TOLD IN INDIA: Favorite Fairy Tales
Retold by Virginia Haviland. Illustrated by Blair Lent. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1973).
"First edition" statement and date code T 04/73 to the copyright page, $5.95 price and code R to the jacket's flap. A collection of eight fairy tales infused with, and originated from Indian culture, engaging illustrations in color and black-and-white, that are rich with India originated perceptions and people by Blair Lent. Light wear to the corner tips, else about near fine in cream-plum linen with plum embossed titles to the front cover and to the spine and with an orange embossed illustration by Lent depicting an Indian boy on an elegantly adorned elephant to the front cover, publisher's special sturdy reinforced inner hinges; in an about near fine dust jacket with some darkening to the spine panel; original printed $5.95 price and code R still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 95 pages.
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