BEIER (Ulli) - Lot 49

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BEIER (Ulli) - Lot 49
BEIER (Ulli) How the World Was Created from a Drop of Milk: African Creation Tales. Tales collected by Ulli Beier. Translated from English by Jean-Paul Cortada. Mussidan, Fédérop, 1987. Narrow 8vo, 83 pp., paperback, color illustrated cover based on an African sculpture. ISBN 2-85792-056-3. New French edition of *The Origin of Life and Death. African Creation Myths*, a collection originally published in English in 1966. The first French edition by Fédérop was published in 1976; this copy is indeed from the 1987 printing, as attested by the “Printed” notice (“Legal Deposit: October 1987”). The BnF lists this edition under the same ISBN, with 83 pages and a size of 19 cm. A collection of African myths and tales devoted to the origins of the world, humankind, life, and death, compiled by the writer, publisher, and Africanist Ulli Beier. The book brings together traditions from various regions of Africa—West, East, Central, and North—and compares their diverse conceptions of creation. The French title draws on one of the most striking creation stories in the volume: the one in which the world is born from a drop of milk. The collection as a whole constitutes an interesting anthology of African oral traditions and cosmogonies, at the intersection of folklore, ethnology, and literature. Cover designed by Alain Kaiser and Corinne Cathy, featuring a reproduction of an African sculpture. Good copy. A few slight marks and scuffs on the cover, minor wear on the corners; interior is clean and well-preserved.
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