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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New York: Gulliver Books [2004]. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED by Howard Norman on title page. New/new. A pristine, unread copy, without faults. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box, smoke-free shop. Quarto. Ferry. Dillon, Leo; Dillon, Diane (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). …

First, Limited Edition. First Printing. Deluxe issue, limited to 100 signed copies, signed by the translator and illustrator this being #61. Octavo (24cm); green cloth backstrip over paper-covered decorated boards, titled in gilt on the spine; 62pp. Faint foxing to a few text leaves and to text block edges, else Near Fine in original acetate jacket. Collection of 13 folk tales from the Haitian author. Bartón was born in Haiti in 1916 and earned a living as a goatherd-though he, like many on the island at the time, aspired to work as a storyteller, peddling tales in the markets of Port-au-Prince. At some point, he was arrested and later exiled by the violent, repressive Duvalier regime, likely for violating Haiti's loosely defined, and thus incredibly restrictive, law against "polluting the minds of tourists with information about Haiti not sanctioned by the government." (Paris Review). Signed.…

First Trade Edition. First Printing. Signed by Norman on the front free endpaper, dated July 2002. Limited to 2000 copies. Octavo (24cm); green cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; 62pp; illustrations by Norman Laliberté; Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $12.50), lightly toned on spine pane, else Fine. Collection of 13 Haitian folk tales. Paulé Bartón [1916-1974] was born in Haiti and earned a living as a goatherd-though he, like many on the island at the time, aspired to work as a storyteller, peddling tales in the markets of Port-au-Prince. At some point, he was arrested and later exiled by the violent, repressive Duvalier regime, likely for violating Haiti's loosely defined, and thus incredibly restrictive, law against "polluting the minds of tourists with information about Haiti not sanctioned by the government." (Paris Review). Signed. …

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. Japanese language. 7.48x5.12x0.00 inches. In Stock.