{"id":3870,"date":"2017-01-04T18:26:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T23:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=3870"},"modified":"2017-01-25T15:31:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T20:31:57","slug":"283a-boxed-set-of-illustrated-fairy-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/283a-boxed-set-of-illustrated-fairy-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"283A: Boxed set of illustrated fairy tales (Solved)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">I am looking for a boxed set\u00a0of wonderfully illustrated fairy tales from the 1970s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">This was given to me in 1974 or 1975 by my grandparents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">The books were huge, maybe 11&#215;14,\u00a0and contained 3-4 stories in each. The set must have had at least 10-12 books. They were covered in a hard cloth-cardboard,\u00a0thin, no more than a half-inch thick, and in pastel colors of blue, pink, yellow, orange.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">There was a distinctive,\u00a0oblong\u00a0sun logo or emblem on each book\u00a0but not sure if that was the publisher&#8217;s. They may have been from Reader&#8217;s Digest or Random House. I think they were mail order.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">The stories I remember were Sleeping Beauty, Thumbelina (this was my favorite because of a sweet picture of Thumbelina nursing the Bird), The Brave Tin Soldier though there were many, many more. I think it was a mix of authors, not just one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">The last time I had the set was in 1992 in Ithaca, NY.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking for a boxed set\u00a0of wonderfully illustrated fairy tales from the 1970s. This was given to me in 1974 or 1975 by my grandparents. The books were huge, maybe 11&#215;14,\u00a0and contained 3-4 stories in each. The set must have had at least 10-12 books. They were covered in a hard cloth-cardboard,\u00a0thin, no more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11,14,3,23,18],"tags":[244],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3904,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions\/3904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}