The Golden Bird
by Edith Brill
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 053101858X
- ISBN 13
- 9780531018583
- Seller
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Highland, New York, United States
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About This Item
Great Britain: F. Watts. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1970. 1st Edition (Unstated). Hardcover. 053101858X . Closed tear to DJ, top of spine. Otherwise DJ in VG condition. Name inscribed on endpaper. Very Good overall condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No writing on text pages.; Color Illustrations; 151 pages .
Synopsis
"The Golden Bird" is a Brothers Grimm fairy tale, number 57, about the pursuit of a golden bird by a king's three sons. A French version, collected by Paul Sébillot, is called The Golden Blackbird. Andrew Lang included that variant in The Green Fairy Book. It is Aarne-Thompson folktale type 550, the golden bird.
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Details
- Bookseller
- True Oak Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- HVD-34609-A-0
- Title
- The Golden Bird
- Author
- Edith Brill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition (Unstated)
- ISBN 10
- 053101858X
- ISBN 13
- 9780531018583
- Publisher
- F. Watts
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- 053101858X
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True Oak Books is a proud member of the IOBA (Independent Online Booksellers Association) and adheres to their high ethical and professional standards.
In order to remain competitive with low value books and be able to offer them, we have a tiered shipping system to make low price transactions economically sound. Lower value books will ship in a protective bubble mailer, as 99% of these reach the customer without problems. We go beyond this for higher ticket items and provide box service. If your post office handles books roughly, you can request cardboard/box service for lower value items as well.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....