The Windmill Turning by Victor Carl Friesen – 1988 First Edition Hardcover – Western Canadian Mennonite Folklore

very interesting Saskatchewan and Western Canadian cultural history book: The Windmill Turning: Nursery Rhymes, Maxims, and Other Expressions of Western Canadian Mennonites by Victor Carl Friesen.

Published by the University of Alberta Press in 1988, this hardcover first edition documents the folklore, language and traditions of Western Canadian Mennonites. The book collects hundreds of nursery rhymes, games, songs, sayings, maxims and other expressions, presented in Plautdietsch and English, along with historical background, photographs and illustrations. Contemporary reviews describe the collection as an important record of Mennonite language and folklore. University of New Brunswick

A strong regional-history title for collectors of Prairie, Mennonite, Saskatchewan, Manitoba or Western Canadian material.

Details

• The Windmill Turning
• Subtitle: Nursery Rhymes, Maxims, and Other Expressions of Western Canadian Mennonites
• Author: Victor Carl Friesen
• Foreword by Al Reimer
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Published: 1988
• Hardcover with dust jacket
• First edition
• ISBN: 0-88864-118-4
• Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings
• Includes Plautdietsch and English text
• Covers nursery rhymes, games, songs, maxims, sayings and Mennonite cultural history
• Period bibliographic sources describe the work as containing roughly 450 folklore items. WorldCat
• Printed by D. W. Friesen & Sons Ltd., Altona, Manitoba

Condition

Very good pre-owned condition overall.

The hardcover binding appears solid and the interior pages are clean and readable. The illustrated dust jacket remains bright and attractive with some light edge, corner and handling wear consistent with age.

There is a small handwritten “1988” notation on the inside dust-jacket flap.

Please review photos carefully for exact condition.

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