THE FLYING HORSES: TALES FROM CHINA
Written by Jo Manton, Robert Gittings
Illustrated by Derek Collard
Published by Methuen Children's Books Ltd.
in 1977
ISBN: 041683440X
THE FLYING HORSES: TALES FROM CHINA
Written by Jo Manton, Robert Gittings.
Illustrated by Derek Collard.
Stock no. 1828847
1st.
1977.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Chinese stories taken from translations of Chinese history and literature, the dialogue and poems often embody and give substance to ancient Chinese sayings. They range in time from the earliest popular legends, which deal with the origins of the universe, to a twentieth-century account of the Revolution. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Full page b/w illustrations. 172 pages. ISBN: 041683440X. Text block lightly browned. Light browning to vertical edge of front endpaper and small foxspot else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned and a little scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- How The World Was Made
- The River of Stars
- Lady Into Silkworm
- The Dragon and His Doctor
- The Great Yu
- Tzu Chu's Cheerful Funeral
- Heartless Beauty
- The Broken Lute String
- How The Great Wall Was Built
- Hsiang Yu's Last Battle
- The Flying Horses
- The Secret Valley
- The Peach Blossom Forest
- The Land of the Blue Faces
- The Boy Who Became A Painter
- The Moon in the Yellow River
- The Ballad of Mulan
- The Beggar King's Daughter
- The Long-Legged Barbarians
- The King of the Monkeys
- The Prime Minister's Birthday Present
- The Kindly Ghost
- The Faithful Wife
- A Case of Magistrate Lan
- Practical Chinese Cats
- The Colonel's Not For Killing
- Crossing the Iron Gorge