THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS : Or Mirth and Marvels
Beautifully bound fifth edition of the classic Victorian collection of myths, legends, weird tales, poems, and ghost stories.
Beautifully bound fifth edition of the classic Victorian collection of myths, legends, weird tales, poems, and ghost stories.
Inscribed first edition of the Caldecott-winning tale of a lady who loves to laugh, by the team that composed TIKKI TIKKI TEMBO.
Early Volland printing of this collection of nursery rhymes and other classic tales lavishly illustrated in '20s style.
Deluxe oversize Volland picture book collection of nursery rhymes and other classic tales lavishly illustrated in '20s style.
Rare Wain production, in which characters from classic fairy tales are re-imagined as his characteristically eccentric and expressive cats.
Alfred Crowquill's Fairy Tales chapbook with charming Victorian wood-engraved illustrations.
Advance uncorrected proof for the 1986 Harper Trophy paperback edition of Burkett's illustrated interpretation of Anderesn's classic tale.
Charming antebellum chapbook nursery rhyme with ingenuously hand-colored woodcut illustrations.
First edition of this sequel to the popular BABY'S OPERA, featurin further nursery rhymes set to music amid Crane's wonderful Arts & Crafts-style illustrations.
Signed limited first edition thus, illustrated by Rackham, of Ibsen's fantasy play of goblins and fairies based upon a traditional Norwegian fairy tale.
Early American piracy of Crane's gorgeous Arts & Crafts-style children's music picture book.
Jugendbücherei edition of these classic German tales from a contemporary acclaimed by Goethe.
Catalogue 33 from fairy tale specialist and antiquarian book dealer Dan Hirsch.
Scarce boxed anthology of stories and verse for children, brightly illustrated by Cowham, whose impish figures threatened for a time to eclipse the popularity of Kate Greenaway's pastel waifs.
First UK edition of the 3rd Brownie book, taking the reader through the lives of the tiny creatures of Scottish myth month by month, re-envisioned by the Canadian author with more mischief.
Inscribed first edition of this tale from the Brothers Grimm of a haughty princess' arranged marriage — glazed pictorial boards issue, published simultaneously with cloth/jacketed issue.
Early 20th-century "Golden Books" version of the Italian fairy tale, part of "the most attractive series of Children's Classics ever published."
Maud and Miska Petersham-illustrated edition of the classic tale of the puppet come to life, a bright 1930s production.
Depression-era edition of the classic Italian fairy tale, with 8 color plates and many black-and-white images.
Vibrant chromolithographic Gilded Age edition of the nursery rhyme by the Chicago-based children's book competitor to the McLoughlin Brothers.
First printing of the Rule-illustrated edition, a gorgeous book with vivid, stylized scenes in Art Deco style.
Early American translation of PINOCCHIO — with the scarce Humphrey-illustrated pictorial cover design.
Playful, pseudo-antiquarian version of the classic nursery rhyme.
Large and wonderful finished pen-and-ink drawing that would later be published in the book YE OLD TIME NURSERY RHYMES BY MOTHER GOOSE.
Large and wonderful finished pen-and-ink drawing that would later be published in the book YE OLD TIME NURSERY RHYMES BY MOTHER GOOSE.