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One Hundred Favorite Folktales
by Stith Thompson (ed.)
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0253201721
- ISBN 13
- 9780253201720
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Indiana University Press, 1975. Soft cover. Very Good. 439 pages, with Notes and Sources section. Fourth printing of Midland Giant edition (1974), collection first published 1968. Drawings by Franz Altschuler. The Table of Contents lists the country whose version of each tale is included - all European except for one ancient Egyptian. Trade paperback, spine sunned, wraps lightly worn, black marker remainder mark (?) on front cover and front free end paper, edges a little smudged with faint foxing to top edge. Binding tight, pages unmarked.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AEB-565
- Title
- One Hundred Favorite Folktales
- Author
- Stith Thompson (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0253201721
- ISBN 13
- 9780253201720
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Place of Publication
- Bloomington, Indiana, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- FOLKLORE, FRANZ ALTSCHULER
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthologies; Children's classics; Folklore;
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