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The Magic Book of Fairy Tales
London, Bracken Books. 1986, First Thus. Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Publishers original brick red boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Minor light shelf wear. Dustwrapper: unclipped, light shelf wear to edges. Coloured illustrated endpapers, no inscriptions. 52pp unpaginated, profusely illustrated with b/w drawings throughout text, plus 6 full page colour plates, pages lightly tones at edges otherwise clean and bright in firm binding. A magnificent copy. The wizard casts his spell and the enchanted realm springs to life. Dreams come true; princesses toboggan down moonbeams; frogs' turn into princes; and evil-doers reaps their just rewards. Here are a dozen original fairy tales, in the ever-popular style of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson. Beautifully illustrated in both colour and black and white, they cannot fail to excite the imagination, whether told aloud, or read by children themselves. Contents: The Wandering Princess; Prince Charming; The Giant Grab; The Shepherd-boy's Dream; The Children Who Went to See the King; The Prince Who Ws Not a Coward; Christmas Eve in Toyland; The Little Green Frog; The Two Sisters; The Little Princess Who Married a Pixy; All Hallow E'en; Talltowers. Very Good/Very Good.
Offered for AUD 25.00 = appr. US$ 19.93 by: Eccleston Books & Curios - Book number: 002714
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