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

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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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

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

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