Grimms’ Tales for Young and Old - Ralph Manheim Trans. - Royal Book Co. 1978
Language: English
Published by Royal Book Co., Taipei, 1978
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: The Archives, Manassas, VA, U.S.A.The Archives
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Grimms’ Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Stories. Newly translated by Ralph Manheim; designed by Laurence Alexander. Taipei: Royal Book Co. (皇家圖書有限公司), 1978. Octavo, dark green cloth with gilt spine lettering, in illustrated dust jacket. A faithful 1978 Taiwan edition of the celebrated Grimms’ Tales for Young and Old, containing the complete 210 stories from Kinder- und Hausmärchen in Ralph Manheim’s award-winning English translation. Based on the Munich Winkler-Verlag edition, Manheim’s rendering revives the original vigor and folkloric rhythm of the German oral tradition. The Royal Book Co. issue, printed in Taipei by 和和彩色製版有限公司, reproduces the Pantheon/Random House layout for export circulation. Condition: Very Good in Good jacket. Cloth boards clean with bright gilt; moderate foxing to endpapers. Previous owner’s name in pen on front endpaper. Jacket intact but shows flaking, toning, and edgewear with mottling to spine and folds. Text block crisp and complete. Rear pastedown bears Lin Kou Book, Sound & Gift Co. (Taipei, Taiwan) retail label. Edition Note: First Taiwan printing (中華民國六十七年 = 1978) based on the Munich Winkler-Verlag complete edition. Ralph Manheim (1907-1992) was one of the most acclaimed literary translators of the twentieth century, noted for rendering the works of Günter Grass, Bertolt Brecht, and Michel Tournier. Educated at Harvard and the University of Munich, he was fluent in German, French, and Dutch. His translation of the Grimms’ Tales is widely praised for balancing scholarly accuracy with the immediacy of spoken folklore, bringing new life to the enduring stories of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. During the 1970s–80s, several Taipei-based firms, including Royal Book Co. (皇家圖書有限公司), Moonlight Publishing, and Bookman Books, issued authorized English-language reprints of major Western literary and reference works for academic and export markets. These editions, often “mirror typeset” from U.S. or European layouts, were distributed through English-language booksellers such as Lin Kou Book, Sound & Gift Co., a Taipei retailer and distributor active during this period. Lin Kou specialized in imported and English-language educational titles as well as recorded media and gifts, serving Taiwan’s expatriate and university markets. The firm’s retail label, present in this copy, confirms its circulation through Taiwan’s English-language book trade—now a collectible marker of the island’s mid-century publishing economy.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Grimms’ Tales for Young and Old - Ralph Manheim Trans. - Royal Book Co. 1978
- Author
- Ralph Manheim Trans.
- Publisher
- Royal Book Co., Taipei
- Publication year
- 1978
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Designed by Laurence Alexander
- Edition
- 1st Edition, International Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction
The Archives
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