Cautionary Verses: Illustrated Album Edition
by Belloc, Hilaire
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/very good
- Seller
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New Milford, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. First edition thus.. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First published in 1940 in this collected edition with all the unique illustrations by B.T.B, as wellas new ones and an introduction by Quentin Blake. This immortal work contains Cautionary Tales for Children; New Cautionary Tales; A Bad Child's Book of Beasts; More Beasts for Worse Children; More Peers; A Moral Alphabet. Included are such favorites as Matilda, who told lies and was Burned to Death; Jim, who ran away from his nurse and was eaten by a Lion; Rebecca, who slammed doors for Fun and perished Miserably; and the curiously instructive beasts who range from microbes to frozen mammoths. If you do not know whole chunks of this book by heart, then you should remedy that at once.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christopher de Lotbiniere Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 981
- Title
- Cautionary Verses
- Author
- Belloc, Hilaire
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus.
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1973
Terms of Sale
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