THE WONDER GARDEN: NATURE MYTHS AND TALES FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER FOR STORY-TELLING AND READING ALOUD AND FOR THE CHILDREN'S OWN READING. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vii] viii-ix [x-xi] xii-xiv [xv] xvi-xxiii [xxiv-xxvi] [1-3] 4 [5-7] 8-483 [484: printer's imprint] [485-486: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], four inserted plates with color illustrations by Milo Winter, original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in yellow, color illustration (duplicating the illustration facing page 186) pasted to front cover. First edition. A collection of 150 stories and poems from various traditional, classical, and nineteenth-century literary sources with bibliography of additional sources and subject index. The editor produced several other similar collections for this publisher. Cloth lightly worn at edges, and some dust soiling to cloth on spine and rear panels, a couple of small spots on rear panel, faint water staining to fore-edge of first few leaves, a sound, good copy. (#134835).
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