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The Three Bears / Little Red Riding Hood (The Turnover Books, Volume III [3])

By: N/A

Price: $75.00

Publisher: The Reilly & Lee Co., Chicago: 1910

Seller ID: 2178412

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Boards rubbed with some loss from corners, pencil name on ownership page. 1910 Hard Cover. Two classic children's stories, bound dos-a-dos, with color illustrations by John R. Neill throughout. Neill is most well-known for contributing illustrations to L. Frank Baum's Oz books, the first of which (The Marvellous Land of Oz) he'd completed work on just 6 years before this volume was issued.
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The Gingerbread Man: A Story Retold

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Whitman Publishing Co.: 1944

Seller ID: 2272308

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Stain along spine, edges rubbed, ink name on front endpaper. 1944 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. A retelling of The Gingerbread Man illustrated by Sally Tate.
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The Three Bears (Tip-Top Elf Book, 8706)

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Rand McNally & Company: 1959

Seller ID: 2272843

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Spine head lightly rubbed, pages lightly toned. 1959 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. A retelling of the classic tale of Goldilocks and the three bears.
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Children's Favorite Fairy Tales: The Stories that Never Grow Old

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cupples & Leon Company: 1918

Seller ID: 2280286

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

A few faint stains on rear board, board edges rubbed, front hinge starting, ink gift note on front endpaper, page numbers written in pencil. 1918 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. Color frontispiece by M.L. Kirk. Stories include: Aladdin; The History of Tom Thumb; The Restless Imp; The Sleeping Beauty; The Three Little Bears; Dick Whittington; The Goose Girl; Sinbad the Sailor; Cinderella.
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Image for Standard Fairy Tales, Containing Aladdin, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Jack the Giant-Killer, Red Riding Hood, Tom Thumb, Puss in Boots, Etc., Etc. [Jack and the Beanstalk; Little Red Riding Hood] [The Child's Own Book of Standard Fairy Tales]

Standard Fairy Tales, Containing Aladdin, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Jack the Giant-Killer, Red Riding Hood, Tom Thumb, Puss in Boots, Etc., Etc. [Jack and the Beanstalk; Little Red Riding Hood] [The Child's Own Book of Standard Fairy Tales]

By: N/A

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Porter & Coates / Press of Henry B. Ashmead: 1878

Seller ID: 2290945

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Corners rubbed, light stain to bottom corner, first gathering loosening, ink name on half-title page, pencil gift note dated June 20th 1878 on front endpaper. vi, 525, [3] pp. 8vo. A collection of classic fairy tales, with illustrations by renowned engraver Gustave Dore and prolific artist George Cruikshank.
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Sparkling Tales: Puss in Boots and Other Fairy Tales; Cinderella; The Charmed Fawn; The Yellow Dwarf; Little Red Riding Hood (New Nursery Series)

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: McLoughlin Bros.: 1903

Seller ID: 2297675

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

No jacket. Spine sprung, large stain ink stamp on front paste-down endpaper, front free endpaper missing. 1903 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. A collection of children's tales including, Puss in Boots and Other Fairy Tales; Cinderella; The Charmed Fawn; The Yellow Dwarf; Little Red Riding Hood. With numerous illustrations.
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The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse (Shape Books)

By: N/A

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Laughing Elephant: 2007

Seller ID: 2298807

ISBN: 1595831924

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A very nice copy. 2007 Soft Cover. Another in our popular series of shaped books telling the still pertinent story of two ways of life. Good stories never lose their power. Aesop, an ancient Greek, first wrote this tale of a country mouse who samples the life of her city cousin, and finds the simple peace of the country far preferable. Ethel Hays, the illustrator, has changed the cousins from male to female so that she can indulge her talent for rendering beautifully dressed mouse ladies. Even the country mouse's Sunday best is outshone by the city mouse's complex and fashionable wardrobe.
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The Little Small Red Hen

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: David McKay Company:

Seller ID: 2298857

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No publisher date. Board edges lightly rubbed. Unpaginated. The tale of little red hen and the wily fox.
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The Three Bears, to Which are Added The Stories of Jack and the Bean-Stalk and Little Red Riding Hood (Altemus' Banbury Cross Series) [Goldilocks; Beanstalk]

By: N/A

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry Altemus Company: 1905

Seller ID: 2303650

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Boards lightly soiled, front hinge starting, pencil mark on front free endpaper, rear hinge broken. 1905 Small Hard Cover. 45 pp. Color frontispiece, woodcuts throughout. The Three Bears, to Which are Added The Stories of Jack and the Bean-Stalk and Little Red Riding Hood.
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Aesop's Fables

By: Aesop

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Avenel: 1975

Seller ID: 2301012

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Reissue. Pages toned, edge wear to jacket. 1975 Hard Cover. A collection of Aesop's most beloved fables, illustrated by the legendary Arthur Rackham.
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The Top and the Ball

By: Andersen, Hans Christian

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Ideals Children's Books: 1992

Seller ID: 2199996

ISBN: 0824985478

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 1 inch tear to jacket spine head. 1992 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 32 pp. A fine leather ball snobbishly refuses to marry a plain wooden top; but years later, after Ball has fallen on hard times and Top has a shiny new coat, she is eager for his friendship. By the famous Danish author who also wrote The Little Mermaid, The Snow Queen, The Ugly Duckling, etc.
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Fairy Tales and Stories (Avon Edition)

By: Andersen, Hans Christian; Dulcken, H.W.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: F.M. Lupton Publishing Company:

Seller ID: 2265936

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Large stain to bottom corner, no publisher date, title page and contents page stuck together, pages toned. iv, 377 pp. Hans Christian Andersen (/'ænd?rs?n/; Danish: [han?s 'k?æsdjan '?n?sn?] (About this sound listen)), often referred to in Scandinavia as H. C. Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875), was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children: his stories express themes that transcend age and nationality. Andersen's fairy tales, of which no fewer t...
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The Complete Andersen: All of the 168 Stories [Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales]

By: Andersen, Hans Christian; Hersholt, Jean

Price: $50.00

Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1949

Seller ID: 2286225

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes publisher's slipcase, lacks Sandglass insert. Spine lightly rubbed with minimal loss of gilt. 1949 Hard Cover. One-volume edition. 297, [3], 445, [3], 430, lxvii, [1] pp. 8vo. Blue cloth spine, pictorial paper over boards. A large collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, known for The Princess on the Pea, Thumbelina, The Little Mermaid, The Emperor's New Clothes, etc. Translated into English from the original Danish by Jean Hersholt ('The Tallow Candle' translated by Compass Languages), with an appendix containing the unpublished tales, a chronologic listing, and the edit...
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Andersen's Fairy Tales, in Three Volumes: Andersen's Fairy Tales; Andersen's Shorter Tales; Andersen's Longer Stories

By: Andersen, Hans Christian; Hersholt, Jean

Price: $35.00

Publisher: The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf: 1948

Seller ID: 2299586

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Lacks slipcase. Ink mark on top page ridge and rear board of Andersen's Fairy Tales. Spines of all three volumes very faintly toned. 1948 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Three volume set. Lacks slipcase. A collection of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales and stories in three volumes. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel.
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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (A New Translation)

By: Andersen, Hans Christian; Paull, Mrs. H. B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co.: 1900

Seller ID: 2294713

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

No date, circa 1900. Hinges repaired, spine toned, boards rubbed and lightly soiled, ink name on front paste-down endpaper. xi, 383 pp. Red boards with decoration on spine and on front board. A collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen.
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Hans Andersen's Story Book. with a Memoir [Fairy Tales]

By: Andersen, Hans [Christian]; Howitt, Mary

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Allen Brothers: 1869

Seller ID: 2283812

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Spine faded, ink name stamp crossed out on title page, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1869 Hard Cover. vi, 9-154, 7-187, [3] pp. Beautiful blind-stamped purple cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Engraved frontispiece, portrait of Andersen from a painting by Carl Hartmann, and several other illustrations in text. A collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, known for The Princess on the Pea, Thumbelina, The Little Mermaid, The Emperor's New Clothes, etc. Includes: Memoir of Hans Christian Andersen (by Mary Howitt), A Picture-Book without Pictures; My Boots; Scenes on the Danub...
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Captain Wolf and Other Sketches of Animal Biography

By: Anonymous (By the Author of 'Under the Lime-Trees,' 'Aunt Annie's Stories,' Etc., Etc.)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Co., Grand Street: 1870

Seller ID: 2200942

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

A couple pages loosening but included, pencil name on front endpaper, a few pages lightly foxed. 1870 Hard Cover. viii, 309, [3] pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, embossed black & gold design and gilt titles. Includes twenty-two (22) full-page illustrations (black & white plates) by Emil Bayard & Ernest Griset. A collection of stories featuring animal characters. CONTENTS: Captain Wolf; Guy's Two Homes; Tiny and Furry, or The Life and Times of a Beaver; Fox and His Family; The King of the Poultry-Yard; Robin's Experiences; Mother Rat and Her Little Ones.
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Ardizonne's Hans Andersen: Fourteen Classic Tales

By: Ardizzone, Edward; Corrin, Stephen

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Book / Antheneum: 1979

Seller ID: 2287698

ISBN: 0233969969

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An excellent copy. 1979 Hard Cover. 191 pp. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Translated by Stephen Corrin. Tales include: The Steadfast Tin Soldier; The Emperor's New Clothes; The Little Mermaid; The Flying Trunk; The Shirt Collar; The Princess on the Pea; Big Claus and Little Claus; The Wild Swans; The Ugly Duckling; The Tinder Box; Thumbelina; The Snow Queen; The Darning Needle; The Nightingale.
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Whistle For Good Fortune: In which it is shown how six from six makes six and one to carry, with other riddles here and there along the way

By: Bailey, Margery

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company: 1940

Seller ID: 2198574

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Lacks jacket. 1940 Hard Cover. 237 pp. 8vo. Children's book of vaguely nonsensical fables, with many illustrations by Alice B. Preston.
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The Age of Fable; or, Stories of Gods and Heroes [Bulfinch's Mythology]

By: Bulfinch, Thomas

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Sanborn, Carter, Bazin & Co.: 1855

Seller ID: 2299769

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Third edition. Loss to spine head, tear to spine, hinges repaired with tape, ink notes on second flyleaf. 1855 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 488 pp. Author's first book. Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of general audience works by American Latinist and banker Thomas Bulfinch, named after him and published after his death in 1867. The work was a highly successful popularization of Greek mythology for English-speaking readers. Carl J. Richard comments that it was one of the most popular books ever published in the United States and the standard work on classical ...
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Puss in Boots

By: Galdone, Paul

Price: $5.00

Publisher: The Seabury Press: 1976

Seller ID: 2205347

ISBN: 0816431590

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket, edges lightly rubbed, pencil name. 1976 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. A poor young man gains a fortune and meets a beautiful princess when his cat outwits an evil giant.
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Little Red Snapperhood: A Fishy Fairy Tale

By: Gilbertsen, Neal

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Portland, Oregon, West Winds Press: 2003

Seller ID: 2303588

ISBN: 1558686835

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Signed by illustrator with doodle. A fine copy. 2003 Large Hardcover. Once upon a maritime... begins this clever tale. What? A fish wearing a hat? Here's the comical story about a little red snapper who dons her red hood and sets out for her grandmother's home with a fresh-baked octopi. Meanwhile, the opportunistic wolf eel is busy kicking Grandma out of her clam bed and tucking himself in. Yes, it's a comical twist on a classic, set under the sea, and with an amiable turn from the traditional ending. Illustrated with richly colored linocuts by notable Alaskan artist, Evon Zerbetz, LITTLE RED ...
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The Golden Bird and Other Stories

By: Grimm [The Brothers Grimm]

Price: $35.00

Publisher: George W. Jacobs & Company: 1922

Seller ID: 2199323

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Boards rubbed, one plate missing, ink gift note on front flyleaf. 1922 Hard Cover. 116 pp. Original blue cloth, color picture plate mounted on front board. Color plates by Wuanita Smith, black & white illustrations by Edward Shenton. INCLUDES: The Golden Bird; The Gallant Tailor; The Twelve Dancing Princesses; King Thrushbeard; Tom Thumb; Rapunzel; The Raven; The Goosegirl; Cinderella; The Frog Prince; Red Riding Hood.
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Dear Mili

By: Grimm, Wilhelm; Manheim, Ralph (Translator)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1988

Seller ID: 2295884

ISBN: 0374317623

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Front jacket flap price clipped. 1988 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. On September 28, 1983, the discovery of a previously unknown tale by Wilhelm Grimm was reported on the front page of The New York Times. After more than 150 years, the Times noted, Hansel and Gretel, Snow-White, Rumpelstiltskin, and Cinderella will be joined by another Grimm fairy-tale character. The story of dear Mili was preserved in a letter Wilhelm Grimm wrote to a little girl in 1816, a letter that remained in her family's possession for over a century and a half. It tells of a mother who sends her daughter...
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The Story of Chanticleer

By: Hann, Florence Yates; Rostand, Edmond

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1913

Seller ID: 2294727

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Bookplate removed from front paste-down endpaper. 1913 Hard Cover. vii, 144 pp. Brown boards with a rooster illustration on the front board. A fable of the Chanticleer--a proud and fierce rooster who dominates the barnyard.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Found among the Papers of the Late Diedrich Knickerbocker [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Craon, Gent., Number VI (6)]

By: Irving, Washington

Price: $225.00

Publisher: West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company [Westvaco]: 1958

Seller ID: 2283776

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Limited edition. Includes publisher's slipcase. Slipcase edge very lightly toned. 1958 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [1], 64, [4] pp. 8vo. A stand-alone volume of Irving's famous fairy tale, now a Halloween classic, which originally appeared in his 1820 collection of stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. This is the first, and therefore most likely the scarcest, of the volumes Westvaco (West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company) released in their Christmas series, which ran from 1958-2007. Its format (including the frontispiece) is taken from the...
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Tenggren's Cowboys and Indians: A Giant Golden Book

By: Jackson, Kathryn & Byron

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Golden Press: 1968

Seller ID: 2266859

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Corners exposed, otherwise a very attractive copy. 1968 Large Hardcover. Fifty-two stories and rhymes with over one hundred full color illustrations by Gustaf Tenggren.
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The Fables of La Fontaine.

By: La Fontaine, Jean de; Thornbury, Walter

Price: $450.00

Publisher: London, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin: 1887

Seller ID: 2301394

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Rebacked with new leather, gilt titles and decorations sympathetic to original style, first gathering repaired at binding with tissue. Boards lightly stained, front matter lightly foxed, some pages toned. 1887 Full-Leather. lxiv, 839, [3] pp. Royal 4to. 12 3/4 x 10. Leather boards with gilt decorative borders, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers. Translated into English verse by Walter Thornbury, with 86 full-page engraved illustrations and numerous vignettes by Gustave Dore throughout. First published between 1668 and 1693, the Fables of La Fontaine rank among the masterpieces of French literatu...
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My Own Fairy Book (The Newbery Classics)

By: Lang, Andrew

Price: $50.00

Publisher: David McKay Company: 1927

Seller ID: 2199336

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1927 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 402 pp. 8vo. Original red-orange cloth, color picture plate mounted on front board. Four color plates by Gertrude A. Kay, commissioned specially for this edition.
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The Red Fairy Book

By: Lang, Andrew

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1937

Seller ID: 2294663

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. No publication date (circa 1930s), a few faint spots on front board, ink note on second blank. 1937 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vi, 399 pp. Yellow boards with red lettering and red top stain. A collection of children's fairy tales including: The Twelve Dancing Princesses; The Princess Mayblossom; Soria Moria Castle; The Death of Koshchei the Deathless; The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen; The Master Thief; Brother and Sister; Princess Rosette; The Enchanted Pig; The Norka; The Wonderful Birch; Jack and the Beanstalk; The Little Good Mouse; Graciosa a...
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