At the Back of the North Wind

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Overview:

Title: At the Back of the North Wind
Author: George MacDonald
Year: 1924
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Price: $1.75
Pages: 376+[1]
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Title Reference: At the Back of the North Wind
Notes: Advertisement by the publisher NY Herald and NY Tribune 1924-11-09 pG8, six new volumes of "The Macmillan Children's Classics" (18 published to date) OCLC: color frontispiece Those two sources identify the illustrator as "Bedford" and "D Bedford". Google Books and several online booksellers give "F. D. Bedford" (with and without spaces or dots) who is clearly catalogued as illustrator of other books by MacDonald including at least one in the series. One of them at ABAA.org gives publ date August 1924.