1900 Scarce First US Edition - Dealings With The Dead, Narratives From La Légende de la Mort en Basse Bretagne.
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Author: Anatole Le Braz. Authorized Translation by Mrs. A.E. Whitehead. Preface by Arthur Lillie. Introduction by L. Mariller.
Title: DEALINGS WITH THE DEAD, Narratives From "La Légende de la Mort en Basse Bretagne".
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., De Laurence, Scott & Co., Masonic Temple, no date (circa 1900). First American Edition.
Size: 8 "X 5.5 ".
Pages: 228 pages.
Binding: Very good original full-cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown, spine and cover edges slightly sunned - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing - as shown).
Estimate: (USD 275 - USD 350).
The book: Scarce First America Edition of Anatole Le Braz's work from Celtic Lore about the "Otherworld", "La Légende de la Mort en Basse Bretagne", or, The Legend of Death in Lower Brittany. It is a collection of stories about death, published by Anatole Le Braz in 1893. These stories were collected in Goëlo, Cornouaille, and Trégor. The collection compiles stories about the Ankou, intersigns (harbingers of the death of a loved one), ghosts, Hell and Paradise, souls, and submerged cities. These stories allow us to see the influences of pre-Christian Brittany in 19th-century Brittany.
The author: Anatole le Braz, the "Bard of Brittany" (2 April 1859 – 20 March 1926), was a Breton poet, folklore collector and translator. He was highly regarded amongst both European and American scholars, and known for his warmth and charm.