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Brothers Grimm
Grimm's Fairy Tales
New York: Dodge, n.d. (ca. 1912) Stratton, Helen
8vo Green cloth intricately decorated in colors and gold on upper cover and spine, all edges stained green. 336pp. Contains 54 stories of the Brothers Grimm with beautiful illustrations by Helen Stratton, in all 28 color (a few double-page) and 43 black & white full-page plates plus additional in-text drawings. Familiar stories such as Hansel and Grettel, The Golden Goose, Tom Thumb, and The Elves and the Shoemaker are here, along with tales less well known. Name and date (1912) to recto of frontis. Light wear else a Very Good+ copy of this splendid book.
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300.00 USD
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Brothers Grimm
Grimm's Tales
New York: Oxford University Press, 1954 First Edition Sewell, Helen and Madeleine Gekiere
8vo Blue decorated cloth. 142pp with black & white illustrations highlighted in red or purple. Contains sixteen stories: Three Children of Fortune, The Little Fawn, The Tomtit and the Bear, The Golden Bird plus a dozen familiar tales. The illustrations are an intriguing blend of Sewell's bold images and Gekiere's delicate, airy line drawings, both artists providing pictures for each story. Corners lightly bumped, a little wear to upper edge and corner tip else about Very Good in chipped and worn dustjacket.
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75.00 USD
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Brothers Grimm
Little Red Riding Hood
New York: McLoughlin, ca 187?
9"x10.75" Color pictorial wraps. [20]pp with six full-page color chromos (versos blank) by an unknown hand. This version of the old tale has Red Riding Hood's grandmother saving herself from the wolf by locking herself in a closet. Red Riding Hood then arrives and meets the wolf disguised as Grand-mamma, gets into bed with him, curls up and falls asleep! She awakens to those savage teeth but the woodmen arrive in time to slay Master Wolf. Appended to the story is a rhyme titled "Moral," which warns children to heed with whom they keep company. Spine stitched, slight stain at spine and lower edges, a few small margin tears and corner chips, minor soil. Good. Chromos clean and bright.
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75.00 USD
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Brothers Grimm / retold and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
Little Red Riding Hood (signed)
New York: Holiday House (1983) 0823404706 / 9780823404704 Stated First Edition
Square octavo. Blind stamped red cloth. [32]pp with delightful color illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman, plus text pages with elaborate color borders and smaller images. In this retelling of the old tale, both Little Red and grandma are eaten. However, when the huntsman kills the wolf and cuts him open, both Little Red and grandma are still alive. A special presentation copy with an inscription to an aunt, "With love from the original "Little Red Riding Hood" Trina." Trina Schart Hyman's favorite fairy tale as a child was Little Red Riding Hood. She spent a whole year wearing a red cape made for her by her mother. 1984 Caldecott Honor. Near Fine. Dustjacket lightly frayed with some offsetting from red cloth at spine heel (a few water spots), small chip at corner of lower flap fold.
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200.00 USD
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Brothers Grimm, adapted from the folk tale by
Little Red Riding-Hood
(Norwalk): C. R. Gibson (1968) First Edition Thus Mikolaycak, Charles
12mo Red decorated cloth. [24]pp with lovely color and black & white illustrations by award-winning Charles Mikolaycak. A gentle version of the tale wherein no one is harmed but the wolf. At the end, Little Red Riding-Hood vows never to stray from the path when her mother tells her she shouldn't. A Stardust edition. Very Good in frayed, somewhat darkened dustjacket.
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25.00 USD
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Brothers Grimm / Freely translated by Paul Heins
Snow White
Boston: Little, Brown (1974) 0316354503 / 9780316354509 Second Printing Hyman, Trina Schart
8vo Black cloth. [48]pp with exquisite illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman for her first full-color (not hand-separated) book. Light foxing to jacket flaps and half-title else Near Fine. Dustjacket with some wear and rubbing at spine ends.
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50.00 USD
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Brothers Grimm
The Golden Goose: A Grimms' Tale Retold
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947 First Edition Bare, Arnold E.
6"x8" Golden brown decorated cloth. [24]pp. Illustrated endpapers and color illustrations throughout. Arnold Bare is a Caldecott Honor medalist. The story of Dummling, the boy with a kind heart, and how he wins a princess. A title in the Nursery Books Series. Fine in dustjacket.
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40.00 USD
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Brothers Grimm / Trina Schart Hyman, retold by
The Sleeping Beauty
Boston: Little, Brown (1977) 0316387029 / 9780316387026 Stated First Edition
4to Gilt lettered brown cloth. [48]pp with Trina Schart Hyman's very lovely color illustrations throughout. One of her most beautiful books. Water stain to lower half of spine. Endpapers also stained at lower gutters. Hint of musty odor but crisp and clean throughout, with the noted exception. Good. Dustjacket with minor wear but a little rubbed along edges of lower half of spine. Water stain visible along spine on jacket's verso.
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35.00 USD
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Brothers Grimm
Thorn Rose
Scarsdale: Bradbury Press, 1977 0878880860 / 9780878880867 First American Edition Le Cain, Errol
Oblong 8vo. Red boards. [32]pp with full color illustrations from Le Cain's intricate paintings. A gorgeous, stylized version of The Sleeping Beauty. Each opening features a full-page picture on the left with text framed in elaborate borders on the right. A runner-up for the Kate Greenaway Award. Book has a perfumed odor, otherwise Fine in Very Good+ dustjacket (light edge wear, particularly at corner and spine tips).
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100.00 USD
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