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Tricks of Women & Other Albanian Tales with an Introduction By Burton Rascoe by Cooper, Paul Fenimore (tr)

by Cooper, Paul Fenimore (tr)

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Tricks of Women & Other Albanian Tales with an Introduction By Burton Rascoe by Cooper, Paul Fenimore (tr)

Tricks of Women & Other Albanian Tales with an Introduction By Burton Rascoe

by Cooper, Paul Fenimore (tr)

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Bischoff, Ilse. Tales 204p. with an Introduction By Burton Rascoe, with 10 rich full page illustrations and many in text variations by Ilse M. Bischoff. The Albanian fairy tales and folk tales are patriarchal but the women who appear in this work are subtle and find power in their use of sexuality. The fact that both the people and language of Albania are about as obscure as those of any country on earth is the only element of definite economic value possessed by this collection: that is, if one leaves out of account the expensive binding, and a number of excellent wood cuts by Ilse M. Bischoff. The Albanian version of the Cinderella tale is found here also. The concept as related to Shakespeare's Hamlet and Othello is also noted. Bound in black pictorial gilt cloth, spine gilt. A very nice copy in somewhat chipped and edge worn pictorial dust jacket.
  • Bookseller Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB US (US)
  • Illustrator Bischoff, Ilse
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  • Keywords Cinderella Tale, Albanian
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Tricks of Women & Other Albanian Tales

by Paul Fenimore Cooper

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New York: William Morrow & Co, 1928. 205 pp. Black embossed cover, frontispiece, illustrations, plates throughout. Paul Fenimore Cooper is the translator of these tales and woodcuts are by Ilse M. Bischoff. The Stories are of the southern, or Tosk, dialect and come from two collections made by Auguste Dozon and Holger Pedersen. 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" no dust jacket, some toning.
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Tricks of Women & Other Albanian Tales

Tricks of Women & Other Albanian Tales

by Various; Paul Fenimore Cooper, [Tr.]

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New York: William Morrow & Company, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good+. 8vo. [4], v-xvi, [2], 1-204, [2] pp. Black cloth with a decoration in gold on the front board and gold lettering and a snake stamped in gold on the spine. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns. With a frontispiece and nine plates, and several in-text woodcuts by Ilse M. Bischoff. With an introduction by Burton Roscoe. Translated by Paul Fenimore Cooper, the grandson of James Fenimore Cooper. Cooper was one of a few Americans at the time who could speak Albanian. Jacket is price-clipped with several wrinkles and a few tape repairs to its reverse.
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