1. Akutagawa, Ryunosuke.

Exotic Japanese Stories – The Beautiful and the Grotesque. 16 Unusual Tales and Unforgettable Images. Translated by Takashi Kojima and John McVittee. Introduction by John McVittee.

New York, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1964. 14.9 cm x 21.9 cm. Colour Frontispiece, 431 pages. 22 Collage Illustrations: 6 Colour and 16 Black and White by Masakazu Kuwata. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. A very good+ hardcover copy in black and grey cloth stamped in silver and red gilt with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing to edges and very minor fading to front and rear pastedowns and endpapers. Minor fraying and fading to dustjacket. From the reference library of Hans Christian-Andersen Translator Erik Haugaard.

2. Andersen, Hans Christian.

The Swineherd. Translated and illustrated by Erik Blegvad.

New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, inc. 1958. 17 x 19.5 cm. 32 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

3. Anderson, Wayne / Logue, Christopher.

Lieber Ratz, zauber was ! [Original english title: Ratsmagic]

Aarau, Sauerländer, 1976. 27 cm. [32] Seiten. Überwiegend farbige Illustrationen. Hardcover / Illustrierter Pappband. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren.

4. Arnott, Kathleen.

African Myths and Legends. Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe.

London, Oxford University Press, 1970. 14.5 x 22cm. 211 pages, with illustrations. Original clothbound hardcover with original dustjacket and illustrated endpapers. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear, including small (1cm) tear to dustjacket spine. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper. [Oxford Myths and Legends Series].

5. Benjamin, Walter.

Neuester Orbis Pictus oder Die Welt in Bildern für fromme Kinder. Aus der Sammlung von Walter Benjamin. Faksimiledruck im Inselverlag.

Frankfurt am Main, Insel Verlag, 1970. 16 x 24 cm. Unpaginiert. Ca. 50 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren.

6. Brockett, Eleanor.

Persian Fairy Tales. Retold by Eleanor Brockett. Illustrated by Harry Toothill.

London, Frederick Muller Limited, 1965. 13 x 20cm. (8), 224 pages, with black and white illustrations. Original clothbound hardcover. Minor signs of external wear, including sunned spine and some fraying to cloth edges. Internally in very good condition, other than some minor text annotations on first twenty pages. [Muller World Fairy Tales Collection].

7. Browning, Gareth H.

The Children’s Book Of Wild Flowers And The Story Of Their Names. Illustrated by M. C. Pollard.

London / Edinburgh, W. & R. Chambers, Ltd., 1929. 16 cm x 21 cm. Frontispiece, 250 pages, 50 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Sunning to spine, chipped dustjacket, slightly shaken, otherwise in Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

8. Brun, Samuel Jacques.

Tales of Languedoc. With an Introduction by Harriet W. Preston and Illustrations by Ernest C. Peixotto.

San Francisco, William Doxey, 1896. 22cm x 16cm. 240 pages. With 33 beautiful illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

9. Bullard, Asa.

Sunnybank Stories: Reward of Merit. Compiled by Asa Bullard. Illustrated.

Boston, Lee & Shepard, 1863. Duodecimo / Miniature book. 64 pages. Original Hardcover (red cloth with gilt lettering and ornament on spine). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

10. Burnett, Frances Hodgson.

The Secret Garden.

In one Volume. Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1912. Small Octavo. 286 pages. Original publisher’s softcover wrapper. Name of preowner on titlepage. Rear brochure missing. Still firm and with only minor signs of fraying. Good overall condition with only minor signs of external wear. The rare Tauchnitz edition of this important book. [Tauchnitz Edition – Collection of British Authors Volume 4324].