This Dover edition, first published in 2003, is an unabridged republication of the text and illustrations from West African Folk Tales, Books One and Two (1958), and More West African Folk Tales, Books One and Two (1963). Newly reset in one volume, the original four books were compiled by Hugh Vernon-Jackson and first published in London by The University of London Press, Ltd. The separate prefaces from each of the four books have been abridged and combined for the present edition.