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The Touchstone: A Fable
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The Touchstone: A Fable Hardcover - 1976

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first

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New York, NY: Greenwillow Books , 1976 Greenwillow Books, New York. 1976. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Signed by the Illustrator on the half title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; dust soiling to head and tail around edges of DJ; light shelfwear to board edges. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($6.95); chipping and missing small pieces at head and tail; suntanned spine; light soiling to panels. Blue paper over boards with blue cloth overlay on the spine with bright silver lettering. Gray endpapers. 47 pp 8vo. Beautifully illustrated fable. An elder son goes in search of the touchstone of truth that is to win him a beautiful princess and a kingdom. He collects many false ones before the finds the true one. He goes home only find his brother has married the princess. In his sorrow the touchstone reveals them to be shallow and false and he sees that happiness and self-fulfillment lie in truth and understanding and not in princesses and kingdoms. A clean very presentable cop in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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  • Title The Touchstone: A Fable
  • Author Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Illustrator Uri Shulevitz (SIGNED)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 47
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Greenwillow Books , New York, NY
  • Date 1976
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 012926
  • ISBN 9780688800512 / 0688800513
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 76003412
  • Dewey Decimal Code E

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