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"A long snakelike body coiled round & round with the water's rush." An illustration for "Drums of the Storm," a Native American fantasy tale of the Lake Superior region. The artist is Frederick Richardson who lent fourteen black&white & color plates & attractive endpapers to New Found Tales from Many Lands (New York: Winston, 1930) as retold by Joseph Burke Egan.

   

"Atosi threw off the cloak of the butterfly & became a handsome young brave." Frederick Richardson's illustration for the Navaho legend "The Butterfly & the Maidens" retold in Joseph Burke Egan's New Found Tales from Many Lands. This illustration is also used for the pictorial binding.

      

"The unicorn stamped & gave a piercing neigh." An illustration by J. Ormsbop for the sometimes shocking Solario the Tailor: His Tales of the Magic Doublet (New York: Macmillan, 1922) by William Bowen. The book has pictorial endpapers, scads of black&white illustrations & a few color plates.

      

"'You are welcome, master peddler,' said Babadag." An illustration by J. Ormsbop for William Bowen's Solario the Tailor, linked fantasy adventures & one of the most original fairy novels of its era.

      

 

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