THE PIECE OF FIRE AND OTHER HAITIAN TALES
First edition of this collection of twenty-six tales gathered by folklorist Harold Courlander, with charming illustrations.
First edition of this collection of twenty-six tales gathered by folklorist Harold Courlander, with charming illustrations.
Revised and updated edition of this collection of 21 Norwegian folktales, with dreamy illustrations and a new introduction by the d'Aulaires.
First printing of this collection of Scottish stories for young readers, with stylish illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon.
First printing of this retelling of the myth of Atalanta, who refuses to marry unless her suitor can beat her in a foot race – with beautiful illustrations by award-winning artistic duo Leo and Diane Dillon.
First printing, signed by the author and both illustrators, of this collection of retellings of Inuit stories, illustrated with Leo and Diane Dillon's "dramatic color paintings and exquisite black-and-white friezes" (jacket).
First printing of "one of the first children's books to feature South American folktales from indigenous peoples" (Library of Congress) — inscribed by multiple-Pulitzer-winner Carl Sandburg, to whom the book is dedicated.
First edition of this adaptation of an Armenian folk tale with great color illustrations by the author.
First edition of this collection of nine Native American stories, many featuring the trickster Coyote.
Signed first edition of this illustrated collection of moral tales and poems, including "The Honest Woodman," "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," and "The Little Red Hen."
Second edition, a lavishly illustrated survey in Dutch of myths and legends from Egypt, Greece, India, Scandinavia, and more.
First edition of this collection of nineteen traditional tales, collected by a westerner teaching in the Kasai district in the 1930s, and edited by her Congolese pupil.
Signed first printing of this collection of six Vietnamese folk tales, beautifully illustrated by award-winning artist Trina Schart Hyman.
Updated and expanded edition with Rackham's illustrations, first published in 1898 but here published in a new deluxe format with new work by Rackham.
Inscribed later printing with an original watercolor by Yashima, this illustrated collection of Korean folk tales "changed, elaborated, and combined" these stories for an American audience.
First edition, first printing of this collection of animal tales, accompanied by occasionally psychedelic illustrations.
First edition of the second title in Lang's color fairy book series, containing classic French, Russian, Danish, and Norse tales – with a laid in autograph note from Lang.
McLoughlin Brothers edition of this classic collection of fairy tales, in an unusually large format and different pictorial cloth binding design.
Early 20th century US edition of this classic book of fairy tales with a different binding style than the first edition, still elaborately designed for a gift audience.
First printing of this collection of tales from the ancient cycle of Reynard the Fox, the prototypical trickster figure – with stylish illustrations.
Signed first printing of this Scottish-Norwegian fairytale, thematically similar to CINDERELLA – with charming illustrations by Anita Lobel.
Miniature edition of children's tales, a charming, chunky production containing "Three Little Pigs" (not the tale with the wolf), "Betty Brighteyes" (about a mouse), "The Magic Whistle," and "The Shipwreck."
Inscribed first printing of this story of trouble-making Coyote's desire to fly like the crows, with an original drawing of Coyote himself.
Inscribed first edition of this retelling of a Congolese folk tale of family favoritism remedied and then destroyed by magic.
First revised edition of this retelling of a Congolese folk tale of family favoritism remedied and then destroyed by magic.
Inscribed first printing of this colorful story of how the nocturnal animals of a South American rain forest come to appreciate the noisy trickster parrot Papagayo.