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Song of Robin Hood
by Malcolmson, Anne (Editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. Book. Illus. by Virginia Lee Burton, Illustrator. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition.. Clean black cloth boards with elaborate silver decoration, black titles box framed in red on cover, red lettering on silver decoration on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean beautifully decorated endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Designed & illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton. Music arranged by Grace Castagnetta. 123 pgs. Clean front and rear panels of dustjacket, and informational pieces from front and rear flap laid in (dustjacket is no longer whole). Definitive modern version of the Song of Robin Hood. Anne Malcolmson has edited a vigorous, to-be-sung treatment of the text, and, burrowing through old song books, has rescued the original music for fifteen of the ballads. Grace Casteagnetta has set it down in modern notation. Virginia Lee Burton worked on the drawings for over three years, for drawings with painstaking detail..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017681
- Title
- Song of Robin Hood
- Author
- Malcolmson, Anne (Editor)
- Illustrator
- Virginia Lee Burton, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- MUSIC, MIDDLE AGES, SONGS OF ROBIN HOOD, ILLUSTRATED VIRGINIA LEE BURTON
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
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