The Glass Harmonica - Barbara Ninde Byfield

The Glass Harmonica is a whimsical and delightfully illustrated bestiary and reference of various fantasy characters, places, and tropes. The book “nimbly describes and defines all the inhabitants of that slightly delirious demimonde of dragons, sorcerers, and white knights that really existed a spell or so ago. [...] It distinguishes nicely castles from palaces, witches from warlocks, heretics from apostates. And it gives the facts as opposed to the rumors about basilisks, tournaments, and body snatchers.” (from the flap copy) Title: The Glass Harmonica: A Lexicon of the Fantastical Author: Barbara Ninde Byfield Publisher: Macmillan Company Place: New York Year: 1967 Edition: 1st Edition Length: 160pp Dimensions: 25” x 10.25 x 0.75” Condition: DJ quite tanned. DJ has wear along the edges and some small tears on the folds and edges, a longer tear at the top of the spine, also has some soiling and light foxing. Red cloth-covered boards pristine but slightly bowed at the fron