RARE Book by the writer, Albanian Ethnologist Rrok Zoizi / Very Large 10.5"x14.25" Format, illustrated with 53 huge full page color quality lithographs by Dhimiter Mborja, each has nice large boarders for matting and is printed on one side only, and quite frameable as the book has a unique binding - it has cardboard cover The pages are loose-leaf with ribbons holding them together through four holes in the inside page edges, outside the borders. Printed in 1959 in Tirana, Albania. Until recently, Albania was almost completely closed to outsiders. It was one of the most tightly secure countries in the world!

"This Dover edition, first published in 2011, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1965 under the title Folk and Festival Costume of the

An Unusual ...: Collection of Near and Far Eastern Rarities Including ... Royal Turkish and Albanian Costumes, Indian and Persian Shaw Height : 0.17 In Length : 9.21 In Width : 6.14 In Weight : 0.28

All around the world there are festivals that reach back through the sands of time to medieval carnival traditions, and beyond. The festivals in this book are often little known outside their locale and they are all characterised by spectacular costumes and compellingly bizarre rituals. The Jarramplas of Piornal, Spain is a spooky devil character dressed in rags, who is pelted by two tons of turnips every year. In Japan, the Kasedori wear a suit of straw and run barefoot through the snow as villagers douse them in freezing water to protect their houses from fire. The Courir de Mardi