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A Bag of Moonshine


Garner, Alan, Illust. by: Patrick James Lynch

New York, Delacorte Press, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Color and black & white illustrations by Patrick James Lynch. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Record # 207263


Price: $20.00 

 

American Folk Sculpture


Bishop, Robert

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 392 pages. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Some shelf-wear, edge-wear, creasing, and closed tears to dust jacket, particularly around spine. A little tape on back of dust jacket. Now protected by clear, plastic cover. Minor tanning along top edge of flaps. Nice, unmarked copy.

Record # 856536


Price: $25.00 

 

American Girl. The - February, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December 1938


N/A

Dayton OH, Girl Scouts Inc., 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 10 separate issues, each 50 pages. Wonderful articles, fiction, ads, news of girl scout activities of the period. B&W photos and illustrations. This group features a profile of Juliette Low (founder of Girl Scouting) in three parts, articles by Helen Creighton on folk ballads, others on Helen Hayes, vegetable puppets, bicycling, Hollywood studios, careers in libraries, gardening, etc. Many ads and editorial on Girl Scouts, camp activities, uniforms. Mostly very good with some chipping, dog ears. Mailing label on covers.

Record # 602812


Price: $58.00 

 

American Girl. The - March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December 1940


N/A

Dayton OH, Girl Scouts Inc., 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 10 separate issues, each 50 pages. Wonderful articles, fiction, ads, news of girl scout activities of that period. B&W photos and illustrations.This group features Winter Cottage by Carol Ryrie Brink (Illust. By Fritz Eichenberg), articles by Alan Lomax on folk music, others on Mickey Rooney, baking pies, horseback riding, dog stars of the movies, gardening, etc. Many ads and editorial on Girl Scouts, camp activities, uniforms. Mostly very good with some chipping, dog ears. Mailing label on covers.

Record # 602811


Price: $51.00 

 

Babylonian Dragon and Other Tales, The


Zacharias, Alfred

Philadelphia, Muhlenberg Press, 1st , 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white woodcut illust. by author.

Record # 65558


Price: $25.00 

 

Body Boots and Britches - Folktales, Ballads and Speech from Country New York


Thompson, Harold W.

Hard Back . NY, Syracuse University Press, Reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light rubbing and soil to back of dust jacket.

Record # 200758


Price: $20.00 

 

Book of the Ocean, and Life on the Sea, The (Two volumes bound together)


n/a

Hardcover. Auburn, NY, John Beardsley, 1st, 1850, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 671 pages. Hardcover. Two volumes bound together. Cover boards bound in brown textured, embossed leather. Corners bumped. Gilt title on spine (slightly faded). Pages and edges have tanning from age. Covers have soil and age wear. Binding tight, spine straight. Gutters split in some places, but no pages missing or detached, and binding good. Beautiful old book full of fanciful, ageless tales of the sea.

Record # 32019


Price: $100.00 

 

Buried Moon and Other Stories, The


Bang, Molly

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, stories about the feelings buried deep within us, selected and illustrated by Molly Bang. 63 pages, dust jacket with tape residue, otherwise very good.

Record # 175591


Price: $15.00 

 

Counting-out Rhymes - A Dictionary


Abrahams, Roger P. and Lois Rankin

Hardcover. Austin, Univ. of Texas, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages. Faint smudge to fore edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 51278


Price: $10.00 

 

Coyote's Canyon


Tempest Williams, Terry, Illust. by: John Telford

Paperback. Salt Lake City, Gibbs Smith, Reprint wraps., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY WILLIAMS. Color photographs by John Telford. 96 pages. Paperback.

Record # 203689


Price: $35.00 

 

Days of the Blackbird


dePaola, Tomie

New York , G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, With color Illustrations by Tomie dePaola. Some wear to cover.

Record # 176128


Price: $18.00 

 

Dietrich of Berne - Hero Tales of the Austrian Tirol


Sawyer, Ruth and Emmy Molles

NY, Viking, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white drawings by Frederick T. Chapman. Library binding (not ex-lib). Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, spine fade.

Record # 65851


Price: $15.00 

 

Fables


N/A

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Color an black & white illustrations.

Record # 207271


Price: $20.00 

 

Flying Witch, The


Yolen, Jane

New York, Harper Collins, 3rd, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, color illustrations by Vladimir Vagin, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 801148


Price: $12.00 

 

Folk Tales from Many Lands


Kinscella, Hazel Gertrude

Hardcover. Lincoln, NE, University Publishing Co, na, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages. Stamp of elementary school on front end paper. Rubbing to extremities. Light soiling to covers.

Record # 803326


Price: $10.00 

 

Folk Tales of Brittany


Masson, Elsie, Illust. by: Thornton Oakley

Softcover. Philadelphia , Macrae Smith Co., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Edited by Amena Pendleton. B&W illustrations by Thornton Oakley. 191 pages. Light wear to corners of cardboard covers, gilt lettering on spine faded.

Record # 600384


Price: $35.00 

 

Golden Lotus and Other Legends of Japan


Greey, Edward

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, unknown , 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, INSCRIBED BY GREEY opposite the title-pg. copyright pg. states 1882. Bright gilt decorated covers, small ink notation on front fly leaf .

Record # 101496


Price: $300.00 

 

Golem, The


Rogasky, Barbara

NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages, illustrated in color by Trina Schart Hyman. SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY HYMAN pasted on front fly leaf. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 602177


Price: $50.00 

 

Great Folktales of Wit and Humor


Foster, James R.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Bros., 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY FOSTER on front fly leaf. 100 lively tales from world folklore. Spine a tad faded otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 60718


Price: $30.00 

 

How Wilka Went to Sea and Other Tales from West of the Urals


Ginsburg, Mirra, Illust. by: Charles Mikolaycak

New York, Crown, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 128 pages. Color illustrations by Charles Mikolaycak. Previous owner's sticker on front end paper and inside front cover. Dust jacket has edgewear. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Record # 206964


Price: $15.00 

 

Iguana's Tail, The - Crick Crack Stories from the Caribbean


Sherlock, Sir Philip, Illust. by: Gioia Fiammenghi

New York, Crowell, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, B&W illustrations by Gioia Fiammenghi. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf.

Record # 304746


Price: $19.00 

 

Lapin Plays Possum: Trickster Tales from the Lousiana Bayou


Doucet, ed., Sharon Arms, Illust. by: Scott Cook

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages, color illustrations by Scott Cook, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 801150


Price: $15.00 

 

Legends of Northeast Scotland


Wyness, Fenton

NY, Gramercy, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated by Author. Light edgewear to dust jacket and rubbing.

Record # 201102


Price: $12.00 

 

Lions and Shadows


Isherwood, Christopher

Hardcover. Norfolk CT, New Directions, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, covers faded.

Record # 106751


Price: $28.00 

 

Longhouse Winter


Jones, Hettie, Illust. by: Nicholas Gaetano

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Nicholas Gaetano. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Dust jacket shows some wear, tear on front cover. Hardbound.

Record # 109856


Price: $15.00 

 

Lore and Legend of Nepal


Lall, Kesar

Softcover. Kathmandu, Ratna Pustak Bhandar, 2nd, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 46 pages. Stiff cardboard covers. Black & white illustrations by Amar "Kalakar". Dust jacket with chipping along top edge of front cover - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 612124


Price: $23.00 

 

Make-Believe Tales - A Folk Tale From Burma


Troughton, Joanna

New York, Bedrick/Blackie, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 26 pages. Color illustrations by author.

Record # 204883


Price: $15.00 

 

Man In the Divided Sea, A


Merton, Thomas

Norfolk, CT, New Directions, 1st , 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 67729


Price: $30.00 

 

Masoud the Bedouin


Crhart, Alfreda Post

NY, Missionary Education Movement, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&W photos, illust. by Jessie Gillespie. Ex-lib with bookplates. Light residue to end papers, small label on spine.

Record # 300954


Price: $30.00 

 

More Stories to Solve: Fifteen Folktales from Around the World


Shannon, George

New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages illustrated in b&w by Peter Sis. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 402121


Price: $12.00 

 

New England Bean-Pot - American Folk Stories to Read and to Tell


Jagendorf (Ed.), M.

Hardcover. NY, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages, b&w drawings by Donald McKay. Blue cloth with orange design, light fade to spine.

Record # 602382


Price: $12.00 

 

North American Legends


Haviland (ed), Virginia, Illust. by: Ann Strugnell

New York, Collins, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 214 pages. Black & white illustrations by Ann Strugnell. Dust jacket price clipped, edgeworn, missing small chunk from rear spine. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Record # 206999


Price: $15.00 

 

North of Nowhere - Stories & Legends From Many Lands


Sleigh, Barbara, Illust. by: Victor G. Ambrus

New York, Coward-McCann, 1s US, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 223 pages. Black & white illustrations by Victor Ambrus. Library stamping on inside of front and rear covers, otherwise clean. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket has light edgewear. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Record # 207430


Price: $12.00 

One Day of Happiness (SIGNED BY AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR)Singer, Isaac Bashevis, Illust. by: Richard   Callner

One Day of Happiness (SIGNED BY AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR)


Singer, Isaac Bashevis, Illust. by: Richard Callner

Hardcover. New York, Red Ozier Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR. Singer's signature to last story page in pen. Interior color lithographic frontispiece signed in pencil by Callner. Illustrated with three colored lithographs, each signed by Richard Callner in pencil. Violet morocco leather spine, sides, and corner-tips. Blue boards. Translated from the original Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Pollet. Light age toning to top text block edge. Heavy fading to spine. Rough-cut fore edge. Of 155 copies, this is number 76. Scarce. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952229


Price: $625.00 

 

Papa Alonzo Leatherby - A Collection of Tall Tales from the Best Storyteller in Carroll County


Davol, Marguerite W.

NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 70 pages, hardcover like new in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 602275


Price: $12.00 

 

People Could Fly, The - American Black Folktales


Hamilton, Virginia , Illust. by: Leo & Diane Dillon

New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1985, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 177 pages, including bibliography. Illustrated in black and white by Leo and Diane Dillon. Some slight wear to front and corners of dust jacket.

Record # 176126


Price: $28.00 

 

People Could Fly, The


Hamilton, Virginia/Leo Dillon/Diane Dillon

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 178 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. Price clipped dust jacket with moderate wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611988


Price: $23.00 

 

Reynard the Fox


Hastings, Selina

New York , Tambourine Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 76 pages, illustrated in color by Graham Percy.

Record # 176151


Price: $20.00 

 

Sayings of the Ancestors - The Spiritual Life of the Sibundoy Indians


McDowell, John Holmes

Hardcover. Lexington, Kentucky Univ., 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Folklore of a unique Indian tribe of Columbia. Black & white photos

Record # 54865


Price: $9.00 

 

Sebgugugu the Glutton - A Bantu Tale of Rwanda


Aardema, Verna, Illust. by: Nancy L. Clouse

Hardcover. Grand Rapids, Michigan, Eerdmans, 1st?, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Really nice, new-looking condition. Color illustrations by Nancy L. Clouse. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Record # 109640


Price: $15.00 

Seven Simeons: A Russian TaleArtzybasheff (retold & Illustrated), Boris, Illust. by: Boris Artzbasheff

Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale


Artzybasheff (retold & Illustrated), Boris, Illust. by: Boris Artzbasheff

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pretty soft green covers stamped center front with an unnoticeable flower design. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine is sunned at both ends. A wonderful story of seven brothers who each use their special magic powers to win the hand of Helena of Boozan Island for their King. Beautifully and elegantly illustrated.

Record # 408321


Price: $63.00 

 

Spanish Fairy Tales


Marks, John

Hardcover. London, Frederick Muller, 2nd, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages, b&w drawings by Hazel Cook. Light soil to copy block edges. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, light fade to spine.

Record # 602381


Price: $15.00 

 

Spring of Butterflies and Other Chinese Folk Tales, The


Liyi, He

NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illust. by Pan Aiqing and Li Zhao. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 67644


Price: $19.00 

 

St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks - Volume XXVII - Part I - Six Months - November 1899 to April 1900


Dodge, Mary Mapes/St. Nicholas Magazine

Hardcover. New York, The Century Co., 1st US, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 568 pages. Hardcover. Collects six months of St. Nicholas Magazine for Young Folks - Volume XXVII - Part I - November 1899 to April 1900. Black & white illustrations. Brown leather spine and corners, with black pebbled cloth. Title in gilt on spine. Moderate abrasions to leather. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613854


Price: $38.00 

 

Story of King Arthur and His Knights, The


Pyle, Howard

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 313 pages, illustrated in b&w by Pyle. Color frontispiece by W. J. Aylward. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket with edgewear, light soil.

Record # 408797


Price: $23.00 

 

Strange Shadows - Spirit Tales of Early America


Raskin, Joseph and Edith Raskin, Illust. by: William Sauts Bock

New York, Lothrop, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Black & white illustrations by William Sauts Bock. Dust jacket price clipped. Library edition sticker on dust jacket spine, otherwise clean.

Record # 205303


Price: $15.00 

 

Sweet & Touching Tale of Fleur & Blanchefleur, The


Mrs. Leighton

Hardcover. London, Daniel O'Connor, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 61 pages. Illustrated in color by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale. Foxing to endpapers. Child's drawing in crayon on rear endpaper. Rubbing and wear to cover corners and at top and bottom of spine. Staining along top edge of front cover.

Record # 606728


Price: $20.00 

 

The Bold Heroes of Hungry Hill and Other Irish Folk-Tales


MacManus, Seumas, Illust. by: Jay Chollick

London, Dent, 1st UK, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 180 pages. Black & white illustrations by Jay Chollick. Cover has edgewear. Dust jacket chipping, missing a chunk from front and rear. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Record # 206985


Price: $15.00 

 

The Master of the Winds and Other Tales from Siberia


Ginsburg (ed), Mirra, Illust. by: Enrcio Arno

New York, Crown, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Black & white illustrations by Enrcio Arno. Front cover slightly sunned. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping.

Record # 206962


Price: $12.00 

 

The Month-Brothers - A Slavic Tale


Marshak, Samuel, Illust. by: Diane Stanley

New York , Morrow, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 29 pages. Color illustrations by Diane Stanley.Dust jacket has large tear on front and some edge wear.

Record # 204263


Price: $18.00 

 

The Twelve Clever Brothers and Other Fools - Folktales From Russia


Ginsburg, Mirra, Illust. by: Charles Mikolaycak

New York, Lippincott, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 89 pages. Black & white illustrations by Charles Mikolaycak. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Record # 206960


Price: $20.00 

 

Threshing Days: The Farm Paintings of Lavern Kammerude


Garthwaite, Chester

Hardcover. Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Folk Museum, 3rd, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. Very good pictorial boards. Introduction by James P. Leary, with black & white photographs. Illustrated with color drawings throughout.

Record # 803792


Price: $10.00 

 

Wakima and the Clay Man - And Other African Folktales


Kalibala, E. Balintuma and Mary Gould Davis, Illust. by: Avery Johnson

Hardcover. NY, Longmans Green and Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white Illustrations by Avery Johnson, End papers illustrated. Light soil to cloth cover. corner a bit bumped, and cloth torn on top front corner.

Record # 200359


Price: $18.00 

 

Welsh Legends and Folk-Tales


Jones, Gwyn, Illust. by: Joan Kiddell-Monroe

New York, Walck, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 230 pages. Color and black & white illustrations by Joan Kiddell-Monroe. Water stain to bottom book edge and dust jacket. Dust jacket has edgewear, protected by a mylar cover.

Record # 206966


Price: $20.00