An evil magician conquers an elven city with his orc army. Reclaiming the place seems like an ordinary job for a group of adventurers. Perhaps it is.
An evil magician conquers an elven city with his orc army. Reclaiming the place seems like an ordinary job for a group of adventurers. Perhaps it is.
This is one of a number (13 confirmed but probably 18) of books in the same format. They are all crepe paper and very small size for a Hasegawa book. They carry Hasegawa addresses during the 1889-1890 period (No. 2 Minami Saegicho & 3 Maruya-cho). They are bound Western style with the spine covered (no stab or string ties visible). They are identical in size and format to the books produced specially for Griffith, Farran & Company, London around 1888. More information on that special printing is here.
A poet (seemingly modeled on Elbert Hubbard -- Roycroft community and all!), has just gone bust and the millionaire's mortgage man is set to throw him off his land... along with his eight children... and beautiful daughter...
Ransome says in a note at the beginning that the stories in this book are those that Russian peasants tell their children and each other. It was written for English children who play in deep lanes with wild roses above them in the high hedges, or by the small singing becks that dance down the grey fells at home.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Leprechauns, fairies, and other mythical figures inhabit this entertaining collection of Irish fairy lore.
After a century of slumber, the Elder Gods have awoken.
This book is perfect for a gift. It has a beautiful cover and 10 pictures inside. "The Flower Princess" contains 4 stories: The Flower Princess, The Little Friend, The Mermaid's Child and The Ten Blowers written by Abbie Farwell Brown.
The street is therefore dedicated to St. Gingolphe today. Tomorrow?
Brazil is the land of the giant among all the rivers of the world. It is the land of giant fruits and giant flowers. Of course it is the land of giant stories too.
A delicious satirical fantasy, in which humanity wears a dog collar
The first of William Morris's great fantasies. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.
On a distant planet far off into the future, there is a human colony twice removed from Earth with a country preparing for war. Sabienn Feel is a military cadet being fast-tracked for promotion as their enigmatic head of state, The Great Leader, readies his armies for battle.
When the King clapped his hands twice, in rushed twenty-four armed guards.
"Only be too glad, Jack," said Oldstone. "Out with it; there is nothing like a good story to beguile the time in weather like this."
Emersons and Channings, and appeared some years later under the name of Flower Fables.
These eight stories are made from our Western Frontier as it was in a past as near as yesterday and almost as by-gone as the Revolution; so swiftly do we proceed.