Burmese and Thai Fairy Tales – Eleanor Brockett (1965) (1st ed)

S$78.00

Burmese and Thai Fairy Tales – Eleanor Brockett (1965) (1st ed)

S$78.00

Title: Burmese and Thai Fairy Tales

Author: Eleanor Brockett, Harry and Ilse Toothill (illus)

Publisher: Follett Publishing Company, 1965. First edition.

Condition: Hardcover, with dust jacket. Near fine. Price-clipped dust jacket, with very minor wear to dust jacket. Slight mark to top edge. With 19 black-and-white drawings. 198pp, app 9″ by 6″.

About the book:

“Here is a collection of stories from the East with its dragons, goddesses, spells, enchantments, and talking animals, but above all wit and humor.”

Stories include:

  1. The Story of the Seven Stars (Thailand)
  2. The First Eclipse (Thailand)
  3. The Snake Prince (Burma)
  4. The Opium-Eater and the Four Ogres (Burma)
  5. The Brave Bear-killer (Thailand)
  6. Why the Tiger and the Monkey are not Friends (Burma)