The MFLIBRA Reference Archive
This archive preserves a selection of rare and antiquarian books previously handled by MFLIBRA over the years. Though these volumes have found new homes, their bibliographical record remains part of the continuing history of the book.
1920 First Edition - The Magic Whistle Illustrated by Florence Anderson
Author: E. Gordon Browne. Illustrated by Florence Anderson.Title: The Magic Whistle and Other Stories.Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, ...
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1890 Rare Book - Turf-Fire Stories and Fairy Tales of Ireland by Barry O’Connor
Author: Barry O’Connor.Title: Turf-Fire Stories and Fairy Tales of Ireland.Publisher: New York, P. J. Kenedy & Sons, 5 Barclay St., 1890. First...
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1884 Rare First Edition - New England Legends and Folk Lore by S.A. Drake
Author: Samuel Adams Drake. Illustrated by F. T. Merrill.Title: A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore in Prose and Poetry.Publisher: Boston, ...
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2021 Signed First Edition - Yours Truly, Biography of Charles van Sandwyk.
Author: Charles van Sandwyk. Illustrated by the author.Title: Yours Truly.Publisher: North Vancouver, BC: The Fairy Press, 2021. First Edition. Sig...
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1904 First Edition - The Golden Heart and Other Fairy Stories by Violet Jacob
Author: Violet Jacob. Illustrated by May Sandheim.Title: The Golden Heart & Other Fairy Stories.Publisher: London, William Heinemann, 1904. Fir...
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1929 Rare Book - The Gentlest Giant Illustrated by Dugald Stewart Walker
Author: Anna Bird Stewart. Illustrated by Dugald Stewart Walker.Title: The Gentlest Giant (and Other Pleasant Persons). Poems from the Enchanting R...
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1892 Rare First Edition- Celtic Fairy Tales by J Jacobs Illustrated by JD Batten
Author: Joseph Jacobs (Selected and edited). John D. Batten, illustrator.Title: Celtic Fairy Tales.Publisher: London, David Nutt, 1892. First Editi...
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1946 Rare First Edition - The Tale of Beatrix Potter by Margaret Lane
Author: Margaret Lane.Title: The Tale of Beatrix Potter, A Biography.Publisher: London, Frederick Warne and Co., 1946. First Edition.Language: Text...
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1830 First Edition bound by Wood - Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Scott
Author: Sir Walter Scott. George Cruikshank, illustrator.Title: Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, addressed to J. G. Lockhart, Esq.Publisher : ...
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1918 First Edition-The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Dugald Stewart Walker
Author: Padraic Colum. Illustrated by Dugald Stewart Walker.Title: The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said.Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company,...
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1920 First Edition - Dulcibella and the Fairies illustrated by Hilda T. Miller
Author: Alice M. Raiker. Illustrated by Hilda T. Miller.Title: The Story of Dulcibella and the Fairies.Publisher: London, C. W. Faulkner & Co. ...
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1890 Rare Book - The Fakenham Ghost by Robert Bloomfield Illustrated by Wimbush
Author: Robert Bloomfield. Illustrated by J. L. Wimbush.Title: The Fakenham Ghost.Publisher: London, Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co., [c.1890s]. Fir...
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1865 Scarce First Edition - George Cruikshank's Fairy Library. Illustrated
Author: George Cruikshank. Illustrated by George Cruikshank.Title: George Cruikshank's Fairy Library: Hop O’ My Thumb, Jack & the Bean-Stalk, C...
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1930 Rare First Edition - Moby Dick by Melville illustrated by Rockwell Kent
Author: Herman Melville. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent.Title: Moby Dick, or The Whale.Publisher: New York, Random House, 1930. First one-volume i...
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1927 Rare Book - Rainbow Gold by Sara Teasdale Illustrated by Dugald Walker
Author: Selected by Sara Teasdale. Illustrated by Dugald Walker.Title: Rainbow Gold. Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls.Publisher: New Y...
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1884 Rare Victorian Book - The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley
Author: Thomas Keightley.Title: The Fairy Mythology, Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries.Publisher: London, George Be...
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1928 Rare First Edition - Blossom A Fairy Story by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Author: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (written & illustrated by).Title: Blossom. A Fairy Story.Publisher: London, A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1928. First ...
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1931 Scarce book -The Magic Wood Beyond the World by Margaret W. Tarrant
Author: Grace Rhys. Illustrated by Margaret W. Tarrant (color) and Megan Rhys (line drawings).Title: The Magic Wood Beyond the World.Publisher: Lon...
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2002 Scarce Signed 1stED - The Meaning of Mice by Charles van Sandwyk.
Author: Charles van Sandwyk.Title: The Painter Mouse presents the Meaning of Mice ‘translated for humans’ by Charles van Sandwyk.Publisher: North ...
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1943 First Edition, 6th printing - The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Illustrated by the author.Title: The Little Prince.Publisher: New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. First Editi...
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1860 Gothic 1stED - Sir Rohan’s Ghost by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
Author: Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (published anonymously). Title: Sir Rohan’s Ghost. A Romance.Publisher: Boston, J. E. Tilton and Compan...
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1934 Rare First Edition - A Flower Fairy Alphabet by Cicely Mary Barker
Author: Poems and Pictures by Cicely Mary Barker.Title: A FLOWER FAIRY ALPHABET.Publisher: London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited., no date,...
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1966 First Edition - The Wind in the Willows illustrated by Tasha Tudor
Author: Kenneth Grahame. Illustrated by Tasha Tudor.Title: The Wind in the WillowsPublisher: The World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New York, ...
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1993 Scarce First Edition- How to See Fairies by Charles van Sandwyk + Bookmark
Author: Charles van Sandwyk. Title: How to See Fairies. Language: Text in English. Publisher: North Vancouver, The Fairy Press, no date (1993). Fir...
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1823 Scarce Book - Robin Hood: A Collection of the Ancient Poems, Songs, Ballads
Author: Joseph Ritson.Title: Robin Hood: A Collection of all the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, Now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English...
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1924 First Edition - The Valley of Color-Days Illustrated by Alice Bolam Preston
Author: Helen B. Sandwell. Illustrated by Alice Bolam Preston.Title: The Valley of Color-Days.Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1924. ...
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1895 Rare Book - More Celtic Fairy Tales by J. Jacobs Illustrated by J.D. Batten
Author: Selected and edited by Joseph Jacobs. Illustrated by John D. Batten.Title: More Celtic Fairy Tales.Publisher: London, David Nutt, 270–271 S...
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1962 Rare Signed Book - Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present by Maurice Sendak
Author: Charlotte Zolotow. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.Title: Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present.Publisher: New York and Evanston, Harper & Ro...
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1890 Rare Book - Christina Rossetti's Poems with Goblin Market, Illustrated
Author: Christina G. Rossetti.Title: Poems.Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., 1890. Language: Text in English.Size: 7 x 5 inches.Pages: xiv-450 ...
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1910 Rare Book - Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Illustrated by Frank C. Papé
Author: Hans Christian Andersen. Translated by W. Angeldorff. Edited, with an Introduction, by Walter Jerrold. Illustrated by Frank C. Papé.Title: ...
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1908 First Edition Illustrated by Rackham - Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream
Author: William Shakespeare. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.Title: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Publisher: London, William Heinemann; New York, Double...
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1890 Rare Book - Turf-Fire Stories and Fairy Tales of Ireland by Barry O’Connor
Author: Barry O’Connor.Title: Turf-Fire Stories and Fairy Tales of Ireland.Publisher: New York, P. J. Kenedy & Sons, 5 Barclay St., 1890. First...
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1922 Rare Book- The Flame Flower by Phyllis Saunders and Hilda T. Miller. Signed
Author: Phyllis Saunders. Illustrated by Hilda T. Miller.Title: The Flame Flower.Publisher: London, Thornton Butterworth Ltd., no date [1922]. Firs...
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2023 Rare Signed First Edition - Will O' The Wisps by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk.Title: Will O' The Wisps. Observed, Pictured & rhymed by C.V. Sandwyk, Esq.Language: Text in English.Publisher: Nor...
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1911 Rare Book - The Coran. Quran, Its Composition and Teaching by William Muir
Author: Sir William Muir.Title: The Corân: Its Composition and Teaching; and the Testimony it Bears to the Holy Scriptures.Publisher: London, Socie...
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1877 Rare Book - The Skeleton in Armor, Norse Warrior Adventures by Longfellow
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Illustrated by L.S. Ipsen, E.A. Abbey, and Mary A. Hallock.Title: The Skeleton in Armor.Publisher: Boston, Jame...
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