The Fair Garden and the Swarm of Beasts: the Library and the Young Adult
by Edwards, Margaret A
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
Item Price
£19.38£13.57
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About This Item
New York: Hawthorn Books. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. Clean bright copy. ; Bright orange cloth cover with dragon graphic. Pin hole damage. Emphasis on literary works, on childrens literature, and on illustrated books generally. Maverick librarian Margaret Edwards not only threw open the gates of her fair garden of literary treasures, but she spent a life's work luring in the beasts and committing to connecting those teenagers as individuals, with reading and the library. Book plate of Helen Monnette Amestoy, a librarian who served as the President of the CA Society of Librarians and assembled an outstanding library composed primarily of children's books. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 162 pp pages .
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- Bookseller
- E Ridge fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002306
- Title
- The Fair Garden and the Swarm of Beasts: the Library and the Young Adult
- Author
- Edwards, Margaret A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Hawthorn Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- California Society Of Librarians. Santa Monica, Librarians, Children's Books, Children's Libraries, Teenage Readers, Home Library, Library Science, Books On Books; Books For Collectors; Children's Picture Books; Literature , & Literary. NO
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- States: California;
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- Fair
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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