D'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales
by Tenggren, Gustaf (Illustrator)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
-
Chehalis, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xii, 457 pp, with color title page and 8 color plates, additional illustrations in the text. Original blue cloth binding with mounted illustration, illustrated endpapers. Rubbing to extremities, binding sound, contents clean. Gustaf Adolf Tenggren (1896 - 1970) was a Swedish-American illustrator. "He is known for his Arthur Rackham-influenced fairy-tale style and use of silhouetted figures with caricatured faces. Tenggren was a chief illustrator for The Walt Disney Company in the late 1930s, in what has been called the Golden Age of American animation, when animated feature films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Bambi and Pinocchio were produced" (wiki).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walkabout Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23299
- Title
- D'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales
- Author
- Tenggren, Gustaf (Illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- David McKay Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1923
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About the Seller
Walkabout Books
Biblio member since 2011
Chehalis, Washington
About Walkabout Books
Walkabout Books is an antiquarian bookstore located in southwest Washington State. We specialize in Americana and the literature of travel and adventure, including travel narratives, travel and tourism ephemera (travel diaries, vintage brochures, guidebooks, etc), exploration, mountaineering, and other outdoor pursuits. We also carry interesting and unusual books in many other fields.
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- Title Page
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
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- Cloth
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