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By: Aardema, Verna; Desimi, Lisa (illustrator)
Price: $18.00
Publisher: New York, Atheneum Books for Young Readers: 1997
Seller ID: 13021
ISBN: 068981092x
Condition: Very Good++
An 'as new' copy with former owner's small name sticker on ffep. Fourth printing of the First Edition. Peppered with Verna Aardema's trademark ideophones--words that mimic actual sounds--this book makes an ideal read-aloud. Brilliantly realized characters and West African flavor come together in Desimini's extraordinary collage illustrations. Includes a glossary of West African terms and pronunciations. Full color. Show Less View more info
By: Andersen, H. C.; Le Gallienne, Eva (translator); Sendak, Maurice (illustrator)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1990
Seller ID: 13009
ISBN: 0060237902
Condition: Fine
Reprint of the 1959 edition. Fresh and Unmarked. 127 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Bound in blue cloth with gold decoration. View more info
Price: $55.00
Publisher: New York, Heritage Press: 1948
Seller ID: 11013
Condition: Very Good +
Translated from the Danish by Jean Hersholt, illustrated in color by Fritz Kredel. Each volume bound in a different bright color coloth (blue, yellow, green) with illustrations in red on the front and red lettering on the spines. All page edges stained bright yellow. Unmaked with bright clear pages. Spines lightly sunned. All housed in a firm red slipcasewhich has a stain at the top near the spine. View more info
By: Andersen, Hans Christian; Nielsen, Kay (illustrator )
Price: $19.00
Publisher: New York, Viking; Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1981
Seller ID: 11747
ISBN: 067030557x
Condition: Very Good++
New York: Viking; Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981. Very Good++. 155 pages, 11 tales, Illustrations by Kay Nielson reproduced from a copy of the 1924 edition. 12 full color plates plus numerous two tone plates and smaller illustrations. Decorated endpapers, unmarked. Ble boards with green cloth spine. Faint toning at top edge of boards. Jacket has wear only at top of spine. View more info
By: Andersen, Hans Christian; Maguire, Thomas Aquinas
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Simply Read Books: 2011
Edition: First
Seller ID: 8361
ISBN: 1897476361
Condition: New
Simply Read Books, 2011. First printing. New/Box-new. Maguire, Thomas Aquinas. A princess rescues her 11 brothers from a transformative spell cast by their wicked stepmother. This story of enchantment is conveyed here in a remarkable and unusual way -- as a wordless unfolding accordion book with a series of beautiful illustrations that tell the tale. A separate booklet included contains text to accompany the story. This is packeaged in an illustrated box with a magnetic closure.. View more info
By: Andersen, Hans Christian; Tudor, Tasha (illustrator)
Price: $70.00
Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1945
Edition: First
Seller ID: 7446
Condition: Very Good -
New York: Oxford University Press, 1945. First printing. Very Good -. Tudor, Tasha. 273 pages, 10 full-color plates plus a b&w illustration at the beginning of each of the 31 stories. Lovely gift inscription dated Christmas 1945 on the ffep, otherwise unmarked. The blue cloth covered boards have a silver snowflake on the front. The spine is sunfaded with a silver snowflake and silver lettering which is still readable. The sun fading extends 1 1/2" onto the back. Top edge with decorative blue stain. View more info
By: Batt, Tanya Robyn; Griffin, Rachel (illustrator
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Barefoot Books: 2000
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 11906
ISBN: 1841480614
Condition: Fine
Seven world folk tales, bobliography, illustrated Beautifully illustrated throughout, illustrated endpapers. View more info
Price: $195.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1961
Edition: First
Seller ID: 004079
Condition: Near Fine
Black boards with blue cloth spine and decoration on the front. Illustrated endpapers. B&W illustrations throughout. This copy is an oddity in that 12 pages near the back of the book have been printed over with other pages. Example: page 122 is overprinted with page 50; page 123 is overprinted with page 51. these 12 pages have been put through the press two times. Other than that, the book is as new. Jacket with four-color illustration, not price-clipped (3.95), ad on back flap for "Dwarf Long-Nose". First Edition. Translated from the German by Doris Orgel. View more info
By: Brothers Grimm; Heyer, Marilee (illustrator)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1993
Edition: First
Seller ID: 12521
ISBN: 0670817414
Condition: Very Good++
First printing with a remainder dot on the bottom edge. former owner's small address sticker on ffep. With the help of Iron Hans, the wild man of the forest, a young prince makes his own way in the world and wins the hand of a princess. View more info
By: Bryan, Ashley
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Atheneum: 1986
Edition: First
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 13033
ISBN: 068931311x
Signed by Ashley Bryant on the title page with a date of 1987. Also signed and inscribed on the ffep. Bound in gold cloth with illustration on the front. jacket has light wear on top edge. Includes four traditional tales told by the Hausa, Angolan, Masai, and Bushmen people of Africa. Illustrated throughout in color and b&w. View more info
By: Bulfinch, Thomas
Price: $27.00
Publisher: New York, Heritage Press: 1958
Seller ID: 11325
Condition: Very Good++
230 pages, introduction by Dudley Pitts, illustrated with 20 full page lithographs by Joe Mugnaini. Index of principal names. Boards are covered in linen with a green on green design, green title block on the spine with gold lettering. Unmarked, clean and crisp, light sunning on the spine. Housed in a bright gold slipcase. Sandglass XI:23 laid in. View more info
By: Bulfinch, Thomas; Hale, Rev. E. E.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shepard Publishers: 1903
Seller ID: 8825
Condition: Very Good
373 pages with an introduction by Arthur Richmond Marsh. Former owner's personal bookplate inside front cover, gift inscription in pencil on ffep. stamp on first page of introduction reads 'Rainbow Hospital, South Euclid, Ohio'. Binding is firm, pages are bright, b&w frontis plus 5 full-page plates in b&w. Line drawings at the start of each chapter. Bound in dark green cloth with gold lettering on the front and spine. Light wear at spine ends and corners. View more info
By: Campbell, Joseph
Price: $50.00
Publisher: London, Alfred Van Der Marck Editions (Publ) Harper & Row (dist): 1983
Edition: First
Seller ID: 13088
ISBN: 0912383003
Condition: Near Fine
11 1/2" x 14 1/2", 304 pages, indexed by subject and place name, myth motif index. Profusely illustrated with color plates, b&w illustrations, maps and charts. Unmarked, bound in beige cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Only light wear to dust jacket. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Scholastic: 1993
Edition: First
Seller ID: 8864
ISBN: 0590475789
Condition: Very Good++
New York: Scholastic, 1993. First printing. Very Good++/very good++. 399 pages, full color throughout, indexed by title, author, country & ethnic origin and story type. A unique celebration of America, splendidly illustrated by 15 Caldecott Award-winning artists. Here are more than 140 folk tales, songs, poems and essays by voices as diverse as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Abbott and Costello, and Bob Dylan. This copy has a former owner's name in small letters on the half-title page, otherwise unmarked, clean and crisp. This is the reinforced library binding, exactly the same in appearance ... View more info
By: Cole, Joanna
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company: 1982
Edition: Book Club Edition
Seller ID: 12241
Condition: Very Good++
792 pages, index of titles, index of Catagories of tales, arranged by region. Unmarked, clear pages, firm binding. Ivory boards with red spine. Spine has gold lettering. Jacket has light wear at extremities. View more info
By: Cotterell, Arthur; Storm, Rachel
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Hermes House: 2002
Edition: First
Seller ID: 7474
ISBN: 1843094371
Condition: Very Good++
New York: Hermes House, 2002. First printing. Very Good++. 512 pages, indexed, heavily illustrated in full color throughout. The myths and legends of the ancient worlds, from Greece, Rome and Egypt to the Norse and Celtic lands, through Persia and India to China and the Far East. Over 1000 entries with over 1000 illustrations. View more info
By: Couch, Arthur Quiller; Nielsen, Kay (illustrator)
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company:
Seller ID: 12586
Condition: Very Good -
244 pages, illustrated with 16 full-color tipped in plates and other b&w drawing within. Former owner's name neatly in small letters on the ffep. A few spots are underlined in the preface. Illustrated endpapers.There is a large white sticker inside the back cover and the rear hinge has been reinforced with cloth library tape. Front hinge is cracked and there are four places within where the gutter is cracked. Nevertheless, still tightly bound. Binding is blue cloth with gold lettering and illustration on the front. Lettering on the spine is no longer bright. Corners only lightly worn, s... View more info
By: Cowan, James
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New Zealand, Whitcombe & Tombs Limitedl:
Seller ID: 005084
Condition: Good
66 pages, approx, 5" x 7 1/4", staple bound, illustrated with b&w photographs and line drawings. Last few pages are pronunciation guide and questions to test silent reading. Orange cover wraps have worn through at the spine and are loose (in 2 pieces, front and back. No. 426 in this children's series, price of 9d. printed on the cover, other titles listed inside. View more info
By: Crane, Jackie
Price: $65.00
Publisher: New York, Greenwich Book Publishers: 1958
Edition: First
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 003538
Condition: Very Good +
Stated first edition. Inscription by the author to James Culbertson on the half-title page. Author's address sticker also on this page. Otherwise, book is unmarked, clean and tightly bound.in red cloth with black lettering on the spine. Jacket has light wear at extremities, original price (2.50) printed on jacket, now protected in mylar. View more info
By: D 'Aulnoy, Mme. La Comtesse; Field, Rachel; MacKinstry, E. (illustrator)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Macmillan company: 1967
Edition: Ex-Library Edition
Seller ID: 8038
Condition: Very Good
New York: Macmillan company, 1967. Ex-Library Edition. Very Good/very good. MacKinstry, E.. 150 pages, former library copy with typical markings, otherwise unmarked. This edition is a facsimile edition of the original 1928 printing. Stated first printing of this edition. B&W drawings throughout with 7 four-color plates. Title page has four-color decoration. Bound in teal cloth with silver lettering, light wear at top and bottom edges. Jacket is not price-clipped ($4.95) and is now in a fresh mylar protector. Jacket has wear at top of spine. View more info
