FS: Fairy Tales P-Z - 25 titles
Suzanne and Truman Price
Author / Artist. Title.
Perrault, Charles /Gustave Doré. Contes de fées. NY: Didier (1945).
Four colour paper boards with Puss-in-Boots, 7.5x10; c 48 pp. Fairly clear
blue-toned copies of Doré on browning paper, tales in French. picture.
12497 VG/G-; wear and bumps to extremities, in dw with 3x4" chip from
plain back, other heavy edgewear. $14
Perrault, Charles /Fred Marcellino. Puss in Boots. Farrar, Straus, &
Giroux, 1990, 1st. 8.25x11.25; 27 pp. Dramatic perspective with carefully
rendered costumes and interiors. picture. Caldecott Honor. 7736 NF/VG;
in dw with 2" tear, wear to creases and extremities. $40
Phillips, Mary Geisler /Ellen Edmonson. Honey-Bees and Fairy-Dust.
Macrae Smith, 1926, 1st; 213 pp. 26 b/w drawings/diagrams of bee fairies
and the hive. The Bee Fairy Mellifica transforms two children into drones
so they can see how bee hives function. Didactic in intent, yet the
transformations("the dizziness and blankness of the change") are well
written; one of quite a few 1920's insect fantasies. juv. 9889 VG/0;
extremities lightly bumped and worn; completely erased crayon writing on
rear endpaper. $120
Picard, Barbara Leonie /Julia Cobbold. Selected Fairy Tales. NY: Oxford
University Press, 1994, 1st; 190 pp. Enchanting original fairy tales
picked from her own favorites by Picard, a modern master. juv. 8769 F/F.
$30
Picard, Barbara. The Goldfinch Garden. Criterion, 1965, 1st Am. [1963];
122 pp. juv. 2419 VG/0; ex-lib some marks. $10
Pierce, Patricia, ed /Royal Doulton tiles. The Larousse Book of Fairy
Tales. NY: Larousse, 1985, 1st Am; 4to, 176 pp. Illustrated with pictures
using remarkable Royal Doulton tiles made between 1890 and 1915. juv.
4467 NF/VG, owners' names. $52
Provensen, Alice & Martin, ed /A&MP. The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales.
Random House, (1971), reprint. Shiny, full colour pictorial boards,
8.2x11.25; 140 pp. A collection of literary folktales by various authors:
MacManus, Manning-Sanders, Picard, the Pyles, Wilde etc. profusely
illustrated by the Provensens. picture book 8438 NF/0. $14
Ransome, Arthur /Faith Jaques. The War of the Birds & the Beasts.
London: Cape, 1984, 1st. Black cloth, 112 pp. "And other Russian tales",
collected by Ransome in Russia before the revolution, and written out in
English in 1916; this is their first printing. juv. 9204 VG/VG; ex-lib
stamps on top edge, bottom edge & title page only, pocket in rear. $15
Rees, Ennis /J. J. Grandville. Fables from Aesop. NY: Oxford, 1966,
1st; 6.5w x10.5h, 210 pp, index. 187 tales retold with wit and vigor, in
poetic line, with the classic 1838 illustrations by Grandville. juv. 4276
Fine/VG; dw with tiny closed tears top edge. $20
Ruskin, John /Arthur Rackham. The King of the Golden River.
Lippincott, nd. (1932); red cloth with decorated plate, decorated
endpapers, 4 coloured plates, 5.6x8.9; 48 pp. A great match of illustrator
and story. This is the red American trade edition with the same drawings
and plates as the English trade edition, published after the Harrap 1932
ltd edition. (Latimore) juv. 13163 G-/0 front board and spine faded and
soiled, signatures loose, and plates reglued. $25
Sale, Roger. Fairy Tales and After. Harvard University Press, 1978,
1st; 280 pp. From Snow White to E. B. White reference . 6882 NF/VG; in
dw spine and top edgewear, 1" tear. $25
Segur, Countess de /Nicole Claveloux. Forest of Lilacs. Harlin Quist,
1969, 1st. 11x10.8; 40 pp. Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Segur, whose
family fled Russia in 1812, married a French count and, confined to her
sofa for the last forty or so years of her life, made up pleasant stories
to amuse her children and grandchildren. picture book 9491 VG/VG;
unattractively clipped ffep, in dw with three 1" tears, other light
edgewear. $15
Shvartz, Evgeniy /Kryzhanovskaya. The Absentminded Magician (Rasseyanni
Volshevnik). Leningrad: Children's Literature Publications, 1989, pres
1st; 272 pp. A beautifully produced book of fairy tales with a humorous
touch, some in play form. Wonderfully illustrated in fantastic line and
watercolour. juv. 10851 Fine/Fine. $35
Sirven, B. Editeur /Louis Bailly. Riquet a la Houpe Toulouse/Paris:
Sirven, ca 1900. Heavy glazed card full coloured illus boards, 10x13; five
lithos, one double spread, with black and red drawings in text; 12 pp. One
of the Sirven "Contes et Legendes de la Vielle France." Wonderful lithos,
despite its condition. picture foreign language . 13726 Fair; corners
very frayed and bumped, spine rubbed and separating, half in chip from
front cover margin, inked price visible, boards with reverse book shadow in
two inch strip. $20
Stoutenburg, Adrien /Rocco Negri. Fee, Fi, Fum Friendly And Funny
Giants. Viking, (1969), 2nd; pictorial boards; 126pp. juv. 11394 VG/VG;
ex-lib, some marks. $12
Strindberg, Gert. Norwegian Fairy Tales. Follett, 1968, 1st; 96 pp.
juv. 10761 G+/VG; blank feps have been inexpertly glued at gutter with
resulting stain, corners of boards and dw very bumped during shipping. $12
Tarrant, Margaret /MT. Fairy Tales. Crowell, (1978 compiled thus); 96
pp. Library binding. juv. 7521 VG/VG; three tears to half inch. $15
Tenggren, Gustav /GT. Tenggren's Story Book. Golden, 1944, 4th;
10.3x13, 89 pp. Greason does not list a jacket in the Golden Book guide.
Picture folio, in jacket. 5251 VG-/G; pages clean and crisp; lower end of
spine is bumped & abraded for 1/2", lower corners bumped; clean dw with
three 2" tears front, corners chipped rear. $115
Wilde, Oscar /Jean Claverie. The Happy Prince. Oxford: Oxford U., 1980,
1st thus illus; pictorial boards, 9.7x12.9, 40 pp. juv. 3038 VG/-; unread
in bright boards w sl. rubbing at corners and spine tips. $30
Williams-Ellis, Amabel /Pauline Baynes. British Fairy Tales. London:
Blackie, 1965, 1st thus; 168 pp. Selected from the larger volume published
in 1960. juv. 4251 VG-/VG-; clean, but one page is torn and repaired, dw
worn at spine ends and edge. $14
Wilson, Barbara Ker /G. W. Miller. Fairy Tales of Mexico. Cassell,
1964/1960, 2nd; c 40 pp. Shiny coloured full pictoral boards. picture
book 7379 VG+/0. $12
Woody, Regina J /Rafaello Busoni. The Stars Came Down. Harcourt, 1945,
1st; 8vo, n.p. A classic fairy tale of electrification. juv. 3978
Good/0; ex-lib some marks, pict lib bind. $12
Yolen, Jane /Ed Renfro. Gwinellen, the Princess Who Could Not Sleep.
Macmillan, 1965, 1st. Coloured illus paper pictorial boards, 7.9x10.25; 30
pp. A written fairy tale about a princess who produces masses of
handcrafts during her sleepless nights, which threaten to inundate the
kingdom. picture book 12758 VG/0; boards with edges bumped and worn, in
dw remnant. $30
Zheleznova, Irina, editor /Vladimir Meneyev. Vasilisa the Beautiful.
Moscow: Progress, 1974/1966, 2nd; large 8vo, 213 pp. Russian fairy tales.
juv. 5125 F/F $15
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