Cossack Fairy Tales

and Folk Tales

NISBET BAIN, R. (translator)

NISBET BAIN, R. (translator) Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales

Harrap, 1916.

First edition. 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial onlay to the upper cover. Four colour plates and many line drawings by Noel L. Nisbet. A very good copy, page edges quite spotted and some pages foxed, generally bright.

A first English translation of these Cossack folk stories, translated from Ruthenian. The author notes that Ruthenian which "has been rigourously repressed by the Russian Government... possesses a noble literature, numerous folk songs... and justly admired folk-tales, many of them of great antiquity."
Tales include: Oh:The Tsar and the Forest; The Story of the Wind; The Tsar and the Angel; The Story of Ivan and the Daughter of the Sun.

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