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Price: US$388.08 + shipping
Description: First edition hard back binding in publisher's original white vellum spine over Wedgwood blue cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, top edge gilt, fore and lower page edges untrimmed. 4to. 11½'' x 9¼''. Contains 251 printed pages of text with 12 full-page single-sided tissue-guarded colour plates. Limited Edition of 1000 copies, this copy being number 593 and SIGNED 'Edmund Dulac'. Small bumps to the corners, a little marking of the white vellum down and the spine, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ILLUSTRATED (Picture Book)
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
. A Fairy Garland - Being Fairy Tales from the Old French. Cassell & Company, 1928.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rare copy of "A FAIRY GARLAND" - Being Fairy Tales from the Old French signed by the illustrator, Edmund Dulac. 1928 1st edition; Cassell & Company; London. The book features 12 wonder color illustrations by Dulac. Signed Limited Edition - this copy is #97 of only 1,000 copies printed. Edmund Dulac's signature appears in pen on the limitation page. Gilt top edge. The contents are as follows: * The Fairy Song TALES BY CHARLES PERRAULT * Riquet with the Tuft * Puss in Boots TALES BY MME. d'AULNOY * Bablet * Green Dragon * Fortunata * The Blue Bird * Princess Rosetta TALE BY COUNT ANTHONY HAMILTON * Mayblosson Condition: Light soiling to covers and spine; sharp corners. Tight binding. No loose pages. The blue cloth over the front board is peeling up just a bit along the top half of the left edge. Crack at front hinge between the pastedown and endpaper. The pages are in overall very good condition - mostly clean and white with only some occasional light foxing (though heavier on the front pastedown up to the title page). Inscription written in pen dated 1928 on the front end paper. Edmund Dulac signature in pen on the limitation page. No tears found. Light foxing to the long edge of the text block. Overall in very good condition.
Seller: CraigsClassics, Hudson, NH, U.S.A.
Dulac, Edmond & Perrault, Charles. A FAIRY GARLAND. Cassell, 1928.
Price: US$728.35 + shipping
Description: A FAIRY GARLAND, Cassell, 1928, first edition, dust-soiling to the spine, some light scattered silverfish, else a vg+ copy in the original publishers box (complete but worn). Fairy tales from the Old French. 1/1000 copies SIGNED by Edmund Dulac.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Author: Charles Perrault. Mme d'Aulnoy. Count Anthony Hamilton. EDMUND DULAC, illustrator. Title: A FAIRY GARLAND Being FAIRY TALES from the Old French Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Publisher: London, Toronto, Melbourne, and Sydney, Cassell & Company, Limited / New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First Edition. Limited edition of 1000 signed copies. This one is #268/1000 signed by Edmund Dulac. Language: Text in English. Size: 11" X 9". Pages: 251 pages. Binding: Attractive and fine full blue morocco leather binding (hinges fine) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges are gilt. Content: Near fine content (bright, tight and clean, very rare light foxing - as shown). Illustrations: Complete with twelve brightly colored wonderful full-page plates by Dulac, protected by tissue guards. **** The book: Beautiful First Edition of those Fairy Tales illustrated by EDMUND DULAC. One of 1,000 copies signed and numbered by the artist. In an exquisite Morocco binding! The contents: The Fairy Song. Riquet with the Tuft, Puss in Boots, Bablet, Green Dragon, Fortunata, The Blue Bird, Princess Rosetta, Mayblossom.
Seller: MFLIBRA Antique Books, MONTREAL, QC, Canada
Price: US$1014.19 + shipping
Description: Sm. Folio, First Edition thus, with fine coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 11 fine coloured plates (all original tissue guards present); blue cloth ruled in gilt, vellum back lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, a near fine copy with only the very lightest age-soiling to vellum backstrip. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY DULAC (THIS COPY NO. 412). Hughey 74.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$1050.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Illustrated by Edmond Dulac. Number 193 of 1000 copies; signed by Edmund Dulac on the limitations page. With twelve color illustrations by Dulac, all with protective rice paper intact. Quarter vellum spine over blue cloth boards with gilded rule on covers and gilded lettering to the spine. Some minor marks to vellum, and rubbing to the cloth. Corners slightly rubbed. Solid and square binding - folio size. Gilded top edge, other edges are rough cut. Minor and infrequent spotting in margins, no found examples impacting text or images. Includes: "Puss in Boots," "Green Dragon," "The Fairy Song," "Princess Rosetta," and others. Pages:251 Dimensions:11½ x 9¼ x 1½.
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$1099.00 + shipping
Description: A FAIRY GARLAND, Cassell, 1928, first edition, a fine copy. Fairy tales from the Old French. 1/1000 copies SIGNED by Edmund Dulac.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: . [PERRAULT, Charles, author]. A Fairy Garland. Being Tales from the Old French. London: Cassell & Company, Limited, [1928]. First Edition. Limited to 1,000 copies signed by Dulac, this being number 572. Large quarto (8 7/8 x 11 1/8 inches; 225 x 282 mm). 251 pp. With twelve color plates. Quarter vellum over blue cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine tips very lightly bumped. A near fine, signed edition. Hughey. HBS 64547. $1,100.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1267.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A signed limited edition of Edmund Dulac's beautifully illustrated collection of French short stories, illustrated in colour throughout. A signed limited edition, being numbered five-hundred and eighty of one-thousand copies. Signed by the illustrator to the edition page. Illustrated with twelve colour plates. Collated, complete. A collection of classics children's French fairy tales, including 'Puss in Boots', 'Princess Rosette', 'Green Dragon', 'The Fairy Song', and more. These stories show the beginning of the trend for fairy tales, which have reminded at the forefront of literature since the seventeenth century. The stories were written by Charles Perrault, Madame d'Aulnoy, and Count Anthony Hamilton. Perrault is known to have laid the foundation for the literary genre of fairy tales, with his publication 'Histoires ou Contes de Temps Passe', of which the best known, 'Puss in Boots', is included in this volume. d'Aulnoy is known for coining the phrase 'fairy-tales', and she names her works 'Contes de Fees'. Hamilton was a soldier as well as a writer, and was exiled from France for siding with James II against the Prince of Orange. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac, a well known book illustrator of natural sciences. His first commision was to illustrated editions of the Bronte novels. He also illustrated many fairy tales, such as 'The Sleeping Beauty', and a collection of stories by Hans Christian Andersen. A colourful collection of old French fairy tales, illustrated throughout. In the original publisher's quarter vellum binding with cloth to the boards. Externally, smart. Light discolouration and marks to the vellum, as is usual. A few light marks to the boards. Minor bumping to the extremities. The odd spot to the fore edge. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the odd scattered spot. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom