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Description
ELF CHILDREN OF THE WOODS
Book Details + Condition: Scarce first American edition from a famous children's author and illustrator. Harper & Brothers (New York and London), 1932. Originally published in the native Swedish language. This English edition was printed in Sweden. Translated from the Swedish by Zita Beskow. Large format children's book with full-page color illustrations. Hardcover measures 13" x 10". The author, Elsa Beskow, was a Swedish children's book author and illustrator, often called the 'Beatrix Potter' of Scandinavia. Filled with beautiful, sweet full-color illustrations of fairies, elves, and woodland creatures.
Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards, with darkening and rubbing; chafed spine ends; remnants of old tape to interior hinges; barely-visible remnant of child's pencilled name to title page; a few old dog-eared page corners; occasional age-spotting and wear to pages; interior is otherwise clean and free of markings.
