Mythology, Legends, Fairy Tales And Folktales from Bookfever.com, IOBA

New York:: Grosset & Dunlap,, (1971). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in illustrated boards in a near fine good dust jacket.. First edition. Includes 105 full color illustrations by Brian Melling with 105. Map of Egypt, index. #27 in the Grosset All Color Guide series (list at back of book includes 30 titles, that is titles… Read more about this item

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, (1991). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A collection of 15 stories "many from South Carolina, especially from the Sea Islands, while others are from Florida, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Michigan, and the Cape Verde Islands. Most were collected 50 years ago or more by Zora Neale Hurston… Read more about this item

London:: Cassell & Co., , (1928). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine (bookplate on front pastedown, just a hint of foxing to the endpapers and toning) in a very good dust jacket with some sunning to the spine, minor edgewear. Overall a very attractive copy of a beautiful book… Read more about this item

Secaucus, NJ:: Citadel Press / Lyle Stuart,, (1976). Very good in illustrated wrappers.. 1st trade paperback printing. "How the new science of geomythology explains them." The study of the geoligic origins of natural phenomenon which were long explained by myth and folklore. Illustrated with many photographs, maps and charts. References, index. xii, 305 pp.

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1906.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good - a bit of rubbing to the cover pastedown and corners slightly bumped, tear to upper corner of half title page and to the outer edge of one plate.. First thus - an illustrated edition. Includes ten stories, illustrated by Frederick Richardson with 10… Read more about this item

London and Osaka, Japan:: Yamanaka & Co,, n.d.(1906). Hardcover first edition -. Ex-library with some markings, and some scattered foxing, especially on the tissue guards - but still a sturdy and appealing volume. . First edition. A collection of the traditional tales whose themes and subjects are often depicted in Japanese art, including netsuke. Thirty-seven illustrations including… Read more about this item

New York & London:: Thames & Hudson,, (1992). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. A book which focuses on Ireland's four provinces as a way to discover the places at the root of Irish myth and legend - Ulster (St Patrick and the Hag), Munster (the sun goddess), Leinster and… Read more about this item

New York:: Harcourt Brace & Company,, (1938). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in green cloth (small indentation to spine), no dust jacket. . First US printing. "An entirely new translation of a number of Hans Christian Andersen's best stories, including many of the short amusing ones which are not as well known as they deserve to… Read more about this item

New York:: Greenwillow Books,, (1985). SIGNED hardcover -. Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards a like dustjacket.. 4th printing. A collection of fourteen folktales from around the world in which there is a mystery or problem that the reader is invited to solve. Illustrated with black and white drawings on every page by Caldecott artist Peter Sis.… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA:: University of California Press,, (1986). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. A study of one of Hans Christian Andersen's most haunting and enigmatic tales, one which interweaves psychological analysis of the fairy tale with an account of Andersen's life. Includes the text of the story in an… Read more about this item

Hatboro PA:: Folklore Associates,, 1965.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in orange cloth in a near fine dustjacket (sunning to spine of dj, original price of $5.50 still present.) Uncommon, especially in this condition. . First printing. Includes over 250 examples of aboriginal verbal lore - stories, tales, songs, riddles and more - each with… Read more about this item

New York:: Gulliver Books / Harcourt,, (2004). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in blue boards in a fine dust jacket.. First printing. A selection of bird stories from around the world collected by Howard Norman and illustrated in beautiful full color (with colored pencil and watercolor on Bristol board) by Caldecott award-winning artists Leo and Diane Dillon… Read more about this item

Bemidji, MN:, c. 1953.. Just about fine in original stapled pictorial wraps.. Tales of Paul Bunyan and his friends and animals, including Sport the Reversible Dog, illustrated in color and black and white drawings. Apparently a promotion item, with "The Gift Mart, Lakewiew Hotel, Bemidji, Minnesota" printed on front cover. Unpaginged (32 pp. including covers) Postcard of… Read more about this item

New York:: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc.,, 1943.. Hardcover -. Ex-library, in sturdy library binding, with some reading wear in a very good example of the extremely scarce dust jacket (which reproduces the illustration of the maiden and the Frost King) - the dust jacket is slightly larger than the book, has the price of $2.00 on the flap… Read more about this item

New York:: Orion Press , (c 1958). Hardcover -. Near fine in illustrated cream cloth, no dust jacket. . Hardcover. A collection of 42 classic tales by this Danish author, from The Tinderbox and The Princess and The Pea to Thumbelina, The Little Mermaid, to less well known stories like Aunty and The Porter's Son. Illustrated with twenty-five… Read more about this item

New York:: Atheneum,, 1964.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good+ in rust-colored cloth in a fair only dust jacket with some rubbing and edgewear, loss of about one inch at top of dj spine, price-clipped.. First printing. The author's first book, written for older children. The word 'serendipity' was invented by Horace Walpole after reading an old… Read more about this item

New York:: A. L. Burt,, nd (ca 1935). Hardcover -. Near fine in yellow cloth with black lettering, no dust jacket.. Hardcover. Includes an Introduction by John W. Hales. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and numerous black and white drawings in the text. xxii, 383 pp. Green and white illustrated endpapers.

New York:: Julian Messner,, (1956, c 1945). Hardcover -. Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall good condition in tan boards, no dust jacket but synopsis from front flap is pasted inside front cover. . Sixth printing. A tale featuring the Black folk hero John Henry who was a "natural man and the greatest steel driver that ever… Read more about this item

North Haven, CT:: Linnet Books,, 1997.. Hardcover first edition -. Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine unmarked dust jacket (some sunning to the dj) . First thus. A collection of 16 folktales from the nine main tribes of Ethopia, illustrated with woodcuts by Helen Siegl. A revised version of… Read more about this item

New York:: Maxton Publishers,, 1948.. Hardcover -. Good overall in illustrated boards with a dark green spine (rubbing and wear to the covers, spine covering beginning to split). Vintage edition. Classic Grimm Brothers' tale in a rather uncommon edition - adapted and illustrated in both full color and with black and white drawings by Harriet. Maxton Books… Read more about this item