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Hedin, Finnvald
Four-Kings Saga: A Norse Odyssey
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Possibly inscribed by author on title page. 320 pages.
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Morss, Willard M.
Stolen Princess: A Northwest Indian Legend
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding.
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Rocard, Ann
Contes De Tous Les Pays
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Pictorial cover. Text in French. 126 pages. 8 7/8"w x 11 1/4"h.
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Coleman, Wim
Nine Muses: Modern Plays from Classic Myths
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 263 pages.
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Grimm
Pohadky Bratri Grimmu
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 196 pages. Bookplate and previous owner's name inside. Small tears on dust jacket. Cute color illustrations. Text in Czech.
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Merrifield, Heyoka
Eyes of Wisdom: The Myth of White Buffalo Woman
Excellent condition in every respect, book is as-new, dust jacket shows very very light shelfwear, no tears. Signed by author on front end paper.
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Grimm, William and Jacob; Humperdinck, Engelbert
Hansel and Gretel
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. A lovely picture book with mostly two-tone illustrations in green and black, and some in color. Includes 4 short musical excerpts notated for piano from the opera.
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Avery, Catherine B.
The New Century Handbook of Greek Mythology and Legend
Book shows very light shelf wear only to covers: binding is solid, spine straight, text is clean and unmarked in any way. 565 pages. An alphabetical list of Greek mythological & legendary figures with sometimes just a paragraph or pages long descriptions. Text is very clean on high quality paper showing no fading or discoloring with occasional b&w illustrations.
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And, Metin
Karagoz: Turkish Shadow Theatre
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 80 pages, plus color plates. 85 color illustrations and 80 b&w illustrations. 6 1/2"w x 9 1/2"h.
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Miller, Olive Beaupre (Editor)
Through Fairy Halls of My Book House
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 224 pages. Pictorial cover. 7 1/8"w x 9 3/8"h. Book 6 in the Book House series. Profusely illustrated.
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Martin, Eva
Canadian Fairy Tales
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 124 pages. 8 1/4"w x 10 1/4"h. Tear on dust jacket. Twelve full-page color illustrations by Laszlo Gal. "Drawn from the French, Irish and British oral tradition of the people who first settled Canada, these tales were transformed by the settlers' encounter with the new land. Ture fairy tales, they document the collision of the "normal world" with the mysterious and irrational world of faerie, and confirm that Canada has its own rich magic tradition."
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Kirn, Ann
Beeswax Catches a Thief: From a Congo Folktale
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Unpaginated. Oblong format: 9 3/4"w x 8"h. Wonderful color illustrations by the author.
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Masefield, John
South and East
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 23 pages. 7 1/2"w x 10"h. Full gray cloth boards. Dust jacket is in tatters. All six color plates by Jacynth Parsons are present (though not in the order indicated on the list of plates). The poem South and East is taken from John Masefield's book of Arthurian legends.
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Tatar, Maria
Secrets beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 247 pages.
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Miller, Olive Beaupre (Editor)
Halls of Fame of My Book House
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 300 pages. Pictorial cover. 7 1/8"w x 9 3/8"h. Book 12 in the Book House series. Profusely illustrated.
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Miller, Olive Beaupre (Editor)
Up One Pair of Stairs of My Book House
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 224 pages. Pictorial cover. 7 1/8"w x 9 3/8"h. Book 3 in the Book House series. Profusely illustrated.
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Dorsey, George A.
The Mythology of the Wichita
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Red cloth spine and corners with decorative paper-covered boards. Carnegie Institution Publication No. 21. 352 pages. 7 1/8"w x 9 7/8"h.
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Page, Eileen; O'Grady, Standish
The Hound of Culain or The Child of Promise
Full green cloth boards show a couple of small spots. Dust jacket is in pieces. Foxing to endpapers. Black and white drawings by Lawrence Wood. 62 pages. 6 1/8"w x 8"h.
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Charlene Spretnak
Lost goddesses of early Greece: A collection of pre-Hellenic myths
Book is in excellent condition with very light cover wear/shelf wear only. Otherwise Fine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
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Hoyt, Janet Ralston Chase
Janet et Ses Amis
Reddish brown cloth boards are worn around edges and have small tears and fraying. Long tear on spine and fraying at top and bottom of spine. Red, black, and gilt illustration and lettering on cover. Gilt side page ends. Text in French. Some smudges and tears on pages. ABC's, fairy tales, stories, and rhymes. Wonderful black and white illustrations on nearly every page. 78 pages. 8 1/4"w x 9 7/8"h.
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Rees, Ennis
More of Brer Rabbit's Tricks
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Bound ing bright green printed buckram cloth. Front endpaper torn out. Spots on cover. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 9 3/8"w x 7 3/4"h. Unpaginated. Brightly colored illustrations inside by Edward Gorey. Three Brer Rabbit stories told in rhyming verse.
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Olbracht, Ivan
Indian Fables
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full white cloth boards show a bit of edge wear. Pictorial endpapers. Small tape marks on endpapers. 8 1/4"w x 11 1/4"h. 220 pages. Printed on heavy, creamy paper. Color illustrations by Josef Liesler.
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Bourke, John G.
The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona: Being a Narrative of a Journey from Santa Fe, New Mexido, to the Villages of the Moqui Indians of Arizona
Book is in excellent condition showing very minor shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 371 pages with a series of additional plates at the back. Reprint of the 1884 text notable for the author having been accorded rare privileges in observing dance-related activities.
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Green, Roger Lancelyn
Tales of the Greek Heroes
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Age toning to pages and wear to cover. Foxing. 206 pages. Charming illustrations in black and white by Eleanor Graham and a lovely blue, yellow pink, black and white cover illustration.
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McCormick, Dell J.
Tall Timber Tales: More Paul Bunyan Stories
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Red and white buckram cloth cover with illustration of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. Black and white drawings by Lorna Livesley. 156 pages. 5 7/8"w x 9"h. Logging stories of Paul Bunyan, the mightiest logger of them all.
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Holman, Felice; Valen, Nanine; Walker, Stephen
The Drac: French Tales of Dragons and Demons
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full brown cloth boards a bit faded at edges. Small tears on edge worn dust jacket. Signed by illustrator Stephen Walker.
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McCormick, Dell J.
Tall Timber Tales: More Paul Bunyan Stories
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name inside. Green cloth cover with illustration of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. Edge wear and fraying to cover. Black and white drawings by Lorna Livesley. 156 pages. 6 1/8"w x 9 1/8"h. Logging stories of Paul Bunyan, the mightiest logger of them all.
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Romney Gay's Picture Book of Poems
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Green cloth spine is a little frayed. Previous owner's inscription inside. Tear on front endpaper. 36 pages. Black and white and color illustrations.
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Bodart, Anne; Alice B. Toklas (translator)
The Blue Dog and Other Fables for the French
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Scuffed dust jacket. Previous owner's name label inside. Stated First Printing.
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Godden, Rumer
The Valiant Chatti-Maker
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Fading to extremities of cover. 62 pages.
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Panofsky, Dora and Erwin
Pandora's Box : The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. 158 pages.
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Metzger, Berta
Picture Tales from India
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Bound in orange buckram cloth. Age-toned pages. 6 3/4"w x 5"h. 88 pages. Black and white illustrations by Mina Buchanan.
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Cost, March
The Bitter Green of the Willow: Four Fairy Tales By March Cost
Ex-library book with stamp but no other markings. Full green cloth boards. Edge wear to dust jacket. 6 3/4"w x 10 1/4"h. 76 pages. Illustrations by Anne Anderson. The stories are The Hearth Rug Goblin; The Strange Ship; The Rose Colored Spectacles; and Barney Loon.
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Frederick Richardson's Book for Children
Pasted down illustration on front cover has spots on it. Interior pages are clean and unmarked. Full brown cloth boards. 11 1/2"w x 8 3/4"h. 108 pages. Color illustrations throughout by Frederick Richardson.
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Matthews, John
The Song of Taliesin: Tales from King Arthur's Bard
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 234 pages. Light wear to cover.
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Warner, Rex
Men and Gods
Book shows light wear to covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind on age-toned paper. The glue in this perfect bound book is over 50 years old and is likely fragile. Chapters include: Cadmus, Actaeon, Pentheus, Ino, baucis, Philemon, Daedalus, Icarus, Perseus, Ceres, Proserpine, etc.
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Grotjahn, Martin
Voice of the Symbol
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, chips to edges, price clipped, now wrapped in protective cover. Contents include: Symbols in: American history (anti-black, collective guilt), of Love and life in marriage, Dream, Oedipus ( Jocasta ), Medieval christian art (Adam and Eve, Hell, Adamites, Hieronymus Bosch), Work of Georg Groddeck, Symbol in psychonalytic heory, etc.
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Thompson, Stith
Folk Tales of the North American Indians
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name label inside. Remainder mark. 386 pages. Includes mythological stories, mythical incidents, trickster tales, heo tales, journeys to the other world, animal wives and husbands, miscellaneous tales, tales borrowed from europeans, and bible stories; notes; bibliography. 386 pages.
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Emrich, Duncan (ed.)
Folklore of Love and Courtship The : The Charms and Divinations, Beliefs and Superstitions, Sign and Prospects of Love Sweet Love
Book is in excellent condition save top corners of HB: lightly bumped. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears; Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Small format, 51 pages on heavy paper.
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Andersen, Hans Christian
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
Book is in excellent condition with illustrated cover and spine; as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows light wear with chipping at edges, small closed tears, now wrapped in clear protective cover. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 35 tales illustrated by children from eighteen nation with large, color prints.
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Luthi, Max
Fairytale as Art Form and Portrait of Man, The
Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book.207 pages, contents include: Fairytale hero, Beauty and it's shock effect, Style and composition: perfection and imperfection, Contrasts, polarities, and extremes, etc.
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Von Franz, Marie-Louise; Jung, Emma
The Grail Legend
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name or label inside. 452 pages. Age-toned paper.
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Book Trails to Enchanted Lands 6
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Embossed imitation leather covers. Picture endpapers. Small piece of top corner of first few pages torn off. A quarter page of last printed page is torn off. 320 pages. Volume 6 only.
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Lindahl, Carl
Earnest Games: Folkloric Patterns in the Canterbury Tales
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 197 pages. Contents include: Role of the pilgrim, Shape of performance, Substance of the game, Social base of angry speech in Chaucer's London, Insult strategies fo the pilgrims, License to lie: the Churls' rhetoric of fiction, Gentil folk: back to court
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MacDonald, George
The Complete Fairy Tales of George MacDonald
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear to cover. 288 pages. The stories in this volume are The Light Princess, The Giant's Heart, The Shadows, The Carasoyn, Little Daylight, Cross Purposes, The Golden Key, The Day Boy and The Night Girl.
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Plunkett, Stephanie
Kongi and Potgi: A Cinderella Story from Korea
Previous owner's name and label inside; otherwise clean and unmarked. 8 5/8"w x 10 3/4"h.
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Levi-Strauss, Claude
The Story of Lynx
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 276 pages. "Claude L?vi-Strauss's most accessible examination of the rich mythology of American Indians. In this wide-ranging work, the master of structural anthropology considers the many variations in a story that occurs in both North and South America, but especially among the Salish-speaking peoples of the Northwest Coast. He also shows how centuries of contact with Europeans have altered the tales." Black and white maps and illustrations.
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Ruskin,John; Mary De Morgan; George McDonald; Christina Rossetti; Jonathan Cott; Leslie Fiedler ; Tom Hood, Mrs. Clifford, Mary De Morgan, Maggie Browne, Mark Lemon, George MacDonald, Christiana Rossetti
Beyond the Looking Glass: Extraordinary Works of Fairy Tales and Fantasy from the Victorian Era
Book is in excellent condition with bright green quarter cloth covers, gilt print at spine, publisher emblem embossed on yellow portion of boards. Very clean. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears, now wrapped in protective clear cover. Previous owner's sticker at front, 519 pages with b&w illustrations throughout. Contents include: Petsetilla's Posy, The wanderings of Arasmon, Tinykin's transformations, Goblin market.
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De Saint-Exupery, Antoine; Woods, Katherine (translator)
The Little Prince (Anniversary Edition)
Anniversary Edition. Hardcover in slipcase. Slight wear to edges. Slipcase shows light wear at corners. Shiny teal blue boards with gilt lettering and little prince illustration. 94 pages. Mustard colored endpapers. A lovely edition.
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Dundes, Alan (author); Simon J. Bronner (editor)
The Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name label inside. Full green cloth boards. 444 pages.
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