to told to children at the LeBlanc summer picnic in Vermont to remind them of their ancestors in French Canada; in the beginning they lived near Quebec city and wore long red sashes and later some moved to Montreal where the color was blue. Clean copy.
Watertown, MA, Charlesbridge Publishing, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Matt Faulkner. Scatterbrain Sam is the distant down-home cousin of "Morgan and the Pot of Brains," a Welsh tale told by Ellen Pugh. This adaptation is a funny, folksy tall tale filled with exaggeration and sly humor. It is set in mid-20th-century America, and Jackson has freely updated and modified the old story. Sam is so scatterbrained, "he didn't know nothing about nothing," so he asks Widder Woman to help fix his brains. She offers a glue-stew remedy for which the young man must provide the flavoring with things that he loves. When that proves to be too difficult, he is given riddles to solve and only with the help of Maizie Mae, a golden-haired aviatrix with her own stunt plane, does Sam begin to find the solution. When Maizie falls into the sticky concoction, Sam follows the glue flood through town and finally realizes what he truly loves. He takes the Widder's advice and marries Maizie and they fly off together into the sunset. This is a rollicking good tale with exuberant cartoonlike watercolor-and-gouache paintings.
Hardcover. NY, Robert Carter & Brothers, reprint, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt and black, 436 pages plus publisher's ads. Miller's first prose work, a mixture of legend, folklore, history and contemporary observation, 'a delightfully affectionate picture of his birthplace'. First published in the UK in 1835. Includes the author's dedication and his Introduction to the Second Edition. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Grand Rapids MI , Eerdmans, 1st?, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Really nice, new-looking condition. Color illustrations by Nancy L. Clouse. Hardbound in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED and dated BY ALVAREZ on front fly leaf. Color illustrations by Fabian Negrin. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in b&w by Rachel Isadora. Two folktales, one from Ireland and one from Cornwall, about Tom and his encounters with a leprechaun and piskies, which convince him that they are real. "The visual balance of text and illustration completes the elegance of the book." --Booklist. Reissue of a title first published in 1979. Clean and bright.
Hardcover. New York, New World Publishing Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 158 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cloth cover boards, blue title on spine and designs on front cover board. Dust jacket price clipped. Original bookstore price tag on dust jacket front flap, some agewear to dust jacket (see image).
hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 24 pages with color illustrations by Ambrus. An old Hungarian folk tale.