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Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Ex-library (University of Redlands). No pocket, but inventory stickers and bookplate all blacked out, and 'Withdrawn' stamp, blacked out stamps on top and bottom text block, catalog sticker. Book is tight and unmarked, with very little wear. Outside US add $6 postage.

4 volumes, large 8vo, pp. [4], xlvii, 297, [1]; [4], ii, 301, [1]; [4], 248, [2]; [4], ii, 330, [4]; portrait frontispiece in color; text printed from typescript; very good, sound, and clean in original printed yellow wrappers. Text in English and Tibetan, with abstract in Chinese. The Tibetan texts, made from tape recordings by Nawang Nornang and Lhadon Karsip, concern various areas of Tibetan culture or little enacted scenes of Tibetan life, thus making as true a record of natural Tibetan speech as possible. The uncommon fourth volume contains 18 different stories: The King and the Three Oranges; The Magic Stick; The Prime Minister and the Astrologer; The Five Children; The Magic Flower; The Three Sisters; A Fickle Bride; A Territorial Dispute; The Unfaithful Wife; The Stupid Son; The Monkeys and the Birds, among others.