St. Petersburg: State Printing Company for Securities [Expeditsii Zagotovleny Gosudarstvennukh Bumag], 1901. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 12 pages. 32.5: 25.5 cm. Original cover chromolithograph, three full-page chromolithographs, four smaller chromos in the text, plus decorative borders. Bilibin was inspired after visiting the visiting the exhibition in the winter of 1898..... More
St. Petersburg: State Printing Company for Securities [Expeditsii Zagotovleny Gosudarstvennukh Bumag], 1903. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 12 pages. 32.5: 25.5 cm. Original cover chromolithograph, 8 chromolithographed illustrations (including 3 full-page), decorative borders printed in brown, all after Bilibin. Commissioned by the Tsarist government in 1899, this series of skazki [fairy..... More
London: John Stockdale, 1793. Blake, William. First edition. leather_bound. 225, 187. 27 x 17 cm. First Stockdale edition, first issue (with long "s" throughout). Frontispiece memorial illustration, engraved title pages in both volumes, and 68 engraved plates, including 12 by William Blake. Published posthumously with a life of the author..... More
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1961. Carlile, Shrimati E, Hardcover. 146 pages. 31 x 20 cm. Six full page illustrations. Limited edition, copy 177 of 500. Fairy tales from Sanskirt, Pali, Hindi, Bengali and other Indian languages, some date from the Age of Buddha. The author hails from Burdwan, a town..... More
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. 13 text pages. 27.5 x 20.5 cm. Title page printed in a variety of colors. "Babes in the wood" is written in verse. The latter represents title page notation [Children-in-the-Wood]. Illustrations are chromolithographs with with original tissue guards. OCLC: 232570037. Interior contents..... More
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 17.5 x 14 cm. The supposed oil colors appear to be cromolithographs, usually with one or more images per page. Interior clean and fresh. Inscription front free endpaper datee December 25 1877. More
Paris: H. Piazza, 1919. Hardcover. 125 pages. 29.8 x 22.4 cm. Limited edition, copy 1303 of 1500. Bound by Vermorel, Paris. The English and American editions of East of the Sun and West of the Moon were issued five years earlier. Illustrated with 24 mounted color plates by Nielsen with..... More
New York: George H. Doran, (1924). First American edition. Hardcover. 280 pages. 28 x 22 cm. First American edition with publisher colophon of verso of the title page. Twelve mounted and lettered color plates, additional black and white illustrations in the text -- full page and initial chapter decorations. "Nielsen..... More