The Grateful Elephant and other stories
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923/1923, 1st, tp; brown cloth boards with stamped illustration of Elephant with children on his back, coloured frontis and 9 black and white single sided glossy plates, as issued; 7.25 x 10.25"; 172 pp, including glossary. Juvenile hardback.
Twenty-six stories from the author's larger work on Buddist parables, with sources noted in the Index, a close translation of the original Pali text, not "written down" for children, but I think, selected to be of interest to them. With magical, elegant, animal illustrations by Lathrop and generous margins .
CONDITION: Very Good without jacket; no names, spine ends pushed and frayed, corner tips lightly bumped, pale discoloured areas on bottom board, otherwise clean, straight, tight. Item #22813
$65