Folk Tales of Britain: Narratives
London: The Folio Society, 2011. Firmin, Hannah. Hardcover. First printing of this edition. Three volumes in a slipcase. Set 1: Narratives. A very near fine copy. More
London: The Folio Society, 2011. Firmin, Hannah. Hardcover. First printing of this edition. Three volumes in a slipcase. Set 1: Narratives. A very near fine copy. More
London: Trubner & Co., 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. xiv, 663, [1] errata, folding map. Green buckram lettered in gilt. Sourced from a collection from Georgina F. Jackson. Some light rubbing to the corners and spine ends, paper over rear hinge is split and the map is pulling away..... More
New York: 1884. 8vo. [230 x 150mm]. Small tears at bottom of spine. Lots of pencil and blue pencil notes, underlines throughout. Ink name to the head of the front cover. Softcover periodical, with yellow wrappers. One of the periodicals Edward Clodd contributed to the Humboldt Library of Popular Science..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 108 pp. Tan cloth darkened to light brown, colour image to the front board and gilt titles to front board and spine. Cloth a touch rubbed in a few spots. Endpaper very neatly removed, clean throughout and very good otherwise..... More
Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Cloth boards with gilt lettering, in a price clipped dust jacket. Ink name and Oxford University Press ink stamp to the front endpaper, dust jackjet spine sunned, with one piece of paper tape to the inside of the jacket at..... More
Cambridge University Press, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. xiv, [2], 488. 8 b/w illustrations. Publisher's orange cloth boards lettered in black to the front board and spine. Light bumping and nicking to the cloth at the spine ends, and the bottom fore-edge corners bumped, top corner a touch rubbed..... More
Paris: Perrin et Cie, 1889. First Edition. Soft cover. Small 8vo. Pp. xii, 272, [8] music. Original green wraps. Unopenned pages. Bookplate of Col. Victor de Guinzbourg. Fine clean and unread copy, with a slight fade to the spine. Considering age and paper binding, this copy in near fine condition..... More
London: Methuen & Co., 1908. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi, 371, [44] ads. Frontispiece and 27 black & white plates. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, no dust jacket. Spine a little faded, preliminaries a bit foxed, former owner's blind stamp on title page, but still a...... More
Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1914. Kyohei Inukai. Hardcover. 8vo. 124p. [4] ads. Blue cloth with gilt lettered front board and spine, with a mounted illustration on the front cover. Light rubbing to the cloth at the corners and spine, otherwise a fine copy in a tight..... More
London: David Nutt, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. 3 vols. 8vo. 1894; 95; 96. Grimm Library Nos. 2, 3 & 5. Quarter green cloth over green paper boards with gilt lettered spines. Spine ends rubbed and bumped, with light chipping and spines sunned. Light edge-wear to the boards and corners. Very..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton. Edmund Dulac. Hardcover. [1913] First trade edition. 4to. Publisher's cream coloured cloth decorated in green and gilt. Light scuffs in some places, spine ends lightly bumped, with light wear to one corner. Front paste-down with a light erasure to one corner, with a previous owner's name..... More
Don Mills, Ontario: Longman Canada Limited, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 83, [1], [2]. Grey cloth boards, in dust jacket. Like new copy in a near fine dust jacket. Edited and illustrated by James Houston. More
London: David Nutt, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter olive cloth over olive boards with paper title label on spine. 316 pp plus 4 pp ads. Fold out map of Ireland as frontis. General wear. New cloth spine expertly matching the original. Spine label is new, facsimile of original. Ink name..... More
Michigan: Puppetry Imprints, 1941. Lola Cueto. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 27p, [1]. Quarter terra cotta cloth over speckled stiff card boards, black lettered spine, with sunned and lightly bumped spine ends. Dust jacket with a few short rips at edges, with lightly chipped corners and spine head. With 27 plates..... More
Long Acre, London: David Nutt, 1903. Hardcover. Half Leather. Re-issue, rearranged with additional tales. 3 volumes. Bound in half green morocco with 5 raised bands and gilt lettered spines. Original wraps bound in. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Edges of boards a bit sunned, with abrasion to rear leather corner..... More
Edinburgh: Scottish Gaelic Texts Society, 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. 158pp. Green cloth with gilt lettered spine, light nicks to the board corners, else a clean and tight copy in a very good dust jacket. First printing of this edition. Scottish Gaelic Texts Volume Nine. More
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1911. Evelyn Paul. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 253, 1ith 16 illustrations in colour by Evelyn Paul. Original brown cloth decorated to front boards and spine, in gilt, navy, and deep rose, spine darkened, with faint spotting, corners very lightly bumped and the spine..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi, 92pp., map, 12 b/w illustrations. Publisher's black cloth with red lettering to the front board and spine, with a gilt device to the front board. Top edge gilt. Very light wear to the board corners and spine ends, spine..... More
Cambridge/Watertown: Apple-Wood Books, 1984. David Frampton. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed. 4to. Blue cloth, black spine lettering. Slight publication defect to the spine head, very small nick to the jacket at the spine head and very faint stain to the spine foot. 125 copies of this special edition have been numbered..... More
Alpha Editions, 2018. Soft cover. 8vo, 98pp. Matte cover. Near fine condition, minor wear to corners. Clean throughout, a great copy! More
London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1912. Warwick Goble. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 274pp, [1] blank. 32 tipped-in plates in full colour by Warwick Goble. First edition with these plates, this edition de luxe limited to 150 copies bound in full vellum with gilt borders and lettering to the front board..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 181pp. Orange cloth with black lettering and front cover illustration, in the dust jacket. Board corners and spine ends a little bumped, offsetting and toning to endpapers, contents clean and the binding is tight and square. Dust jacket darkened..... More
Privately Printed, 1931. Hardcover. [Gaylordsville, Conn.] Privately Printed at the Slide Mountain Press, stylized monogram SMP at end with a limitation statement of 37 copies, this being no. 20. 8vo [207 x 135mm]. 6pp. White squares on green boards, some soiling, faintly sunned, light spotting, and top corners and head..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1886. Hardcover. 12mo. Pp. 509, [2] p. of ads. Green cloth with gilt lettered spine. Very light bumping to the conrers and spine ends, half-title and title with light foxing, and some faint brown spotting to the contents page. Page 256-7 with a strange circular stain/abrasion..... More
London: The Society of Bibliophiles, 1898. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. The Facetious Nights of Straparola (4 Volume set). The Pecorone (3 Volume set). Sold together, 7 volumes. Limited set of 1000 numbered copies, both of these sets are 838. Now first translated into English from the Italian by W. G...... More