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Grimms Fairy Tales Richard Adams and Pauline Ellison Vintage Children's Book 1980's

Grimms Fairy Tales Richard Adams and Pauline Ellison Vintage Children's Book 1980's

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Richard Adams introduces this Classic Children's Fairy Tales Book by the Brother's Grimm in this attractive vintage children's book from the 1980's. "Grimm's Fairytales" gloriously Illustrated by Pauline Ellison.

This lovely vintage fairytale book contains the translation of these traditional folk tales and legends that were first collected long ago by the Brothers Grimm.

This unusual vintage children's book with the scholarly introduction by Richard Adams contains the old fairy stories as they have been translated from the original German by the Brothers Grimm and they are in the old folk tale form, not noticeably altered for a modern audience. The stories are told in the old-fashioned wording and rather than the popular modern styles we are used to in contemporary children's books. 

The brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhem were scholars themselves who in the 18th & 19th century travelled extensively collecting traditional folktales and folklore, transferring these tales previously only recorded by vocal tradition into written form so they could be preserved for posterity. And we are so glad they did. 

The full page, full colour glossy illustrations by Pauline Ellison are exquisite and unusual, she seems to have been influenced strongly by the Dutch painters and adds an air of surrealism to the images. 

The book contains nineteen of the wonderful fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm including many that we have grown up with such as:

  • "Little Snow White"
  • "Hansel and Gretel"
  • "Cinderella"
  • "Rumpelstiltskin"
  • "Little Briar Rose"

We also find uncommon and wonderful old tales such as "The Seven Ravens" and "The Golden Bird" which are exciting to discover if you have not read them before.

It is actually a delight to read these 'old as time' tales, that have been part of our collective history for so long,  in as close as we can probably come to the original form. 

Overall this is a very pleasing book of wonderful traditional old fairytales in lovely condition and the fascinating introduction by Richard Adams certainly adds to the enjoyment. 

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  • USED BOOK: Vintage & Sustainable

Condition Notes: EXCELLENT

This collectable vintage fairy tale book is in excellent condition please read our notes below for further detail:

This book will ship to you in excellent, pre-owned condition as seen in the photos.

All the pages are sharp and clean with no messy graffiti or inscriptions of any kind overall it appears little read and the pages are fresh and clean.

Green cloth binding with gilt titles under the attractive glossy dust jacket is excellent - with just the slightest of nudges to the tip of the top right corner and a tiny bit of wear to the top edge of the wrapper.

Spine Intact with titles visible and no apparent wear.
No foxing or staining of any kind to any of the pages which are thick and glossy.

No previous owner writing or name inscriptions of any kind other.

Some very light shelf wear overall otherwise the book is near fine.

Excellent vintage collectable first edition Richard Adams book in perfect condition for gifting.

Please remember this pre-owned vintage book has been loved before, condition is sensibly graded taking this into consideration.

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SIZE: Height 27 cms x Width 20 cms.
FORMAT: Hardback
PAGES: 128 pages

Kittys Reader Notes & Book Snippet

Kittys Notes:

If you long to venture beyond Ladybird Well-Loved Tales this classic telling of the original old fairytales by the Brothers Grimm is the book for you.

This book is a delight for anyone who is interested in reading these wonderful old fairy stories, tradiitonal folk tales or call them what you please in their most colloquial and original forms albeit translated here from the German.

The wonderful illustrations by Pauline Ellison give an archaic feel to the stories and enhance them beautifully. These enjoyable traditional children's stories, could be shared with children, as found in this book and centuries before, or you could swap out some of the unfamiiar words yourself perhaps to engage your child, true to tradition this is how these stories were passed from person to person originally.

Excerpt from this book "Grimm's Fairy Tales"

"Surely the most marvellous quality of these tales is simply their startling beauty - sometimes common as a primrose, again numinous and magnificent as a rainbow. There is something of a paradox about this beauty. The simplicity and commonplace manner of narration heighten the splendour of the Golden Bird or of Cinderella' arrival at the ball. So much intellectualizing is done over the tales nowadays that sometimes it seems to me, we are in danger of overlooking this best reason for continuing to value and tell them - that they are very beautiful" Richard Adams .

BOOK HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Hardback
  • Collectable
  • Vintage Fairy Tale Book

BOOK ERA:

  • 1990's Vintage Children's Books

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Author Bio & Publication

Read more about the author Richard Adams and browse his books on our dedicated author page.

Richard Adams (1920 - 2016) author of "Watership Down" introduces this collection of "Grimm's Fairy Tales".

Illustrated by Pauline Ellison.

Publisher: Routledge Kegan Paul
Date: 1984
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardback
Dust Jacket: Yes

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