WONDERFUL BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION. 14 BEAUTIFUL COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS. 5 PAGE INTRODUCTORY TALK FROM MERCHANT. TIGHT AND GOOD SHAPE. GREEN COVER WITH GREAT PICTURE ON FRONT. SPINE IS FADED SOME FROM AGE. A BOOKSTORE STICKER IN THE BACK. OLD OWNERS NAME WAS IN FRONT AND ERASED. SLIGHT BROWNING VERY FRONT AND BACK. Dickens, Charles (1812¿70), English novelist. Dickens was a passionate supporter of fairy tales. In ¿A Christmas Tree¿ (Household Words, Christmas Number, 1850) he recalled the favourite tales of his youth, above all The Thousand and One Nights, which he frequently invoked in his writings, and Jack and the Beanstalk, Valentine and Orson, Little Red Riding Hood, and Mme d' Aulnoy's ¿The Yellow Dwarf¿. 13 SHORT STORIES THAT INCLUDE, OLIVER TWIST, LITTLE NELL, TINY TIM, DAVID COPPERFIELD, THE FAT BOY AND OTHERS. GREAT COLLECTIBLE. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.