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Fairy Tales
London: Taylor & Hessey, 1822. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Two volumes bound as one. Collects sixteen tales, six in the first volumes and ten in the second. Leather a little chipped on the lower spine tip, corners rubbed and the marbled paper rubbed. Internally neat.
Item 11043Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia Being The Adventures of Prince Prigio's Son
London: J.W. Arrowsmith & Simpkin, Marshall and Co., nd [1893]. Gordon Browne. Limited Hardback. A very good copy. Fairy tales set in Lang's own secondary world. Deluxe edition, this being number six. Spine scratched and heavily worn to the spine, a little scuffing here and there. Collector's plate of Charles.....
Item 9849The History of Valentine and Orson : or the Wild Man of the Wood.
London: John Fairburn, n.d. [c1817?]. Later Paperback. A fair copy. Uncommon. Published earlier in various editions. No binding with half the folding plate at the front absent. 54pp of text plus a title page (and plate) and a leaf of contents to the rear.
Item 10538Temple of the Fairies
London: Vernor & Hood, 1804. First / First. Hardback. A good copy. Two volumes. First English edition thus, presumably, though there are a couple of 18th century translations first publishing in English the stories herein. A wonderfully rare piece of fairy tale history. Comprises: The Yellow Dwarf. Minet. The Little.....
Item 11991Tales of the Wild and the Wonderful
London: Hurst, Robinson, & Co., 1825. First / First. Hardback. A good copy. A collection of five tales in the folklore / fairy tales vein. Comprising: "The Prediction","The Yellow Dwarf","Der Freischutz","The Fortunes of De La Pole","Lord of the Maelstrom". Quite uncommon. I hesitate to describe this as being in the.....
Item 12708The Quest of the Golden Stairs: A Mystery of Kinghood in Faerie
London: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1927. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A fairy tale of sorts, somewhat in the manner of Dunsany, if not to the same standard. Some edge wear and a couple of short tears and small nicks, a little tanning to the spine. A......
Item 13117The Gates of Horn
London: J.M. Dent, 1926. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A rare fantasy work. Bernard Sleigh is perhaps best now remembered for his maps of Fairyland (primarily Ancient Mappe of Fairyland - though at least one earlier map exists), with his fiction becoming a little sidelined. I think.....
Item 12334L'ecumoire, Histoire Japonoise [actually Tanzai et Neadarne]
London: No Publisher, 1735. Second / First. Hardback. A fine copy. Two volumes bound in one. Full recent calf. Rare edition of the licentious tale of Tanzaï and Néadarné, Crebillon Fils was a French writer and the publication of this book in which he attacks the Papal bull Unigenitus provided.....
Item 11130Fairy Tales and Romances
London: Henry G. Bohn, nd [1849]. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Uncommon in the original binding. Containing: The Four Facardins, Zeneyda (incomplete; Hamilton never finished it), The History of the Mayflower, The Ram, and The Enchanter Faustus. Translated By M. Lewis, H. T. Ryde, And C. Kenney.....
Item 9970Uncle Peter's Fairy Tale for the XIX Century
London: Longman's, Green & Co., 1869. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Spine faded, top edge dusty, internally neat with an owner's inscription.
Item 10493Valisneria: or, a Midsummer Day's Dream: A Tale in Prose
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1857. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A fairy tale involving water sprites and the Bee King Bobadil. 24pp ads to the rear, spine a touch tanned, some dustiness to the top edge, spine lean. Seller's sticker to the front pastedown.....
Item 9825The Bird Talisman: An Eastern Tale
London: Faber, 1939. Gwen Raverat. First Thus Hardback. A near fine copy. A lovely edition, preceded by the 1852 and 1887 issues, both printed privately. Illustrated by Raverat. Jacket a little worn and marked, a couple of short tears.
Item 10764Les Contes Noirs ou Les Frayeurs Populaires
Paris: P. Mongie, 1818. First Unbound. A very good copy. A collection of presumably dark fairy tales; my attempts at reading them have been thwarted by the awkwardness of Google Translate and fragility of the books, so I pass no guarantee but with titles like The Devil's Barn, The Specter.....
Item 12578Prince Peerless: A Fairy Folk Story Book
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1890. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Collects eight short stories, with six plates. Illustrated by John Collier, presumably the pre-Raphaelite painter. Comeplete save for a couple of tissueguards. Some bumping and rubbing to the boards, some foxing.