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Published by J.M. Dent & Co,, London, 1932
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). Third Impression. LONDON : 1932. [ First published in 1927.]. Includes works by Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Heinrich Hoffmann and William Brighty Rands. Everyman's Young People's Library 806 Series. Hardback. Illustrated throughout. Original grey ribbed cloth, Gilt lettered & decorated spine {upper half}. Blind 'Dent' motif on front cover, decorative end-papers. Bright; internally crisp and clean. No owner name or internal markings. Minor wear only. VERY GOOD. (xiv), 240 pages. Complete with Half title. Printed at 'The Temple Press, Letchworth, England'. See Seymour no. 616.0. CONTENTS: The jolly beggar and other rhymes.--King Nut-cracker, or The dream of poor Reinhold [by] J. R. Planche, from the German of Heinrich Hoffmann.--Nonsense rhymes from "Alice in Wonderland" [by] " Lewis Carroll" (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)--Stalky Jack and other rhymes from "Lilliput levee" [by] William Brighty Rands.--The English Struwwelpeter, or Pretty stories and funny pictures, from the German of Heinrich Hoffmann.--Nonsense tales.--Nonsense rhymes from "Mother Goose's melody" and other great works, mostly from Halliwell's "Nursery tales and rhymes."--Nursery nonsense, by D'Arcy W. Thompson; illustrated by C. H. Bennett.--Two oddments and an oddity. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, Cumberland, Literature, Rarities, Theology and History. ]. Sm.8vo. Dent Everyman's Library No. 806.