Rare books from Stephanie Forrest

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1870. 1870 date at title page. Harper's Complete Edition. Tall 6 1/2" x 10" design. Brown cloth boards, gilt cover and spine titles in relief, moderate shelf wear, discoloration, some spine rub. Frontispiece by Gustave Dore of steering the dead maiden along the river's pat and profile of Lord Alfred Tennyson at title page. Pages generally very good, moderate discoloration. Front endpaper removed. String-bind, fine; hinges intact. Illustrated throughout with the imagery of Gustave Doré and others. Near very good complete example. Includes Tennyson's interpretation of the Arthurian legend with English Idylls and other poems including Morte d'Arthur. Introductory notice: "To the present edition are added "Timbuctoo," the authors Cambridge University Prize Poem; Poems published in the London editions of 1830 and 1833, and omitted in later editions; and a number of hiterto uncollected Poems from various sources." Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS (6 August 1809 - 6… Read More

Six Volumes, 4" h x 3" w. Peter Rabbit is dated 1911 other five are 1905. Bound in original red paper covered boards with pictorial down the front covers that are surrounded by a stamped design of holly and berries. White paper inside aged with yellowish tint. each book has numerous full-page color and some black and white illustrations throughout, the only credited illustrator John R. Neill for Peter Rabbit. Introductions by L. Frank Baum. Publisher's ads at ends. A Very Good set, lacking the original slipcase, spines are rubbed and falling apart, binding on Cinderella is gone. Interior contents are good solid some pages do have pencil writing/ marks from a child SCARCE as a complete set. The tumultuous and complicated history of "Little Black Sambo" as a book and as a pejorative term adds a painful overlay to this otherwise charming Christmas stocking stuffer. Each miniature book has different page count, listed below. Fairy tales of Grimm -127 pages Fairy tales from Anderson - 126 pages Cinderella… Read More