Turkish fairy tales and folk tales / collected by Igna?cz Ku?nos, translated from the Hungarian version by R. Nisbet Bain ; illustrated by Celia Levetus
London : Lawrence and Bullen, 1896. 1st edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #428670
Physical description; viii,275p,9plates ill. Notes; Originally published as 'To?ro?k ne?pme?sek'. Budapest: A. Kisfaludy Ta?rsasa?g, 1889. Contents; The stag-prince.--The three orange-peris.--The rose-beauty.--Mad Mehmed.--The golden-haired children.--The horse-devil and the witch.--The cinder-youth.--The piece of liver.--The magic turban, the magic whip, and the magic carpet.--The wind-demon.--The crow-peri.--The forty princes and the seven-headed dragon.--The world's most beauteous damsel.--The padishah of the forty peris.--The serpent-peri and the magic mirror.--Stone-patience and knife-patience.--The ghost of the spring and the shrew.--The story of the half-man-riding-on-the-worse-half-of-a-lamehorse.--The enchanted hog.--Boy-beautiful, the golden apples, and the were-wolf.--Youth without age, and life without death. Subjects; Folklore, Turkish. Tales Turkey. Tales Romania. Fairy tales Turkey.
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