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Vintage 1952 Wizard of Oz Frank Baum Leatherette Paperback Family Classics Novel
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every health youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal....Yet the old-time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classes as 'historical' in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer 'wonder tales,' in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together will all the horrible and bloodcurdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale....Having this thought in mind, the story of 'The Wizard of Oz' was written soley to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.
Publisher: Award Books, Inc. (January 1, 1952)
Paperback: 190 pages
Language: English
Item Weight: 4 oz
Dimensions: 4.25 x .5 x 7 inches
Book is in good pre-owned condition with minor wear to cover. See photos for details.
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Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every health youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal....Yet the old-time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classes as 'historical' in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer 'wonder tales,' in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together will all the horrible and bloodcurdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale....Having this thought in mind, the story of 'The Wizard of Oz' was written soley to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.
Publisher: Award Books, Inc. (January 1, 1952)
Paperback: 190 pages
Language: English
Item Weight: 4 oz
Dimensions: 4.25 x .5 x 7 inches
Book is in good pre-owned condition with minor wear to cover. See photos for details.
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