TALES OF GREAT CITIES

B. Mitchell, Great Britain, 1986.  ISBN 0-85613-775-8.  Hard cover, 192 pages.  Very good; illustrated laminated boards, tight binding with headbands, light cover/edge wear.  Jacket mirrors book; bit of edge and cover wear, some age toning; a few tiny edge tears.  Book interior clean and unmarked; colour and black & white illustrations by Vladimir Machaj; translated by Vladimir Varecha; narrated by Vladimir Hulpach.  ‘This beautifully illustrated book contains forty-six stories set in the cities of Europe, ranging from prehistoric Athens and ancient Rome to sixteenth-century Prague and nineteenth-century Oxford.  These tales, some of them true stories and others myths and legends which have been told and retold for generations, describe how certain cities came into being – or the strange, sad, heroic or ludicrous events that took place in them. A few … may already be familiar, while others are published in English for the first time.’ (from front flap)