Buy this book on-line Hensman, Bertha, & Mack, Kwok Ping: Illustrated by Hsieh Chung-Wu : Hong Kong Tale-Spinners: A collection of tales and ballads transcribed and translated from story-tellers in Hong KongHong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1968
Hardback, first edition, 8.25"x5.5" approx, very good condition, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket shelf-worn at edges, slight fading to endpapers, publisher's original grey clothboards with red blocking to front and spine bump to top right corner, 140 pages including appendix (notes on the stories), b/w line illustrations by Hsieh Chung-Wu----A collection of tales and ballads transcribed and translated from story-tellers in Hong Kong. 'These stories have, in the last twenty years. come to Hong Kong from various parts of China, and represent a wide variety of types current in the oral tradition - a folk tale, a parable, a natural legend, a fable, a romance, a fairy tale, a popularised chronicle of history, and one fightind knight-errant story of earth visiting immortals.' Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Hensman, Bertha, & Mack, Kwok Ping: Illustrated by Hsieh Chung-Wu : Hong Kong Tale-Spinners: A collection of tales and ballads transcribed and translated from story-tellers in Hong Kong. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, out-of-print books, incunabula, rare books and first editions. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |