Grimm Grimm's Fairy Tales: Enchanting Tales from the Master Storytellers
Arcturus , 2011 Later Edition. Book Condition: As New. Size: 11.5" x 9" approx. Appears unread. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1.25 kilos. Category: Children; ISBN: 1848379293. ISBN/EAN: 9781848379299. Inventory No: 0036409. (Book ref. 0036409) £4.25
HANS ANDERSEN Hans Andersen Fairy Tales (illustrated)
Warne. 1867. UK. A hefty volume of fairy tales from the prolific storyteller! Deep red cloth boards only, Good. Wear to corners/prelims, freying top/tail spine. Gilt titles & decor to front boards/spine, moderate staining to rear board. Book Good, neat inscription to ffep with family crest plate to pastedown. Engraved frontispiece with tissue guard & numerous wonderful illustrated engravings throughout. Two illustrations have childs crayoning. Neat tape repair to front/rear, binding weakened to central section. Otherwise a good example of this collectable volume! (Book ref. 650) £18.95
Chapin, Anna Alice; Smith, Jessie Willcox [illus] Now-a-days Fairy Book
London: J Coker & co, [1920]. First Edition. Red cloth spine on pictorial boards. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. New endpapers inserted. Illustration to front board has been coloured-in. Occasional light pen-marking within - otherwise contents clean and tight. 160pp :: 8 colour plates by Jessie Willcox Smith :: 290mm x 220mm (11" x 9") (Book ref. e0658b) £30.00
Tegner, Henry Ghosts of the North Country
Morpeth: Butler Publishing, 2003. Reprint. Blue illustrated laminated card cover. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. 79pp :: 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6") (Book ref. fg246z) £6.60
Carter Angela Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales
London: Victor Gollancz, 1982. Illustrated by Michael Foreman. First Edition. 0-575-03194-8 Hardback. 4to. A very good copy in publisher's cream cloth with title in gilt on spine. SIGNED by Michael Foreman on title page. Numerous colour and black and white illustrations 128 pages. Good dustwrapper showing minor edgewear which is not price-clipped and which is protected in a removable cover. (Book ref. 16942) £30.00
Chapin, Anna Alice: THE NOW-A-DAYS FAIRY BOOK
(J Coker & Co Ltd London) demy 4to 159pp Colour ills. No dustwrapper Slight tearing on some pages and some browning. Covers bumped and some damage Shaken G (Book ref. 10499) £7.75
Hatton, Bessie: THE VILLAGE OF YOUTH AND OTHER FAIRY TALES
(Hutchinson nd - inscribed 1899) 8vo 164pp + advts. Illustrated by W.H. Margetson. Hinges gone. Spine damaged. Binding otherwise sound - just a reasonable reading copy (Book ref. 4430) £6.50
BROTHERS GRIMM illustrated by Anne Anderson Grimms'Fairy Tales
Collins (for the Children's Press). n/d c1920s. UK. Large format book c1920s of tales from the Brother's Grimm! Blue colth covered boards only, Good. Red titles & illustration to front & spine. Wear/soiling to corners, edging & loss (1/2 inch) to spine top. Book Good, four full page colour plates from Anne Anderson with numerous full & heading lined drawings throughout (childs crayoning to approx four lined drawings). Binding becoming loose but currently intact. A wonderful collection of fairy tales with sumptuous plates from Golden Age artist Anne Anderson! (Book ref. 649) £18.95
Joseph Jacobs and illustrations John D Batten: INDIAN FAIRY TALES
David Nutt London 1892 Poor (worn faded and grubby beige cloth, wrinkled spine heavily browned and frayed at head and tail with small areas of loss, corners very heavily rubbed, back hinge almost broken and front hinge roughly secured with thick pvc tape, obviously a very well read copy because very grubby with thumbprints and grubby marks throughout, small area of loss to one page of notes, back free endpaper missing and crayon marks back fixed endpaper) octavo 254pp. First edition. Decorated capitals to chapter headings, many b/w illustrations. uncommon title (Book ref. 34900) £8.25
Grimm, The Brothers; Rackham, Arthur [illus.]; Lucas, Edgar [transl.] The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
London: Constable & Co. Ltd, 1909. First trade Edition. Quarter-leather cover - red morocco spine on red cloth boards. VG : in very good condition. Rebound in morocco backed cloth and with new endpapers. Ink marking edging upper margin of prelim pages. Previous owner's inscription and date to fep. Original gilt-illustrated cloth front cover and spine pasted on to additionally inserted rear page blanks. Sporadic light marking within. 325pp :: 40 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards with additional b/w illustrations :: 260mm x 200mm (10" x 8") :: A scarce and handsome edition of Grimm's fairy tales illustrated by one of the leading lights of the Edwardian era (Book ref. j6986) £820.00
Lang, Andrew The Lilac Fairy Book
London: Longmans Green & Co, 1910. First Edition. Lilac/gilt hardback cloth cover. Cover and spine rubbed and faded. Small nick on upper spine joint two inches below head. Details of previous owner on fep and ink scribble on paste-down. Contents firm and overall in good condition. Aeg. 369pp. + ads :: With tissue-guarded colour frontispiece plate, five additional coloured plates and numerous b/w plates and text illustrations by H.J. Ford :: 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5") :: First edition of this final volume in Lang's Fairy Book series (Book ref. fb12a) £70.00
Lang, Andrew; illustrated by H.J. Ford & G. P. Jacomb Hood Little Red Riding-Hood and Other Stories; based on the tales in the 'Blue Fairy Book'
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1891. Hardcover. First thus. 8vo. Dark grey cloth with silver titles and pictorial decoration. 96 pp. B/w illustratons. Inscr. to front and rear pastedowns. Overall clean and bright. VG (Book ref. 08864) £14.00
Lang, Andrew; illustrated by H. J. Ford Tales of the Fairies: First Series: Based on Tales in the Grey, Violet, and Yellow Fairy Books
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1942. Hardcover. Reprint. October 1942. 'New Impression'. 8vo. Black cloth with decorative gilt titles. 108 pp. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. Inscr. to ffep., otherwise clean. Spine titles faded. GOOD+ (Book ref. 05006) £15.00
Kingsley, Charles The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children
London: Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford, 1913. Hardcover. Oxford Edition. 8vo. Brown faux-leather cloth with blind-stamped decorations and gilt titles. 175 pp. Tissue-guarded colour plates. Moderate foxing. Small inscr. to ffep. GOOD (Book ref. 03592) £8.00
Brothers Grimm The Twelve Dancing Princesses and other stories from Grimm's Fairy Tales, edited for the younger reader
London: Hampster Books. Hardcover. Undated. Circa 1950. 4to. Colour pictorial printed boards with red cloth spine. 'Early Reader' series, number 31. 78 pp. B/w illustrations throughout. Artist not credited, though signature to 1940s-style cover illustration appears to be' M Entwisle '. Binding tender. Pages almost seperated from boards. Some wear and markings. Ffep removed. Overall quite dilapidated. FAIR (Book ref. 02657) £6.00
Stubbs, Una; illustrated by Gram Corbett Una Stubbs' Fairy Tales
London: Ward, Lock, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. No dj. White cloth. 92 pp. Colour and b/w illustrated. Clean. No inscriptions. VG (Book ref. 02191) £4.50
Grimm, Brothers; illustrated by H. G. Theaker Grimm's Fairy Tales
London: Ward, Lock. Hardcover. Undated. Circa 1910s. 8vo. Grey cloth with colour paste on plate (boy with two black cats) to front. 256 pp. Colour frontis (Hansel and Grethel). Both colour plates by H. G. Theaker. Page 85/86 loose. All pages complete. Prev. owner's inscr. to ffep. FAIR (Book ref. 02177) £6.00
Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
London: Petersburg Press, 1970. Illustrated by David Hockney. Leather Bound. Fine. Blue leather with silver titling, unpaginated, illustrated with original etchings by David Hockney, a miniature book. Previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown (Book ref. 015083) £24.00
Ewing, Mrs. Old Fashioned Fairy Tales
London: G. Bell & Sons, 1953. Illustrated by Gertrude Mittelmann and Graham Robertson. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 1953 reprint of edition first published in 1912, red cloth binding, black title lettering and decoration, viii + 120 pages, 5 full page b/w illustrations + illustrations in text. Prize plate (Paston House School Cambridge / Joanna Faiers) on front paste-down. Very good in pictorial dustjacket with minor edge-wear. (Book ref. 1667) £7.25
Jones,Terry (Signed By Illustrator Michael Foreman) Fairy Tales and Fantastic Stories
London: Chrysalis Children's Books, 2003. Illustrated by Michael Foreman. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 184365055X Signed by Illustrator This is a Fine Copy of this book in a Fine Dust-Jacket that has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-wrapper.Not price clipped and this copy has been SIGNED by the Illustrator Michael Foreman on the Half Title Page.The book has a firm binding with NO hinge weakness and there is no leaning or rolling to spine.Illustrated throughout in both colour and black and white with Foreman's very own evocative style.Nice clean copy internally for the collector.4to 256pp First Edition 1st Impression (Book ref. 61739) £35.00