Fairy Tale & Fantasy
German, fairy tales, poems, fantasy
Germany: Frankfurt am Main, Literary Institution of Rutten and Loeing, 1877. A book of fairy tales and fables whose title of Unter'in Marchenbaum, translates to "Under the Fairy Tale Tree". The roughly translated titles of the stories included in the book are: "Spring, the North Wind, Mamsell Pimpernell, the Giant.....
Price: $225.00
children's book, ethnic/cultural, educational, picture book,
Cleveland, Ohio: The Harter Publishing Company, 1931. Softcover, illustrated in bright color: front and back cover have the same drawing of the titular character Little Black Sambo, wearing his distinct bright orange shirt, blue pants, purple shoes, and carrying a green, polka-dot umbrella, illustrated by Fern Bisel, Peat. Bottom left.....
Price: $115.00
Anthropomorphism, Fuzzy Wuzzy, Fantasy
New York: Julian Messner, 1942. Unpaginated litho board book with dust jacket. Fuzzy wuzzy lamb end papers. A picture book with short narrative at the base of each page. Anthropomorphic barnyard animals. The lamb is a fuzzy wuzzy lamb in all appearances in the book. The book is printed predominantly.....
Price: $45.00
mother goose songs, nursery songs, mabel hill illustrations
New York: Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, 1915. Unpaginated fully illustrated child's song book with words and music. Illustrated by the author. Charming imagery relevant to each song. Content included familar songs such as Baa, Baa, Black Sheep and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. Measures 10" x 11 1/2"
Price: $55.00
Ron Henry, Jean Henry, Jean and Ron Henry, Pop-up, Tales from Fairyland
Great Britain: Flame Tree Publishing, 2007. The gorgeously illustrated pop-up panorama truly brings the characters and scenery to life. It is one illustration that expands over two pages depicting a gathering scene of the various fairies in the woods. There is a little story and poem that are placed within.....
Price: $55.00
Raggedy Ann and Andy, Ethel Hays, juvenile fiction
Ohio: The Saalfieldd Publishing Co., 1947. unpaginated. Spiral bound applied illustrated board cover with dust jacket, color and black and white illustrations throughout by Ethel Hays. The story of Raggedy Ann and her adventure with her friends going out to find the end of the rainbow. 8" x 6 3/4".....
Price: $150.00
anthropomorphism, raggedy ann, johnny gruelle
M. A. Donohue & Company. 95pp. Illustrated Hardcover. In-text black and white with color imagery.Vibrant color. Illustrated end papers. Measures 6 1/8" x 9 1/8"
Price: $50.00
raggedy ann, Johnny Gruelle
Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, 1932. 93 pp cloth backed pictorial boards. Copyright John B. Gruelle, Norwalk, CT. Pictorial end papers. Profusely illustrated with vibrant partial to full page illustrations.
Price: $60.00
nursery rhymes
George Routledge and Sons. Unpagenated. Litho on board covers. Full page illustrations with rhyming verse at base. Collection of Nursery Rhymes. Front free paper detached but present. Hinge is loose but attched. Intact tears last two pages 3in. along back strip. Measures 5" x 7"
Price: $75.00
Kathleen Ainslie, social situations
London: Castell Brothers. Ltd., Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York. 23 unnumbered pages with plain card stock cover and printed dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with captioned full page color imagery. The mischievous antics of Catherine Susan and her friend Maria narrated by Catherine Susan about their "young days". Measures 5".....
Price: $150.00
Oz, wizard of Oz, Fred Stone, David C. Montgomery, Highly Magnified WoggleBug, Jack Pumpkinhead, Animated Saw-Horse, Gump
Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co, 1904. 287 pp. with green pictorial covers showcasing a whimsical illustration of the Tin Woodman shaking hands with the Scarecrow. 1st edition. Second State text block.. Sixteen (16) full color plates plus black and white in-text illustrations. Features illustrated endpapers with the comedians Montgomery and.....
Price: $950.00
wizard of oz, tinman, scarecrow, cowardly lion, frank baum
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1939. 64 pp. Full page color and intext line drawings throughout. Vibrant color. Intricate and whimsical full page color and in-text black and white drawings. Printed marking No. 300 lower left cover. Edge wear on covers. Light toning on inside covers.
Price: $35.00
L. Frank Baum, Twinkle Tales, Juvenile
Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., 1906. 61 pp. Pictorial hard cover with red card stock end papers, no dust jacket, part of the the "Twinkle Tales" series, illustrations throughout by Maginel Wright Barney, story by Laura Bancroft (aka L. Frank Baum). A story about Twinkle and her friend Chubbins who.....
Price: $300.00
peter pan, sheet music, musical score, wendy darling, fantasy, fairy tale, tinker bell
Chicago: Clayton F Summy Co, 1932. 4 pp, the cover depicts Peter Pan dancing with his shadow while playing his pan flute with Tinker Bell flying above him. This piece was a set of four that could be bought separately or together. This sheet music contains only one piece, 'Wendy.....
Price: $55.00
Lucie Attwell, children's stories, short stories
London: Dean & Son, LTD., no date. 125 pp. Applied illustrated cover depicting two children opening the door for animals and fairies, the back has Santa with his elves and bag of toys, frontispiece, illustrations in black and one color-either orange or green (varies depending on story). A collection of.....
Price: $25.00
Lucei Attwell, children's stories, short stories
London: Dean & Son Ltd., 1963. 124 pp. Applied color illustrated cover, frontispiece plus three color plates, illustrations in black and on other color (varies depending on story), illustrated end papers. A collection of short stories by various authors including Eva Gray, Mabel Lucie Attwell, Marjorie Gay, L.E. Sellman, S.E......
Price: $35.00
Fantasy, elf, elves
London: Hutchinson, 1946. 44 numbered pages with black and white line drawings, and five full page color illustrations. The book tells the story of two 'naughty' elves Peeky and Boo, and the trouble they get into. The cover is a dark blue cloth, that shows some edge wear, particularly at.....
Price: $18.00
fairy tale, German language, anthropomorphism
Leipzig: Alfred Hans, ca. 1927. 40 unnumbered page German language story with applied litho covers. Full page color and in-text illustrations in color and sepia tone. It is a fairy tale in verse about a young child looking for his mother. His journey introduces him to anthropomorphic frogs, birds and.....
Price: $60.00
Margaret Evans Price, Children, Myth, Katherine Lee Bates
New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1924. The Book of Myths retells thirteen classical mythology stories, including Icarus and Hercules, with children as the audience. 112 pages. It is both written and illustrated by Margaret Evans Price. There is an introduction written by Katharine Lee Bates. There is a pronunciation.....
Price: $125.00
children's books, cinderella, fairy tale,
Sandusky, Ohio: The American Crayon Co., 1931, 1943. A Mary Perks Book. Board book with single color illustration. Numerous in-text silhouettes and 6 full page color illustrations by Fern Bisel Peat. 10" x 13". OCLC-2 (Aug, 2018).
Price: $30.00
Mark Twain, juvenile literature,
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1917. 285 pp. Cloth cover with stamped frame around applied color illustration, frontispiece, 7 color plates. Illustrated by Franklin Booth. The story of two boys who look identical but live very different lives. One, Tom Canty, an abused pauper and the other, Prince Edward, son.....
Price: $50.00
old mother hubbard, mcloughin,
new York: McLoughlin, 1889. 16pp nursery rhyme picture book. Includes six (6) full page chromolithograph images and numerous in-text three color line drawing. Charming anthropomorphic or humanized dog. Measures 10.25" x 9 1/4"
Price: $85.00
fairies, fantasy, anthropomorphism
London: Dover Books Limited, c. 1957. 16 pp, color illustrated cover. Color illustrations throughout by author. Story of a girl and her dog encountering fairies. Fantasy and whimsy throughout. Measures 11 1/4" x 8 3/4" cover pulled away from bottom staple, light discoloration and some staining, inscribed.
Price: $75.00
anthropomorphism, fairy tales
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1934. 30 pp. Applied printed color cover, extended title: Containing the Stories of Peter Rabbit, Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs, Cinderella, and Three Bears, color and black and white illustrations. Stories told for very young children by the author. 12" x 9 1/2".....
Price: $25.00