FOLK TALES FROM MOOR AND MOUNTAIN
Book Details + Condition: Roy Publishers, Inc. (New York). Scarce First Edition, 1969. Hardcover with dust jacket. 128 pages. Illustrated by Victor Ambrus. Fourteen folktales from Scotland and the north of England, "from the days of the old world before the star had led the shepherds to the stable in Bethlehem" [dust jacket]. Chapters include:
- Midside Maggie
- Jeannie and the Fairy Spinners
- The Fishwife and the Changeling
- Jamie and the Silky of Black Heddon
- Joan and the Stanhope Fairies
- The MacCodrum and the Seal Maiden
- The Water-Horse of Barra
- The Swan Princess of Islay
- The Seal and the Man of Shetland
- Saint Columba and the Giants of Staffa
A scarce first edition, with firm binding; library paste-in and scuffing of removed label to ffep; tape to edges of jacket; library stamp to bottom of one text page (to rear); interior is otherwise clean and free of markings. Please note: the dust jacket has been taped to the book, and we have not removed.
