PUSS IN BOOTS Saalfield #2364 Akron OH Rare 1941 WWII era Giant Cloth Like Book

Description

Item: Book / Children's Series
Title: Puss In Boots
Publisher: Saalfield / Akron, Ohio
#2364
Cloth-Like Paper
Writer(s): Giovanni Francesco
Story Artist(s):  Unknown
Published: 1941 (WWII era publication, not as many produced during wartime)
Size: 12.75" x 9.75"
Condition: Not sure this was ever read - Excellent Shape
Very Clean interior.
Other wear consistent with grade.
Please review the pictures to grade for yourself
Getting Very Hard to find.
Less than 4 remain on eBay (at time of listing)
Great Unique version of this Booted Cat Classic - incredible shape for its age - perfect for displaying.
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"Puss in Boots"
Illustration 1843, from
édition L. Curmer
Author
Giovanni Francesco Straparola
Giambattista Basile
Charles Perrault
Country
Italy
(1550–1553)
France
(1697)
Language
Italian
(originally)
Genre(s)
Literary
fairy tale
Publication type
Fairy tale collection
"
Master Cat or the Booted Cat
" (
Italian
:
Il gatto con gli stivali
;
French
:
Le Maître chat ou le Chat botté
), commonly known in English as "
Puss in Boots
", is an
Italian
[1]
[2]
and later European literary
fairy tale
about an
anthropomorphic
cat
who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master.
The oldest written telling is by Italian author
Giovanni Francesco Straparola
, who included it in his
The Facetious Nights of Straparola
(c. 1550–1553) in XIV–XV. Another version was published in 1634 by
Giambattista Basile
with the title
Cagliuso
, and a tale was written in French at the close of the seventeenth century by
Charles Perrault
(1628–1703), a retired civil servant and member of the
Académie française
. There is a version written by Girolamo Morlini, from whom Straparola used various tales in
The Facetious Nights of Straparola
.
[3]
The tale appeared in a handwritten and illustrated manuscript two years before its 1697 publication by Barbin in a collection of eight fairy tales by Perrault called
Histoires ou contes du temps passé
.
[4]
[5]
The book was an instant success and remains popular.
[3]
Perrault's
Histoires
has had considerable impact on world culture. The original Italian title of the first edition was
Costantino Fortunato
, but was later known as
Il gatto con gli stivali
(lit.
The cat with the boots
); the French title was "Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des moralités" with the subtitle "Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye" ("Stories or Fairy Tales from Past Times with Morals", subtitled "
Mother Goose Tales
"). The
frontispiece
to the earliest English editions depicts an old woman telling tales to a group of children beneath a placard inscribed "MOTHER GOOSE'S TALES" and is credited with launching the
Mother Goose
legend in the English-speaking world
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