Folk Tales from China: First Series
Hong Kong: Seagull Publishing Company, 1975. Paperback. 146p., paperback, 5.4x8.1 inches. Foxing to free endpapers and edges of text block, neat ownership signature on title page, else good. More
Cat.No: 286537
Hong Kong: Seagull Publishing Company, 1975. Paperback. 146p., paperback, 5.4x8.1 inches. Foxing to free endpapers and edges of text block, neat ownership signature on title page, else good. More
Cat.No: 286537
San Francisco: Hackett-Freedman Gallery, 2002. Paperback. 74p., color plates facing minimal captions and about ten pages of prefatory text, 12x9 inch color cardstock wraps, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 170470
San Francisco: Hackett-Freedman Gallery, 2002. Paperback. 74p., color plates facing minimal captions and about ten pages of prefatory text, 12x9 inch color cardstock wraps, a very good copy still in the publisher's shrink wrap. More
Cat.No: 266558
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1979. 84p., each page an illustration in full color, captioned; color decorated 8 x 7 inch wraps, mildly edgeworn with a short tear at one corner repaired with archival-grade tape. "based on the widely-acclaimed colour cartoon film.." Intricate color work, apparently direct from animators' easels, "84..... More
Cat.No: 85731
Buffalo, NY: the converence, 1980. Paperback. iii, 63p., softbound in plain printed blue wraps, 8.5x5.5 inches. Covers a little sunned with front corner-tip clipped away and leaf underneath (titlepage) correspondingly toned. Appendix 2 bears a couple light bracket-lines. Good sound copy. Conference report: Unesco. More
Cat.No: 232934
Berlin: Druckerei "Machrequi" 1341 [1923]. 420p., hardcover, worn boards with leather spine, rubberstamp of a Tehran bookstore on title page, along with penned ownership inscription; some doodles on endpapers. Persian version of the Kalila wa-Dimna, based ultimately on the Fables of Bidpai, or Panchatantra, a collection of ancient Sanskrit animal..... More
Cat.No: 271169
Austin: Sowing Circle Press, 1977. Magazine. 90p., illustrated with old cuts and linedrawn psychedelica, 8.5x6.5 inch journal wraps decorated with onlay image; spine sunned else very good condition. Feminist spirituality magazine with contributions by Meridel Le Sueur, Barbara Hammer, Cheryl Clarke, and others. More
Cat.No: 147555
New York: Printed by Spotlite Publicity Features for the Nicolas Publishing Co, Inc., 1937. Pamphlet. [38]p. including a photographic centerfold in color, some advertising also in color, the rest of the many production stills &c are b&w only. Oversize pamphlet in 12x9 inch yellow and gilt wraps; covers are edgeworn..... More
Cat.No: 228705
Worcester: the museum, 1972. 63p., coated stock throughout, b&w exhibit repro's with facing commentary, staplebound 9 x 7 inch wraps. Mild handling wear. More
Cat.No: 65391
Ann Arbor: William L. Clements Library, 1941. Pamphlet. 22p., 5x8 inches, frontispiece, foreword, facsimile plates, centerfold map from 1614, illustrations, very good pamphlet, limited to 2500 copies, stapled blue wraps with silver vignette and titles on cover. Bulletin XXXV. Commences with Renaissance (mis)understandings; appropriately enough, it being 1941 and onset..... More
Cat.No: 195671
London: Hakluyt Society/ Cambridge University Press, 1961. Hardcover. Vol. I: xvi+321p., frontis, introduction, notes, preface, footnotes, illustrations, maps (1 folding) figures, Ethiopian Alphabet. Vol. II: vi+pp.323-617, footnotes, illustrations, maps, figures, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index, large folding map in rear pocket. Both volumes mint (astonishingly as-new) in gilt-decorated cloth boards and..... More
Cat.No: 79841
Houston: Arte Público Press, 1985. Paperback. 48p., 5.5x8.5 inches, illustrations, very good first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Mock-epic poetry satirizing Mexican mythology. More
Cat.No: 30424
Giunti Marzocco, 1981. 64p., 5x7.5 inches, text solely in Italian, vignette period illustrations throughout, very good in pictorial wraps. Estratti dall'Almanacco Italiano vol. LXXXI. A canny miscellany; one of the essays explores a relationship of Collodi and Leon Trotsky (as "Trozkij") though Pinocchio's creator died in 1890. More
Cat.No: 146114
London: Fortune Press, 1927. Hardcover. Unpaginated, #154/700 copies printed on handmade paper, rubricated decorative borders by Geofroy Tory, orange buckram cloth boards in a floral-pattern dj with a small piece of tape at the head of the spine. Publisher Caton so slavishly imitated the Nonesuch Press typography that the threat..... More
Cat.No: 26618
Bemidji: self-published, 1953. [32p.]5.5x8.5 inches, b&w and color illustrations, very good in original stapled pictorial wraps. Likely tied to the Bemidji, MN Chamber of Commerce as the images reflect the paul Bunyan attraction there. More
Cat.No: 131882
Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1980. 62p., b&w illustrations (photographs of what look like soft sculptures), rubricated titlings throughout, unlimited wraps edition of the original 1980 letterpress run done by Penmen Press. Cover bears a vertical crease and a small sticker shadow. Barton a Trinidadian folklorist; Norman's introduction incorporates a pagelong..... More
Cat.No: 69231
Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1980. Paperback. 62p., b&w illustrations (photographs of what look like soft sculptures), rubricated titlings throughout, a very good copy of the unlimited wraps edition of the original 1980 letterpress run done by Penmen Press. Barton a Trinidadian folklorist; Norman's introduction incorporates a pagelong excerpt from Peter..... More
Cat.No: 144971
Lincoln: Penmaen Press, Ltd, 1980. Hardcover. 62p., b&w illustrations (photographs of what look like soft sculptures), green story titles throughout, a very good limited first edition letterpress run done by Penmen Press, #90/100 copies this copy signed by Barton and Norman, in green half-cloth over decorative boards in the trade..... More
Cat.No: 223852
London: Menard Press, 2002. Paperback. 96p., line illustrations, first edition softbound in 8x6 inch glossy black wraps; slightest edgewear, entirely clean and sound, a near-fine copy. Following his quirky essay, described below, come a variety of poems, shorties and lengthies. Beake's delightful long title poem is in blank verse and..... More
Cat.No: 188460
Lille: Universite de Lille, 1991. Pp.282 to 595; reproduced from typescript, plain printed wraps, mild edgewear, back cover has a crease. Text in French. Etudes anglophones. More
Cat.No: 62999
Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle, 1955. 231p., illustrated endpapers, foreword, glossary, illustrations, very good first edition (so stated) of a handsome production in cloth-backed boards gilt and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 131468
Trinidad: Paria Publishing Company Ltd, 1989. Paperback. 43p., paperback, 8.75x11.25 inches, very good. Illustrated profusely with drawings and art. More
Cat.No: 284902
Chamberlain, SD: Tipi Press, 1987. Paperback. [33p.], paperback, 7.75x9.75 inches. Top right corner of cover creased, else very good. Children's book about a Lakota girl who gets separated from her family after a buffalo stampede. More
Cat.No: 288699
Quezon City: Milflores Publishing, Inc., 2008. Paperback. 186p., paperback, 6x9 inches, very good. Signed, inscribed, and dated by Blanco on the title page. First printing. Stories featuring monsters and spirits from Filipino folklore. Blanco was born in the Philippines and later moved to San Diego where she works as a...... More
Cat.No: 289482
Brunswick, ME: Wind River/Blackberry Press, 1978. Paperback. 80p., illustrations, limited to 1000 copies, small sticker scar on front wrap else very good first edition trade paperback in tan pictorial wraps. Coyote Tales. More
Cat.No: 203992