THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF SANTA CLAUS
Early edition of one of Baum's earliest books, featuring Christmas-themed stories with Santa, Jack Frost, and more.
Early edition of one of Baum's earliest books, featuring Christmas-themed stories with Santa, Jack Frost, and more.
First edition of the 2nd book in Baum's YA detective series, with a striking ombre binding design.
First edition illustrated by W.G. Collingwood of the POETIC EDDA, the single most important source for our understanding of Norse mythology.
Art Deco Florentine edition of the classic Italian fairy tale, with text in Italian and stylish illustrations throughout.
Early American piracy of Collodi's fairy tale, published without attribution to the author or the translator of the first American edition – but also the first known version published in the US with color plates.
First edition in English of the Njals Saga, one of the most popular tales of medieval Iceland.
First printing of the first Goble-illustrated edition, with 22 folk and fairy tales recorded by the Bengali Indian journalist.
First Detmold edition, with 12 exquisite tipped-in color plates with tissue guards, rare in the box.
Expanded edition of this popular collection of illustrated fairy stories, first published as FAIRIES I HAVE MET with a different binding, not often found with the dust jacket.
First edition of this collection including one of Dunbar's most popular poems, the title poem, a tribute to his mother – in a pictorial cloth binding designed by Margaret Armstrong.
First printing of one of the most beloved modern children's books, inspired by the bedtime stories that Kenneth Grahame told his son.
First edition of this classic American "boy book," dramatizing the everyday life of boys in Gilded Age Boston.
First edition, in which a young Cuban woman disguises herself as a man to avenge the death of her father and brother during the Spanish-American War.
First edition of the first published book on this culinary tradition, "an invaluable record of the history of Creole food, New Orleans, and Louisiana" (John T. Edge).
First edition of this collection of fairy stories from "King Oberon's Library" by the author of THE MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB.
First edition of His Hawaiian Majesty Kalākaua's record of the myths, religion, and culture of his people, including the famous fifteenth-century story of the surf-riding princess Kelea.
First edition thus, collecting scattered favorites from Lang's popular Rainbow Fairy Books, but in a larger format with tipped-in color plates in late Pre-Raphaelite style.
First edition of this beautifully printed allegorical tale, with evocative landscapes printed in faint green as a backdrop to the text on every page.
US issue of the first Meteyard-illustrated edition, with gorgeous illustrations from the Birmingham School Artist.
First edition, a collection of original love poetry with a Mother Goose theme, lusciously illustrated in Art Nouveau style alongside Gibson Girl-like women.
First edition, featuring stories in verse of Mother Goose characters adapted with Lemony Snicket-like viciousness, such as "The Commendable Castigation of Old Mother Hubbard" and "The Gastronomic Guile of Simple Simon."
First edition of this "tale for boys," a pioneering novel of juvenile adventure fiction.
First edition, first printing, of this installment in the Hollow Tree series featuring humanized animals with striking line illustrations by series illustrator Condé.
First edition of this pirate novel by one of the most influential artists in the modern iconography of pirates.
Scarce first edition of this fairyland adventure novel, Pyle's first book, illustrated by her.