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Fairy Stories: Available Copies
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Fairy Tales for Young Readers : By the Author of Shakespeare's Stories for Young Readers by Nesbit, E.
Seller: Goldstone Books (Llandybie, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $4.93
Shipping: $9.06
TOTAL Cost: $13.99
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Seller: TextbookRush (Grandview Heights, OH, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $13.87
Shipping: $3.99
TOTAL Cost: $17.86
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Seller: Klanhorn (Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $4.80
Shipping: $18.00
TOTAL Cost: $22.80
G+, Edgewear, creases, spine fade, mild spine lean, page tear, browning. 'Collection of her original fairy stories, edited and with an introduction by Naomi Lewis'. Expanded condition report/digital photo on request.
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Seller: HALCYON BOOKS (LONDON, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $6.02
Shipping: $23.34
TOTAL Cost: $29.36
Scholastic 1980 reprint. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to cover. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING
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Seller: HPB-Ruby (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $26.83
Shipping: $3.75
TOTAL Cost: $30.58
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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E, Nesbit Fairy Stories by Nesbit, E. [Naomi Lewis (ed.) Brian Robb (illusts.)]
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Publisher: Ernest Benn London 1977 (1977)
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne (Melbourne, VIC, Australia)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $32.40
Shipping: $20.00
TOTAL Cost: $52.40
1st edition hardback with dust jacket Very Good octavo xvii + 171pp., illusts., Nice copy in a rather chipped unclipped dust jacket
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Peeps into Fairyland a Panorama picture book of fairy stories ( Nister 633 Fairy Land ) by E. Nesbit, M.A. Hoyer, Introduction by F.E. Weatherly
Hardcover
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Publisher: Ernest Nister, London (1896)
Seller: Your Book Soon (Stroud, GLOS, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Poor
Book Price: $124.01
Shipping: $15.10
TOTAL Cost: $139.11
28 pp including illustrated title page, black & white vignettes throughout, 6 full colour three dimensional panorama picture operated by linen tags, bound in quarter red cloth with colour illustration to front cover, decorative end papers. Spine ends worn and frayed, corners much scuffed, cover marked rubbed & stained, with front board kinked, stain from front cover shows on endpapers, title page and early text pages faint mark to first colour plate, hinges cracked & weakened, tears to endpapers with inscription to ffep, colour plate 1 has minor tears and some tape repairs lacks some figures, 2, a little cracking on main paper fold otherwise very good, 3, fairy wand broken otherwise clean & complete vg, 4, main fold broken, may lack a figure 5, cracking to main fold, one figure missing, 6, complete but split on main fold. some spots an finger marks to pages. A worn copy with some very good moving colour plates which would benefit from some careful restoration
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Peeps Into Fairy Land. A Panorama Picture Book of Fairy Stories, No. 633 by Introduced by F.E. Weatherly; Stories by Edith Nesbit
Hardcover
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Publisher: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co, London and New York, Printed in Bavaria (1896)
Seller: Eclectibles, ABAA (Tolland, CT, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $925.00
Shipping: $6.00
TOTAL Cost: $931.00
First (sole?) edition of an enchanting and engaging look into "Fairy Land" via a clever use of pop-ups, in very good condition. Illustrations by Eveline Stuart Hardy. Tells several fairy stories with six (6) full-page pop-up scenes, including: "The Procession of Nursery Rhymes"; "A Visit to the Snow Queen's Palace"; "The Fairies' Lake"; "Jack Running Away from the Giant"; "The Queen of the Bird Fairies"; and "The Babes Asleep in the Wood". All of the moveable components are present, save one small piece lacking in the first. Oblong folio (10.75" by 13.75"), pp. [28] including six (6) full-page pop-up illustrations. In original illustrated chromolithographed boards backed in red cloth. Contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper: "Hedwig M. Gennerich. From Tante Hedwig." Ernest Nister (1841-1906) was a prominent publisher of children's books known for his use of use of paper engineering. In 'The Collector's Book of Children's Books" Eric Quayle described this as one of the finest of Nister's stand-up books. Very good. Minor toning and spotting, one or two short tears. One small moveable fragment missing from first pop-up opening, not significantly affecting movement or effect. Remnants of tape. Binding worn.
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