Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in red and black, 204 pages, color frontispiece and b&w illustrations by Joyce Brisley. The charming tale of a little wooden horse, who goes out in the world to seek his fortune so that his master can thrive. Covers show light soil, edgewear, small stamp inside front cover. This original edition of the book is uncommon in any condition.
NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Color Illustrations by Gerald McDermott. Dust jacket with closed tears, edgewear.
Hardcover. New York , Dodge Publishing Co., na, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 435 pages, color frontispiece and title page, 130 line illustrations. Bright blue cloth covers with gilt, red and white design. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Warsaw, Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1st illust, thus, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Three hardcover volumes complete with edgeworn dust jackets, 212, 220 and 220 pages. Volume 1 has 24 brilliant color illustrations by Janusc Stanny, the Polish designer and painter best known for his mid-century Polish posters. He also created illustrations for over 200 books. Vol. 2 has 24 plates by Andrzej Strumillo and Vol.3 has 24 plates by Jerzy Jaworowski. Gray cloth covers, interiors clean, no markings. All TEXT IN POLISH. Translated from the Danish by Stefania Beylin and Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Color illustrated by author. Clean, tight copy.
Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st U.S., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by P. J. Lynch, DVD "Making Fairy Tales" inside front cover, very clean, tight copy, like new. Brought to new life with enchanting illustrations by award-winning artist P. J. Lynch, this comic American folktale concludes with a final, satisfying twist that says much about fate, identity, and the captivating power of bees.
Hardcover. Mineola NY, Calla Editions, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with a bright gilt decoration on cover and spine. A re-issue of an edition first published in England in 1911. Golden Age artist Charles Robinson provides nearly 200 illustrations including 34 full-page images -- 12 in full color, 16 in black and red, and 6 in black and white -- in addition to scores of smaller line drawings. A beautiful production in like-new condition.
Hardcover. New York, Crowell, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY YOLEN on half-title pg. Color Illustrations by Mercer Mayer. Lovely copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st , 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 38 pages, color illustrations by Saul Lambert. Translated by Richard Howard, introduction by Simone De Beauvoir and illustrated by Saul Lambert. Contains: Diamonds and Toads, Pus in Boots, Cinderella and Bluebeard.
Hardcover. New York , Venture/George Braziller, 1st US, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 103 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Grambs Miller. Dust jacket is price clipped with publisher's sticker and large rubbed areas around edges and flaps. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Internally clean.
Hardcover. Seymour, CT, Greenwich Workshop Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gustafson, SIGNED BY GUSTAFSON on half title page. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping and price sticker on rear. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Holiday House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Lobel. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black boards stamped with gilt lettering, brown buckram spine with gilt lettering on spine badly faded. Pastedown illustrated on upper cover a couple on a horse. Endpapers design by Nielsen in black and gold ink. 24 tipped-in color plates by Nielson plus the color frontispiece along with b&w drawings throughout. The binding is fragile and the boards have edge wear and spotting, but the brilliant plates are all present. This volume is a mystery as it does not conform th other books described on various sites with yellow buckram covers with red lettering. No date anywhere.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no publication date listed, circa 1916. Beige front boards with decorations in slate blue and black. Boards are in very nice condition, with only minor wear. Decorative endpapers and text pages are clean. 15 beautiful full color tipped in plates including frontispiece by Edmund Dulac. Previous owner's signature on detached title page. Light wood smoke odor.
Hardcover. NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Mendelson. Animal characters highlight a retelling of the story of two rascals who sell a vain emperor an invisible suit of clothes. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1st US, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. Hardcover. Full color paste down illustration on front cover - minor chip of paper missing at bottom of interior red line of Fairy Caravan banner. Title in gilt on spine. Full color plates and black & white illustrations by Beatrix Potter. Previous owners name (written in pencil) erased at some point. A nice copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 92 pages. Color illustrations by Aldren Watson. Light soil to dust jacket. Otherwise very good. SIGNED BY ALDREN WATSON on title page.
Hardcover. London, William Heinemann, reprint, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in green cloth covers stamped in black, gilt title on spine, 416 pages. Features 8 plates in color and 174 richly detailed illustrations in b&w by Hans Tegner. First published in 1900, this subtitled The Queen's Edition published in 1909. Edges and corners of cloth worn, spine faded. Inscription on half-title page.
Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Brown cloth covers with gilt lettering, color label on front. Color and b&w illustrations by Eulalie and Lois Lenski. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Franklin Watts, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, colorful wraparound dust jacket, price-clipped. 192 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Charles Mozley.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with mild edgewear. A story in the best Norse fairy-tale tradition, in which the youngest of three brothers rescues the others,with fiddle. Illustrated in color by award-winning Swedish author/artist Nygren. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Margot Tomes. Dj price clipped. Small closed tear to spine.
Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st thus, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photos by Cindy Sherman. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st thus, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photos by Cindy Sherman. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Yellow cloth covers with red titles to spine and embossed graphic illustration of frogs to front, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering, numerous beautiful color plates by Margot Zemach, b&w illustrated figures throughout. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, light foxing to top edge, pages and covers crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight children's book in great condition.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in light green, 259 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Robert Lawson. Stated First Edition on copyright page. Previous owner's inscription on blank leaf, spine cloth with light fading. Otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee Co., 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 pages. Hardcover. Red brick colored cloth. Full color pastedown on cover. Previous owners name in pencil on dedication page. 12 full color plates. Front endpaper has been mostly removed. 1.5" closed cut to foredge of first 6 pages - at approximately mid-page. Covers shown light/moderate wear. Clean, unmarked copy. 'AS-IS'
Hardcover. New York, Beach Lane Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Leo & Diane Dillon. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Co, 1st, 1882, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 339 pages, b&w engaved illustrations by various artists, including F.S. Church, Thomas Moran, Cruikshanks. Shaken copy, some signatures loose, but all there. Worn covers. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Marshall Cavendish , 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations. SIGNED by Spirin on the half title page. Gennady Spirin has taken a favorite childhood tale and imbued it with charm, dressing his bears in Renaissance costumes and providing whimsical and charming furniture designed for their country dwelling. Each spread-painted in watercolor, pen, and ink-brings renewed life to this endearing children's classic in a way that only a master illustrator can. No wonder Goldilocks want to sample the bears' porridge, sit on their chairs, and rest on their beds!
Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, Reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Full color illustrations by James Marshall. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Caldecott Honor sticker on front.
Hardcover. London/New York, Viking/Kestrel, Revised Ed., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 408 pages, illustrated in b&w by Antony Maitland. Edited by Brian Alderson with his notes on the stories in the rear. Previous owner's handwritten note inside front cover otherwise clean with a bright dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginanted. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Fairy love story by the actor Richard Burton's Welsh father.
Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginanted. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Fairy love story by the actor Richard Burton's Welsh father.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books , 3rd pr., 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt design, 864 pages. Based on the translation of Margaret Hunt, with 212 beautiful illustrations (many in color) by Josef Scharl, an Introduction by Padraic Colum and Folkloristic Commentary at the rear by Joseph Campbell. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy boards, illustrated in color and b&w by Gertrude Elliott Espenscheid. Copyright page states 1955 but ISBN tells us it's a probable 1970s reprint. Owner's signature on iside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Chicago, Haymarket Books, 1st US, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Two-color illustrations by Laura Barrett. Greta lives with her brother Hansel on the edge of a great forest - a forest in danger of destruction. GreedyGuts, their aunt, doesn't appreciate Hansel and Greta's plans to replant trees and save the forest. In fact, she thinks they're horrible little vegetarians. GreedyGuts doesn't give two hoots about nature. She favors luxury and living it up: eating, shopping and partying hard and so she hatches a plan to get rid of the meddling, do-gooder kids deep in the woods. With her trademark subversive and comic eye, Jeanette Winterson retells the classic tale of Hansel and Gretel.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. SIGNED BY SUSAN JEFFERS ON TITLE PAGE.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton Books for Young Readers, Revised, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY SUSAN JEFFERS ON TITLE PAGE.
Saxonville, MA, Picture Book Studio, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lisbeth Zwerger. Unpaginated. When they are left in the woods by their parents, two children find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch.
Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st thus, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jean Claverie. Corners rubbed.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in color illustrated boards. library binding. Adapted by Benjamin Appel. Illustrations in color by J.K. Lambert. Summary: Taken from his royal parents at his christening by one fairy to escape the vengeance of another, a prince, thinking he is a commoner, sets out to win the hand of a beautiful princess. 58 pages, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with fading to spine. 85 pages with full-page b&w illustrations throughout by Joe Servello. No markings.
Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st , 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 117 pages. INSCRIBED BY VELDE on title-page. Black & white illustrations, color wrap-around dj art by Trina Schart Hyman.