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The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
by Bettelheim, Bruno
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394497716
- ISBN 13
- 9780394497716
- Seller
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine copy in Very Good dustwrapper. Stated Third printing, July 1976. No markups, top of jacket worn with one 1/2 inch tear. 328 pages with Notes, Bibliography and 11-page Index. Great child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim gives us his most uniersally enriching work: a brilliant and moving revelation of the irreplaceable importance of fairy tales--how they educate, support, and liberate the emotions of children.
Synopsis
Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna in 1903. He received his doctorate at the University of Vienna and came to America in 1939, after a year in the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. He was a Distinguished Professor of Education and Professor of both psychology and psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He died in 1990.
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- Bookseller
- Modern First Editions Boston (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001866
- Title
- The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
- Author
- Bettelheim, Bruno
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 3rd Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0394497716
- ISBN 13
- 9780394497716
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Pages
- 328
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