![]() Fairly sturdy clear mylar protective cover. Contains a Frontispiece 64 pages 6 1/4" x 9", plain buff wraps, with marbled dust-jacket (which has very wide flaps) paper title label on jacket. PHYSICAL DETAILS : Paperback with dust-jacket. Hand-sewn paperback, with French marbled dust-jacket. **************************************** TITLE : The Wings of Courage / AUTHOR : George Sand (Pen Name of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, 1804 - 1876) / TRANSLATOR : Barbara Wersba / BOOK DESIGN : Jerry Kelly / IMPRINT : The Bookman Press / PLACE OF PUBLICATION : Sag Harbor NY / PRINTER : The Stinehour Press / PLACE OF PRINTING : South Lunenburg, Vermont / DATE : 1997 / SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES : Reprint - First Thus Limited Letterpress Edition of 300 Copies. the book has a handsome reproduction of an engraving as frontispiece. There is a paper title label on the front of the jacket. The book is bound in plain buff-colored wraps, with a lovely marbled dust-jacket printed in tones of gray, black and pink. This copy is one of a limited run of 300 copies printed by the Stinehour Press in Vermont in 1997 for the publisher, Bookman Press of Sag Harbor, New York. This is a modern retelling from the original French by Barbara Wersba. It is a fantasy in which a young boy who has been crippled, overcomes his fears and runs away to live a life of freedom in the wilds of nature. ![]() George Sand, Pen Name of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, wrote "The Wings of Courage" in 1873 for her grandchildren.
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