FAIRY TALES
Written by Harry Golding. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant.
Stock no. 1829207
Published by Ward Lock & Co Ltd.. 3rd Almost very good condition.

Prince Charming Colour Books for Children series. Beige covers with pictorial onlay of Little Red Riding Hood, black titles. 48 colour plates (including 4 for the endpapers). 403 pages plus adverts. Boards a little grubby, pictorial onlay missing to front board. Gift inscription in ink to verso of endpaper dated 1919. Text block grubby. A few grubby marks to contents and some plate margins. Some plates have pale foxspots of varying sizes. Hinge between page 314 & 315 is pulled wide exposing stitching but binding is still tight.

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NURSERY RHYMES AND FAIRY TALES
No author listed. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant.
Stock no. 1328904
Published by Treasure Press. 1987. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Charming full-page colour pictures. Originally published by Ward Lock in two volumes. 190 pages. Cr 4to. ISBN: 090740751X. Spine is faded. Heavy foxing to textblock.

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THE GREEN FAIRY BOOK
Written by Andrew Lang. Illustrated by H.J. Ford.
Stock no. 1328898
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1st 1892. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth with gilt title and vignette to spine and front cover. Numerous b/w illustrations. 366 pages. All edges gilt. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Some slight rubbing to the gilt vignettes. Tissue-guard to frontis has been removed. Name and date in ink to verso of front free-endpaper. Some erased pencil writing to front fly-leaf. Some foxing throughout, some page corner tips creased. Joints cracked, rear joint has exposed webbing, some hinges pulled but binding still tight. Grubby fingermarks to contents. Still a decent copy of a scarce book.

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THE BLOODY CHAMBER AND OTHER STORIES
Written by Angela Carter; Marina Warner. Illustrated by Igor Karash.
Stock no. 1829163
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2012. Slightly better than very good condition.

A retelling of fairy tales Gothic with sexual inferences. Introduced by Marina Wanrer. Black cloth spine with silver title, white blocked design boards. Colour plates. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.

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THE MYSTERIOUS TOYSHOP
Written by Cyril W. Beaumont. Illustrated by Wyndham Payne.
Stock no. 1328888
Published by C.W. Beaumont. 1942. Very good condition.

A fairy tale. Red cloth spine, gilt title. Attractive pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 32 pages. Corners worn. Spine slightly bumped. Heavy foxing, mainly to endpapers.

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IRISH FAIRY AND FOLK TALES
Written by W.B. Yeats; Paul Muldoon. Illustrated by Linda Farquharson.
Stock no. 1829094
Published by Folio Society. 2009. Slightly better than very good condition.

Selected and edited, with an introduction by Yeats. Foreword by Paul Muldoon. Black, red & silver pictorial boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. xxvi and 336 pages. Second printing. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is scuffed (VG).

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EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON
No author listed. Illustrated by Kay Nielsen.
Stock no. 1829086
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2000. Slightly better than very good condition.

Old Tales From the North. Originally published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1914, under the title 'East of the Sun and West of the Moon'. The text of this edition is based on the 1914 Hodder edition, with amendments. The 24 Colour plates are reproduced by permission of Hodder & Stoughton. Cream, slightly marbled effect boards with gilt titles and decorations. 204 pages. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is slightly scuffed.

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THE WHITE DEER
Written by James Thurber. Illustrated by James Thurber.
Stock no. 1328788
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1946. Good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Green cloth, white titles. B/w illustrations. Covers are damp stained with slight wear to cover edges. Erased pencil markings to front free-endpaper. A few small foxspots to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge chipped with slight loss to top of spine and browned to spine and rear panel.

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THE BIRD TALISMAN
Written by Henry Allen Wedgwood. Illustrated by Gwen Raverat.
Stock no. 1328719
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd.. 1946. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

An Eastern Tale. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Endpapers browned. Foxing to textblock. Price-cut wrapper is torn, has loss at edges, is browned to spine and foxed.

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IRISH FAIRY TALES
Written by James Stephens. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1828994
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1920. Very good condition.

A book in which Rackham broke new ground in the illustration of Irish literature. Stephens had attempted to create an Irish equivalent of The Arabian Nights in his own poetic retelling of the stories which existed in the oral tradition. Rackham rose to the occasion and produced 37 memorable illustrations including 16 in full colour. Green cloth, gilt decoration to front cover and spine. 318 pages. Spine browned and thus gilt to spine is faded. Corners rubbed and a little worn, lower rear corner has tiny nibble to cloth at edge. Text block and endpapers browned. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. All plates present, pale foxing to plate edges, tissue guards browned. Plate facing page 214 has slight surface paper damage to margins where tissue-guard was stuck. Contents clean.

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PERRAULT'S COMPLETE FAIRY TALES
Written by Charles Perrault. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1828986
Published by Longman Young Books. 1970. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Translated from the French by A.E. Johnson and others. Contains 14 tales. Blue boards with gilt titles to spine and vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. 183 pages. ISBN: 0582152682. Third impression. A nice, clean copy. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased across top edge, lightly faded to spine and just a little grubby to white rear panel.

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THE NATIONAL TRUST BOOK OF FAIRY TALES
No author listed. Illustrated by Ian Penney.
Stock no. 1328673
Published by The National Trust. 1st 1995. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. An enchanting collection of fairy tales, with paintings by Ian Penney linking the stories to National Trust properties. ISBN: 0707801885. SIGNED by the artist to title-page. Spine and spine edges of wrapper are faded.

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