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Price: US$159.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cloth, G+. 160pp, engraved frontis & 9 engraved plates, top edge gilt, Copy 120 of a LIMITED edition of 500 copies, spine very sunned with the purple colour of the cloth completely bleached out, top edge of the upper board also sunned, page margins slightly tanned. A collection of 50 less well known of the tales of the Brothers Grimm. Designed & published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press. Composition in Poliphilius type & presswork on Arold's mould made paper by the Chiswick Press. 600 grams.
Seller: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, United Kingdom
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition. Hardcover. Designed by Christopher Sandford. Illustrated by Gwenda Morgan. "Among the manuscript note-books of the brothers Grimm are a large number of the fairy-tales they collected with such tireless enthusiasm. A considerable number of these have never been available to the general reader and are virtually unknown. Wilhelm Hansen, director of the Lippe Folk Museum, had access to the manuscripts and selected fifty of these tales for us, tales which Taylor, who made the first English translation, had described as 'most curious' and 'of great merit', but which he felt bound to suppress 'in deference to the scrupulous fastidiousness of modern taste, especially in works likely to attract the attention of youth'. Gwenda Morgan's quaint engravings seemed to compliment these folk tales to perfection." [Cock-A-Hoop]. Minor shelf/edge wear, even sunning at spine, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Purple cloth board, gilt lettering and decorative elements, frontispiece, teg. 8vo. 160pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 188 of 500.
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.25 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition, No. 291 of 500 copies. 15.5 x 24.2cm purple cloth with gilt stamped titles to the spine and vignette of a giant to the front, 160[4]pp with 10 wood engravings by Gwenda Morgan. A near fine book with firm sharp corners noting only a little fading to the spine and a touch of pushing to the spine tips. Internally clean and bright and without name, inscription or bookplate. A really lovely limited edition copy with excellent illustrations. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
Seller: Rainford & Parris Books - PBFA, Bishop's Stortford, United Kingdom
Price: US$413.41 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition of this Limited Edition collection of the tales of the Brothers Grimm, illustrated throughout with wood engraved plates from Gwenda Morgan. A Limited Edition collection of the fairy tales of the German folklorists, the Brothers Grimm. No. 295 of 500 copies printed, this is the first edition thus.Illustrated with ten plates from British wood engraver Gwenda Morgan. Collated, complete.With tales selected by Wilhelm Hansen, director of the Lippe Folk Museum, with the tales including 'The Frog Prince', 'Bluebeard' and 'Puss-in-Boots'. Translated from the original German and edited by Ruth Michaelis Jena and Arthur Ratcliff. In the publisher's original cloth binding. A touch of shelf wear to back strip tail, otherwise, externally fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$493.00 + shipping
Description: Grimms' Other Tales, A New Selection by Wilhelm Hansen: Translated & Edited by Ruth Michaelis-Jena and Arthur Ratcliff: Illustrated With Ten Wood-Engravings by Gwenda Morgan, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1956, first edition, fine with t.p.e.'s gold-gilt and with 10 wood-engravings by Gwenda Morgan. 1/500 copies featuring tales not translated into English before.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: No. 35 of 75 copies bound in morocco, octavo size, 160 pp., signed by Gwenda Morgan, with prospectus. Per the book's prospectus: "Among treasures sent out of Berlin for safety during the war were the notebooks of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Among the manuscripts are a large number of the fairy-tales collected with tireless enthusiasm by the brothers, and for various reasons a considerable proportion of these are not available to the general reader and [are] virtually unknown. Already in 1823, when Taylor made the first English translation, it was realized that a further selection should be published in English, to contain excluded stories which Taylor described as 'most curious' and 'of great merit'. He had felt bound to suppress them, he wrote, 'in deference to the scrupulous fastidiousness of modern taste, especially in works likely to attract the attention of youth'. The fifty tales now printed in the Golden Cockerel selection are the cream of what we have called the Grimms' 'Other Tales', since none was included in their definitive German edition, nor in Taylor's classic English translation." ___DESCRIPTION: Full purple morocco, gilt vignette of a giant on front board, gilt vignette of a village with a castle on a hilltop in the distance on the rear board, top edge gilt, wood engravings by Gwenda Morgan (n. b., the prospectus and bibliography both state that there are eleven wood engravings, while the title page of the book states ten; we count nine full-page engravings, the publisher's device on the title page, and a headpiece that opens the first tale); Poliphilus type, mouldmade paper, octavo size (just over 9.25" tall), pagination: [1] 2-160; one of 75 copies specially bound in purple morocco, this number 35 (total edition of 500), signed by Gwenda Morgan in blue ink on the colophon page. With the prospectus, which mirrors the title page on the front page, page two has one of the full-page wood engravings, page three the opening of one of the tales with the decorative headpiece, page four tells about the book - the original cost for this book, bound in morocco, was $32.50. ___CONDITION: Volume is near fine, with a strong, square text block, solid hinges, perfectly straight corners with no rubbing, the interior is clean and bright, and it is entirely free of prior owner markings; there is some sunning to the spine to a mellow brown colour, some sunning also to the board edges, one extremely small area of light wear to the upper back corner, vintage bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown, else fine. The prospectus is near fine with some toning to the edges and very light overall edgewear. ___CITATION: Cock-A-Hoop 205. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
Seller: Swan's Fine Books, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Walnut Creek, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$636.01 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, no. 20 of 75 specially bound copies from a total edition of 500, signed by Morgan, 8vo, 160 pp. 9 full page wood engravings plus a cockerel to the title page. Original purple morocco, t.e.g., gilt decoration to both covers, spine sunned otherwise a handsome copy.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom