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The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
by Bettelheim, Bruno
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0394497716
- ISBN 13
- 9780394497716
- Seller
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf, 1976 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Minor shelf wear to red cloth hardcover. Dust jacket has a bit of edge wear. Label on front end paper. Otherwise a tight, unmarked volume. Index. 346 pp..
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
- The Bookseller (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 059093
- Title
- The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
- Author
- Bettelheim, Bruno
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0394497716
- ISBN 13
- 9780394497716
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...