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ENGLISH FABLES AND FAIRY STORIES

by James Reeves

Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe

Published by Oxford University Press. 1956

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.

Stock no. 1829496

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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

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