REAL FAIRIES. by BLYTON, ENID.:

J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1952 HBDJ, 1952, Stated First Edition, NF+/VG-, AS-IS, Gently bumped with just a hint of wear at the corners and spine ends. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears. Spine sunned, small drip marks on the front panel. Lower corner of the front flap clipped, DJ Protected Clear Mylar Cvr ,Orange Cloth Titled in Blue cvr Light Wear, DJ LIGHT SCUFFING EDGE SPINE & Light fade Spine DJ & Tiny chips tears Extremities DJ, 115 pgs, Interior Nice, tight Clean Light Wear Fox, ,A deserted old barn set at the end of a grassy lane, in the midst of sunny fields, the the favorite place where Reed and Kathie play. It is only when strange sounds in the old stable and a ghostly form in the mist are added to the familiar owl hoots and mouse scurryings that the barn becomes a mysterious place. Their Much Admired Uncle, Bill, Makes a Visit & loses his Wallet in the Haymow. Then things happen Fast, & in the End Kathie’s dearest Wish comesTrue. 1st… Read More

Platt & Munk, New York, 1933. Hardback. Condition: Good+.No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Eulalie Illus (illustrator). First Edition. Owner's inscription/blue cloth HB with pastedown color illustration of boy and girl holding hands and walking into the courtyard; Of a large fairy castle with black lettering, spine somewhat loose.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Good clean unmarked copy. 1933 edition,Includes Little Black Sambo. No 100C Printed on lower left of front cover.

Row, Peterson & Co.New York City, 1940. Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD.+ 1st US -1st Printing. .Some shelf wear. Pictorial Cover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. There is light soiling to the page edges The binding is good.

London: Methuen & Company. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1957-1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Autobiographical book of Shepard childhood, later famous for his children illustration in particular books by AA Milne. A fine book in excellent condition. Internally clean with clean boards and clear red top stain. VG+ or better dust jacket. Some minor edgewear and some very small chips. Now in a protective cover, unclipped. An exceptional copy in collectors condition, the 2nd of Shepard's bibliographical works following on Drawn from Memory. Many of Shepard's drawings adorn the pages. A very fine book, small smudge at the bottom edge. Internally book is pristine (as new) with no marks internally. Tight binding and seems unread. Clear red top stain. A like dust jacket that is very fine. Unclipped, with 25s price visible. Now in a protective cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages .

New York: Dutton's Children's Books, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Paul Zelinsky on the title page. Winner of the 1998 Caldecott Medal. A retelling of the German folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. Colorfully illustrated throughout. Quarto. Original pictorila boards. Light foxing to the top edge; else fine in a fine dust jacket.See this book and other children's books at the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair, October 8-9 at the Seattle Center. For more information and tickets, visit: www.SeattleBookFair.com

J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1952 HBDJ, 1952, Stated First Edition, NF+/VG-, AS-IS, Gently bumped with just a hint of wear at the corners and spine ends. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears. Spine sunned, small drip marks on the front panel. Lower corner of the front flap clipped, DJ Protected Clear Mylar Cvr ,Orange Cloth Titled in Blue cvr Light Wear, DJ LIGHT SCUFFING EDGE SPINE & Light fade Spine DJ & Tiny chips tears Extremities DJ, 115 pgs, Interior Nice, tight Clean Light Wear Fox, ,A deserted old barn set at the end of a grassy lane, in the midst of sunny fields, the the favorite place where Reed and Kathie play. It is only when strange sounds in the old stable and a ghostly form in the mist are added to the familiar owl hoots and mouse scurryings that the barn becomes a mysterious place. Their Much Admired Uncle, Bill, Makes a Visit & loses his Wallet in the Haymow. Then things happen Fast, & in the End Kathie’s dearest Wish comesTrue. 1st… Read More

Platt & Munk, New York, 1933. Hardback. Condition: Good+.No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Eulalie Illus (illustrator). First Edition. Owner's inscription/blue cloth HB with pastedown color illustration of boy and girl holding hands and walking into the courtyard; Of a large fairy castle with black lettering, spine somewhat loose.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Good clean unmarked copy. 1933 edition,Includes Little Black Sambo. No 100C Printed on lower left of front cover.

Row, Peterson & Co.New York City, 1940. Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD.+ 1st US -1st Printing. .Some shelf wear. Pictorial Cover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. There is light soiling to the page edges The binding is good.

London: Methuen & Company. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1957-1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Autobiographical book of Shepard childhood, later famous for his children illustration in particular books by AA Milne. A fine book in excellent condition. Internally clean with clean boards and clear red top stain. VG+ or better dust jacket. Some minor edgewear and some very small chips. Now in a protective cover, unclipped. An exceptional copy in collectors condition, the 2nd of Shepard's bibliographical works following on Drawn from Memory. Many of Shepard's drawings adorn the pages. A very fine book, small smudge at the bottom edge. Internally book is pristine (as new) with no marks internally. Tight binding and seems unread. Clear red top stain. A like dust jacket that is very fine. Unclipped, with 25s price visible. Now in a protective cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages .

New York: Dutton's Children's Books, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Paul Zelinsky on the title page. Winner of the 1998 Caldecott Medal. A retelling of the German folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. Colorfully illustrated throughout. Quarto. Original pictorila boards. Light foxing to the top edge; else fine in a fine dust jacket.See this book and other children's books at the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair, October 8-9 at the Seattle Center. For more information and tickets, visit: www.SeattleBookFair.com