CLEVER GRETCHEN & other 4gotten FOLK TALES Alison Lurie

CLEVER  GRETCHEN

& other Forgotten Folktales

by ALISON  LURIE

Illustrated  by   Margot      Tomes

Binding: Hard Cover    113 pages   Sturdy library binding

ISBN: 0690039441

Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell Co, New York, USA

Published: March 1980

Condition:  Every reading page appears Unread! Crisp & clean See below for full description

Edition: STATED FIRST EDITION

Measures: 20 x 15 cm

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Contents page below ........

This copy has NO marks on any reading page ~ it could actually be Unread! The very first edition STATED of this highly collectable book. It has 113 pages ALL unmarked and is illustrated by Margot Tomes throughout. Price-clipped dustjacket cover is MAGNIFICENT(see photo below)! UNBLEMISHED, it has been behind plastic all these years. The only blemishes to mention are remnants of glue/label on blue first free endpaper and markings on publishing details page OTHERWISE PRISTINE!

Synopsis
Sleeping beauties? Not Clever Gretchen or Kate Crackernuts or Manka or any of the other young heroines in this wonderful collection of folktales. Active, witty, brave, and resourceful, these girls and young women can fight and hunt, defeat giants, answer riddles, outwit the Devil, and rescue friends and family from all sorts of dangers and evil spells.

Alison Lurie, the novelist and critic, has gathered these largely forgotten tales from among many like them recorded by scholars from all the countries of Europe. These are usually left out of the popular collections of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when women were supposed to be beautiful, innocent, and passive. She retells them simply and gracefully, and with an uncommon awareness of the essential spirit.

Delicate and characterful, Margot Tomes's drawings perfectly round out this altogether satisfying book.

My photos of the ACTUAL copy I'm selling & forms part of my description

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