The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang (Editor) - 2008

Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1947. HBDJ, 1947, 1st edition, DJ IN MYLAR, 98 Pages , VG/VG, Hardcover (10 x 7 inches / 25 x 18 cm) Condition: Very good, storage wear to dust jacket, bit of aging to paper & TINY Corner Chips. Dust jacket in new plastic protector. Orange & Black Illustrated Boards, tiny chips to spine ends . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by W. J. Pat Enright.

New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. First edition, hardcover in dust jacket, 4

Avec notes et éclaircissements sur les sciences, les arts, l'industrie et le commerce des anciens, par Émile Bères. Chamerot, Libraire-Éditeur, Paris, 1845.
--- Edges untrimmed. Uncut copy. Foxing on pages. Some wear at covers.

Methuen & Co. Ltd. London. 1930. REPRINT OF THE 1927 PAYNE EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 6.1 inches). Illustrated with 20 full page plates by Payne, line drawings with yellow colouring. Fore-edge and the first few pages affected by some very light foxing, otherwise a very good copy of this attractive edition. Publishers orange cloth with black lettering to the spine and front board. Small gilt stamped school badge to the front board. School prize label, dated 1942, on the front free endpaper. In the scarce original colour illustrated dustwrapper. A couple of small chips to the edge of the wrapper and the spine a bit toned but overall in very good condition.

Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 263pp. No dat4e c1930s. Green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration. frontispiece portrait of author, illustrations by John Tenniel. Text is in Japanese with English translation on opposite pages. Book is in very good very lightly used condition, text is mildly age-toned, former owner's bookplate on front pastedown, bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. Original dust jacket has 1-1 1/2 inch chips from head and tail, (slight loss of text), and light chipping along folds. A rare copy of an early c1930s Japanese imprint.

Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1923. Hardcover. 4to. Half vellum and tan paper over boards. (Ca. 50pp). 24 full-page plates (as called for; 3 color). Very good. Binding typically slightly soiled, else internally fine. A tight and attractive first edition. Limited to 160 copies. Wilkins studies the many genealogical tables used by Boccaccio in both manuscript and early printed versions of his "Genealogia deorum gentilium," a mythological encyclopedia. All captioned tissue guards present and pristine. A superb copy, with the original Caxton Club prospectus laid in.

HBDJ, 1950. Stated First Edition; First Printing, VG+/VG. AS-IS, Dates match ,  Green Tweed Cloth Hardcover cvr Lite wear Titled in Blue on Spine with Illustration on front of boy in Snowshoes .   DJ. Minor wear to extremities. Jacket is in a fresh mylar cover. ; 8vo.Interior Nice tight clean Light wear Fox, Jacket shows slight edgewear, light wear to back DJ and some TINY CHIPS ENDS DJ SPINE;   DJ Protected Clear Mylar cvr, 5 x 8.  , 182 PGS, Half Title pg Former Owner pencil Inscription dated  1951, who have spent many summers in Deep Hollow, persuade their Parents to allow them to spend their Winter Holiday there with the Joosts, the Postmaster, His wife & their Son, chuck  !  It is perfect weather for winter Sports.they go Skiing, & Sleigh Riding, Play Hockey, Skate, Fish thru the Ice, & Practically Fly Across Miles of ice in Chuck’s New Ice Boat. Strange things start Happening that build Up Suspense. & Smsons become Amateur Detectives,    ages 7 to 10.

First House edition of this famous report. 1845. Complete in original binding except for the gigantic map which is available in full size color thick glossy paper professional reproduction ($25 extra if desired). Pagination: 583 pages, 22 plates, 4 maps, all blanks present. Includes fascinating pencil diagram of oil rig on back of map. Oil rig drawing titled "Sheffield Oil Company. Warren(?), Co., Pa." That pencil drawing is the only interior writing or ownership marking anywhere in the book. Condition is a mixed bag. Original half leather marbled boards show heavy wear and looks like they were professionally rehinged in the distant past. Binding is sound. Pages show moderate to heavy toning and foxing. Some plates have weird 'dot' foxing I have never seen elsewhere (see scan). Marbled endpapers. A nice well maintained copy suitable for reading and research with a cool drawing. Howes F372; Wagner-Camp 115:2; Graff 1436. House Doc. No. 166. Feel free to inquire. Please see scans of the book you will… Read More

An attractive, didactic children's book very probably written in 1844 by the Swiss (Geneva) wife of the "co-author", a Protestant Pasteur -Pasteur de l'église réformée evangelique- telling the story of a boat trip up the Rhône river, from Avignon to Geneva. viii + 203 pp. The unusual cover page is composed of a series of vignettes.Free postal delivery worldwide.

Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1917. Hardcover. Condition: very good- First Edition. 227 pages. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated front board. Pages have no marks or tears, Spine worn no dust jacket