Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial cloth/library binding, 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Ex-lib with endpaper stamp and residue. Interior is clean. Tales told in the MIddle East travel from storyteller to storyteller, from country to country. Sometimes they cross the ocean, as this story in one form did to be told in Detroit by an Armenian grandmother. An American scholar heard this story told of the Bedouins, while still another version is Turkish.
