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The magic tooth ; and other tales from the Amazon / by Elsie Spicer Eells ; with illustrations by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eells, Elsie Spicer, 1880-1963, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Brazil--Folklore--Juvenile literature.
- Indians of South America.
- Indians of South America--Folklore--Juvenile literature.
- Brazil.
- Genre:
- Juvenile works.
- Folklore.
- Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding)
- Signed bindings (Binding)
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 243, [1] pages, [1] leaf of color plates : illustrations (1 color); 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Little, Brown, and Company, 1927.
- Summary:
- "The twenty-six stories in this volume are taken from the folklore of South America, and possess that fascination which always hovers about tales which are based on legends"--Jacket.
- Contents:
- The magic tooth
- Karu and Rairu
- Surá's seeds
- Why the owl rules the night
- The children of the House of Dawn
- When Cavillaca ran away
- When the sun fell from the sky
- How sleep came
- How strife came to the world
- How the Great Flood began
- Why the fox has a dark tail
- The mother
- The king
- The royal prince
- The contests
- How the alligator got his scales
- How the races obtained their colors
- The frog witch
- How the fox used his wits
- Sumé
- The story of Mandioca
- The son of Ulé
- How the tortoise conquered his enemies
- The flight of Tiri
- The story of the flute
- In the days of the Amazons.
- Notes:
- "Published September, 1927"--Title page verso.
- A later edition, New York, 1938, has title: Tales from the Amazon.
- Local Notes:
- Publisher's pictorial orange cloth stamped in black, yellow and teal on cover with symmetrical image of two Native American men standing back-to-back with outstretched arms, stylized birds flying inwards from corners, framing them; titles in black on cover and spine. Orange paper dust jacket printed in black and grey-blue with same design without the lower birds, subtitle added. Binding signed with monogram "DD" by Decorative Designers (Firm).
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has laid in paper slip (letterhead of Little, Brown and Company) with faded blue ink stamp ("ADVANCE COPY To be Published SEP 1 Pri[...] $2 00 Net")
- Schimmel Collection copy without dust jacket.
- Cited in:
- Minsky, R. American trade bindings with Native American themes 1875-1933, page 45
- OCLC:
- 1277149946
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