A Year Book of Legends
by Chaundler, Christine (Collected and Retold by); With [black-and-white] Illustrations by Tom Godfrey and Colour plates by Lilian J. Pocock
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good ++/Very Good -
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: A. R. Mowbray , 1954. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket, x + 175 pages including the black-and-white illustrations, plus the colour plates; overall very gently used, gentle bumps to spine ends, but otherwise hardly a trace of shelf or reading wear, tight in binding, gilt spine lettering still bright and clear, just a hint of foxing to mustard yellow covers, slightly more to all four endpapers, but all pages very clean and unmarked: DJ very lightly chipped at spine and hinge ends, two tiny tears, still bright and clean in new mylar protector. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Very Good -. Illus. by Godfrey, Tom; Pocock, Lilian J. .
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- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044579
- Title
- A Year Book of Legends
- Author
- Chaundler, Christine (Collected and Retold by); With [black-and-white] Illustrations by Tom Godfrey and Colour plates by Lilian J. Pocock
- Illustrator
- Godfrey, Tom; Pocock, Lilian J.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good ++
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- A. R. Mowbray
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- LIFE STUDY INTERPRETATION APPRECIATION CRITICISM SOCIAL HISTORY FOLKTALES FOLK LORE FOLK TALES MYTHOLOGY STORIES CULTURE SOCIETY Folklore Children Juvenile Child European
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile Fiction; Mythology; Children's Fiction;
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- Gilt
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