A charm is a magic spell worked with the use of an amulet, bringing about either good or ill. A changeling in fairy tales is much rarer. It is a horrid little fairy creature mischievously exchanged for a look-alike human child. Pity the one who has to try and get the real child back! In this collection, Ruth Manning-Sanders engagingly includes tales of each. A piece of amber fills up a wine jug as soon as it is emptied, a bridle can turn anything into anything, a cap can make the wearer invisible! As for changelings, ...
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A charm is a magic spell worked with the use of an amulet, bringing about either good or ill. A changeling in fairy tales is much rarer. It is a horrid little fairy creature mischievously exchanged for a look-alike human child. Pity the one who has to try and get the real child back! In this collection, Ruth Manning-Sanders engagingly includes tales of each. A piece of amber fills up a wine jug as soon as it is emptied, a bridle can turn anything into anything, a cap can make the wearer invisible! As for changelings, there are beautiful maidens, and a raven - and more. Ruth Manning-Sanders conjured up a strange and exciting world in these tales which Robin Jacques captures so well in his fine illustrations.
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Seller's Description:
Illustrated by Robin Jacques. Good in Good dust jacket. Dust jacket and pastedowns toned. Foxing to page edges and light foxing to dust jacket.; Color frontispiece and black and white illustrations throughout.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 124 pages.
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Robin Jacques. VG. No Jacket. 8vo. original red boards gilt (slightly rubbed & bumped, sunning, occasional spotting & marking; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 124, with illustrations. A very good copy.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 9x6x0; Reprint, 1978. Publication of 124 pages. The dust jacket is a touch edge worn. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK.
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Jacques, Robin. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. London: Methuen Children's Books, 1978. Later printing. Crisp and unmarked, NF/NF. Full red cloth binding. 123pp. Very nice unclipped jacket now in a new mylar cover. Fifteen tales in which humans and animals are transformed by powerful beings in the fairy world. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Jacques, Robin. 4to-over 9"-12" Tall.
