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by Niall Macnamara
| Pocket sized hardback book with padded covers. In Very Good condition.
Published by Pavilion Books Ltd.
Originally in large format 1999.
Small format edition 2002.
96 pages, illustrated in colour by Wayne Anderson.
12.1cm x 15.8cm x 2.2cm.
Weight: 250gms.
Cover price: £4.99.
Leprechauns are elusive creatures despite their world-wide fame. Few people know much about them beyond their fondness for shoemaking, crocks of gold, rainbows (at the end of which those crocks are often buried) and perhaps their talent for granting wishes. 'The Leprechaun Companion' aims to set this straight by collecting all that is known about these sprites and revealing much for the first time, such as the variety of their dress, what they get up to in their sociable moods and why lady leprechauns are so rare.
Niall Macnamara, whose qualifications for writing about leprechauns include a great-great-grandmother from Cork who claimed to have been seduced by one, looks at the link between Leprechauns and the other faery folk of Ireland, and at their cousins in neighbouring countries - brownies, boggarts, piskies, spriggans, kobolds and many more. These elusive creatures have been drawn by Wayne Anderson who first hit fame in the late 1970s with illustrations for classic books of the time, including 'The Magic Circus', Since then he has illustrated a steady stream of books including, 'Thumbelina (1991), Wayne Anderson's Horrible Book (1997) and The Flight of Dragons (1998).
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Publisher: Pavilion Books
ISBN: 1862055238
Condition: Very Good |
2002
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| Postage & Handling to UK mainland: £4.00 | Price: £3.00
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