A Golden Land

Overview:

  • Title: A Golden Land
  • Author: James Reeves
  • Year: 1973
  • ISBN-10: 0140305858
  • Publisher: Puffin / Penguin Books (UK)
  • Price: £0.50
  • Pages: xvii+508
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: A Spell for Sleeping
  • Notes: Other prices: A$1.55 (Australia, recommended), NZ$1.55 (New Zealand) [on back cover] For copyright reasons this edition is not for sale ln the U.S.A. or Canada. [on back cover] Though most of the content could be classified as fantasy, the following are non-genre: Anonymous songs, riddles & rhymes-The Old Grey Goose, Poor Old Horse, Green Broom, Ah Poor Bird!, Bobby Shaftoe, Follow my Bangalorey Man, Snow and Sun; Row, Row, Row your Boat; If All the Seas From the Gavin Greig (1856-1914) MSS-My Delight, Six o'Clock Bells {{A|James Orchard Halliwell}} (Popular Rhymes of England [1844])-John Cook's Mare, Poringer, Elizabeth Cecil B. Sharp (Nursery Songs from the Appalachian Mountains [1921])- Cripple Creek William Elderton-excerpt from 1584 ballad 'York(e), York(e) for my monie' Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson-A Norwegian Childhood (Chapters 1-2 from Bjørnson's 1860 novel A Happy Boy), translated by Gerald Elvey & illustrated by Christopher Brooker. Christopher Smart-A Hymn for Saturday (1770)