The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
by Bettelheim, Bruno
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Woodland Hills, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf Publ, 1976. First Edition ~1st Printing. Hardcover. near fine in very good dust jacket, in fresh mylar cover; tiny cracks/toning to jacket edges, owner name on ffep else a tight square unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket; stated first edition
Synopsis
Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna in 1903. He received his doctorate at the University of Vienna and came to America in 1939, after a year in the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. He was a Distinguished Professor of Education and Professor of both psychology and psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He died in 1990.
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- Bookseller
- David Kaye Books & Memorabilia (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32207
- Title
- The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
- Author
- Bettelheim, Bruno
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition ~1st Printing
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf Publ
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Bookseller catalogs
- Psychology/Psychiatry;
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