Jacobs, Joseph. [Ed].

Indian Fairy Tales. Illustrated by John D. Batten.

New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1969. 13.5 x 21.5cm. (12), 255 pages, with black and white illustrations. Original softcover. Some signs of external wear, including creasing to jacket and minor paper loss to spine. Internally in very good condition, other than some text annotations. [Dover Children’s Classics].

Soils and national characteristics differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents the world over. So proved the leading British folklorist Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916) with this now classic volume of 29 traditional tales from India, including some of the oldest recorded tales known. “The Lion and the Crane,” “How the Raja’s Son Won the Princess Labam,” “The Broken Pot,” “The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal,” “The Talkative Tortoise,” “The Ass in the Lion’s Skin,” “Why the Fish Laughed,” “Sun, Moon, and Wind Go Out to Dinner,” “The Prince and the Fakir,” and all the other stories make delightful reading or listening for youngsters who are tired of the same familiar old favorites. John D. Batten’s nine full-page plates and his 37 other drawings are reproduced from the original edition. [From jacket notes]

• Keywords: Asian Literature · Catalogue Two – Children’s Books · Children · Children’s Books · Children’s Books Rare · Chuck Kruger Cape Clear Collection · Fairy Tales · Folk history · Folk Stories · Folklore · India · Literature
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780486218281
• Inventory Number: 91488AB

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