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Chinese Fairy Tales & Fantasies (The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)
by Roberts, Moss (Editor & Translator)
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0394710541
- ISBN 13
- 9780394710549
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pantheon, 1979. First English Language Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good+. A collection of ancient folklore & fairy tales from China, translated & edited by Moss Roberts, accompanied with illustrations from the Ming encyclopedia, San Ts'ai T'u Huei (1608). In 260 pages, with the tales roughly arranged by topic or theme. From 1979, this First Edition trade paperback has brilliantly colorful decorative wrappers & is in VG+ condition--very clean, binding straight & strong, pages white. Only flaws are light creasing to back cover & some rippling at top edges of about 10 pages where someone had marked them with paper clips (see Fig. 5). Our photos depict the EXACT book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays, Pacific time; later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.
Synopsis
Moss Roberts is a professor of East Asian Studies at NYU and the author of works such as, Three Kingdoms and Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020112
- Title
- Chinese Fairy Tales & Fantasies (The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)
- Author
- Roberts, Moss (Editor & Translator)
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First English Language Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0394710541
- ISBN 13
- 9780394710549
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- ILLUSTRATIONS ILLUSTRATED FAIRY TALES FOLKLORE TRADITIONAL CULTURE NORWAY NORWEGIAN SCANDINAVIAN LEGEND MYTH
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fairy Tales-Folklore-Fables-Mythology;
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