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A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1930. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Richardson, Frederick. 12mo. Orig. red cloth with colour pictorial onlay. Pictorial endpapers. xvi, 403 pp. [4] colour plates, incl. frontis, plus full-page B&W illustrations in text. Damp stain to fore edge of rear board, very slight sunning to spine, light bruising to upper corner of front board. A two-book compilation with re-writings of well-known Greek myths in a volume for children. The book includes the myths of: Theseus and the Minotaur, Antaeus and the Pygmies, Dragon's Teeth, Circe's Palace, Proserpina, Ceres, Pluto and the Pomegranate Seed, and Jason and the Golden Fleece.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Minotavros Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007348
- Title
- A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales
- Author
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Illustrator
- Richardson, Frederick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The John C. Winston Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book, Tanglewood Tales, Mythology, Myths, Circe, the Gorgon, the Minotaur, Jason and the Golden Fleece, King Midas, Theseus, Antaeus and the Pygmies, Dragon's Teeth, Pluto and the Pomegranate Seed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile Fiction;
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All prices listed in Canadian dollars. We guarantee that all items are properly packaged and handled with care. Please allow one to two business days for your order to be shipped. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. All sales will be shipped with a tracking number for your convenience.
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Whitby, Ontario
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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