IN POWDER AND CRINOLINE
First trade edition, second issue (bound entirely in cloth), an excellent copy, rarely found with the original box.
First trade edition, second issue (bound entirely in cloth), an excellent copy, rarely found with the original box.
Scarce early Père Castor picture book, a Russian fairy tale vividly illustrated by Russian émigré artist Ivan Bilibin.
First printing of this collection of tales from the ancient cycle of Reynard the Fox, the prototypical trickster figure – with stylish illustrations.
Lovely new edition of Beaumont's classic fairy tale, inscribed by illustrator Hilary Knight, with a brief afterword by Cocteau on the themes of secret disappointment and the "pangs of hopeless love."
Beautifully illustrated Volland title about a boy and his mouse friend in Czechoslovakia, with an added French toy-maker tale.
First edition of this bucolic French fairy tale, a characteristically charming 1940s Père Castor publication.
First printing of this retelling of a French fairy tale about a king's challenge to his three sons, and his youngest son's acquaintance with an aristocratic feline.