Lang, Andrew. [Ed].

The Blue Fairy Book.

New York, Grosset and Dunlap, n.d. (c.1950). 14 x 21cm. 428 pages, with colour frontispiece and black and white text illustrations. Original clothbound hardcover with illustrated endpapers. Poor condition ! Cloth lost from spine, although the joint is still firm. Some bumping and wear to edges and corners of boards. Internally in good condition, other than text markings to contents page.

Leamy, Edmund.

Irish Fairy Tales.

Cork / Dublin, Mercier Press, 1978. 11 x 18cm. 128 pages. Original softcover. Poor condition !! Front jacket detached, otherwise good condition. Needs repair. Inscribed with previous owner’s name. Rare Book !

Manning-Sanders, Ruth.

A Book of Giants. Text illustrations by Robin Jacques.

London, Pan Books Ltd., 1972. 12.5 x 19cm. 126 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear, spine sunned. [A Piccolo Book].

McAlpine, Helen & William.

Japanese Tales and Legends. Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1979. 13.8 cm x 22.3 cm. 212 pages. Black and white illustrations within text. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing to edges. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

Nisbet Bain, R. / Kunos, Ignacz.

Turkish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales. Collected by Dr. Ignacz Kunos. Translated from the Hungarian version by R. Nisbet Bain. With illustrations by Celia Levetus.

New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1969. 13.5 x 21.5cm. (8), 275 pages, with black and white illustrations. Original softcover. Some signs of external wear, including creasing to jacket and spine and minor paper loss to edges. Internally in very good condition other than some text annotations. Inscribed with previous owner’s name. [Dover Children’s Classics].

[Nygren, Åke / Sago-ton] / Hedqvist, Greta / Åke Nygren / Hugo Gyllander / Ingeborg Bjork / William Linds Orkester.

Sago-ton – Den Talande Sagoboken: Set of seven (7) Shellac Records for Children with classical and swedish fairy tales, some narrated by Hugo Gyllander, Greta Hedqvist, Ingeborg Bjork and arranged by Åke Nygren with the William Linds Orchestra (Orkester) / The collection includes: 1. Sago-ton No.101: “Snövit” (Snow White) – Med Ljudeffekter / 2. Sago-ton No.102: “Piff och Paff” / 3. Sago-ton No.104: “Pojken som åt ikapp med jätten” / 4. Sago-ton No.105: “De tre bockarna Bruse” / 5. Sago-ton No.107: “Lille Pers vandring” (text: Hugo Gyllander – musik: Åke Nygren med William Linds Orkester) / 6. Sago-ton No.106: “Igelkottarna” – text: Greta Hedqvist – musik: Åke Nygren and William Linds Orkester PLUS also on the record: “Fotbollslaget” – text: Ingeborg Bjork – musik: Åke Nygren med William Linds Orkester / 7. Sago-ton No.109: “Trollet Luffendrul” – text: Greata Hedqvist – musik: Åke Nygren med William Linds Orkester //

Original Shellack Records with illustrated sleeves and storybooks on the sleeves. Stockholm (Sweden), Sago-Konst Ab., c.1955 – 1960. 7 Records. All Records in very good condition with some spotting. The sleeves are all very good and stabil with some minor signs of wear and some occasional repairs. Very rare collection !

Sale, Roger.

Fairy Tales and After: From Snow White to E.B. White.

Cambridge / London, Harvard University Press, 1978. 15.5 x 23cm. (6), 280 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear, including creasing and slight lean to spine. Numerous text annotations. [A Harvard Paperback].

Stone, Harry.

Fairy Tales and Ogres : Dickens’ Imagination and “David Copperfield”.

Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1964. 8°. 7 Pages (pp. 24-30). Stapled blue wrappers (softcover). Good condition. Some rust marks from staples. “DICKENS” and “Sincere regards, HS” (Harry Stone) written in pen on front cover. Some text markings. [Offprint from: “CRITICISM, a Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, Vol.VI, No.4, 1964.]

Theaker, Harry G.

Grimm’s Fairy Tales. With 16 Colour Plates and 8 Sepia Illustrations by Harry G. Theaker (Illustrator).

London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, No Year [1900]. 18.5 cm x 25 cm. Colour Frontispiece. 176 pages. With colour and sepia illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some wear and rubbing to cover edges and spine. Light browning to edges, endpapers and pastedowns. Minor foxing to pages throughout. Contains previous owner inscription in black ink on front endpaper. Otherwise, clean interior and binding strong.

Wildhaber, Robert / Uffer, Leza. [Hrsg].

Schweizer Volksmärchen.

Erste Auflage. Düsseldorf / Köln, Eugen Diederichs Verlag, 1971. 11.5 x 19cm. pages. Hardcover / Gebundene Ausgabe. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur einigen Annotationen im Text. Namenseintrag im Vorsatz. [Die Märchen der Weltliteratur].