One Trick Too Many: Fox Stories from Russia..
Dial, (1970); 9x9, 40 pp.; pictorial binding. Picture Book hardback. Nine short stories of trickery in which the fox tries to outwit other animals and humans. Sometimes this works, sometimes not.
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The Twelve Clever Brothers and Other Fools.
New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1979, stated 1st; red boards, red design along each page bottom margin, in white jacket with red and black drawing, 8vo; 94 pp. Juvenile hardback. 15 Folk Tales from Russia: The Twelve Clever Brothers Go to Town, How Grandpa Mowed the Lord's Meadow, The Fool.....
One Trick Too Many: Fox Stories from Russia..
New York: Dial, (1970); 9x9, 40 pp.; red cloth binding. Picture Book hardback. Nine short stories of trickery in which the fox tries to outwit other animals and humans. Sometimes this works, sometimes not.
The Chinese Mirror.
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988, 1st printing. 9.1x10; c 28 pp. Picture Book hardback. A mirror from China brings great confusion into a merchant's family, who believe it must be a portrait. A Korean folktale illustrated by fluid watercolours inspired by the 18th c Korean genre painters, Sin Yun-bok and Kim.....
Clay Boy, adapted from a Russian folk tale.
New York: Greenwillow, 1997, stated 1st, nl; shiny boards with the giant clay boy striding down a rutted peasant village street, with the grandparents looking on; tan endpapers, in jacket identical to boards, 9.25x11.25; np. Picture Book hardback. Wanting a child, the grandparents fashion a little clay baby, but he.....
Little Rystu, adapted from an Altai folktale.
New York: William Morrow & Company, Greenwillow Books, 1978, 1st printing nl; ivory clothbacked brown paper boards, blue, ivory, and tan endpapers with animals sitting on a yurt, 8.25x10; np. Picture Book hardback. Little Rystu, no bigger than a lamb, played his reed happily on a blue mountain by a......
The Master of the Winds and other Tales from Siberia.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1970, stated 1st printing;. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. Fourteen folktales with nationality credited: Khasynget's Grandmother (A Khanty Tale), Unyany (An Evenk Tale), The Ninwits (A Koryak Tale), etc.
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