Hippocrene Books are a US publishing press located at 171 Madison Avenue, New York City, NY 10016. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view The City of New York New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Hippocrene specialises in books on folklore, ethnic cookbooks (particularly those of less-widely known cuisines), translations of classic works, and foreign-language reference works. A Book is a set or collection of written printed illustrated or blank sheets made of Paper, Parchment, or other material usually fastened together A cookbook is a Book that contains information on Cooking, and/or a list of Recipes It may also contain information on ingredient origin freshness It grew out of Optimum Book Marketing, established by Polish immigrant George Blagowidow in 1970. The press takes its name from the mythical Hippocrene fountain associated with the Muses. In Greek mythology, Hippocrene (Ἱπποκρήνη was the name of a fountain on Mt In Greek mythology, the Muses ( Ancient Greek, hai moũsai: perhaps from the Proto-Indo-European root * men- "think" are
Selected books published
- Czech, Moravian, and Slovak Fairy Tales (Parker Fillmore)
- Fairy Gold: A Book of Classic English Fairy Tales (Parker Fillmore)
- Folk Tales from Bohemia (Adolf Wenig)
- Folk Tales From Chile (Brenda Hughes)
- Folk Tales from Russia (Danald A. Folk Tales from Chile is a compilation of Chilean folklore and children's bedtime stories written by Brenda Hughes and illustrated Brenda Hughes is the Chilean American Author of Folk Tales From Chile. Mackenzie)
- Folk Tales from Simla (Alice Elizabeth Dracott)
- Glass Mountain: Twenty-Eight Ancient Polish Folk Tales and Fables (W. S. Kuniczak)
- The Little Mermaid and Other Tales (Hans Christian Andersen)
- Swedish Fairy Tales
- Tales of Languedoc from the South of France (Samuel Jacques Brun)
- Twenty Scottish Tales and Legends (Cyril Swinson)
- Old Polish Legends
- Poland's Navy, 1918-1945 (Michael Alfred Peszke)
- Polish Fables Bilingual Edition (Ignacy Krasicki)
- Pakistani Folk Tales: Toontoony Pie and Other Stories (Ashraf Siddiqui, Marilyn Lerch)
- Bolesław Prus, Pharaoh, translated from the Polish by Christopher Kasparek, 2nd ed. Hans Christian Andersen (ˈhanˀs ˈkʰʁæʂd̥jan ˈɑnɐsn̩ in Danish or simply H Michael Alfred Peszke (born 1932 Dęblin, Poland) is a Polish-American psychiatrist and historian of the Polish Armed Forces in World War Ignacy Krasicki (February 3 1735 March 14 1801 from 1795 Archbishop of Gniezno (thus Primate of Poland) was Poland 's leading Enlightenment Bolesław Prus (pronounced [bɔ'lεswaf 'prus]; Hrubieszów, August 20 1847 &ndash May 19 1912 Warsaw) whose actual name was Pharaoh (Faraon is the fourth and last major Novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. Christopher Kasparek (born 1945 is a Physician, Writer and Polish -to- English translator. , 2001.
- The Jewish People's Almanac, 2d ed. , 2007. (David C. Gross)