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Condizione: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. John Bauer (illustratore).…

Condizione: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. John Bauer (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine condition. Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition in English. New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1973. A unusually fresh copy. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. The dust jacket is only very slightly rubbed at the spine ends and corners. NO chips. NO tears. NOT price clipped ($7.95). Protected by a removable Brodart clear plastic sleeve. 7" wide by 9" tall. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh and crisp. "First printing" is so stated on the copyright page, with no other printings indicated. Gorgeously illustrated by John Bauer with dust jacket art, 45 full-color plates, 2 smaller color paintings, and numerous vignettes in B/W. This translation of 21 Swedish Fairy Tales is graced by the stunningly beautiful paintings of Sweden's greatest illustrator, John Albert Bauer (1882-1918). If you enjoy the art of Arthur Rackham or Howard Pyle, you will love John Bauer. He will amaze you with his gnarled and shaggy trolls, gallant knights in search of princesses, dark forests carpeted with moss and mushrooms, intrepid peasant boys, mossy forest caverns, and lichen-covered boulders. All 45 full-color plates are in perfect condition. If you don't know John Bauer's art, you have a treat in store. Bound in the original pictorial beige cloth, with a blue cloth spine lettered in shiny gold. This collection include the following 21 fairy tales: When Mother Troll Took in the King's Washing; The Magician's Cape; The Barrel Bung; The Seven Wishes; The King's Choice; The Four Big Trolls and Little Peter Pastureman; The Troll Ride; The Trolls and the Youngest Tomte; The Ring; The Old Troll of Big Mountain; Leap the Elk and Little Princess Cottongrass; The Magpie with Salt on Her Tail; The Boy Who Was Never Afraid; The Changelings; Stalo and Kauras; The Flower of Happiness on Sunnymount Crest; Dag and Daga, and the Flying Troll of Sky Mountain; Linda Gold and the Old King; The Boy and the Trolls, or The Adventure; The Maiden in the Castle of Rosy Clouds; and The Queen. First Edition in English. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Bauer, John. xi, 239pp. Bauer, John (illustratore).…