Uwepekere, or Ainu Fireside Stories. As told by one of themselves

Translated by the Van. Dr. John Batchelor, Sapporo, Hokkaido. Tokyo : Kyobunkan, 1924. Octavo, flush cut papered boards with laid on illustration, lightly foxed, private collection stamp from Library of Tokito to front free endpaper, pp. [vi]; 2; 104, vignette illustrations, 50 folk tales written in Ainu and English, a very good copy.

Englishman Rev. John Batchelor (1855-1944), of the Church Missionary Society, arrived in Hokkaido in 1877 and lived among the indigenous Ainu communities for more than sixty years. He was the first to develop a writing system for the Ainu language.