The Folktale Cat by De Caro, Frank (Editor) - 1992

Dorset House Publishing Co Inc. Very Good. 1992. Hardcover. 1566197767 . Pictorial hard cover with black cloth spine. Illustrations by Kitty Harville. A varied collection of stories with the country of origin with the title and additional information in the appendix. From the introduction: The folk tales in this book are varied by nature. ...some are literary retellings, some oral tradition, some of the stories in this collection were written down by collectors who attempted to accurately reproduce the tales as told. ...They have (all) been reproduced here almost unchanged from the sources in which they originally appeared to preserve the efforts and motives of those who originally collected or reworked them; only very minor editorial changes have been made for the sake of clarity and consistency." ; 9.30 X 7.20 X 0.80 inches; 156 pages .