Beauty and the Beast author-Sophie Escabasse A critical

A critical

The War of the Ring takes up the story with the Battle of Helm’s Deep and the drowning of Isengard by the Ents

and he is also strangely

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so that she may live on land instead

Beauty and the Beast author-Sophie Escabasse A criticalMAYER, Marianna. Beauty and the Beast. Illustrated by Mercer Mayer. NY: Four Winds Press [1978]. Oblong 4to, [48]pp. Mustard cloth pictorially stamped in gilt. Red endpapers; color illustrations on nearly every page. Lower spine ends a tad rubbed, some scuffing to cloth else a clean, tight copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (light creasing to top rear corner, spine ends a tad rubbed). First edition. A gorgeous retelling of the classic