The Golden Goose Book: Being the Stories of The Golden Goose, The Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, Tom Thumb
by L. Leslie Brooke
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- Hardcover
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BROOKE, L[eonard] Leslie. The Golden Goose Book. Being the Stories of The Golden Goose, The Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, Tom Thumb. With Numerous Drawings in Colour and Black-and-White by L. Leslie Brooke. London: Frederick Warne and Co., LTD. (1925). 8vo, 100pp. Light green cloth stamped in red, green, and gilt. Pictorial endpapers; 32 color plates and numerous b&w illustrations throughout. Minute rubbing around edges, slight sunning to spine, else a remarkably bright, clean copy, in publisher's original pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped, sunning to spine and around edges). Scarce in this amazing condition.
Early printing circa 1925. A beautiful collection of classic nursery tales including The Golden Goose, the Three Bears and the Three Little Pigs, all stunningly illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke.
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- Bookseller
- Books of Wonder (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1049737
- Title
- The Golden Goose Book
- Author
- L. Leslie Brooke
- Illustrator
- L. Leslie Brooke
- Format/Binding
- Light green cloth stamped in red, green, and gilt
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- ca. 1925
- Pages
- 100pp.
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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