Tales of Nanabozho … illustrated by Donald Grant

REID, Dorothy M. Tales of Nanabozho … illustrated by Donald Grant.

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REID, Dorothy M. Tales of Nanabozho … illustrated by Donald Grant. Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1963.

8vo. Original cloth with little illustration on front cover, illustrated dust-wrappers; pp. 128, illustrated; apart from minimal rubbing to wrappers, a near-fine copy.
Very uncommon first editon of these tales told and retold by the Chippewa (Ojibwe) Indians about a rocky promontory near Lake Superior, believed to be the sleeping giant Nanabozho, a trickster and fool with superhuman powers, all collected by the head of the Children's Department of Fort William Public Library and storyteller for children on the radio.

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