Jewish Fairy Tales and Fables
Aunt Naomi
| Publisher |
Shapiro, Vallentine & Co. |
| Binding |
Hardback |
| Condition |
Very good copy |
| SKU |
25104 |
| Notes |
Cloth is slightly darkened and has a faint shadow to the back. Cloth is slightly worn to points. Uneven tanning to endpapers. Else very clean. Binding is tight and square. |
Description
Hardback. 169pp. Illustrated by E. Strellett and J. Marks. 14 tales including: How Reynard Fooled Bruin; The Slave who Became a King, Saved by a Rose; The King, the Queen and the Bee, etc. Most of the stories are based on the parables of the Talmud and the Midrash but “a few of the stories are entirely original, chiefly The Ragged Peddlar, which is inspired by an old Rabbinic saying, and The Enchanted Donkey and Honeim’s Magic Shoes which are base don Oriental legends.” Aunt Naomi was the pen name of Annie Gertrude Landa née Gordon (1881-1941), a German-born British writer who moved to the UK as a child. She was the sister of novelists Samule Gordon and Phyllis Gordon Demarest and her husband and daughter were also writers. Bound in dark red cloth illustrated in black. Five full page illustrations plus illustrated headpieces to some of the stories.
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