A FAIRY GARLAND: Being Fairy Tales From The Old French.
by Dulac Edmund, illustrator
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine (bookplate on front pastedown, just a hint of foxing to the endpapers a/blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine (bookplate on front pastedown, just a hint of foxing to the endpapers and toning) in
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About This Item
London:: Cassell & Co., , (1928). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine (bookplate on front pastedown, just a hint of foxing to the endpapers and toning) in a very good dust jacket with some sunning to the spine, minor edgewear. Overall a very attractive copy of a beautiful book in the rather uncommon dust jacket with the original price of 15/net. . First trade edition. Contains nine fairy tales - two by Charles Perrault, five by Mme d'Aulnoy and one by Count Anthony Hamilton, illustrated with twelve full-page color illustrations by Edmund Dulac. 251 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87517
- Title
- A FAIRY GARLAND: Being Fairy Tales From The Old French.
- Author
- Dulac Edmund, illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine (bookplate on front pastedown, just a hint of foxing to the endpapers a
- Jacket Condition
- blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine (bookplate on front pastedown, just a hint of foxing to the endpapers and toning) in
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell & Co.,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- (1928)
- Keywords
- literature in translation, children's and illustrated books,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mythology, legends, fairy tales and folktales;
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