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Welsh Folk Tales and Fairy Stories 1st Edition Vintage Book Kings Conjurors and Crocks of Gold 1975

Welsh Folk Tales and Fairy Stories 1st Edition Vintage Book Kings Conjurors and Crocks of Gold 1975

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Vintage Book of Welsh Fairy Stories and Folk Tales fabulous collection of traditional stories and legends from Wales.

Kings, Conjurors and Crocks of Gold by Dinah Starkey 1975. A beautifully entertaining collection of Traditional Welsh Folk Tales about the Fairy Folk and more. A couple of the tales were translate from The Mabinogion others are much more obscure and near forgotten Welsh Folklore.

How Elidore went to school with the fairies as he hated school so much and Huw Thomas the Blacksmith forged a chain for the Devil!

The book contains 15 stories in all, each of which make great bedtime stories for children and are historically interesting in that some of the tales were in danger of being forgotten completely in the 1970's and are still obscure today.

The book is charmingly illustrated with typical 70's style black and white illustrations by the artist Barbara Swiderska, she illustrated many children's books in her distinctive style in the 1970's era.

A lovely way to keep traditional Welsh Folklore, Myth and Legend alive today.

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A lovely way to keep traditional Welsh History alive with this book. Beautifully Illustrated by collectible 1970's illustrator Barbara Swiderska in the pretty fanciful line drawings similar in style to Pauline Baynes and typical of the 1970's era.

I love the dust jacket with the Welsh Dragon on it's hoard of gold!

Attractive and bold vivid 1970's orange cloth binding. A lovely vintage hardback book that would make a super gift or look great on your bookshelf!

Contents:
The Roaring Bull of Bagbury Elidore
The Magic Harp
The Lake Bride
Prince Llewellyn and the King's Magician
The Devil's Chain
The Lady of the Wood
The Little Red Bogey Man
The Cave of the Sleepers
Culwych and Olwen
The Red Dragon and the White
The Changelings
The Devils Bridge
Cadwallon's Mare
Brave Sir Peredur

A lovely collection of scarce known tales to enchant your children or yourself. Particularly important for a fan or scholar of Welsh Folkloric Literature.

ILLUSTRATED: Black and White Line Drawn Illustrations.

BOOK HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Hardback
  • Illustrated
  • First Edition
  • Vintage Fairy Tale Book

BOOK ERA:

  • 1970's Vintage Children's Books

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Author Bio & Publication

Dinah Starkey.

Dinah worked for the BBC school Broadcasting Department in London and also for Radio Bristol in the 1970's.

She produced and presented children's programmes. Later she went on to teach at a junior school in Wiltshire and produce programmes for Swansea Sound.

She also wrote another book called 'Witches, Dragons and Buried Treasure, a collection of traditional Folk Tales from Somerset.

Publisher: Kaye and Ward Ltd.
Date: 1975
Edition: First Edition (Never before published)
Binding: Hardback
Dust Jacket: Full Colour Glossy

Condition Notes: EXCELLENT

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This is fresh from the attic in Excellent vintage condition .

All the pages are sharp and clean with no messy graffiti or inscriptions of any kind.

Vivid Orange Cloth Binding very fresh and clean underneath dust jacket. Small wrinkle to jacket and small bump to board edge.

Spine Intact with titles visible and no apparent wear.

Excellent Vintage collectible hardback book scarcely found.

Please remember this vintage book has been loved before and is not new condition is graded taking this into consideration.

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SIZE: Height 22 cms x Width 14 cms.
FORMAT: Hardback
PAGES: 119

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