1896 ✅ TURKEY FAIRY & FOLK TALES~DEVIL_WITCH_GHOST_MAGIC_DEMON_RARE ANTIQUE BOOK

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These stories were collected from the mouths of the Turkish peasantry by the Hungarian savant Dr. Ignatius Kunos, during his travels through Anatolia, and published for the first time in 1889 by a well known Hungarian Literary Society.
Title
:
Turkish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
author
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collected by Dr. Ignacz Kunos
illustrated by
:
Celia Levetus
published
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NY, Frederick Stokes Co.,
no date, circa
1898 on the preface
size:
apx 8.75" x 6" with 275
pages
binding
:
pictorial hardcover with gilt on spine
with apx 10 full page illustrations
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-plain cover
Contents:
- THE STAG-PRINCE / THE THREE ORANGE-PERIS / THE ROSE-BEAUTY / MAD MEHMED / THE GOLDEN-HAIRED CHILDREN/ THE HORSE-DEVIL AND THE WITCH /  THE CINDER-YOUTH / THE PIECE OF LIVER / THE MAGIC TURBAN, THE MAGIC WHIP, AND THE MAGIC CARPET / THE WIND-DEMON / THE CROW-PERI / THE FORTY PRINCES AND THE SEVEN-HEADED DRAGON / THE WORLD'S MOST  BEAUTEOUS DAMSEL / THE PADISHAH OP THE FORTY PERIS / THE SERPENT-PERI AND THE MAGIC MIRROR / STONE-PATIENCE AND KNIFE-PATIENCE / THE GHOST OF THE SPRING AND THE SHREW /  THE STORY OF THE HALF-MAN-RIDING-ON-THE-WORSE-HALF- OF-A-LAME-HORSE / THE ENCHANTED HOG / BOY-BEAUTIFUL, THE GOLDEN APPLES, AND THE WEE-WOLF / YOUTH WITHOUT AGE, AND LIFE WITHOUT DEATH
A scarce book
Condition:
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try to mention the book's main faults
. all of my books are VERY OLD and have 100+ years of wear to varying degrees
very good condition.... for its age:
boards -
very secure, covers have some bubbles and dirty spots
textblock
- pages secure
outer joints
-  very good
spine ends
- some wear, esp the bottom one
tips
- top ones are badly bent /bottom ones worn through a bit
inner hinges
-  pretty good for age - the paper is split, esp the back one
pages
- generally very clean - apx 6% of the pages have small spots or handling marks - I think I showed you 2 of the worse pages
writing
- none
rips /folds
- no rips that I saw /
see the picture with yellow paper - that upper corner is an old patch / all pages have bumped upper tips - see title page
other:
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