The Princess and the Goblin
by Macdonald, George
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Goo+/Very Good
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, ND. Hardcover. Very Goo+/Very Good. Unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Orange boards with green titling. Binding is square and tight. Pastedown is illustrated. PO gift inscription on ffep. Pages are otherwise unmarked; 305pp. Frontispiece in color by Maria L. Kirk.
Synopsis
George Macdonald (1824-1905) was born at Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where his father was a miller and his family Congregationalists. As a young man he was ordained a minister of the Congregational church but he resigned after a disagreement with his deacons over doctrine, and from 1853 he earned his living by lecturing and writing, often in poor health, which meant periodic travelling in search of purer air for his lungs. In 1851 he married Louisa Powell, with whom he spent a long and happy life, sadly ending in grief when three of his thirteen children died of tuberculosis and he suffered a stroke that deprived him of speech for his last five years. He was a prolific writer, yet it is his fantasies for children that have survived. The Princess and the Goblin was the second of these, published first as a serial in Good Words for the Young , a periodical of which he became editor for a short time in 1869. About a hundred years later W.H. Auden wrote, 'To me, George MacDonald's most extraordinary, and precious, gift is his ability, in all his stories, to create an atmosphere of goodness about which there is nothing phone or moralistic. Nothing is rarer in literature.'
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- Bookseller
- Denali Bay LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1000369
- Title
- The Princess and the Goblin
- Author
- Macdonald, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Goo+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- ND
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- ND
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- FFEP
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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