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Comments and Notes: near Very Good hardcover/no dust jacket - NY: P.J. Kenedy (Sister Mary's Library,--No. 11.), no date - 24mo/5.5" tall x 3.75" - brown blindstamped decorated covers with gilt lettered & dec. spine - moderate fraying at top & bottom of backstrip; very light edgewear; 2 faint margin smudges & light endpaper foxing; otherwise clean, tight, unmarked - 88pp. Delightful little tale, set in 1393 Paris, in which Gilette, the scrivener's daughter, teaches her parents the best way to transmute ordinary substance into gold, while her suitor learns that a woman's ability to read and write is not sorcery. Tranlsted from French by "E.F." © Copyright Periplus Line LLC 2000 | Updated: September 28, 2008 |