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Published by Harper & Row, 1963
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No jacket. Boards lightly soiled, ink name and bookplate remains on front endpaper. 1963 Hard Cover. x, 93 pp. CONTENTS: Why the fish do not speak (Finland) -- The bat (Altai, Central Asia) -- Why the bear's tail is short (Lapland, Northern Europe) -- How the bee got his bumble (Altai Mountains, southern Siberia) -- Why the hare's lip is split (Estonia) -- Why the cat and dog cannot live at peace (Ukraine) -- Why the bear cannot play the kantele (Karelia) -- The strongest (Nanai, Amur River, Russian Far East and China) -- Master and man (Caucasus) -- The forty whoppers (Kazakh, Central Asia) -- A Sherlock Holmes of the steppes (Kazakh, Central Asia) -- The cuckoo (Nenetz, Arctic coast of Europe and Asia) -- The greedy rich man (Votyak or Udmurt, foothills of the Ural Mountains) -- The girl in the moon (Yakut, eastern Siberia) -- A time for everything (Russia).
Published by Harper & Brothers, 1952
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Reprint. A few minor chips and minor tears to jacket edges. Ink name on front endpaper, crayon note on half-title page. 1952 Hard Cover. x, 68 pp. Pictures by Irena Lorentowicz. On the shores of icy seas, at the edge of forests where wild creatures lurk, in the shadow of savage crags, and on broad plains where as far as the eye can see the only billows are those of the wheat in the wind, live people with few books or none. They work hard, hunting, trapping, and fishing, or caring for the crops, or minding their herds on the hills. But when night comes, they gather round the fire, in their huts or tents, or perhaps out under the stars , and tell stories One northern tribe has a saying that in ancient times, to keep men from being weary-hearted, a kind god created the storyteller. He is an important figure, but most of the older people can relate the tales, and the younger ones soon lean them.