Search Results: Fairy Tales from Minotavros Books

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Inner City Books, 1997. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. 191 pp, plus [1] pp ad. No major defects, near fine condition.

New York: Exeter Books, 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo (imperial). Glossy pictorial paper boards. Colour pictorial endpapers. 205 pp. Several full-page colour illustrations + B&W illustration in text. Fine overall. Here is a collection of the most unusual folk and fairy tales. The Irish stories go back to the great Sagas, and there are also Celtic tales from Scotland, Wales, and Brittany.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo [4.3 x 6.9 mm]. [1913] Green cloth binding. 125 p.p., plus 2 p.p. ads. [1] colour frontispiece. Light wear and rubbing to spine and edges. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Sporadic stains throughout. Front and rear free endpapers browned, otherwise in very good condition. Scarce.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1996. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. 8vo. As new in shrink wrap. Leather bound, spine and front board stamped in 22-karat gold. A.E.G. Ribbon marker. Moire endpapers. Reprint of the 1916 Hodder and Stoughton edition.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1996. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. Smith, Jessie Wilcox. 8vo. As new in shrink wrap. Leather bound, spine and front board stamped in 22-karat gold. A.E.G. Ribbon marker. Moire endpapers.

London: Methuen & Co, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Orig. blue cloth. vi, 57 pp. Spine tilted, light bruising to corners. Dust jacket lightly chipped to extremities, lightly soiled. Scarce in jacket.

London: Wlliam Harrison Ainsworth, 1828. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Brooke, W.H.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Volume II only. Quarter leather, red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 358 pp. [6] B&W plates, B&W wood and copper plate engravings by W.H. Brooke in text. Rubbing to joints, spine and corners. Light soiling to cloth. Spine tilted. Previously rebound or recased. Some offsetting from plates and engravings.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 499 pp. Crease to spine. Light staining to fore edge of text block. About fine overall.

New York: Nantier. Beall. Minoustchine. Publishing Inc, 1995. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo (imperial). This special collectors edition is limited to 350 copies. This is copy no. 133, which has been signed by both David Wenzel and Douglas Wheeler. [44] unnumbered pages, wholly illustrated in full colour and presented in comic book format. Long tear running along bottom of front cover partially affecting image (aprox. 3 inches width) but still intact, light stain on top cover, but otherwise jacket is very good. Boards quarter bound in bright red cloth burgandy spine. Faces of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in gilt on front board, with title in gilt on spine. A nice collectable copy in near fine condition.

Plainfield, New Jersey: The Somerset Press, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Perard, Victor. 8vo. SIGNED by author to flyleaf. Scarce. 158 p.p. Illustrated blue cloth boards with black stamping. Boards are foxed, sunned at spine, a few damp stains, wear to edges and spine ends. Foxing to endpapers but interior clean. B&W illustrations. An account of Felicia's might-have-been journey and fantastical adventures with the really-truly Sandman.

London: Vintage, 1995. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. xxi, 458 pp. Light bumping to corners. Small chip to spine head. Gift inscription to ffep. [16] pp. plates of colour photos, plus B&W frontis. and photos in text. Entrancing, multi-layered and as wittily subversive as fairy tales themselves, this beautifully illustrated work explores and illuminates the unfolding history of the famous tales, the contexts in which they flourished, and the tellers themselves - from ancient sibyls and old crones to Angela Carter and Disney.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Sendak, Maurice. 12mo. Second edition, with new reproductions of the illustrations. With ten B&W illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Stiff card wraps, sewn and glued binding. 86 p.p. Afterward by W.H. Auden. Price sticker to head of rear cover. A few small spots to upper front cover and light foxing to top edge, else a fine copy. "A new edition illustrated with remarkable sensitivity makes available once more one of the most beautiful of allegorical fairy tales. The story itself is a key that will open to many children a door on their own imaginative experiences." - The Horn Book (from rear cover).

New York: Nelson Doubleday. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo (large). [n.d.] Book Club Edition. x, 632 p.p. Light wear to jacket edges and extremities. Small tears to jacket spine and head of inner front flap. Head of rear cover sunned. Owner inscription in black marker on front pastedown endpaper. Spine and edges of boards slightly bumped with wear to edges. Pages slightly yellowed, but otherwise boards stiff and in very good condition. 211 beloved tales by Grimm's.

Leipzig: Edition Peters, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Klemke, Werner. 4to. White cloth spine, illustrated paper boards. 36 pp. Colour illustrations. Boards are sunned to edges, bumped to corners, some spots of soiling.

New York: Weathervane Books, 1984. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Nielsen, Kay. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to front board and spine. [6] colour illustrated plates, twelve illustrations, plus full-page B&W illustrations in-text. Green ribbon marker. Light bumping to extremities of dust jacket.

London: Ward, Lock & Co. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 18mo. N.d., [ca. 19--?]. Orig. blue paper boards. 253 pp. B&W frontis. Rubbed to extremities. Foxing to edges of text block. Presentation label to ffep. Dust jacket is age toned, a few short tears to edges, chipping to spine ends, rubbing to spine, pencil underlining to rear cover. 0.

London & Paris: Raphael Tuck & Sons. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Davie, Howard. 8vo. N.d., [ca. 1924]. Abridged edition. Orig. blue cloth. 144 pp. [12] colour plates, B&W illustrations in text. Cloth is foxed and spotted, rubbed at edges. Cracking to inner hinge at p. 17. Some minor soiling to interior. 0.

New York: Allen Brothers, 1870. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. McLenan, John. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. purple cloth. 338 pp. Engravings from illustrations by McLenan by A.V.S. Anthony. Spine sunned and tilted, bumped at ends. Light chafing to extremities. Tissue guard at frontis. torn and a portion stuck down to title page. Interior age toned. Library bookplate and stamps of Academy of Natural sciences, James Aitken Meigs Library of Philadelphia, 1895. Library plate at front pastedown is worn. Loose quire at p. 171.

Boston, Massachusetts: Shambhala Publications, Inc, 1996. First Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo (small). First edition of the revised version of "An introduction to the interpretation of fairy tales." xi, 208 pp. Near fine condition, slight rubbing on spine, very light rubbing on front cover.

Dallas, Texas: Spring Publications, Inc, 1970. Soft cover. Good. 8vo (small). First in a series of books that act as "Interpretative commentaries edited from lecture courses." Based on lectures given at the C.G. Jung institute, Zurich, Winter 1963. [3], 160 pp. In good condition. Creasing and indentation on covers, cover torn at front edges and spine tail, fraying at spine head, corners bruised, inner edges are slightly cracked.