Joliet, IL: P.F. Volland and Company, 1927. Book. Illus. by Gustaf Tenggren. Fine. Illustrated Hardcover. First Edition. Small octavo, blue cloth spine over illusrated paper covered boards. Illustrated engpapers. 128 pp. Very generously illustrated throughout in delicate color paintings by Swedish illustrator Gustaf Tenggren in the manner of Arthur Rackham. A beautiful copy, tight, clean, square, fresh, bright, unmarked and unblemished interior and exterior with fine illustrations throughout. The most negligible of rubbing to spine ends but this is a niggling fault noted in a volume which is otherwise remarkably like new. FINE without dust jacket. A lovely copy of a lovely illustrated fairy tale..

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Bookseller: Brillig Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 09081
Title: SMALL FRY AND THE WINGED HORSE
Author: Campbell, Ruth (Gustaf Tenggren Illustrator)
Illustrator: Gustaf Tenggren
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: P.F. Volland and Company
Place of Publication: Joliet, IL
Date Published: 1927
Keywords: TENGGREN, CAMPBELL, ILLUSTRATED, ILLUSTRATOR, ILLUSTRATION, CHILDREN, CHILDREN'S, CHILDRENS', PEGASUS, HORSE, FARIY, TALE, FOLK, SWEDEN, SWEDISH, SCANDINAVIAN, CAMPBELL
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