| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||

› Find signed collectible books: '1066 And All That'
A comical look at English history since the beginning of time -- no one, no event is spared. A strong knowledge of English history is not needed to enjoy this fun read. [via]
More editions of 1066 And All That:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Brothers Grimm'
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. Together with the well-known tales of 'Rapunzel', 'The Goose Girl', Sleeping Beauty', 'Hansel and Gretel' and 'Snow White', there are the darker tales such as 'Death's Messengers' which deserve to be better known, and which will appeal not only to all who are interested in the history of folklore, but also to all those who simply love good story-telling. [via]
More editions of Brothers Grimm:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales'
More than 200 tales by the Brothers Grimm. [via]
More editions of The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'
A new translation of 239 fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Also includes a listing of their oral and/or literary sources. [via]
More editions of Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'
Enchanting, brimming with the wonder and magic of Once Upon A Time, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are the special stories of childhood that stay with us throughout our lives. But most Americans know them only secondhand, in adaptations that greatly reduce the tales' power to touch our emotions and intrigue our imaginations. Now, in the most comprehensive translation to date, here are the classic fairy tales as the Bothers Grimm intended them to be--rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with the rhythms of folklore and song. Volume II contains 142 unabridged tales, including such bedtime favorites as "Snow White and Rose Red" and "The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes," as well as 32 little-known tales that the Brothers Grimm omitted during the course of their many revisions. These wonderful tales of life, passion, and make-believe appeal not only to children--who unabashedly love them--but to readers of any age. [via]
More editions of The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'
A new translation of 239 fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Also includes a listing of their oral and/or literary sources. [via]
More editions of Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'
Enchanting, brimming with the wonder and magic of once upon a time, the fairly tales of the Brothers Grimm are the special stories of childhood that stay with us throughout our lives. But most Americans know them only secondhand, in adaptations that greatly reduce the tales' power to touch our emotions and intrigue our imaginations. Now, in the most comprehensive translation to date, here are the classic fairy tales as the Brothers Grimm intended them to be--rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with the rhythms of folklore and song. [via]
More editions of The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales'
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A definitive compilation of more than 200 traditional fairy tales, compiled by the Brothers Grimm, is accompanied by explanatory and historical material, as well as commentary by Joseph Campbell. [via]
More editions of The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales'
More editions of The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales'
Thirty-seven selected stories from the Brothers Grimm, taken from the first English translation of 1823, are newly illustrated in black and white, with eight full-color plates by the artist from Stormy Weather. [via]
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales'
Berlie Doherty, author of many books for young people, including Carnegie Medal-winner Dear Nobody, says fairy tales "are enchanted dreams. We remember them as if they had been sung to us while we were under the spell of a long deep sleep." And according to acclaimed picture-book illustrator Jane Ray, "fairy tales are the earth beneath our feet, giving us roots and helping us find our place in the world, but they also offer a glimpse of the magical and the enchanted." With two such eloquently mystical creators at the helm, any collection of fairy tales is bound to be magical. Sure enough, this team's magnificent Fairy Tales glimmers and shines, giving new life to traditional favorites such as "Beauty and the Beast," "Cinderella," "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp," and "Hansel and Gretel." Doherty's retellings are respectful of the originals, while incorporating her own strong, vibrant voice. Ray's watercolor, ink, and collage illustrations, surrounding the gold-framed text, are truly stunning, in exotic colors and exquisite tapestry-style patterns. Characters seem to come from all parts of the world--appropriately enough, since the stories have "echoes in many different cultures." The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Charles Perrault would be proud. (Ages 8 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
More editions of Fairy Tales:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales'
padded vinyl cover with square hole through which shows a cat reading a book; 4 classic tales including rumplestiltskin; cinderella; hansel and gretel and jack and the beanstock; beautiful, colorful illustrations; [via]
More editions of Fairy Tales:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales'
This beautiful book includes a series of illustrations by Sulamith Wulfing which accompany stories about fairies and other related poems. [via]
More editions of Fairy Tales:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'
More editions of Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greek Myths'
Robert Graves, classicist, poet and unorthodox critic, retells the Greek legends of gods and heroes for a modern audience. He demonstrates with a dazzling display of relevant knowledge that Greek mythology is 'no more mysterious in content than are modern election cartoons'. All the scattered elements of each myth are assembled into a harmonious narrative, and many variants are recorded which may help to determine its ritual or historical meaning. Full indexes and references to the classical sources make the book as valuable to the scholar as the general reader. And a full commentary on each myth interprets the classical version in the light of contemporary archaeological and anthropological knowledge. [via]
More editions of The Greek Myths:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greek Myths and the Hebrew Myths'
The Greek Myths has long been among Graves's most popular works, compendious in scope and lively in the telling. No poet of the twentieth century, not even Ezra Pound, was so compendiously learned as Graves in the origins of our Mediterranean cultures. While his approach to myth is original and sometimes contentious, his narrative is always compelling. Graves tells the myths of creation, the origins of the Gods and their lives, the exploits of the heroes and the Trojan War. The retelling is modern but the matter is not modernised: Graves is alive to the vivid otherness of the world he evokes. The Greek Myths are more than cultural archaeology: it recovers the coherence of the ancient world. Graves's organisation and comparisons of sources infer connections, common themes, synergies and tropes; his riskiest conclusions are persuasive because of the energy and penetration of his mind. He sees history, not psychology, through the myths and suggests that they have actual occasions which, in the telling and retelling, became charged spiritually, maturing into the coherence of religion. The Greek Myths, a reference book or as an exploration of our common roots is corrected in a limited edition as part of the Millennium Graves Programme. [via]
More editions of The Greek Myths and the Hebrew Myths:
With the words Once upon a time, the Brothers Grimm transport readers to a timeless realm where witches, giants, princesses, kings, fairies, goblins, and wizards fall in love, try to get rich, quarrel with their neighbors, and have magical adventures of all kindsand in the process reveal essential truths about human nature.
When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm set out to collect stories in the early 1800s, their goal was not to entertain children but to preserve Germanic folkloreand the hard life of European peasants was reflected in the tales they discovered. However, once the brothers saw how the stories entranced young readers, they began softening some of the harsher aspects to make them more suitable for children.
A cornerstone of Western culture since the early 1800s, Grimms Fairy Tales is now beloved the world over. This collection of more than 120 of the Grimms best tales includes such classics as Cinderella, Snow White, Hansel and Grethel, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Little Red Riding Hood, and The Frog Prince, as well as others that are no less delightful.
More editions of Grimm's Fairy Tales:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimms' Fairy Tales'
A collection of fairy tales collected in Germany by two brothers. [via]
› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'
The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. This selection of their folk tales was made and translated by Lucy Crane, and includes firm favourites such as Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White. It is illustrated throughout by Walter Crane's charming line drawings. [via]
More editions of Grimm's Fairy Tales:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'
A collection of fairy tales collected in Germany by two brothers. [via]
More editions of Grimm's Fairy Tales:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Grimmest'
A scholar of fairy tales, Maria Tatar, provides a fascinating introduction about the history and meaning of the stories assembled by the Brothers Grimm. She writes, for example, "We now know that the stories collected in the nineteenth-century folktale anthologies ...had their origins in an irreverent peasant culture that arose in conscious opposition to the feudal state's ruling class. By overdoing it in the realm of storytelling, these narrators were able to alleviate--if only temporarily--some of the tedium that marked the daily life of their audience ... [These tales] can be seen as the ancestors of our urban legends about vanishing hitchhikers and cats accidentally caught in the dryer or as the preliterate equivalents of tabloid tales describing headless bodies found in topless bars. But in many ways, it is the horror film to which the matter and manner of these folktales has most conspicuously migrated. Like horror films, folktales trade in the sensational--breaking taboos and enacting the forbidden with uninhibited energy."
The text of the 19 tales in this collection is based on the 1822 edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Nursery and Household Tales) by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm--before the tales were expurgated and rewritten to make them more "suitable" for children. It's bound in a handsome faux-antique format, and lavishly illustrated by Tracy Arah Dockray (15 full-page color paintings, and a black-and-white drawing on nearly every page). Most of the tales will be unfamiliar to American and English readers, who may be surprised by the graphic descriptions of incest, murder, mutilation, and cannibalism. Chronicle Books has done us a service in helping restore to our adult culture these vivid, evocative folktales. --Fiona Webster [via]
More editions of Grimm's Grimmest:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Household Stories'
Includes such well-known titles as "Rapunzel," "Snow White," and "Sleeping Beauty" as well as lesser known tales such as "The Little Farmer," and "The Golden Bird." Illustrations are by Walter Crane. [via]
More editions of Grimm's Household Stories:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Stories'
More editions of Grimm's Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Stories:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grimms' German Folk Tales'
More editions of The Grimms' German Folk Tales:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales'
Sixty tales from the collections of the Grimm brothers. [via]
More editions of The Illustrated Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lives Of The Caesars'
"The Lives of the Caesars" quite often resembles a modern sensationalized tabloid, stuffed with insinuations, scandal, and royal shenanigans, but it is really much more. Written by a palace insider and published at the height of the Roman Empire, it gives a unique, intense, and individual portrait of each emperor. Despite its antiquity, "The Lives of the Caesars" is neither remote nor obscure; it remains the most readable and most significant biography of the ruling families of the early Roman Empire ever written. Suetonius' animated and assured account of the emperors of Rome brings the mundane, tragic, humorous, and scandalous activities of Rome's elite - the emperors, their families, friends, enemies, successes, failures, loves, and ambitions - to vivid life. [via]

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lives of the Twelve Caesars'
More editions of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lives Of The Twelve Caesars'
Covering the Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, remains on e f the most enlightening of all Roman histories. [via]
More editions of Lives Of The Twelve Caesars:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lives of the Twelve Ceasars'
Suetonius, chronicler of the extraordinary personalities of the first dynasties to rule the Roman Empire, was the greatest Latin biographer. His colourful work, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, is, along with Tacitus, the major source for the period from Julius Caesar to Domitian. He sets out in vivid detail a great range of aspects illuminating the emperor's characters, their habits, from table to bedchamber - their intrigues, their loves and their deaths. Himself a court official, he quotes from a variety of sources, from the official and private documents as well as from old anecdotes, gossip, songs and jokes, giving an unparalleled oblique view of his subjects. Long familiar to students of classics, he found a new audience as the main source for Robert Graves' novels and the subsequent television series I, Claudius. [via]
More editions of Lives of the Twelve Ceasars:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Suetonius'
Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. 70 CE), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119121. He dedicated to C. Septicius Clarus, prefect of the praetorian guard, his Lives of the Caesars. After the dismissal of both men for some breach of court etiquette, Suetonius apparently retired and probably continued his writing. His other works, many known by title, are now lost except for part of the Lives of Illustrious Men (of letters).
Friend of Pliny the Younger, Suetonius was a studious and careful collector of facts, so that the extant lives of the emperors (including Julius Caesar the dictator) to Domitian are invaluable. His plan in Lives of the Caesars is: the emperor's family and early years; public and private life; death. We find many anecdotes, much gossip of the imperial court, and various details of character and personal appearance. Suetonius's account of Nero's death is justly famous.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Suetonius is in two volumes. Both volumes were revised throughout in 1997-98, and a new Introduction added.
[via]More editions of Suetonius:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ten Sixty-Six and All That'
More editions of Ten Sixty-Six and All That:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wind in the Willows'
Inspired by correspondence from Wind in the Willow's author Kenneth Grahame to his young son, award-winning illustrator Michael Foreman took up paint and brush to follow Mole, Ratty, Mr. Badger, and Toad through another edition of this well-loved kids classic.
Grahame's time-honored story, an adventure-filled idyll that meanders across a lovingly described English countryside, cemented its status as a masterpiece generations ago. But this newest edition adds some noteworthy extras: the unabridged text includes two chapters that don't appear in some modern versions ("The Pipers at the Gates of Dawn" and "Wayfarers All"), and the book closes with reproductions of two of Grahame's actual letters to his son Alistair ("My darling Mouse") in 1907, written on ornate, old-timey stationery from two Cornwall hotels and recounting one of Toad's first adventures (which Toad fans will recognize as the train-assisted escape of a certain "washerwoman").
These inclusions alone might merit a new edition, but Foreman's illustrations stand shoulder to shoulder with those of previous Winds artists (among them Ernest Shepard, the original illustrator, and Arthur Rackham, both of whom Foreman modestly stands "in awe" of). The lively, full-color illustrations appear generously throughout the book, as they convincingly capture both the story's small moments (like the washerwoman's weeping, for one) and more explosive events (like the storming of Toad Hall). (All ages) --Paul Hughes [via]
More editions of The Wind in the Willows:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wind in the Willows'
"[Mole] thought his happiness was complete when, as he meandered aimlessly along, suddenly he stood by the edge of a full-fed river. Never in his life had he seen a river before--this sleek, sinuous, full-bodied animal, chasing and chuckling, gripping things with a gurgle and leaving them with a laugh, to fling itself on fresh playmates that shook themselves free, and were caught and held again." Such is the cautious, agreeable Mole's first introduction to the river and the Life Adventurous. Emerging from his home at Mole End one spring, his whole world changes when he hooks up with the good-natured, boat-loving Water Rat, the boastful Toad of Toad Hall, the society- hating Badger who lives in the frightening Wild Wood, and countless other mostly well-meaning creatures. Michael Hague's exquisitely detailed, breathtaking color illustrations on almost every generous spread--along with Kenneth Grahame's elegant, delightfully old-fashioned characterizations of the animals--make this book a wonderful read-aloud. Grahame's The Wind in the Willows has enchanted readers for four generations, and this lavishly illustrated gift edition is perhaps the finest around. (All ages, or 9 to 12) [via]
More editions of The Wind in the Willows:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Vidas de los Cesares/ Lives of the Caesars'
More editions of Vidas de los Cesares/ Lives of the Caesars:
