The Brown Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1421800039
- ISBN 13
- 9781421800035
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About This Item
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Title: The Brown Fairy Book
Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: 1ST World Library.
Year Published: 2004
Edition: Original
Dimensions: 22cm x 14.5cm
Binding type: Hardcover
ISBN: 1421800039
Notes:
SKU. VSS / 134c / G / 308 / 174 / C
Condition
Dust Jacket Condition: Very good.
Book condition: Good. Bump to bottom edge.
Binding: Intact
Pages: 364 pages
Synopsis
From the book:The stories in this Fairy Book come from all quarters of the world. For example, the adventures of 'Ball-Carrier and the Bad One' are told by Red Indian grandmothers to Red Indian children who never go to school, nor see pen and ink. 'The Bunyip' is known to even more uneducated little ones, running about with no clothes at all in the bush, in Australia. You may see photographs of these merry little black fellows before their troubles begin, in 'Northern Races of Central Australia,' by Messrs. Spencer and Gillen. They have no lessons except in tracking and catching birds, beasts, fishes, lizards, and snakes, all of which they eat. But when they grow up to be big boys and girls, they are cruelly cut about with stone knives and frightened with sham bogies all for their good' their parents say and I think they would rather go to school, if they had their choice, and take their chance of being birched and bullied. However, many boys might think it better fun to begin to learn hunting as soon as they can walk. Other stories, like 'The Sacred Milk of Koumongoe,' come from the Kaffirs in Africa, whose dear papas are not so poor as those in Australia, but have plenty of cattle and milk, and good mealies to eat, and live in houses like very big bee-hives, and wear clothes of a sort, though not very like our own.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- VSS/134c/G/308/174/C
- Title
- The Brown Fairy Book
- Author
- Andrew Lang
- Format/Binding
- Intact
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1421800039
- ISBN 13
- 9781421800035
- Publisher
- 1ST World Library
- Date Published
- 2004
- Bookseller catalogs
- Annuals / Comics / Children’s;
- Size
- 22cm x 14.5cm
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