SHELTON, Flora Beal.

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Folk Tales of Tibet. First edition thus, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper recto, "To Mr and Mrs E. W. Tanner, in memory of the pleasant hours I spent in their home. Sincerely, Mrs A. L. Shelton (the stories are really for their grandchildren. Jan 23rd 1952."Shelton (1871-1966, née Beal) and her husband, Albert Leroy Shelton (1875-1922), were missionary Tibetologists and spent almost two decades in the region, living through a time of significant unrest. On their travels, the couple tried to preserve some of Tibet's expansive oral storytelling tradition. The ten fables and tales printed here first appeared in Tibetan Folk Tales, a larger anthology published by the Sheltons in 1925 and illustrated by Mildred Bryant.

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