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Nutcracker of Nuremberg.
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"A Christmas Fantasy based on the Old Hoffmann Legend". Generously illustrated in woodcut style with each detail adding to the story (not just repeated margin decorations). The story of two children and their new friend the Nutcracker, who tells them the wonderful and familiar stories of his past.
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$48.00
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Nutcracker of Nuremberg.
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Philadelphia, Winston Building, Chicago Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, 1938, rust coloured cloth boards with gilt nutcracker and blindstamped toy soldiers across the top; teal endpapers with intricate landscape of deer outside a village in pale aqua; these colours are repeated in decorations and full page illustrations throughout the book; in black, cream, and rust jacket with mountainous deer hunting scene; 8vo; 148 pp.
Juvenile hardcover.
CONDITION: Very Good Plus in Good Plus jacket; small name eps, some darkening in ep gutters, tiny bumps to tips of bottom board corners; otherwise very clean and bright; in jacket with fine creases along top edge, rubbed edges and spine ends, top and extrems with 1/8" chips and almost an inch of but generally little loss of paper; unclipped 2.00.
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21601