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The fantasy book : an illustrated history from Dracula to Tolkien / Franz Rottensteiner.
LIBRA Rare PN3435 .R6 1978b Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rottensteiner, Franz.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fantasy fiction--History and criticism.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 160 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- [First Collier Books edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Collier Books a division of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., [1978]
- Contents:
- Gothic origins
- Early grandmasters of fantasy
- Themes and characters
- Ghost and horror stories in Britain
- Horror in the USA
- Alternative worlds
- Fantasy and popular fiction
- The lighter side of fantasy
- Fantasy and the search for meaning
- The international contribution
- Fantasy now.
- Notes:
- "First Collier Books Edition 1978."
- "202 illustrations, 40 in color."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1979".
- ISBN:
- 0020535600
- OCLC:
- 3893860
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