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Seller's Description:
Susan L. Roth color collages. As New in New jacket. Book CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1988 St. Martin's hardcover (white boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, assumed first printing. The Author's colorful collages provide the illustrations. Why is this AS NEW? 2 glue spots back inside cover and just generally not willing to say a 1988 book is truly new on my part. CONTENT: Two stories of turtle as trickster. In Fire..., several animals try without success to steal fire from the Moon-god. Tortoise knows that he can do it, but he needs straw to capture fire. So Chameleon steals some for him, tricking the Moon-god's straw-keeper by changing color. This second theft parallels and foreshadows Tortoise's fire-theft, but introducing it has the effect of doubling back on the story line, interrupting the forward movement. It's a crowded story, full of characters and commotion. The trickery appeals. In Roth's cut-paper collages, arrangements of brightly colored shapes against a black ground make a decorative page. In Kanahena, Terrapin tricks a wolf pack that wants to destroy him for disrespectful behavior to one of their own. Using a familiar motif, he begs them not to do the one thing that he knows will save him-throw him into the water. But there's a lot more than that going on here, from the device of an old-woman narrator, to Terrapin's food-sharing visits to friends, to how Terrapin got the marks on his shell, to a recipe for making Kanahena (a cornmeal dish). K-grade 2.
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Like New in Very Good jacket. Size: 10x8x0; Signed by author Susan Roth at verso of FFEP (facing title page). Cream boards with black spine titling, fine. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket near fine in Mylar. Pages clean, text unmarked.
