Fables Hardcover - 1987

Aulton Press. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardback. Good.

Hardback. Very Good.

Peterhead (Aberdeenshire): Aulton Press, 1987 *** ONLY EDITION IN MODERN SCOTS; COMPRISING TWENTY-SIX FABLES IN NORTHEAST-DIALECT VERSE, with a preface by Billy Kay and a Scots-English glossary. Wheaton's illustrations are quite delightful: Several of them show frogs in kilts or playing the bagpipes, a tortoise in a tam-o'-shanter, &c; another incorporates the aurora borealis. The poet Robert Strachan Stephen (b. 1949) afterwards published By the shores o' Galilee: Stories from the Gospels in Scots verse (1989); In the beginning: Stories from the Old Testament in Scots verse (1991), and Troll tales (1999). The Aulton Press is apparently his private imprint; and this is its first book. *** Out of print, and already quite SCARCE. Only two other copies are known in America. -- References: CAIRNS; Carlson; COPAC; OCLC 16472225. . First edition.. Publisher's glazed pictorial b. 280 x 210 mm: Pp [i-viii], 1-86 [87-88]. Eight col.