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Tanglewood Tales: A wonder-book for Girls and Boys
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Tree calf front and back cover with gilt line tooling and five raised bands to gilt stamped spine. Title to spine rubbed. Marbled page edges. Prize label to marbled endpapers for W. W. Chapman, Cothill House. Bookplate for Gordon Home, English author and illustrator. Half titles. Title page and endpapers lightly foxed. Hinges starting. Bookseller label for Hugh Rees, Pall Mall to inside back board.
Synopsis
Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls , published in1853, is a book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, a sequel to A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. It is a re-writing of well-known Greek myths in a volume for children. The book includes the myths of: Theseus and the Minotaur (Chapter : "The Minotaur") Antaeus and the Pygmies (Chapter: "The Pygmies") Dragon's Teeth (Chapter: "The Dragon's Teeth") Circe's Palace (Chapter: "Circe's Palace") Proserpina, Ceres, Pluto, and the Pomegranate Seed (Chapter: "The Pomegranate Seed") Jason and the Golden Fleece (Chapter: "The Golden Fleece")
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- Bookseller
- Ari Dictum
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1546
- Title
- Tanglewood Tales: A wonder-book for Girls and Boys
- Author
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Format/Binding
- Full tan tree calf
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- Undated, c. 1890
- Pages
- 379
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Gilt
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- Foxed
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- Title Page
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