The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
by Bettelheim, Bruno
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Book VG: mild shelf wear, mild offset to endpapers, text unmarked, binding tight/DJ G: edge wear, chipping, age toning, creasing in flaps, NOT clipped
- ISBN 10
- 0394497716
- ISBN 13
- 9780394497716
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, mild offset to endpapers, text unmarked, binding tight/DJ G: edge wear, chipping, age toning, creasing in flaps, NOT clipped. 8vo 328pp. + Index. from front flap: "Carrying us back into magical landscapes, recovering for us--and profoundly validating--the enchantment and wonder we long ago experienced, the great child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim gives us his most universally enriching work: a brilliant and moving revelation of the irreplaceable importance of fairy tales--how they educate, support, and liberate the emotions of children." #02470.
Synopsis
Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna in 1903. He received his doctorate at the University of Vienna and came to America in 1939, after a year in the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. He was a Distinguished Professor of Education and Professor of both psychology and psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He died in 1990.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2405
- Title
- The Uses of Enchantment
- Author
- Bettelheim, Bruno
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Book VG: mild shelf wear, mild offset to endpapers, text unmarked, binding tight
- Jacket Condition
- DJ G: edge wear, chipping, age toning, creasing in flaps, NOT clipped
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394497716
- ISBN 13
- 9780394497716
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- fairy tales, mythology, children, nonfiction, first edition, literary criticism, psychology
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