Abrahams, Willaim (intro) ( Washington Irving; F Scott Fitzgerald; Edgar Allan Poe; Herman Melville; Edward Everett Hale; Mark Twain; Bret Harte; Ambrose Bierce; Sarah Orne Jewett; Kate Chopin; Mary Elizabeth Wilkins; John Steinbeck; James Thurber; Et Al Listings

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	1 Abrahams, Willaim (intro) ( Washington Irving; F Scott Fitzgerald; Edgar Allan Poe; Herman Melville; Edward Everett Hale; Mark Twain; Bret Harte; Ambrose Bierce; Sarah Orne Jewett; Kate Chopin; Mary Elizabeth Wilkins; John Steinbeck; James Thurber; et al American Short Stories (includes: The £1,000,000 BankNote; Rip Van Winkle; Outcasts of Poker Flat; Desiree's Baby; A New England Nun; Bartleby the Scrivener; Man Without a Country; Yellow Wallpaper; An Alcoholic Case; The Snake; etc) ( Classic ) London: Folio Society, 1997, 1st Folio Edition, 2nd Printing Later Printing of the first Edition Hard Cover Fine No Jacket as issued Paul Gulla ----------hardcover, a Fine copy which is likely unread, no dustjacket as issued, in a lightly rubbed Near Fine slipcase, b&w illustrations, this contains: Rip van Winkle by Irving; The One Million Pound BankNote by twain; The Outcasts of Poker Flats by harte; A Horseman in the Sky by Bierce; The Beast in the Jungle by henry james; Young Goodman Brown by nathaniel hawthorne; The Pit and the Pendulum by Poe; Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville; The Man Without a Country by Hale; Marsh Rosemary by Jewett; Desiree's baby by Chopin; A New England Nun by Wilkins; The Wife of His Youth by Charles Chestnutt; Some Like Them Cold by Ring lardner; The idyll of Miss Sarah Brown by Damon Runyon; The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; The Other two by Edith Wharton; A Municipal Report by O Henry; The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane; The Enchanted Bluff by Willa Cather; Hands by Sherwood Anderson; Batard by jack London; Glory in the Daytime by Dorothy parker; A Ride with Olympy by james Thurber; An Alcoholic case by Fitzgerald; Barn Burning by William faulkner; The Killers by ernest hemingway; The Snake by John Steinbeck, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo 147021 Price: 19.00 CDN Add to Shopping Cart
	2 James, Allen (compiler)( Mark Twain, Joseph Addison, Henry Miller, Langston Hughes, I j Bartlett, Stephen Leacock, Aldous Huxley, James Thurber, et al) Keep Smiling and Have a Happy Day N.Y.: Stanyan, 1972, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 0394482174 / 9780394482170 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good Hy Fujita Cover Art ----------Near Fine hard cover in a Very Good dust jacket with some tape at extremities, a scarce little book, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo 123104 Price: 7.13 CDN Add to Shopping Cart
	3 Zipes, Jack (ed.) Tanith Lee; angela Carter; Jane Yolen; Robert Coover; Stanislaw Lem; Philip K Dick; James Thurber; Hermann Hesse; Howard Pyle; E T A Hoffman; Frank Stockton; et al Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (includes: Cupid and Psyche; Snow White and rose Red; Kith of the Elf Folk; King of the Elves; The Enchanted Palace; Bluebeard's Daughter; Rumpelstiltskin; Sleeping Beauty; etc) N.Y.: Viking, 1991, No Edition Indicated ( Likely a 1st Edition ), 1st printing ( Could be a Book Club Edition ) 0670830534 / 9780670830534 First Printing Hard Cover Near Fine Near Fine Warwick Goble Cover Art ----------hardcover, a Naer Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket, b&w illustrations and vignettes by various artists,copyright page states "First published in 1991 by Viking " so I suspect that this is a FIRST EDITION being issued by Viking for young readers (children) for which issue prices are often left off the front flap and barcodes, ---"Although numerous collections of folk and fairy tales have been published over the years, there has never before been a comprehensive anthology of literary fairy tales, which were written explicitly for adults, in English. In fact, most readers are not even aware that many of the great and innovative fairy tales-tales distinctly different from so-called fantasy tales and legends. With 'Spells of Enchantment,' Jack Zipes brings together the best tales of this ancient tradition, arranged chronologically to give readers a sense of the history of the genre and its evolution. Focusing on the work of the most gifted and famous writers of the great western literary movements up to the contemporary period, this collection shows how some of literature's most creative minds have tried their hand at experimenting with the magic ingredients of the fairy tale andhow the genre has been marvelously transformed according to each writer's particular genius"---, ---contents include: Cupid and Psyche By Apuleius; Of Feminine Sublety By Gesta Romanorum; The Pig Prince By Giovanni Straparola; The Merchant's Two Sons By Giambattista Basile; Ricdin-Ricdon By Marie Jeanne L'Heritier; riquet with the Tuft By Charles Perrault; green Serpent By Charlotte Rose De La Force; Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Pari-Banou By Antoine Galland; The Queen Fantasque By Jean Jacques Rousseau; The White Bull By Voltaire; The Philosopher's Stone By Christoph Martin Wieland; The Fairy Tale By Goethe; eckbert the Blond By Ludwig Tieck; A Wondrous Oriental Tale of a Naked Saint By Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder; Hyacinth and Roseblossom By Novalis; The Mines of Falun By E T A Hoffman; The Lady of Gollerus By T Crofton Croker; Snow White and Rose Red By Grimm; Bluebeard's Ghost By William Makepeace Thackeray; Feathertop By Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Shadow By Hans Christian Andersen; Spiegel the Cat By Gottfried Keller; Hinzelmeier By thoedor Storm; The Day Boy and the night Girl By George MacDonald; The Griffin and the Minor Canon By Frank Stockton; The three Clever Kings By Mary De Morgan; The Fisherman and His Soul By oscar Wilde; Where to lay the Blame By Howard Pyle; The Tale of the 672nd Night By Hugo Von Hoffmansthal; A Chinese Fairy Tale By Laurence Housman; The Queen of Quok By L Frank Baum; Dreams That Have No Moral By Wm Butler Yeats; The Five Boons of Life By Mark Twain; The Story of Jubal, Who Had No "I" By August Strindberg; How Treason Came to Russia By Rainer Maria Rilke; The Story of the fairy Tale By Carl Ewald; The Seven Wives of Bluebeard By anatole France; The vegetational Fatherhood By Mynona; The Kith of the Elf Folk By Lord Dunsany; The forest Dweller By Hermann Hesse; Cinderella Continued, or the rat and the Six Lizards By Guillaume Apollinaire; The three Wishes By Kurt Schwitters; The seventh Dwarf By Franz Hessel; The Fairy Tale About Technology By Alfred Doblin; The girl and the Wolf By James Thurber; The fairy Tale of the King By Georg Kaiser; The Fairy Tale About Common Sense By Erich Kastner; The Smile of the Sphinx By Ingeborg Bachmann; The Tale of the Singing Branch, the Bird of Truth and the Water of Youth By Henri Pourrat; The King of the Elves By Philip K Dick; The Enchanted Palace By Italo Calvino; Five men and a Swan By Naomi Mitchison; Bluebeard's Daughter By Sylvia Townsend Warner; The Crow By Christoph Meckel; Prince Ferrix and the princess Crystal By Stanislaw Lem; Sleeping Beauty By Gunter Kunert; Hans My Hedgehog By Janosch; The Dead Queen By Robert Coover; The lady and the Merman By Jane Yolen; Rumpelstiltskin By Rosemarie Kunzler; Tom Thumb runs Away By Michael Tournier; the Tiger's Bride By Angela Carter; The princess and the Frog By Robin McKinley; When the Clock Strikes By Tanith Lee; Pichounetta and the Sergeant of Arles By Michael De Larrabeiti , any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and NOT a generic photo 147036 Price: 19.00 CDN Add to Shopping Cart
	4 Thurber, James The Wonderful O ---by James Thruber N.Y.: Simon & Shuster, 1990, 1st NEW Edition, 1st Printing 1556111894 / 9781556111891 First Printing Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good Marc Simont -----------hardcover, a Near Fine copy, in an attractive Very Good dustjacket, ----a story of 2 villains, a man with a map and a man with a ship, all who sail to the Island of Coroo in search of treasure (what else) & when none is to be found, they revenge themselves on the gentle island folk by banning everything with an O in it, like wOrds and then things like dOgs, dOlls, cOcOnuts, cOttages, it's when the islanders realize that hOpe, lOve and valOur are to be eliminated that they take action, lOts Of fun, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo 140997 Price: 16.63 CDN Add to Shopping Cart
	5 Thurber, James The Wonderful O ---by James Thurber N.Y.: Simon & Shuster, 1957, 1st Edition, 1st Printing First Edition Hard Cover Good Good price Clipped Marc Simont -----------hardcover, a solid Good exlibrary copy with the usual stamps and marks, in an attractive Good price clipped dustjacket which has had the edges of the flaps trimmed (one letter 'd' lost in the word 'and'), a bit of age toning to jacket, overall this looks pretty good, dustjacket, ----a story of 2 villains, a man with a map and a man with a ship, all who sail to the Island of Coroo in search of treasure (what else) & when none is to be found, they revenge themselves on the gentle island folk by banning everything with an O in it, like wOrds and then things like dOgs, dOlls, cOcOnuts, cOttages, it's when the islanders realize that hOpe, lOve and valOur are to be eliminated that they take action, lOts Of fun, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo 145466 Price: 7.13 CDN Add to Shopping Cart