Tanglewood Tales (Companion Library) by Hawthorne, Nathaniel - 1967

NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1967. Book. Illus. by Beckett, Sheilah. Very Good. Cloth. Reprint.. 247 pp. Several full-page line drawings. Green cloth with brown front board filled with a colored sketch of mythological characters set against a green wooded tangle of briars. Anthology of six Greek myths retold for children (approx grades 4-5 reading level.) Contents include: the Minotaur; The Pygmies; The Dragon's Teeth; Circe's Palace; The Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece. Reprint of book that Hawthorne first published in 1852. Part of the Companion Library series. Light toning of endpapers. Half-inch rubbed spot on rear corner of spine. Some soil to rear board. Text clean. Size: 8mo -- 7.5 In Tall.