Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press [1979], 1979. Reprint. Hardcover. 130 pp. Bound in brown leather with gilt decorations on the boards and the spine. Textblock in gilt with pastel pink decorative silk pastedowns and endpapers. A new version written by Munro Leaf with illustrations by Robert Lawson. More
London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. 7 3/4" x 9 3/4". 243 pp. Bound in dark brown cloth with gold designs embossed on the boards and the spine. The front board's design shows a vampire flying and grinning evilly. Frontispiece and fifteen plates plus additional black..... More
Austin: The Encino Press [1969], 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 109 pp. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Number four of Paisano Books, a series that was published at irregular intervals by the Texas Folklore Society. A collection of African-American folklore and songs as written down..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 5-174, [4] pp. Bound in purple cloth with gold decoration on the front board and gold lettering on the spine, purple topstain. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by Emil Antonucci. Grendel is a novel based..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First printing. Hardcover. 155 pp. Price of $8.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by Joe Servello. A collection of fairy tales, some of which are inspired by Russian folklore. A Very Good book with a tiny tear to the paper..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press [1980], 1980. Reprint. Hardcover. 329 pp. Bound in navy leather with gilt decorations on the boards and the spine. Textblock in gilt with bright yellow decorative silk pastedowns and endpapers. Selected and edited by Louis and Bryna Untermeyer, with a foreword by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrated..... More
London: Printed by Charles Rivington, 1760. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 11 volumes. [iv-xli], 240 pp.; 272 pp.; 316 pp.; 277 pp.; 280 pp. [19], [28].; 175 pp.; 189 pp.; 304 pp.; 301 pp.; 287 pp.; 212 pp., [76]. The set is illustrated with numerous wood-cut head and tailpieces (each new..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers [2001], 2001. First printing. Hardcover. 279 pp. Price of $25.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Foreword by John Edgar Wideman. A collection of African-American folk tales from one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century. A very near Fine book..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2000. First edition thus. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [5], vi-xvi, [3], 2-61, [1] pp. Quarter brown buckram over yellow patterned boards, lettered in gold on a spine, book housed in a brown paper slipcase. Translated by James Michie. Introduction by Gilbert Highet. Decorations by Richard Shirley Smith..... More
