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Image of the binding of Albanian Wonder Tales. Front cover text reads: "Albanian Wonder Tales. Post Wheeler." Black and white stamped cover image of a spotted horse stuck in brambles. Spine text reads: "Albanian Wonder Tales. Post Wheeler. Illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham. Doubleday Doran." For condition notes please see item description.
Image of the signature on the half title page of Albanian Wonder Tales. Text reads: "Albanian Wonder Tales" Below title is author's signature in blue ink.
Image of the title page of Albanian Wonder Tales. Text reads: Albanian Wonder Tales by Post Wheeler, Litt. D. Illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham. Junior Books. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Garden City 1936 New York. Image shows seven rats dancing around a birdcage which holds a singing bird.
Image of a color illustration from Albanian Wonder Tales. Shows two men riding on an overloaded donkey with a smaller donkey in the foreground.
Image of the illustrated endpapers from Albanian Wonder Tales. Image is in black, white and blue and shows a man holding the reins of a horse on the left, and a man with a long white beard seated and holding a staff on the left. At the center bottom is a small squirrel, and the background is a silhouette of mountains and trees.
Image of a black and white textual illustration from Albanian Wonder Tales. A few paragraphs of text are shown at the top and bottom of the pages with an image of a man riding a ram in the center of the page.
Image of a black and white textual illustration from Albanian Wonder Tales. Surrounded by a few lines of text at the top and bottom is an image of a heavily bearded creature thinking with the sun blazing in the background.
Image of an illustrated chapterheading from Albanian Wonder Tales. The image shows a seated man playing a lute to a group of animals and has the title of the story and a few lines of text at the bottom.
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Image of the binding of Albanian Wonder Tales. Front cover text reads: "Albanian Wonder Tales. Post Wheeler." Black and white stamped cover image of a spotted horse stuck in brambles. Spine text reads: "Albanian Wonder Tales. Post Wheeler. Illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham. Doubleday Doran." For condition notes please see item description.
Image of the signature on the half title page of Albanian Wonder Tales. Text reads: "Albanian Wonder Tales" Below title is author's signature in blue ink.
Image of the title page of Albanian Wonder Tales. Text reads: Albanian Wonder Tales by Post Wheeler, Litt. D. Illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham. Junior Books. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Garden City 1936 New York. Image shows seven rats dancing around a birdcage which holds a singing bird.
Image of a color illustration from Albanian Wonder Tales. Shows two men riding on an overloaded donkey with a smaller donkey in the foreground.
Image of the illustrated endpapers from Albanian Wonder Tales. Image is in black, white and blue and shows a man holding the reins of a horse on the left, and a man with a long white beard seated and holding a staff on the left. At the center bottom is a small squirrel, and the background is a silhouette of mountains and trees.
Image of a black and white textual illustration from Albanian Wonder Tales. A few paragraphs of text are shown at the top and bottom of the pages with an image of a man riding a ram in the center of the page.
Image of a black and white textual illustration from Albanian Wonder Tales. Surrounded by a few lines of text at the top and bottom is an image of a heavily bearded creature thinking with the sun blazing in the background.
Image of an illustrated chapterheading from Albanian Wonder Tales. The image shows a seated man playing a lute to a group of animals and has the title of the story and a few lines of text at the bottom.
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Albanian Wonder Tales

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Author: Post Wheeler

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Illustrator: Maud & Miska Petersham

WHEELER, Post. Albanian Wonder Tales. Illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1936. 12mo, xx 282pp. Blue boards pictorially stamped in black. Two-color pictorial endpapers; color pictorial frontispiece and numerous b&w illustrations. Corners and spine ends lightly rubbed, some faint foxing at top and bottom edge of sheets (but no internal foxing), else a fine copy. Signed by the author, Post Wheeler.

First edition. A collection of 10 fairy tales from the Albanian tradition collected and retold by Post Wheeler and featuring illustrations from Caldecott Medalists Maud and Miska Petersham.