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Treasure Trove of the Sun, Theby: Prishvin/Feodor Rojankovsky, M.

Treasure Trove of the Sun, The
by: Prishvin/Feodor Rojankovsky, M.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, Reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Color illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. Ex-library copy with minimal stamping on endpapers. Library tape strip at bottom of dust jacket. Clean, bright copy. A modern European story with the flavor of folk tale, wonderfully illustrated. Set in a Russian country village where peasants still live by habits and traditions. Two orphans, 12-year-old Anna and younger brother Peterkin live on their own. One day they look for cranberries in Wandering Swamp, and they argue about which trail to take. Their one day becomes a tapestry of experiences past the Blind Break Quagmire.

Record # 609554

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Trickster and Fainting Birdsby: Norman, Howard

Trickster and Fainting Birds
by: Norman, Howard

Hardcover. New York, Gulliver Books/Harcourt, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 82 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with color illustrations by Tom Pohrt.

Record # 368793

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Troll Magic: Hidden Folk from the Mountains and Forests of Norway by: Kittelsen, Theodor/ Nunnally, Tiina (Translator)

Troll Magic: Hidden Folk from the Mountains and Forests of Norway
by: Kittelsen, Theodor/ Nunnally, Tiina (Translator)

Hardcover. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1st thus, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 92 pages illustrated in color and b&w by the author. In this book, first published as Troldskab in 1892, Kittelsen spins tales of wonder around creatures rumored to haunt the fields, forests, and waterfalls of Norway. Striding, gamboling, and slithering across these pages are witches and gnomes and sea monsters, fiery dragons waking from their stiff-winged slumber, mermaids rising from the deep, and the sly, shape-shifting nokk. But first and foremost are the trolls, hapless, horrible, or just plain silly, working their spells and making their mischief to the terror and delight of the presumably human reader. Tailoring his whimsical artistic style to each tale, Kittelsen's stories, in Tiina Nunnally's nimble translation, reveal a Nordic world of wonder, myth, and magic as real as the imagination allows. Clean copy.

Record # 397381

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True Tall Tales of Stormalong - Sailor of the Seven Seasby: Felton, Harold W.

True Tall Tales of Stormalong - Sailor of the Seven Seas
by: Felton, Harold W.

Englewood Cliffs NJ, Prentice Hall, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 64 pages. Black & white and 2-color illustrations by Joan Sandin. Cover and dust jacket have light edgewear. Ex-library with minor markings and stamping.

Record # 206959

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Turandot by: Mayer, Marianna & Winslow Pels

Turandot
by: Mayer, Marianna & Winslow Pels

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, color illustrations by Winslow Pels. The beautiful but cold-hearted Princess Turandot decrees that in order to win her, suitors must answer three riddles or be executed. A Persian prince, Calaf, smitten after one look at the young woman, determines to try his luck. Though he answers her riddles correctly, she still refuses to marry him. Because he adores her, he offers her a way out. If she can guess his name, he will leave Peking. This story was introduced by the Venetian playwright Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806), whose dramatized fairy tales were enormously popular during his lifetime. His version, said to be drawn from a tale he found in The Arabian Nights, widely impressed European romantics. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 385932

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Twelve Clever Brothers and Other Fools, The - Folktales From Russiaby: Ginsburg, Mirra and Charles Mikolaycak

Twelve Clever Brothers and Other Fools, The - Folktales From Russia
by: Ginsburg, Mirra and Charles Mikolaycak

Hardcover. New York, Lippincott, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 89 pages. Black & white illustrations by Charles Mikolaycak. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Record # 206960

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Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayingsby: Harris, Joel Chandler

Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
by: Harris, Joel Chandler

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton , reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 265 pages plus ads in rear. 112 black & white illustrations by A.B. Frost. Red cloth covers with decorations, gold lettering. Gilt top edge. Front hinge cracked. Corners bumped. Light rubbing to corners, spine.

Record # 508827

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Vasilisa The Beautifulby: Whitney, Thomas P., translator/ Nonny Hogrogian, illust.

Vasilisa The Beautiful
by: Whitney, Thomas P., translator/ Nonny Hogrogian, illust.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated from the Russian by Whitney. Color illustrations by Nonny Hogrogian. Minor wear to dust jacket, clean copy.

Record # 373569

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Wakaima and the Clay Man - And Other African Folktalesby: Kalibala, E. Balintuma and Mary Gould Davis

Wakaima and the Clay Man - And Other African Folktales
by: Kalibala, E. Balintuma and Mary Gould Davis

Hardcover. NY, Longmans Green and Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 145 pages. Black & white Illustrations by Avery Johnson, End papers illustrated. Light soil to cloth cover. corners a bit bumped.

Record # 200359

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Wedding Of The Rat Family, Theby: Kendall, Carol

Wedding Of The Rat Family, The
by: Kendall, Carol

Hardcover. NY, McElderry Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by James Watts. Clean, tight copy. Retelling of a wry Chinese folk tale, charmingly illustrated.

Record # 202687

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When Birds Could Talk & Bats Could Singby: Hamilton, Virginia and Barry Moser

When Birds Could Talk & Bats Could Sing
by: Hamilton, Virginia and Barry Moser

Hardcover. NY, Bluesky/Scholastic, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 65 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustby Barry Moser. Clean tght copy.

Record # 60779

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When Wind Wagon Smith Came to Westportby: Maher, Romona and Tom Allen

When Wind Wagon Smith Came to Westport
by: Maher, Romona and Tom Allen

hardcover. NY, Coward, McCann & Gegoghegan, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Tom Allen

Record # 64694

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White Land, The - A Picture Book of Traditional Rhymes & Versesby: Briggs, Raymond

White Land, The - A Picture Book of Traditional Rhymes & Verses
by: Briggs, Raymond

Hardcover. NY, Coward McCann, reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, b&w, color Illustrations by Briggs. Library binding. dust jacket edgewear, chipped.

Record # 70741

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Winter Wife, The - An Abenaki Folktaleby: Crompton, Anne Eliot, Robert Andrew Parker

Winter Wife, The - An Abenaki Folktale
by: Crompton, Anne Eliot, Robert Andrew Parker

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Light edgewear and soil to dust jacket.

Record # 374801

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Winter Wife, The - An Abenaki Folktaleby: Crompton, Anne Eliot, Robert Andrew Parker

Winter Wife, The - An Abenaki Folktale
by: Crompton, Anne Eliot, Robert Andrew Parker

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Light edgewear and soil to dust jacket.

Record # 374800

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Wisconsin Chippewa Myths & Tales and Their Relation to Chippewa Lifeby: Victor Barnouw

Wisconsin Chippewa Myths & Tales and Their Relation to Chippewa Life
by: Victor Barnouw

Softcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 295 pages. Wisconsin Chippewa Myths & Tales, originally published in 1977, was the first collection of Chippewa folklore to provide a comparative and sociological context for the tales. These myths and tales were recorded between 1941 and 1944 by four young field workers who later became prominent anthropologists: Joseph B. Casagrande, Ernestine Friedl, Robert E. Ritzenthaler, and Victor Barnouw himself. The tales--which include stories of tricksters, animals, magical powers, and cannibal ice-giants--were told primarily by five members of the Lac Court Oreilles and Lac du Flambeau bands of Chippewa: John Mink, Prosper Guibord, Delia Oshogay, Tom Badger, and Julia Badger. Wisconsin Chippewa Myths & Tales is read as much for its fascinating stories as for its scholarship.

Record # 371861

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Wonderful Kite, Theby: Wahl, Jan and Uri Shulevitz

Wonderful Kite, The
by: Wahl, Jan and Uri Shulevitz

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Green cloth covers with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, acetate-protected, profusely illustrated with full-page color plates by Uri Shulevitz. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, price-clipped.

Record # 368789

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Yang Kuei-Fei Legend in Japanese Literature, The (Japanese Studies, Vol 6) (SIGNED COPY)by: Masako Nakagawa Graham

Yang Kuei-Fei Legend in Japanese Literature, The (Japanese Studies, Vol 6) (SIGNED COPY)
by: Masako Nakagawa Graham

Hardcover. Lewiston NY, Edwin Mellen Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with b&w decoration to front cover, 295 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, possibly to the publisher Edwin Mellen. (the name has been corrected and is difficult to read.)

Record # 358606

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Zanzibar Talesby: Bateman, George W.

Zanzibar Tales
by: Bateman, George W.

Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 224 pages. B/w illustrations by Walter Bobbett. Scarce. Brown pictorial cover with spine slightly cocked. Light edgewear to top and bottom spine, internally very good. A collection of stories told by natives on the East Coast of Africa. Translated from the Swahili by the author.

Record # 501873

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Zomo the Rabbit - A Trickster Tale from West Africa (SIGNED COPY)by: McDermott, Gerald

Zomo the Rabbit - A Trickster Tale from West Africa (SIGNED COPY)
by: McDermott, Gerald

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover on a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by McDermott. SIGNED BY McDERMOTT with a sketch on front fly leaf. Zomo the rabbit, a trickster from West Africa, wants wisdom. But he must accomplish three apparently impossible tasks before Sky God will give him what he wants. Is he clever enough to do as Sky God asks? "The tale moves along with the swift concision of a good joke, right down to its satisfying punch line."--Publishers Weekly "Wildly exuberant, full of slapstick and mischief, this version of an enduring Nigerian trickster tale, featuring a clever rabbit, is a storyteller's delight."--Booklist

Record # 379487

Price: $35.00 
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