Author: JOHN BAUER - A. MARKEN (INTROD.),
Title: De Sprookjeswereld van John Bauer. Translated from the orig. Swedish by Marguérite E. Törnqvist. [Eerste drik/first edn., thus].
Description: Rotterdam, Lemniscaat, [.., 1976. Small 4°. Orig. boards, title on front boards and spine, dustjacket. 192pp. Coloured frontispiece, 48 coloured plates, some black/white text-ills, one coloured, all after paintings and drawings by John Bauer, coloured pictorial endpapers, table of contents. A collection of Swedish fairy tales in which trolls, gnomes and fairies play an important role in daily country life, also illustrated by the famous swedish artist John Bauer, 1882-1918. Very good to fine copy, WITH dustjacket. (tiny hole in dustjacket near lower outer front edge, name of previous owner in corner of hftitle).

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