The Wild Hunt
by Jane Yolen, Illustrated by Francisco Mora
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0152002111
- ISBN 13
- 9780152002114
- Seller
-
cremona, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1995 Hard Cover. First Edition. 8 1/4 x 7 1/4. ISBN:0-15-200211-1. 138 pp. Jane Yolen has been called "America's Hans Christian Anderson: She is the author of more than 150 books many of them fantasy and f airy tales. Her books have been translated into 12 languages and published around the world, and her stories and poems are included in many elementary and secondary school textbooks. The Wild Hunt is about two young boys who become reluctant pawns in a showdown between light and dak, summer and winter, good and evil. Book begins with passage from Robert Graves "To Juan at the Winter Solstice". Th i s book is literary and complex. Recommended for children who enjoy fantasy and are good readers. Outstanding illustrations by Mora, were done in charcoal acrylic on Strathmore drawing paper. The bo o k was printed on seventy-pound St. Lawrence Matte Cream. 15 exquisite illustrations of which 7 are full-page. Binding is black cloth and paper on boards: Min. scuffing. Endpapers are cream-coloured, p ri stine. Text is in excellent cond. Entire book is bright, tight, and clean. Overall cond.: v. good-fine.. F. Hardcover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ghost River Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000910
- Title
- The Wild Hunt
- Author
- Jane Yolen, Illustrated by Francisco Mora
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- F
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0152002111
- ISBN 13
- 9780152002114
- Publisher
- San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1995
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 1995
- Keywords
- FRANCISCO MORA 0-15-200211-1 CHILDREN'S LIT FANTASY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Lit;
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Ghost River Books
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