abrahams roger d editor (11 resultados)

Trade Paperback. Condición: Good. Edition Not Stated. 326 Pages. Cover is bright with some edge wear and bottom corner crease. First and last seveeral pages have bottom corners slightly turned up. Remainder mark on bottom page edges. No marks, stamps or underlining. Interior text pages are faultless. Contains 107 folktales and stories in with editor's preface and introduction, plus introductory material to various sections. Includes appendix, index of tales, and bibliography. Tales from the canefields of the antebellum South, the villages of Caribbean islands, and the streets of contemporary Philadelphia. Throbbing with life, they range from earthy comedy, recounting the scandalous doings of tricksters Rabbit and Fox, to inventive stories explaining why the world is the way it is Includes moral fables about encounters between masters and slaves, kings and servants, black and white. Together they demonstrate the ways an uprooted people have drawn from the traditions of their past to fashion a life and new and vital culture in the New World.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Publisher's card-stock wrappers, small quarto, pp. xxii, 327 plus colophon. Illustrated with thematic vignettes. GOOD condition with just light shelf wear.

HELI8504 African Folktales, Selected & Retold by Roger D. Abrahams, Pantheon Fairy Tales & Folklore Library, 1st Edition 1983, sc-stiff paper, b&w, 354 pages, 9.25"x6.125" Slight edgewear, otherwise like new.

Hard Cover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name or label inside. Full beige cloth boards. 244 pages. " Eeny, meeny, miny mo / Sit the baby on the po./ When he's done / Wipe his bum, /Tell his mummy what he's done." Keywords: Games, Beginning play, Elementary School, Folklore, Rhymes, Verse, Sayings, Jump-rope.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 112 pages. 8.75x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 264 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in cream cloth boards with black lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 243pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (22/6).

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Oversized hardcover. Volume Two only. Bound in navy blue cloth with silver lettering across front cover and spine. Some very faint rubbing along edges, corners gently bumped. Covers are otherwise neat and clean. Former bookseller's pricing written in pen at top right corner of front free endpaper. Inkless embossed stamp on half title page with former owner's name. Pages are otherwise clean, crisp, and bright. Binding is tight and secure. Pages numbered 409 through 814. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, Inc. Copyright dated 1978. This is an oversized book, so extra postage will be necessary for priority or international shipping. We ship everyday from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it?s properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 334 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

hardcover, 8vo. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: very good. No markings. Rubbing with a few chips and edge wear to the mylar covered dust jacket. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Almeda Riddle's name tag on top of FFE; inscription by author on half title page and dated april 28th 1975; clean and unmarked and binding tight and square ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 191 pages; Inscribed; Signed by Author.