ENGLISH FABLES AND FAIRY STORIES
Written by James Reeves
Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe
Published by Oxford University Press
in 1954
- Categorised in:
- CHILDRENS
- FAIRY TALES
- FABLES
ENGLISH FABLES AND FAIRY STORIES
Written by James Reeves.
Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe.
Stock no. 1829496
1956.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
A collection of well-know English fairy-tales and folk-tales retold by James Reeves. Pink cloth, gilt title to spine on mauve title block. Decorated endpapers. Colour illustrations and b/w text illustrations throughout. 234 pages. Third impression. Light mottling to boards. Foxing to text block with some bleeding to edge of pages. Name & date in ink to verso of front endpaper. A few minor foxspots to endpapers and prelims. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper has a few foxspots and is a little grubby, lightly worn to top & tail of spine. Musty odour present.
Front cover
Contents
- Jack Hannaford
- Tattercoats
- Johnny Gloke
- The Fish and the Ring
- The Two Princesses
- The Story of Tom Thumb
- The Pedlar's Dream
- Catskin
- The Tulip Bed
- Simpleton Peter
- The Well of the Three Heads
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- Tom Tit Tot
- The Golden Snuff Box
- The Stars in the Sky
- Molly Whipple
- The Donkey, The Table and The Stick
- The Well of the World's End
- Dick Whittington and his Cat