jacobs joseph editor folk lore collected (1 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated by John D. Batten Ilustrador. 1st Edition. Good-plus wide octavo hardcover in plain purple boards which have browned to spine, though gilt titling is still legible there. The endpapers (only) have also browned. NO dust jacket. Inch-and-a-half diagonal tear to upper corner of red-and-black title page has been competently repaired. Tiny bookseller's label of E. Clarke & Son, Bookbinders, Printers & Stationers, 53 High Street, Bromley, Kent, to bottom of front pastedown. Spine rolled 1/4-inch. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson and Co., London and Edinburgh. Includes Childe Rowland, Whittington and His Cat, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, The Well at the World's End, 38 others. In his "Notes and References" for the "dark tower" in the tale of Childe Rowland, the author discusses the Maes-How green hill of Orkney, with cutaway drawings. 253 pp. Reduced from $220.