Illustrations by Yoshitaro Isaka

Translated from the Japanese to English by Ann Brannen

(Tokyo): Gakken, (1971).

First edition, first printing

Based on E. Humperdinck's opera after the story by the Brothers Grimm.

A selection in the lively Fantasia Pictorial series of books comprising retold Stories From Famous Music.

Startlingly vivid, endearingly innocent, to wonderfully grotesque, to a warm picture-book retelling of Humperdinck's opera.

Isaka--known by by the nickname 'Perro' or 'Perozamurai'-- was a prominent 60s era graphic artist, the Peter Max of Japan, who died at age 42 in 1970.

Fine, in glossy color illustrated boards; in a nearly fine dust jacket with art that mirrors the covers, very mild wear to the spine ends and faint creases at shelf-edges, upper corner of front inner flap clipped; $3.50 gold sticker price still intact to lower front inner flap.

Quite unusual in nice condition in the first printing.

A beautifully illustrated children's collectible.

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