Search Results: Fables from Minotavros Books

Toronto: The Musson Book Company, 1914. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. McCutcheon, John T.. 18mo. Olive publisher's cloth. 297 pp. [8] plate illustrations. Spine tilted, edges chafed.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Murray Tinkelman. 8vo. Orig. red cloth with illustration and text in white, 215pp. A small bruise to foot of spine, o/w near fine in slightly worn and faded but very good d/w.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company Inc. Hardcover. Good/Good. Tinkleman, Murray. 12mo (large). [Copr. 1968] Book Club Edition. 215 p.p., [9] full page drawings, with numerous in-text. Jacket edges and corners worn, and spine sunned, with small chips at head and tail. Light scratches to rear jacket, but otherwise a good d/w. Red cloth boards, with gilt illustration of wolf barking at vine of grapes. Bottom corners slightly bumped, with wear to edges and spien. Owner inscription in black marker on front pastedown endpaper. Hinges and joints stiff. In good condition. 0.

San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2006. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Brown paper boards with faux leather look. Colour map endpapers. Brown ribbon marker. 178 pp. Water colour illustrations in text. Fine condition, in fine custom slipcase. The Alchemist is not only a reflection of the author's own inner journey, but also an inspiring journey for everyone who reads it. The story is about Santiago, a poor Spanish shepherd boy who travels from his native Spain to the Egyptian desert seeking buried treasure in the Pyramids. ALong the way he meets a Gypsy, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. Though he sets out in search of tangible riches, Santiago learns that true riches are found within. A literary jewel, an enchanting tale that is simply and eloquently told. A member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Paulo Coelho has won more than 30 international literary awards and honors.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2007. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. 8vo. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Collector's Edition. Brown genuine leather boards with gilt decoration. Moire endpapers. A.E.G. Gold ribbon marker. x, 174 pp. Fine condition. Laid in are a note about the book and the author, two Easton Press ex libris bookplate stickers, and the Certificate of Authenticity of the author's signature. Subtitled "A Fable About Followiing Your Dream," The Alchemist is not only a reflection of the author's own inner journey, but also an inspiring journey for everyone who reads it. The story is about Santiago, a poor Spanish shepherd boy who travels from his native Spain to the Egyptian desert seeking buried treasure in the Pyramids. ALong the way he meets a Gypsy, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. Though he sets out in search of tangible riches, Santiago learns that true riches are found within. A literary jewel, an enchanting tale… Read More

Zwolle: J.J. Tijl, 1862. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio. Quarter-cloth with morocco spine, blind tooled boards with CATS in gilt to spine and upper boards, [10], xv, [4], 946, [23] pp; xv, 893, [18] pp.898 pp., illustrated with over 400 steel plates by J.W. Kaiser, including [15] full page plates. Light foxing and staining to leaves, hinges reinforced with archival tape, joints starting at head and foot; boards sunned, faded with some soiling, corners and edges worn (a small patch of wear to upper front board of volume one) otherwise a very good copy set of the collected writings of Dutch poet and fable writer Jacob Cats.

Kathmandu: New Printing Press, 1981. Limited Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 6" x 7.25" Limited first edition of 1500 copies. Blue cloth spine, paper wrappers. Printed on Nepali Ricepaper. Unpaged, [24] pp. Some staining to covers and peeling at corners, else fine.

New York: Gramercy Books, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Quarter brown cloth, tan paper boards. xvii, [3], 957 pp. With 42 illustrations plus maps, charts, and an 80-page dictionary. Some bumping and creasing to spine foot of dust jacket, and some indentations to front flap, else fine. Includes the complete texts of The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, Legends of Charlemagne.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching 32. Soft cover. viii, 282 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Slight curling to lower front corner. Small spot of soiling to rear top corner of text block. Else fine.

London: Printed for W. Strahan J. And Others, 1769. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (small). Full brown calf with professionally rebacked spine. viii, [1] 10-192pp. A small soil to upper title page (text unaffected), light foxing. Wear to corners and edges, with some deep scuffs to boards but o/w very good.

London: S.n., 1703. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. In two volumes. 8vo., full cont. calf, rebacked with a later spine, raised bands, leather spine labels, (28), 381, (17) index; vii, 391, (16)pp. index. Frontispiece. Front board of volume two reattached with archival tape, chip to spine head of volume one, wear to extremities, a very good set. Scarce. Pieter de la Court [1618-1685) was a dutch economist who believed in the early economic importance of free competition. De la Court published his works anonymously on the Dutch Republic, politics, and the history of Holland. Some of these works having been attributed to his brother Jacob. This book contains a series of moral fables, followed by explication of the tale as an interpretation of the economy and politics in Holland and the Netherlands on topics of taxes, the Republic, and Commonwealth.

London: Richard Bentley, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo (square). Halfbound in dyed dark green calf and light green buckram boards. Title in gilt on spine. vi, [2], 215 p.p., [24] p.p. illustrations including frontis. Bookplate of famous English Decadence poet Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) on front pastedown endpaper. Binders ticket of Edmund Warroll, Birmingham to bottom edge of front pastedown.Light rubbing to spine and extremities, edges slightly bumped. Frontis loose, with tears taped by previous owner. Small tear to illustration facing p.p. 51, but image is only partially affected. Thread exposed from gutter on p.p. 204. Foxed endpapers and pages, but otherwise in good condition.

Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. Early reprint. Tan buckram with decorative floral design to front side and title to spine. Publisher's device in black to rear board. T.E.G., others untrimmed. 202 p.p. Illustrated throughout with humorous woodcuts. Description laid-in. George Ade was a newspaper columnist who left his position to work on Fables in Slang. They were so popular with the American public that they were eventually turned into motion picture shorts and comic strips. Some light soiling and chafing to cloth, but overall a very good, tight copy.

Philadelphia: Henry ALtemus Company, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo. Altemus' Young People's Library. Full grey publisher's cloth. 160, 12 pp. ads. With 60 B&W illustrations in text. Spine tilted, bumping and small spots of wear to spine ends and corners, bruise to tail edge of rear board, general soiling to cloth. Ink ownership inscription to ffep, dated 1905. Offsetting to pp. 122-3.

Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1965. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. A special publication of the Augustan Reprint Society. Orig. tan card wrappers, sewn and glued. xv, 211 pp. B&W illustrations. Some sunning to edges, creasing and light scuffing to spines, else fine.

New York: American Book Company, 1903. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 18mo [5 x 7 mm]. Grey cloth binding with fleur-de-lis on front board. Symbol of American Book Company on rear. 127 p.p. Fables in French, with annotations in English by McKenzie. Boards soiled. Spine sunned. Thin stain from head to tail of rear board, with sporadic scratches. Previous owner inscription on front free endpaper. Notes and underlined passages in pencil throughout. Some Corners bumped and or dog-eared, otherwise in good condition.

New York: Charles Scribner, 1853. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. (Copr. 1852) Original green cloth binding. Gilt illustration of a fairy and two children flying on moth. Title in gilt on spine. A.e.g. xii, 13-336 p.p. Illustrated title page and frontispiece. Fables followed by a moral and contemporary tale. Boards rubbed and dirtied. Gilt faded. Wear to spine and edges. Tears to p.p. 119 partially affecting text and p. 139. Some sporadic tears throughout to margins throughout.. Pages lightly foxed but otherwise in good condition.

London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. Orig. blue pictorial cloth, bevelled edges, gilt lettering, black stamped vignette of the Tiger, the Bear and the Fox to front board. T.E.G. Deckled edges. xii, 129 pp. [18] B&W plates. Spine cocked, darkening to spine and edges, staining to boards, some light wear to spien ends and corners. Some plates loosely inserted. A few cracks at inner hinges. Pencil scribbles to foot of p. 79. Some light foxing to interior commensurate with age.

Montreal: Editions Alexandre Stanke inc - Collection Coffragants, 2001. Soft cover. Fine. Malak, Annabel (cover illustration). 5.5" x 5" Soft cover book w/ audio CD. Unpaginated, approx. [44] pp. Audio adaptation by Marie-Jose Beaudoin. Translation by Jean Orecchioni. Read by Patrice Laffont, also with the voices of Serge Postigo, Marina Orsini, Robert Lalonde, Marc Bellier, Fracois Caffiaux, Vincent Davy, Alain Gendreau, Jean-Claude Germain, Michel Ghorayeb, Robert Lavoie, Lenie Scoffie, Harry Standjofski, Manuel Tandros, and Isabelle Rajotte. The story of the quest of Santiago from Andalusia to the foot of the pyramids of Egypt in search of a great treasure. In the desert, he learns to listen to his heart, read the signs, and above all, how to go after his dreams.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1918. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 18mo. Orig. green cloth. viii, 280 pp. Spine cocked and sunned, rubbed to extremities, worn to spine ends. Interior age toned.