Dream Weaver

New York: Collins, 1979. Presumed first edition. Hardcover quarto in color illustrated DJ with off white spine. 80 pages: color illustrations; 25 cm Moderate rubbing to corners of DJ. Mild creasing and chipping to spine. Gift inscription in ink to half title page. Very small P stamp to front free end paper. Very mild sunning to edges of boards. Else book is near fine in very good DJ. . Hardcover. ISBN: 0529055171

Contents: Brother Hart -- Man of rock, man of stone -- The tree's wife -- The cat bride -- The boy who sang for death -- Princess Heart O'Stone -- The pot child. Abstract: For a penny a dream, the old blind Dream Weaver weaves dreams for seven sets of passers-by. "Here are seven compelling fantasies to haunt the memory and stir the imagination. the Dream Weaver, a blind gypsy storyteller, spins tales that are rooted in the familiar but which, like all dreams, use symbols and strange substitutions to express truths too powerful to permit direct statement." --Dust jacket. Fairy tales -- United States. Children's stories, American. Short stories.