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Lavish signed limited edition of this fairy-tale collection, illustrated with an Art Deco take on 18th-century French styles.
Lavish signed limited edition of this fairy-tale collection, illustrated with an Art Deco take on 18th-century French styles.
Signed limited edition of this lavish illustrated collection of Grimm tales, including Snow White – one of only 525 numbered copies signed by Rackham, with the additional signed color plate.
First trade edition, second issue (bound entirely in cloth), an excellent copy, rarely found with the original box.
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 trade edition of this stunningly illustrated collection of Aesop's fables: Detmold at his best.
First edition of Wodehouse's comic children's retelling of the William Tell legend, written "rapidly for cash rather than art" (Phelps) to accompany Dadd's existing illustrations, with verse accompaniments by John W. Houghton.
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.
First printing of this collection of tales from the ancient cycle of Reynard the Fox, the prototypical trickster figure – with stylish illustrations.
Second edition, a lavishly illustrated survey in Dutch of myths and legends from Egypt, Greece, India, Scandinavia, and more.
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.
Inscribed first printing of this wonderful story about John "Appleseed" Chapman, along with an inscribed copy of the proof.
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.
Signed first printing of this interpretation of an Irish legend of a wicked stepmother queen who changes her stepchildren into swans.
Signed first printing of this vibrantly illustrated children's book, "a little fable about the senses, and about what is important to different people" (Hyman).
First printing in English of this retelling of the Jewish folktale, with attractive illustrations by Caldecott Medal-winning artist Uri Shulevitz.
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."
McLoughlin Brothers Pleasewell Series edition of this Mother Goose folktale, printed on cloth.
Signed later printing of Singer's adaptations of tales from Jewish folklore, inscribed by Sendak.
First US edition of this collection of fables executed in the style of an Renaissance manuscript, a facsimile of Marie Angel's original work.
Inscribed first 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.
First printing of this retelling of a Chinese folktale about the zodiac animals, in which the Emperor seeks to decide who should rule over the others as the Beast of the First Year.
First printing of this retelling of five Brer Rabbit stories selected by composer Van Dyke Parks, with delightful illustrations by Barry Moser.
First edition in English of this slapstick tale for children derived from Jewish folklore, written before Singer's Nobel Prize win.
Signed first printing of this Scottish-Norwegian fairytale, thematically similar to CINDERELLA – with charming illustrations by Anita Lobel.