While the Story-Log Burns
by Thornton W. Burgess
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
BURGESS, Thornton W[aldo]. While the Story-Log Burns. With Illustrations by Lemuel Palmer. Boston: Little, Brown, 1938. 8vo, [xii] 195pp. Green cloth stamped in red. 8 color plates. Light rubbing to spine ends and lower corners, faint evidence of sticker removal on front fixed endpaper, pages lightly aged, else a clean, bright copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (chipped and worn, sunned – especially to spine panel; price-clipped).
First edition. A wonderful collection of 16 animal stories by author, naturalist and conservationist Thornton Burgess. While the children gather around the fireplace in the Old House watching the "story-log" burn, the Storyteller regales them with tales of old Monkey-face the Barn Owl, Blacky the Crow, Thunderer the Grouse, Jumper the Hare, Plunger the Osprey, King Eagle, and other stories of the Green Meadow and the Green Forest.Reviews
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- Bookseller
- Books of Wonder (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1049358
- Title
- While the Story-Log Burns
- Author
- Thornton W. Burgess
- Illustrator
- Lemuel Palmer
- Format/Binding
- Green cloth stamped in red
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1938
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Size
- 8vo
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