NEW TALES FOR OLD
Written by Geraldine Elliot
Illustrated by R.W. Coulter
Published by Elkin Mathews & Marrot
in 1932
- Categorised in:
- CHILDRENS
- AFRICA
- FOLK TALES
NEW TALES FOR OLD
Written by Geraldine Elliot.
Illustrated by R.W. Coulter.
Stock no. 1828154
1st.
1932.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
A book of African folk stories for children. Yellow cloth boards, blue titles and vignette to front. B/w illustrations. Boards just a little grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers lightly browned. A few small foxspots and margin marks to contents. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn and torn with a few small chips, is browned and foxed.
Front cover
Contents
- The First Zebra
- The Spider and the LIzard
- The Tortoise and the Osprey
- The Elephant and the Rock Rabbit
- The Lemur and the Shrew
- The Tortoise and the Monkey
- The Muula Tree
- The Kindly Ant Bear
- The Bragging Bat
- The Famine and the Fruit Tree
- The Barrel of Water
- Tortoise Triumphant