Wonderful world of Teddy Bears by DeAgostini

Ringwood: Penguin. 1994. Octavo Size. Very Good condition. Some age-toning to interior. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 219 pages. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

Penguin Books Australia, 1994-03-03. Paperback. Good.

Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1994. Pp. [viii]+220(last blank); pictorial glazed paper wrappers, fore-corners a trifle rubbed; text block faintly browned; fore-corners of a couple of leaves slightly creased; Penguin Books, Melbourne, 1994. First edition. *Inscribed and signed by the author(dated October 1994) on the title page.

Ringwood, Vic: Penguin Books, 1994. Used. Novel drawing on the traditions of Yiddish storytelling to portray the lives of three generations of Jewish women from Tzarist Russia to Chicago and finally Australia. The author's other publications include TWest Block' and TSchemetime'.Sapphires, which won the ACT Book of the Year Award in 1995, is a multi-layered and deeply satisfying book.'Long ago my grandmother told me a story,' it begins. 'Like most grandmothers, she often told stories, but in other respects she seemed very different, not quite a proper grandmother.' Dowse explores this difference, and many other aspects of family heritage, through thirteen connected stories, in which the Yiddish traditions of storytelling shine alongside contemporary American and Australian themes