Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Gennady Spirin (illustrator). Later printing. Fine and bright in fine dust jacket. Later edition. Oversized hardcover. 32 pp. A lavishly illustrated Irish folktale about a king named Lir, who had two sets of twin children, and a brand new wife. The queen, who had an evil heart, grew jealous of the king's love for his children, and cast a magic spell to change them into swans. On Inniskeel Island, which is off the coast of Donegal, there can still be seen an ancient stone with four swans carved on its surface, and the tale is believed by some to be the inspiration for Shakespeare's "King Lear". With rich, medieval-style artwork.
Language: English
Published by Callaway Editions, New York, 2004
ISBN 10: 0670058874 ISBN 13: 9780670058877
Seller: Ed Buryn Books, Nevada City, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: New/New. Gennady Spirin (illustrator). 1st edition, 1st printing. The 3rd of 5 books written by Madonna for children, an original tale set in a Russian mountain village. Mint unread copy of HB 1st printing, collectible. 8-1/2 x 10-1/2, 32 pp, color illus, gold decorative endpapers. Hardback in color illus boards, in matching jacket.
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Condition: New. Spirin, Gennady (illustrator). Illustrator(s): Spirin, Gennady. Num Pages: colour illustrations. BIC Classification: YFA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 269 x 277 x 15. Weight in Grams: 658. . 2011. Hardback. . . . .
Condition: New. Spirin, Gennady (illustrator). Illustrator(s): Spirin, Gennady. Num Pages: colour illustrations. BIC Classification: YFA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 269 x 277 x 15. Weight in Grams: 658. . 2011. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Published by Callaway 2004, 2004
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Quarto hardcover (near FINE) in d/w (near FINE): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
Published by Hamish Hamilton Children's Books 1987, 1987
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
FIRST EDITION, Quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Gennady Spirin (illustrator). 1st Edition. STATED FIRST Impression, with publishers full number line on copyright page. Spectacular art work by Spirin throughout. Glossy pictorial book boards are mirrored in pristine UNclipped dust jacket. Beautiful presentation of a classic story. A MINT copy.This title won the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal in 1993. 32 pages. Gift/Collector Condition. A FIRST/FIRST. Mylar protected jacket.
Published by Philomel Books, New York, 2005
Seller: E. M. Maurice Books, ABAA, Torrington, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Pictorial Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Gennady Spirin (illustrator). Stated First Impression. Pictorial boards with light shelf wear; matching dust jacket with original price intact ($16.99). The traditional English alphabet nursery rhyme (with the addition of "I") illustrated with detailed color artwork by the incomparable Gennady Spirin. This copy is inscribed in gold ink by Spirin with his trademark flourishes. Size: Square 4to. Inscribed By Illustrator.
Published by Marshall Cavendish, 2006
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: fine. Limited ed. One of 300 specially bound, numbered copies (of which this is No. 128), signed and with small cartouche by illustrator Gennady Spirin. Slim square oversized volume in green faux leather stamped in gilt. Illustrated endpapers. 27 pp. Illustrated in color with the striking Spirin illustrations, full page and margins. New in red silk covered clamshell box, red ribbon ties and tipped on color illustration of Santa flying in his sled over a snow covered village. Spirin has signed in gold ink on the printed tissue paper limitation page at front. These signed, limited editions were offered only through Spirin's a Princeton-area art gallery who represented Spirin's work and held a book signing in December, 2006.