Hungarian Folk-Tales retold & illustrated by Val Biro [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1980 • Oxford University Press

Hungarian Folk-Tales retold & illustrated by Val Biro 

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1980] OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Dust jacket is in nice shape with some mild wear; tiny water stain to rear corner.  Now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.

Book itself is excellent; clean boards.  Pages read beautifully. 

Long ago, when Hungarians used to tell each other tales in the evenings, they thought up some of the most amazing things. In this edition, Hungarian-born Val Biro retells and illustrates a favorite selection of his country's stories. Among them, goblins rain from the sky; the Mayor's 'mare's egg' gives birth to a rabbit; and Amalfi, son of the apple, finds his destiny in a flying palace.