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THE PRINCE & THE IMPOSSIBLE QUEST (A TREASURE HOUR STORY BOOK LR 5)
Written by Petre Ispirescu.
Stock no. 1826908
Published by Murrays Sales & Service Co.; Ion Creanga Publishing House.
1st
1974.
Very good condition.
Large format. Card wraps. Translated from the Romanian by Ana Cartianu. Retold by Lornie Leete-Hodge. 16 pages. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0719602947. Covers lightly creased. Text block browned. Some minor foxspots to contents else clean.
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JUSTIN THE STRONG & THE GOLDEN APPLES (A TREASURE HOUR STORY BOOK LR 3)
Written by Petre Ispirescu; Ana Cartianu; Lornie Leete-Hodge.
Illustrated by Done Stan.
Stock no. 1826907
Published by Murrays Sales & Service Co.; Ion Creanga Publishing House.
1st
1974.
Very good condition.
A Romanian folk tale translated by Ana Cartianu, retold by Lornie Leete-Hodge. Large format. Green pictorial cardwraps. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0719602920. Spine lightly rubbed, covers lightly creased. Text block browned. A few minor marks to contents else clean.
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GAVIN THE BRAVE (A TREASURE HOUR STORY BOOK LR 2)
Written by Petre Ispirescu; Ana Cartianu; Lornie Leete-Hodge.
Illustrated by Ileana Ceausu-Pandele.
Stock no. 1826906
Published by Murrays Sales & Service Co.; Ion Creanga Publishing House.
1st
1974.
Very good condition.
Romanian folk tale translated from the Romanian by Ana Cartianu, retold by Lornie Leete-Hodge. Large format. Orange pictorial cardwraps. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0719602912. Edges lightly rubbed, covers lightly creased. A few minor foxspots present, light browning to contents, else clean.
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ASH PETER (A TREASURE HOUR STORY BOOK LR 4)
Written by Ana Cartianu; Lornie Leete-Hodge.
Illustrated by Roni Noel.
Stock no. 1826905
Published by Murrays Sales & Service Co.; Ion Creanga Publishing House.
1st
1974.
Very good condition.
A Romanian folk tale, translated by Ana Cartianu and Retold by Lornie Leete-Hodge. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0719602939. Spine lightly rubbed, covers slightly creased. Contents lightly browned and a few grubby margin marks.
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THE PURSE WITH TWO COINS (A TREASURE HOUR STORY BOOK LR 1)
Written by Ion Creanga; Lornie Leete-Hodge.
Illustrated by Adrian Ionescu.
Stock no. 1826904
Published by Murrays Sales & Service Co.; Ion Creanga Publishing House.
1st
1974.
Very good condition.
Originally told in Romanian, retold by Leete-Hodge. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0719602904. Covers lightly creased and scuffed. A few minor foxspots else contents clean.
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- CHICKENS (CHILDRENS)
- FOLK TALES
THE BROTHERS GRIMM - POPULAR FOLK TALES
Written by Brothers Grimm; Brian Alderson.
Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 1326180
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd..
1st
1978.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Green boards, gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w throughout. Illustrated endpapers. 192 pages. 10 x 7". ISBN: 0575024461. SIGNED by the illustrator to title-page. Slight bumping to spine. Light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is just slightly creased at edges.
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- CHILDRENS
- FAIRY TALES
- FOLK TALES
THE FOLKLORE OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Written by Roy Palmer.
Stock no. 1826843
Published by Westcountry Books.
1st
1994.
Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Tales inspired by landscape; village lore; legends; superstitions; stories of devils, fairies, witches and ghosts; sports and fairs; song and dance; revels and rituals. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1898386072. Dustwrapper spine is sunned.
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- SOUTH WEST UK
- GLOUCESTERSHIRE
- FOLK TALES
- LEGENDS
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
THE OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A VINEGAR BOTTLE
Written by Rumer Godden.
Illustrated by Mairi Hedderwick.
Stock no. 1826827
Published by Macmillan London Limited.
1st
1972.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
An old folk tale with many different names and different versions, the tale fo the old woman, the grateful fish, and the end reward of greediness. Pictorial glazed boards, colour illustrations. ISBN: 0333131088. A few minor marks to boards. Name in ink to front endpaper. Text block browned and front endpapers a little grubby (minor). Pictorial dustwrapper is browned, a little grubby, creased, worn at top of spine and strengthened to verso with clear tape.
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THE BOOK OF THE BEAR
Written by Jane Harrison; Hope Mirrlees.
Illustrated by Ray Garnett.
Stock no. 1826777
Published by The Nonesuch Press.
1st
1926.
Almost very good condition.
'Being Twenty-One Tales newly translated from the Russian' - All about Bears! Small format. Shiny paper boards, cloth spine with gilt title. Colour illustrations. 107 pages. Cloth spine faded at edges. Baords rubbed and worn. Contents browned else clean.
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- FOLK TALES
- BEAR
- RUSSIA
SONG OF THE HARP
Written by Linda Barrett Osborne.
Illustrated by Alan Taylor.
Stock no. 1325816
Published by Christopher Davies.
1st
1975.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Old Welsh Folktales. Black boards, gilt title to spine. 88 pages. Some b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0715402552. Page browning throughout else contents clean. Dustwrapper is just a little edge rubbed.
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WALES
- FOLK TALES
LITTLE WHITE HEN
Written by Hajime Kijima.
Illustrated by Setsuko Hane.
Stock no. 1325614
Published by Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd..
1st
1969.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The story of a little white hen who outwits the fox and his cunning tricks. Colourful pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0356025039. Slight rubbing to spine and corners. A few light foxspots else contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn with a tiny patch of surface paper damage to front panel.
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- CHILDRENS
- FOLK TALES
- CHICKENS (CHILDRENS)
- ANIMAL STORY
- FOXES
THE SANDAL-WOOD BOX
Written by Katya Sheppard.
Illustrated by Hans Baltzer.
Stock no. 1325403
Published by Richard Sadler.
1st
1972.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Folk tales from Tadzhikistan, translated by Sheppard. Blue cloth with gilt title and decorations to spine and gilt vignette and decoration to front board. Colour and b/w illustrations. 206 pages. 10.25 x 8.25". ISBN: 0854100261. Minor foxing to text block. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-rubbed and a little scuffed.
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- FOLK TALES