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This is a mint-condition copy of Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales, published in 1993. It is the 201 fairy tales and 10 legends written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the German academics and folklore collectors who, from 1812 to 1857, published the world's most famous fairy tales. Bound in navy blue leather with an inlaid foil design. Bound-in silk bookmark, gold-trimmed pages. 652 pages,… Read more about this item

This is a first edition of The Far Lands, by the American writer James Normal Hall (1887-1951), who is best known for the Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy. It was published in 1950. It is the fictional re-telling of the settlement of Hawaii seen through the eyes of the legendary figures found in Hawaiian mythology. A group of Tongans are in… Read more about this item

This is a stated thirteenth printing of the first edition of Dr. Dolittle's Garden, the 8th book of the the classic children's series written and illustrated by the English writer Hugh Lofting (1886-1947). It is about a physician who communicates with animals. This copy was printed in the US. While there is some shelfwear to the dust jacket, there is no evidence… Read more about this item

This is a leather-bound mint-condition copy of Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales, published in 2011. It is the 201 fairy tales and 10 legends written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the German academics and folklore collectors who, from 1812 to 1857, published the world's most famous fairy tales. Bound in burgundy leather with an inlaid foil design. Bound-in silk bookmark, gold-trimmed pages. 652 pages,… Read more about this item

This is a stated first printing (1988) of The King of the Fields, a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991), the Polish-American writer who is one of 13 American citizens to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Singer wrote in Yiddish and had his work translated, usually by Saul Bellow. It is a fictional exploration of… Read more about this item

This is a first edition (UK) of Haroun and the Sea of Stories, a children's novel written in 1990 by the British writer Salman Rushdie. After Iran's Ayatollah Khomeni issued a fatwa against Rushdie over The Satanic Verses two years earlier, Rushdie was in hiding, and under protection. This meant that he was separated from his son, and he wrote… Read more about this item

This is an unread (stated) first edition of The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, an illustrated novel by Italian writer Umberto Eco. It was first published in Italian in 2004; in English in 2005. The title is taken from the title of an Italian edition album of an episode of the American comic strip Tim Tyler's Luck. It is about a… Read more about this item

This is a stated first edition of Italian Folk Tales, the best-selling collection selected and retold by the Italian author Italo Calvino (1923-1985). The English translation was first published in 1980 and it was on the New York Times Top Ten Best Books list for that year. It is 200 tales, of fantasy and mystery, romance and… Read more about this item

This is a first edition (1991) of Murther and Walking Spirits, the second-last novel by the brilliant Canadian novelist Robertson Davies (1913-1995). It is a ghost story; after a film critic is murdered, his ghost attends a strange film festival. While the attendees see actual films, the critic's ghost sees films detailing the lives of his ancestors—one was a Tory… Read more about this item

In nine chapters, The Golden Scarecrow presents nine stories of nine children, united by location. A tenth story of a tenth life, divided into Prologue and Epilogue, provides a different sort of unity. They are both gentle and horrible tales. This book is an exercise in entering into the minds/hearts of children The premise is that children come into this world with… Read more about this item

God's Grace is the final novel (his eighth) by American author Bernard Malamud (1914-1986). The novel, which was published in 1982, focuses on Calvin Cohn, the supposed sole survivor of thermonuclear war and God's second Flood, who attempts to rebuild and perfect civilization amongst the primates that make their way onto a tropical island. This is a first edition, stated second printing.… Read more about this item

Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) was a critically hailed and beloved novelist, poet, humorist, and travel writer best known for The Alexandria Quartet novels (1962), which were ranked by the Modern Library as among the greatest works of English literature in the twentieth century. In 1968, he wrote Tunc. In 1970, he followed up with Nunquam and in 1974, they were released together… Read more about this item

The House on the Strandis a Gothic tale which Du Maurier wrote in 1969. In it, the central character, who lives a dreary married life, agrees to test a sinister drug that transports him back to 14th century Cornwall, where he becomes absorbed in the lives of people he meets there, to the extent that the two worlds he is… Read more about this item

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 – 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General, as Lord Chancellor of England and as legal advisor to Queen Elizabeth I. His works are credited with developing the scientific method and remained influential through the scientific revolution. Bacon argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon… Read more about this item

The Ebony Tower, by the English Author John Fowles (1926-2005), is a collection of five novellas and short stories with interlacing themes, each built around a medieval myth: The Ebony Tower, Eliduc, Poor Koko, The Enigma and The Cloud. It is . The Ebony Tower: Henry Breasley is an elderly painter whose secluded retirement is invaded by a brash young artist… Read more about this item

This is a pristine copy of the classic tale about Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, Toto, the Scarecrow, the two witches and the Wizard of Oz. Made famous by the 1939 movie starring Judy Garland. It is a beautifully-illustrated book published by the English Publisher Pippbrook Books, for The Templar Company, and for Indigo Books. There are 20 gorgeous… Read more about this item

Merton of the Movement, Only Run, October 1972, 44 pagesMerton of the Movement was printed once, as a run of 20,000, in October of 1972. Its four contributors were members of Dan O'Neill's Air Pirates collective: Cover by editor Bobby London, plus Ted Richards, Gary Hallgren and Shary Flenniken. The only flaw in this copy is that someone crossed out the… Read more about this item

Skull Comics #3, November 1971, 36 pagesThere were 6 numbers of Skull Comics printed between 1970 and 1972 and there are several of them available online—except for #3. This copy is from the first printing (of 10,000), as evidenced by the registration mark in a scarlet pentagon on the back cover. The cover features a rare horror illustration from Spain Rodriguez. Back… Read more about this item

Laugh in the Dark, August 1971, 38 PagesThis is a copy from the first printing (blue cover). The cover is by Kim Deitch; I'm not sure about the back cover—it looks like 'Flendale'. Inside, Rory Hayes, Spain Rodriguez, Bill Griffith, Clay Wilson, Justin Green, Larry Fuller, George Metzger, Michael McMillan and Willie Mendes. The only flaw… Read more about this item

The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862–63 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was meant as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species but became a mainstay of British children's literature. The greater interest in… Read more about this item