Possible first printing hardcover in yellow textured paper covered boards with a black cloth backstrip. Bit of splotchyness to head of frt board, rear board has one micro indentation. Corners lightly rubbed but not frayed. Tips fairly sharp. 211 pp text is crisp and unmarked. Unclipped dj is super colorful having a line of color loss along frt panel flap fold, a bit of a sticker pull with a bit of sticker remnants near head of frt panel is not too noticeable on yellow background there. Irregular chip at foot of spine/gutter lower gutter area. Tiny rubs/color loss at dj tips, still displays well in new mylar. Tales and poems from twenty far-off lands mainly in central and eastern europe: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Sicily, Lithuania, Russia, Rumania, Bohemia, Slovakia, Caucasia, Bavaria, Swabia, Germany, Austria, Turkey and Greece.