I am trying to locate the out-of-print book:

A Kingdom Lost for a Drop of Honey and Other Burmese Folktales 
by Maung Htin Aung and Helen G. Trager, Paw Oo Thet (illustrator)

I have located the site: www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/7344/
but this is dated. There also may be a canadian site with a very dated listing.

Can you find another website (that is current) with this book for sale?

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Request for Question Clarification by robertskelton-ga on 07 Feb 2003 19:32 PST

I have found it listed at another site. I've emailed them to see if it
is still available:

Burma Books
http://www.thailine.com/lotus/lists/bur-list/bur-lst.htm

Earlier today, I emailed the dealer in Thailand mentioned by
robertskelton-ga. I received this response:

From: "Diethard Ande" <ande@loxinfo.co.th>
Subject: Re: book

SORRY, SOLD ALREADY
REGARDS DIETHARD ANDE

Abebooks, which bills itself as "the world's largest online
marketplace for used, rare and out-of-print books," has 46 listings
for this author, including multiple listings for "Burmese Folks
Tales."  I assume this is NOT the book you want.

However . . . if you go to Abebooks, you can segue from each book
listing to search the inventory of each individual bookseller.  I did
not do that for the complete list, but I found (in doing it for five
of the listings) that they often had additional books by the same
authors and illustrator.

I must say, the other books that are listed when you search for Paw Oo
Thet sound absolutely entrancing.  He (she?) illustrated a book called
A Wonderland of Burmese Legends, described as follows:  "The author
takes us from Rangoon, Pegu and Prome to Sriksetra and up the
Irrawaddy to Mandalay and Sagaing, a journey accompanied by the magic
watercolours of the late Paw Oo Thet, Burma's best loved contemporary
artist."

http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookSearch

Search Strategy:

A local bookseller told me the other day that he always starts with
Abebooks, because they have so many listings.

I emailed an out-of-print children's books dealers to inquire about
this book.  He says he could have sold the copy he had back in
November about 10 times since then, largely because of a review of the
book that came out on National Public Radio in December.  So I think
it will be very difficult indeed to find this book - it's just in very
high demand!
librariankt