HENNY PENNY
[circa 1915]
American shape book version of the classic Chicken Little story
Mythology & Folklore
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HARVEY THE FOOLISH PIG
(1988)
First edition of this adaptation of an Armenian folk tale with great color illustrations by the author.
MONSTER ROLLING SKULL AND OTHER NATIVE AMERICAN TALES
(1980)
First edition of this collection of nine Native American stories, many featuring the trickster Coyote.
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DE TUIN DER GODEN [The Garden of the Gods]
[1947]
Second edition, a lavishly illustrated survey in Dutch of myths and legends from Egypt, Greece, India, Scandinavia, and more.
Original art: "Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion" from MORE TALES OF UNCLE REMUS
[no later than 1988]
Signed watercolor by Pinkney for his edition of MORE TALES OF UNCLE REMUS, published in 1988 by Dial.
BANTU TALES
(1970)
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.
INGOLDSBY LEGENDS
1907
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.
THE RED FAIRY BOOK
1890
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.
THREE LITTLE PIGS AND OTHER STORIES
(1929)
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."
OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG
1903
McLoughlin Brothers Pleasewell Series edition of this Mother Goose folktale, printed on cloth.
WHY LEOPARD HAS SPOTS: DAN STORIES FROM LIBERIA
(1998)
First edition of this collection of stories from the Dan people of Liberia, many featuring the clever but unlucky Spider.
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THE STORY OF PETER RABBIT [and] DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT
(1908)
Early American version of Peter Rabbit, illustrated by J.R. Neill, best known for illustrating the Oz series.
IN POWDER AND CRINOLINE
[1913]
Lavish signed limited edition of this fairy-tale collection, illustrated with an Art Deco take on 18th-century French styles.
IN POWDER AND CRINOLINE
[1913]
First trade edition, second issue (bound entirely in cloth), an excellent copy, rarely found with the original box.
LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER
(1917)
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.
ZLATEH THE GOAT
(1966)
Signed later printing of Singer's adaptations of tales from Jewish folklore, inscribed by Sendak.
THE FOOLS OF CHELM
(1973)
First printing of this slapstick tale for children derived from Jewish folklore.
ELFWYN'S SAGA
(1990)
First printing of Wisniewski's interpreation of this Icelandic legend about the a blind girl with the gift of second sight.
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