Fiabe Africane Nella Versione di Renata Paccarie. Illustrazioni di Maraja. Edizioni Meravigliose XX [African Fables; Number 20 in the Series: "Edizioni Meravigliose"].

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9 3/4" x 13 1/4", 52 + pp., illustrated with 5 full-page color illustrations & numerous other smaller, color illustrations, color titlepages for each of the six tales, nearly every page has some form of color illustration by Maraja, of African children, animals, houses, costumes, masks, mythological scenes, etc. all are both carefully detailed and quite striking. Entire text is in Italian. Number 20 in a series of illustrated titles (31 are listed on the back of the dustjacket). Color printed pictorial paper over boards, front cover featuring a costumed boy playing a painted drum, African mask on back cover. Color printed, glossy-surfaced dustjacket, with a design of two girls on front panel (shown in the scan), list of titles on the back. Surface of dustjacket shows some light crazing to glossy coating, edge tanning. Page 7-8 shows a 6", vertical tear near the gutter of book, from the fore-edge, downwards (this is repairable); non-authorial, English gift inscription in ink on the front flyleaf, dated: "Xmas 1970 [-]: hoping one day you will get to discuss these fables with the boys and girls for whom they were written [-]". Book, overall in fine condition (excepting the tear at p. 7, mentioned above). Very scarce title; only a very few copies of the original Italian edition are available in the U.S.A. Italian titles of the fables: Il bambino d'oro e il bamino d'argento; La figlia del Sole e della Luna; Il terrible guerriere; L'anello magico; Il genio del fiume; I fratelli gemelli. (Italian text). N° de ref. del artículo BG-253

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