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Pennsylvania German Folklore Society
The Pennsylvania Germans in Wisconsin. Cover title
Pennsylvania German Folklore Soc. 1954. 8vo cream colored dec burlap cloth 178pp historical photos map -- Contents: Henry Meyer an early Pa German poet pages 1-33; some poems in Englsih some in German Saga of the Pa Germans in Wisconsin pages 33-167 Pa German folklore & more -- Very good condition Quantity Available: 1 Category: Genealogy; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request Inventory No: 000134. Pennsylvania German Folklore Soc., 1954 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 134
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Tartaglia Louis A.
THE GREAT WING
Executive Books. Near Fine. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 0937539236 . Hardcover. Excellent condition clean and unmarked. Cover has light scuffing. "This whimsical story about a Canada goose is really an analogy illustrating human transformation. As readers follow the tribulations of a rebellious fledgling who matures into the leader of a V-wing formation they will recognize the value of virtues such as honesty courage and perseverance and learn that an individual's strengths are magnified when they serve the needs of a group." 392-osl; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 152 pages . Executive Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 10758 ISBN : 0937539236 9780937539231
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Trueman Stuart
GHOSTS PIRATES AND TREASURE TROVE The Phantoms That Haunt New Brunswick
Mcclelland & Stewart. Good in Good dust jacket. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771086024 . Solid tight condition. Ex-library book with usual type markings. Light edge & corner wear. Light soiling & small brownish stain coffee to one outer edge which affects just the edge of several pages. Interior otherwise clean a few earmarks. "22 tales of hair-raising hoaxes burning ships spine-tingling spirits and eerie events." Includes: The Dungarvon Whooper The Headless Nun The Galloping Ghost of Major Studholm & several others. 351-notosl; 8vo . Mcclelland & Stewart hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3096 ISBN : 0771086024 9780771086021
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Ndebele Njabulo
FOOLS AND OTHER STORIES
Readers International. Good. 1986. Softcover. 0930523202 . Reprint 280 pages. Light edgewear creasing to cover small peeled area top corner. Interior has a small amount of pencil underlining and booksellers stamp on first page a little age tanning to page edges. From Library Journal: The five stories in this fine first collection are set in the black South African township of Charterston where the author himself grew up. Without sentimentality or redundant stridency they depict the black struggle for survival and human dignity under the evils of apartheid. Ndebele's acute ear for dialogue and his eye for telling visual detail enable him to evoke township life with remarkable immediacy for the non-South African reader. He also has a special talent for portraying the complex relationships between children and adults. The novella-length title story "Fools" is the prize of the collection but the four shorter pieces are also of high quality. Recommended for African and fiction collections. shipping will be reduced to most locations ; 8vo . Readers International paperback
Bookseller reference : 5805 ISBN : 0930523202 9780930523206
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Brooks Charlotte K. editor
AFRICAN RHYTHMS Selected Stories and Poems
Washington Square Press. Very Good. 1974. First Edition. Softcover. 0671487582 . Washington Square Press 1974 edition. 12mo 7 1/4" tall . Light wear to edges crease to spine interior pages clean and tight. 238 pages. An excellent collection of little known stories of African literature including early creation myths photo essays folklore poetry and contemporary tales. Illustrated 238 pages. os; 12mo 7" - 7�" tall; . Washington Square Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 2383 ISBN : 0671487582 9780671487584
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Opie Iona and Peter
A NURSERY COMPANION
London: Oxford University Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0192122134 . Ex-library book but still in quite good condition - laminated cover and usual ex-lib type markings. Cover has light edgewear a little moreso to bottom edge. Pages have occasional light soiling but clean and intact for the most part. Charming colour illustrations. 128 pages. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Oxford University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 8904 ISBN : 0192122134 9780192122131
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Madrigal Antonio Hernandez
ERANDI'S BRAIDS
G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0399232125 . Very nice copy. Ex-library with laminated cover & usual type markings. Light wear/scuffing to jacket. Internally very good - light wrinkling to a copy pages. ".Erandi a Mexican girl looks forward to her birthday and a forthcoming village fiesta with great anticipation.after all she hopes to have a new dress to wear. But Erandi's dreams of pretty things are soon interrupted. Mam 's fishing net with which she catches their food is too torn to repair and there is not enough money to buy a new net as well as a dress." Ages 4-8. 380-osl ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
Bookseller reference : 9584 ISBN : 0399232125 9780399232121
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Welsch Roger
TOUCHING THE FIRE Buffalo Dancers the Sky Bundle and Other Tales
Villard Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0679408878 . Very nice condition - Ex-library with usual stamps & stickers mylar cover only light wear overall light soiling outer edge of pages interior clean & tight other than library markings. From Publishers Weekly: Folklorist Welsch here relates the saga of the Turtle Creek band of the fictional Nehawkas and their most sacred object: the Sky Bundle a medicine pouch containing powerful talismans. The interlinked stories appear in reverse chronological order beginning in 2001 the year the Sky Bundle was returned to the Nehawkas from a Boston museum and moving back to the tribe's origins somewhere in the mists of history. ; 8vo . Villard Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2966 ISBN : 0679408878 9780679408871
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Frye Ellen
AMAZON STORY BONES
Spinsters Ink. Very Good. 1994. First Edition. Softcover. 1883523001 . Ex-library book but still in good condition. Sturdy laminated cover and usual ex-lib type markings. Light wear to corners and spine ends light soiling outer edge of pages. Interior pages clean and tight a couple earmarks seen. 193 pages. ; 8vo; stock photo shown. Midwest Book Review: Amazon Story Bones is a sumptuous and gratifying feast of story and song of image and lyric of history and invention. Ellen Frye rejects traditional male definitions of the Amazons to give us familiar Greek myths retold from an Amazon perspective. The myths are followed by a collection of stories told against the backdrop of the Trojan War. Weaving the threads of their own lives through the tapestry of a history previously head only from the point of view of the ruling class two old women a born Amazon and an Amazon by choice reveal the knots that hold the weave together. A child marks her heritage and pledges to keep it alive in story and song. .osl 322 . Spinsters Ink paperback
Bookseller reference : 6420 ISBN : 1883523001 9781883523008
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Various Authors
THE 3RD FONTANA BOOK OF GREAT GHOST STORIES
U. K.: Fontana Books. Very Good. 1974. First Edition; Eighth Printing. Softcover. 0006136966 . Light edge & corner wear light scuffing/soiling to cover. Internal pages are clean & tight other than some markings left by erased pencil writing inside front cover. Stories: Negotium Perambulans By E F Benson; End of the Flight By W Somerset Maugham; The Beckoning Fair One By Oliver Onions; The Dream By A J Alan; The Stranger By Hugh MacDiarmid; The Case of Mr Lucraft By Walter Besant & James Rice; Seventh Man By Arthur Quiller Couch; No Ships Pass By Eleanor Smith; Man Who Came Back By William Gerhardi; The Visiting Star By Robert Aickman. 224 pages. shipping will be reduced to all locations ; 12mo 7" - 7�" tall . Fontana Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 9284 ISBN : 0006136966 9780006136965
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Jocks Yvonne editor
WITCHES' BREW Let the World's Greatest Writers Put You Under a Spell
Berkley Pub Group. New. 2002. Softcover. 0425186091 . New item - has a small remainder marking very light shelfwear to cover edges. Throughout history witches have always enthralled us. Be they good witches or bad witches ancient sorcerers or modern-day Wiccans their aura of magic nature and power is irresistible. Here some of the greatest authors of all time are gathered together to stir up a little trouble. These works of prose and poetry capture the witch in all her guises: wicked empowering romantic and pagan. 370; 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall . Berkley Pub Group paperback
Bookseller reference : 8059 ISBN : 0425186091 9780425186091
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Webb Anne
ONCE UPON ANOTHER TIME .
London: Young World Productions. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. Very Scarce Title. Hardcover has light edgewear a little corner bumping a few small spots interior pages clean & unmarked. Front endpage has a bottom tear which has been taped. Jacket has light soiling light edgewear and a few tiny tears one 1" corner tear is taped on the back. Back flap has some creases front flap is clipped. Charming colour illustrations throughout! "Being the Latest Adventures of Your Best Loved Fairytale Folk. What happened to our beloved fairytale characters beyond the finish of the traditional tales all children know so well The answer to this question is to be found within with the author's fascinating sequels to some of our best loved stories. Stories included: Puss in Boots to the Rescue; The Emperor's Nightingale and the Dragon; The Eleven Dancing Princesses; The Elves and the Hatterk; The Golden Goose and Queen April's Happiness and Tom Thumb's Special Surprise. " 475; 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall . Young World Productions hardcover
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Andrews Lynn V.
FLIGHT OF THE SEVENTH MOON
Harper & Bros. Good. 1991. Softcover. 0062500287 . Moderate wear overall. Good reading copy. Author Lynn V. Andrews began her quest for self-discovery in her remarkable book MEDICINE WOMAN. With the help of her teacher the Indian shaman woman Agnes Whistling Elk Andrews was given a series of challenges that continued to lead her to more expanded levels of awareness. Now once again Andrews weaves a mesmerizing story as she learns to protect the powers she has gained from the sorcerer Red Dog. 350 ; 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall . Harper & Bros. paperback
Bookseller reference : 7735 ISBN : 0062500287 9780062500281
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McNamee Gregory editor
THE MOUNTAIN WORLD A Literary Journey
San Francisco: Sierra Club. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 0871568985 . Ex-library with mylar cover and usual stamps & stickers - only light wear overall clean & tight. Bookstock campaign sticker on first page. 262 pages. Photo shown is a stock photo not actual book. Book Description: Whether we climb them or view them from afar they continue to pull at us calling us home those mountains. " So writes editor Gregory McNamee in his eloquent Introduction to this compelling new anthology in which he has gathered mountain-inspired literature from sources as varied and far-flung as the peaks themselves. The writings take all manner of literary forms: folktales of the Ashanti and myths of the Aborigines; essays; journals and travelogues of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century travelers; poetry of both ancient and modern times. We hear from familiar voices -- Whitman Muir Dickens Chekhov Conan Doyle -- and from those not so familiar but equally fascinating including Russian naturalist Nikolai Prejevalsky and English "lady" adventurer Isabella Bird. ; 8vo . Sierra Club hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6385 ISBN : 0871568985 9780871568984
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Tolkien J. R. R.
THE SILMARILLION
London: Unwin Paperbacks. Good with no dust jacket. 1985. Softcover. 0048232300 . Reprint. Moderate edgewear several creases & scuffing to cover light soiling outer edge of pages. Interior tight and clean other than light edge stain to first few pages small tear first page. Pages are lightly wrinkled. Reading copy. Synopsis: Forerunner to THE LORD OF THE RINGS which gives an account of the Elder Days when Morgoth the first Dark Lord dwells in Middle-Earth and the High Elves make war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor. 380noto ; 8vo . Unwin Paperbacks paperback
Bookseller reference : 6610 ISBN : 0048232300 9780048232304
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Anthony Minghella
Jim Henson's "The Storyteller"
<p>Based on Henson's Emmy Award-winning television series this magnificent and unusual book is comprised of nine traditional European folk and fairy tales beautifully told with original full-color illustrations. The tale encompass the universal themes of folk literature--faith and need enchantment folly and greed and courage and generosity. A spellbinding collection infused with Henson's special magic. 41 full-color paintings.</p><p>Knopf Stated First Edition First Printing 10/1991. Book in better than very good condition solid nosoiling or writingclean and bright r. no corner bumps. DJ is very good very slight shelfwear small indentation on cove.<br />Beautifully Illustrated in color by Darcy May. A beautiful copy an AWESOME GIFT!!</p> Knopf hardcover
Bookseller reference : biblio 721 ISBN : 039458256X 9780394582566
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Hamilton Edith
Mythology
Boston: Little Brown and Company 1942. very good hardcover with no dust jacket. 1942. Previous owner inscription & stamp. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Cover. Illus. by Savage Steele illustrator. Little, Brown and Company Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 170610-MG26
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Aliquando Press Rueter William
FIVE FABLES BY PILPAY. Retold by William Rueter Linocuts by Elizabeth Creith
Toronto: The Aliquando Press Printed by William Rueter December 1981. 25 cm x 16.5 cm. Limited to 100 copies this being no. 43. Pp. 34 French-folded Zephyr Antique paper frontispiece linocut in orange plus 11 others in various colours by Elizabeth Creith. Handmade Indonesian batik cloth covered boards with printed label on cover and spine. Spine label just a tad darkened minute lean else a near fine clean tight copy. Aliquando Press Three Decades BK 49. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Octavo. The Aliquando Press, Printed by William Rueter, December Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3581
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Lawrence TE. Translator T. E.
THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK BY T.E. SHAW Lawrence of Arabia. The Hesperides Series
New York: Oxford University Press 1940. The Hesperides Series. "2500 copies of this volume printed at The Walpole Printing Office Mount Vernon N.Y." Copyright 1932 by Bruce Rogers. Rogers one of the greatest book designers of his time and a typographer who invented the Centaur typeface. In the four years it took to produce this book he became great friends with the translator "Lawrence of Arabia." Pp. 437 4 - translator's note headpieces. Plain but elegant brown linen cloth gilt rule at top and bottom of upper and lower covers gilt lettered spine and dots of tiny gilt apples. A very good to fine handsome copy. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12 mo. Oxford University Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3306
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Maclaren Archibald
THE FAIRY FAMILY. A Series of Ballads and Metrical Tales Illustrating The Fairy Mythology of Europe
London: Longman Brown Green Longmans & Roberts 1857. Illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones his first attempt at book illustration with a Steel engraved title-page and frontispiece and a woodcut tailpiece. Pp. xv 283 i.e. 277 - error in pagination: page 80 skips to page 97 however register is continuous without loss 4 - publ. catalogue. Blind-stamped green ribbed cloth gilt spine title and design light salmon coloured endpapers. Very good very clean and square with the spine only lightly sunned. Highly collectible copy. Fredeman 92.1; Houfe p.82/3. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. Octavo. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts Paperback
Bookseller reference : 3316
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Wagner Richard Arthur Rackham.
THE RING OF THE NIBLUNG: The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie; and Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods. Translated by Margaret Armour. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham 2 vols. in 1
London: William Heinemann 1939. Pp. viii 160 frontispiece & 23 full-colour plates title-page vignette and 7 headpieces and tailpieces; viii 182 frontispiece & 23 full-colour plates title-page vignette and 7 headpieces & 6 tailpieces. Blue cloth with black lettering and design to upper cover and spine illustrated endpapers previous owner's ink signature to half-title bit of a crack in the gutter at vol. 2 p. 111 else very nice clean bright copy of this fine example of Rackham at his most accomplished. Housed in a slightly soiled price-intact dust jacket with chips to the tips flap-edges and spine chips at head of spine affecting the printed title a few small closed tears otherwise it has performed admirably by keeping the cloth of the book bright and fresh. Gettings p. 178. First Edition stated. Original Cloth. Very Good/Good. Stout Quarto. William Heinemann Paperback
Bookseller reference : 3286
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Armstrong Martin. With Drawings by Paul Nash
SAINT HERCULES and Other Stories
London: Printed by Oliver Simon at the Curwen Press and Published by The Fleuron Ltd. ca. 1927 28.5 cm x 19.5 cm. Numbered limited edition of 310 copies printed on Zanders' Hand-made paper this being #3. Patterned paper boards with gilt-titled brown cloth backing. 5 pochoir illustrations 2 full-page housed in a very good sturdy green cloth slipcase. An important work where Nash employs the pochoir or stencilling technique for the first time leading up to the 1932 production of 'Urne Buriall'. Numbered Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Slipcase. Quarto. Printed by Oliver Simon at the Curwen Press and Published by The Fleuron Ltd. [ca. 1927] Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3240
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Burns Robert
THE MERRY MUSES. A Choice Collection of Favourite Songs Gathered From Many Sources. To which are added Two of His Letters and a Poem - Hitherto Suppressed - Never Before Printed
N.p.: N.p. Privately Printed Not for Sale 1827 i.e. 1872 1827. 16.5 cm x 11.5 cm pp. vi. i.e. viii 10-90. Head of title-page reads: "Not for Maids Ministers or Striplings." Half bound in mottled calf and french curl marbled paper on comb pattern same pattern on endpapers 5 raised bands ornate gilt panelled spine green leather spine label sewn endbands. Covers lightly scuffed else a very good handsomely bound copy of this book of erotic poems folk songs and ballads. "Robert Burns facinated by the simplicity beauty and pathetic tenderness of the songs and ballads of the peasantry floating around him set himself to gather them up for preservation. . His researches brought him acquainted with many strange outspoken ditties for gentlemen of antiquarian tastes need not be told that many of the Songs and Rhymes then unprinted were as Sir Walter Scott says "rather high kilted" or as Burns styles them "not quite ladies' reading." . The age he lived in was different from yours - and if a free spoken ditty of the olden school now and then oozed out remember that humour in connection with the sexual affections flourished in Greece and Rome ages upon ages ago and it is not yet extinct in your own country nor in your own bosom." - from the Preface. . Hard Cover. 16mo. N.p. Privately Printed [Not for Sale], 1827 [i.e. 1872] Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2483
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Doughty Charles M.
The Dawn in Britain 6 volume set
London: Duckworth & Co. 1906. 19 cm x 13.5 cm pp. 217; 233; 239; 230; 252; 249 includes index and glossary. Original green ribbed cloth gilt spine titles. Free endpapers of vols. 124 & 5 very lightly tanned the slightest of spotting to the edges of vols. 1 & 5 occasional foxing to end pages of vols. 2 & 5 and to the lower margin of approx. 8 leaves in vol. 4 otherwise a fine bright and square crisp set with no marks signatures etc. "This strong strange poem fulfils aspirations . Heroic duels closely modelled on Homeric fights; bits of pagan mythology like Woden's visit to the abode of Hel; Brennus's passage of the Alps; the Song of Sigor a beautiful version of the myth of Cispin and Agygia . this is no ordinary poem . It is a work of an altogether higher order." - from early Review of Vols. 1 & 2 in the Times Literary Supplement quoted in Vol. 3. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Duckworth & Co.
Bookseller reference : 2327
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Beitl, Richard
Deutsche Volkskunde. Von Siedlung, Haus und Ackerflur, von Glaube und Brauch, von Sage, Wort und Lied des deutschen Volkes.
Bln, Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft 1933. 4°. 550 S. OHLdr. Kl. Namensstempel an Vorsatz und Titel. Etwas gelockert. Ecken berieben.
Bookseller reference : 4587AB
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Lejeune, Carlo
Leben und Feiern auf dem Lande. Die Bräuche der belgischen Eifel. Band 1: Von Silvester bis Weihnachten. Die Frömmigkeit des Volkes. Dokumentiert von Hansgeorg Jacobs und Rudi Lejeune. [Und]: Band 2: Von der Wiege bis zur Bahre. Das Dorf als Lebenswelt. Dokumentiert von Rudi Lejeune. Mit Illustrationen von Robert Maaswinkel (sowie vielen photographischen Abbildungen und 3 Falttafeln 'Die Bräuche der belgischen Eifel im Laufe des Jahres' und 'Vereinsgründungen').
St. Vith, Aktuell-Verlagsgesellschaft 1993. 4°. 320; 352 S. OPpBde. Ecken teils etwas gestaucht.
Bookseller reference : 37395AB
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DORSON Richard M
AMERICAN FOLKLORE & THE HISTORIAN
University of Chicago Press 1971 . First edition. Hardcover. Fine/about fine. 12mo 239 pages black cloth <br/><br/>Inscribed by Dorson to Chicago Corral Sheriff Al Krieg. Dorson headed the Folklore Institute at Indiana University. University of Chicago Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : DEMO007966I ISBN : 0226158683 9780226158686
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Veader Jody
The Legend of Johnny Friend
Garrett County: Jody Veader 1975. A Story of the First Settlers of Garrett County. Second Edition. Paperback Stapled. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Jody Veader Paperback
Bookseller reference : 20161214-06
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London Jonathan
Let the Lynx Come in
Cambridge: Candlewick Press 1996. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/price-clipped dj. Quarto. pictorial cloth <br/><br/>Illustrated by Patrick Benson. Candlewick Press, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002796 ISBN : 1564025314 9781564025319
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Spence Lewis
Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria
NY: Farrar & Rinehart. Good with no dust jacket; Penciled owner name on front free endpaper . front hinge cracked boards scuffed. N.D. Hardcover. Circa 1930s reprint of this collection of ancient legends. Includes 8 color plates and other illustrations by Evelyn Paul. Dark green cloth with printed paper labels on front boards and spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 412 pages . Farrar & Rinehart hardcover
Bookseller reference : 36686
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Yolen Jane
Touch Magic: Fantasy Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
NY: Philomel Books 1981. minor soiling DJ tattered at edges. Cloth. Good /Fair. Philomel Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 19612 ISBN : 0399208305 9780399208300
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ETHEL COXON M. DOUGLAS
PROVERB STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS THE GOLDEN ACORN SERIES
PHILADELPHIA: J.B. Lippincott Company 1881 RED COVER GOLD AND BLACK INLAY ACORNS ON FRONT. 2 NUMBERS IN FRONT IN PENCIL ALL ELSE CLEAN SOME FOXING TIGHT AND IN GOOD SHAPE. A BRAVE BOY'S TRIALS; OR SAY WELL IS A GOOD WORD BUT DO WELL IS A BETTER.-COXON THE QUIET DAUGHTER; OR WHEN THE SUN HAS SET THE LITTLE STARS MAY SHINE.- DOUGLAS A DAZZLING ACQUAINTANCE; OR FAIR WORDS BUTTER NO PAESNIPS.- AUTHOR OF 'THE YOUNG ENGINEER.' J.B. Lippincott Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000343
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LEWIS CARROLL
WALT DISNEY'S ALICE IN WONDERLAND A BIG GOLDEN BOOK
NEW YORK: GOLDEN PRESS 1951 BEAUTIFUL BOOK AND ARTWORK. PIECE OF HISTORY. SOME WEAR ON EDGES FORMER OWNERS NAME WRITTEN INSIDE FRONT AND INSCRIPTION WHERE GIVEN FROM TEACHER- NO OTHER MARKINGS. TIGHT AND WONDERFUL ART INSIDE. NUMBER ON FRONT UPPER CORNER 10426:100. WAL DISNEY PRODUCTIONS. PICTURES ADAPTED BY AL DEMPSTER FROM THE MOTION PICTURE BASED STORY OF LEWIS CARROLL. Alice in Wonderland 1865 classic Victorian fairy tale by Lewis Carroll Latinized pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson 1832�98. First published as Alice's Adventures Under Ground 1863 it was inspired by a boating party with Alice Liddell and her sisters daughters of an Oxford don. The fictional Alice is a 7�year�old who falls down a rabbit hole changes from microscopic to telescopic proportions and encounters a hookah�smoking Caterpillar Mock Turtle and Cheshire Cat. This early version was expanded to include the Mad Tea Party the Pig and Pepper episode with the Ugly Duchess Alice's trial by the Queen of Hearts and parodies such as �Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy� and �Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat�. The revised text also included illustrations by John Tenniel the political cartoonist for Punch who also worked on the sequel. Through the Looking�Glass and What Alice Found There 1871 has Alice participating in a Rabelaisian living chess game with Red and White Queens and a White Knight. On her way to becoming a Queen she meets talking flowers a battling Lion and Unicorn Humpty Dumpty and the twins Tweedledum and Tweedledee who recite �You Are Old Father William� and �The Walrus and the Carpenter�. �Jabberwocky� perhaps the most celebrated English nonsense poem and �Upon the Lonely Moor� a parody of Wordsworth are also included. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN WHERE HISTORY LIVES. GOLDEN PRESS hardcover
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CHARLES DICKENS
STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS
USA: PLATINUM PRESS 2010 A BEAUTIFUL FACSIMILE EDITION TO THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WHICH INCLUDES FIVE MORE STORIES. A CHRISTMAS TREE THE POOR RELATION'S STORY THE CHILD'S STORY THE SCHOOLBOY'S STORY AND NOBODY'S STORY. NO MARKINGS INSIDE. BOOK APPEARS NEW. RED READING TASSLE GOLD EDGE PAGES HOLIDAY DECORATION ON PAGES DARK GREEN-SHINEY COVER WITH GOLD PICTURE AND DECORATION ON FRONT AND PRINT ON SPINE. Dickens Charles 1812�70 English novelist. Dickens was a passionate supporter of fairy tales. In A Christmas Carol 1843 the miserly Scrooge is transformed into a miracle of genial generosity by the ghosts of Christmas Past Present and Yet to Come. TERRIFIC COLLECTOR ITEM. 1776 BOOKSTORE WHERE HISTORY LIVES. PLATINUM PRESS hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000484
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George Johnston
The Greenlanders saga
Oberon Press 1976. Fine copy in jacket with a little soiling to back panel. First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Oberon Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 14297 ISBN : 0887502032 9780887502033
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Clarke David with Roberts Amy
TWILIGHT OF THE CELTIC GODS: An Exploration of Britain's Hidden Pagan Traditions
London: Blandford Cassell Imprint 1996. 176pp. unpaginated 8 page colour-plate section plus intext b/white halftone plates and sketch-art illustrations. Book clean and square. Spine firm bright gilt title there-on. Text-block trivially bumped on upper foredge corner otherwise as new. Pictorially-illustrated loose-plastic protected dustjacket nominally edgeworn only. " . . . fascinating account of Britain's surviving Celtic tradition . . . research in the field . . . clear evidence . . . first-hand accounts . . . uncovered last traces . . . " Contents include: Prelims. Intro. 1/ Celtic Belief. 2/ Celtic Landscape. 3/ Celtic Supernatural. Conclusion. Index more. Book weight approx. 790g. First Edition. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good /Very Good . 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. Blandford (Cassell Imprint) Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 005535 ISBN : 0713725222 9780713725223
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THOMAS BULFINCH
THE AGE OF FABLE or STORIES OF GODS AND HEROES
New York: THE HERITAGE PRESS 1958 VERY NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER WITH DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE GOLD PRINT SPINE. GOLD SLIP COVER WITH WEAR EDGES. EDGE OF PAGES SPECKLED DESIGN. ART OF ATLAS FRONTISPIECE. INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY DUDLEY FITTS. COPYRIGHT BY GEORGE MACY COMPANY.NO INTERNAL MARKINGS. TIGHT ART THROUGHOUT PROVERBIAL EXPRESSIONS AND INDEX BACK. APOLLO CUPID BEOWOLF HERCULES PYGMALION THE TROJAN WAR ORIGIN OF MYTHOLOGY AND MANY OTHERS.Thomas Bulfinch July 15 1796 – May 27 1867 was an American writer born in Newton Massachusetts. Bulfinch belonged to a well-educated Bostonian merchant family of modest means. Bulfinch's Mythology is a classic work of popularized mythology still in print 150 years after the first work Age of Fable was published in 1855.TERRIFIC INTERESTING BOOK.ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN WHERE HISTORY LIVES. THE HERITAGE PRESS hardcover
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Arthur Fairbanks
The Mythology of Greece and Rome
New York: D. Appleton and Company 1908 Created by Twentieth Century Text-Books. Presented by Fairbanks with special reference to influence on literature. Very nice looking textured brown cover with brown print front and gold print spine. Approximately 150 illustrations and photos. Foldout maps of Greece and the Mediterranean are in the front and a foldout of the descendants of Hellen in the back. A nice glossary included. Terrific book packed with detail. Greek and Roman conceptions of myth Mythology was at the heart of everyday life in Ancient Greece.69 Greeks regarded mythology as a part of their history. They used myth to explain natural phenomena cultural variations traditional enmities and friendships. It was a source of pride to be able to trace one's leaders' descent from a mythological hero or a god. Antique Books Den where history lives. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000955
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ROBERT PICK
GERMAN STORIES AND TALES
NEW YORK: THE POCKET LIBRARY 1955 EDITED BY ROBERT PICK. COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED. IN THE EDITOR'S NOTE PICK EXPLAINS THE BOOK WAS PUT TOGETHER TO BE GOOD READING VERY INTERESTING AND ENTERTAINING. 18 STORIES IN ALL-- KAFKA'S METAMORPHOSIS-- MANN'S DEATH IN VENICE. A SUPERB COLLECTION OF SHORT GERMAN FICTION SELECTED AND EDITED WITH AN EDITOR'S NOTE AND BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION. THIS BOOK IS TIGHT AND IN GOOD CONDITION WITH NO MARKS. SOME LIGHT BROWNING OF PAGES DUE TO AGE. FRONT IS ORANGE BLACK GOLD AND WHITE. CASTLE SWORDS AND GERMAN CREST. SOME LIGHT BROWING FROM AGE AT TOP OF FRONT COVER. AUTHORS SUCH AS HESSE HEBEL HOFMANNSTHAL WEISS STIFTER BROCH AND OTHERS. YOUTH BEAUTIFUL YOUTH- THE BACHELOR'S DEATH- THE PICNIC OF MORES THE CAT- THE METAMORPHOSIS- DEATH IN VENICE. GREAT STORIES FOR THE COLLECTOR GERMAN STORY TELLER. 1776 BOOKSTORE WHERE HISTORY LIVES. THE POCKET LIBRARY paperback
Bookseller reference : 000529
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THOMAS CARLYLE NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
CARLYLE'S CROMWELL HAWTHORNE'S TALES
BOSTON: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1879 VERY GOOD CONDITION GREEN COVER WUTH DESIGN ON FRONT A MODERN CLASSIC FRONTISPIECE PICTURE OF OLIVER CROMWELL. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE TALES INCLUDED ARE A VIRTUOSO'S COLLECTION AND OTHER TALES AND LEGENDS OF THE PROVINCE HOUSE. FORMER OWNER NAME IN FRONT WITH DATE LIGHT BROWNING ON EDGE OF PAGES TIGHT BINDING GREAT SHAPE. Cromwell Oliver 1599-1658 soldier and statesman Lord Protector of the Commonwealth 1653-8. He began his career as a Member of the Long Parliament for Cambridge who returned to his native county when the English civil war broke out to raise a troop of horse against the king see British civil wars. Until then his career had provided little clue of the greatness to come. A gentleman of modest means he had around 1630 undergone a Calvinist conversion experience which transformed his life. Hawthorne Nathaniel 1804�64 American man of letters and author of two retellings of Greek legends for children A Wonder�Book for Girls and Boys 1852 and Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys 1853. The first set of stories is told against a background of the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts where Hawthorne was living at the time. Both books reflect an idealized American domesticity rather than the savagery of the original legends. WONDERFUL COLLECTOR ITEM. 1776 BOOKSTORE WHERE HISTORY LIVES. Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000593
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RUBEN DARIO
AZUL
Argentina: Espaza-Calpe 1944 Nice looking paperback in Spanish laguage prologue by Juan Valera Colleccion Austral Buenos Aires-Mexico Dustcover is paper and fair condition- inner front flap loose and in good shape all pages of book tight light brown with age former owners name front a few notes are in pencil inside front cover and on a few pages translating to English. F�lix Rub�n Garc�a Sarmiento January 18 1867 � February 6 1916 known as Rub�n Dar�o was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo modernism that flourished at the end of the 19th century. Dar�o has had a great and lasting influence on 20th-century Spanish literature and journalism. He has been praised as the "Prince of Castilian Letters" and undisputed father of the modernismo literary movement. Azul. 1888 has as many tales in prose as poems which caught the critics' attention through their metric variety. It presents us some of the preoccupations characteristic of Dario such as his expression of dissatisfaction towards the bourgeoisie see for example the tale "El rey burgu�s" A new edition of the text was published in 1890 this one was augmented with several new texts amongst which were sonnets in Alexandrine verses. Modernism's stage of plenitude and of the Darian poetry is marked by the book Prosas profanas y otros poemas a collection of poems in which the presence of the erotic is more important and which contains some esoteric themes such as in the poem "Coloquio de los centauros". In this book we can also find Dar�o's own eclectic imagery. Antique Books Den Where History Lives. Espaza-Calpe paperback
Bookseller reference : 000919
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Calvino Italo
Italian Folktales
NEW YORK: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1980 TERRIFIC BOOK. GOOD CONDITION BROWN COVER GOLD TURKEY ON FRONT GOLD PRINT SPINE SLIGHT WEAR ON FRONT 2 SMALL WATER MARKS. NO MARKINGS. SELECTED AND RETOLD BY ITALO CALVINO TRANSLATED BY GEORGE MARTIN. ENGLISH TRANSLATION COPYRIGHT 1980. A HELEN AND KURT WOLFF BOOK. 200 FOLKTALES NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. 18 PAGES OF INTRODUCTION TRANSLATED BY CATHERINE HILL. CALVINO IS A MASTER OF FOLKTALES. Calvino Italo 1923�85 Italian writer critic and editor. He was born in Cuba to Italian parents but grew up in San Remo on the Ligurian Riviera. Italian Folktales Fiabe Italiane is a collection of 200 Italian folktales published in 1956 by Italo Calvino. Calvino began to undertake the project that will lead to the Italian Folktales in 1954 influenced by Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folktale; his intention was to emulate the Brothers Grimm in producing a popular collection of Italian fairy tales for the general reader.1 He did not compile tales from listeners but made extensive use of the existing work of folklorists; he noted the source of each individual tale but warned that was merely the version he used.2 He included extensive notes on his alterations to make the tales more readable and the logic of his selections such as renaming the heroine of The Little Girl Sold with the Pears Perina rather than Margheritina to connect to the pears3 and selecting Bella Venezia as the Italian variant of Snow White because it featured robbers rather than the variants containing dwarfs which he suspected were imported from Germany.4 It was first translated into English in 1962; a further translation is by Sylvia Mulcahy Dent 1975 and constituted the first comprehensive collection of Italian folktales.5 WOW! GREAT BOOK FROM CALVINO WHO LOVED FOLKTALES. HISTORY COLLECTORS ITEM. 1776 BOOKSTORE WHERE HISTORY LIVES. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000587 ISBN : 0151457700 9780151457700
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JEAN LA FONTAINE
FIFTY FABLES With Introduction Notes and Vocabulary
USA: American Book Company 1903 VERY NICE LOOKING GRAY BOOK DESIGN AND PRINT ON FRONT AND SPINE IN BLACK INITIALS INSIDE FRONT NO OTHER MARKINGS TIGHT VERY GOOD SHAPE. KENNETH MCKENZIE INSTRUCTOR IN ROMANCE LANGUAGES IN YALE UNIVERSITY PROVIDES PREFACE. ENGLISH ANNOTATION FABLES ARE IN FRENCH A VOCABULARY IN THE BACK FRENCH TO ENGLISH. La Fontaine Jean de 1621-95. Poet known above all for his Fables which have been read learned and recited by French children and adults for three centuries. He wrote much else besides in a variety of genres. Often seen as one of the principal authors of French classicism he appears rather as an idiosyncratic individualist. His tastes ranged from Plato to Rabelais from the romances of chivalry to Malherbe and his writings show a love of experiment as well as a sensitivity to contemporary taste. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN WHERE HISTORY LIVES. American Book Company hardcover
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Gill Sam D
Storytracking; Texts Stories and Histories in Central Australia
<p>New York NY U.S.A.: Oxford University Press Incorporated. New. 1998. Soft Cover. 0195115880 .</p> Oxford University Press, Incorporated paperback
Bookseller reference : Australia_0003 ISBN : 0195115880 9780195115888
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Moncrieff A. R. Hope
Romance and Legend of Chivalry
U. S. A.: Grammercy. Very Good in Fine dust jacket. 1995. Reprint; First Printing. Hard Cover. 0517118629 . A very good book with creases to the lower outside corners of the frist few pages at the tips inexpensive paper toned else a tight clean copy in a fine dust jacket. ; Color Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 437 pages .bx2 Grammercy hardcover
Bookseller reference : 060475 ISBN : 0517118629 9780517118627
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FRAZER Sir James
Man God and immortality; thoughts on human progress. Passages chosen form the writings of Sir James George Frazer�revised and edited by the author.
New York: Macmillan Company 1927. First American edition. Hardcover. First U.S. edition of this compilation of Frazer�s studies. 8vo. pp. xvi 437 1 2 pages adverts. Bound in blue publisher�s cloth. No dust jacket. Binding is generally clean with minor rubbing to the extremities and slight fading to the spine. Interior pages are clean. Remnants of the dust jacket the front wrap are loosely inserted inside the rear cover. Frazer�s preface states: �In this volume are collected some of the more general conclusions to which my studies of early society and religion led me in the past years� The volume has been compiled under my direction by my friend Pierre Sayn�� The work is divided into four parts � �the study of man� �man in society� �man and the supernatural� �man and immortality.� Originally published as The revised edition was published simultaneously in London 1927. <br/><br/> Macmillan Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000954
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RADFORD E. and MA. M. A.
Encyclopaedia of superstitions.
London: Rider and Company c. 1947 . First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. pp. ix 1 269 1. Text is in double columns. Bound in black publisher�s cloth. The outer corners to both front and rear boards show slight bumping. Binding is otherwise clean. The dust jacket is worn and tattered with tears to the extremities chipping to the head-cap etc. A small bookseller�s ticket is present on the inside front cover. Interior pages are clean. �In all some 2300 superstitions are listed in this encyclopedia a work of more than 230000 words� Side by side with British beliefs are instanced exactly similar beliefs held by totally unrelated groups of the human race�� from the dust jacket. <br/><br/> Rider and Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000846
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SPENCE Lewis
Myth and ritual in dance game and rhyme.
London: Watts & Co. 1947. Hardcover. Second impression. 8vo. pp. x 202. With 24 photo plates. Bound in red publisher�s cloth. Binding is clean and tight. Interior pages are clean. The dust jacket contains wear and chipping to the extremities; a large 35 x 41 mm piece is chipped away fr0m the upper inner corner of the front wrapper almost completely obscuring the word �myth.� The top 23 mm of the jacket spine is also chipped obscuring the lettering. The author tries to reveal the myths and religious backgrounds to folk-dances nursery-rhymes and children�s games. Included are chapters on �the religious origin of primitive games� �dancing and primitive religion� �vestiges of ritual in folk-dancing� �traces of myth and ritual in popular rhyme� etc. Lewis Spence was a British occultist and popular folklore writer. <br/><br/> Watts & Co. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000780
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INWARDS Richard
Weather lore a collection of proverbs sayings and rules concerning the weather.
New York: Francis P. Harper 1898. Hardcover. Third Edition revised and augmented. Tall 8vo. pp. xii 233 1. With fold-out frontispiece illustrating the forms heights and names of clouds.� Bound in decorative sage colored publisher�s cloth with weather vein illustration on the front cover. The binding is generally clean and tight but with some bumping present to the bottom corner tips. Pages are very lightly age-toned; the upper margin corner on several leaves is clipped chipped or torn. A handwritten name and date �1899� is present in the upper corner of the front free fly-leaf. A collection of proverbs folklore and superstition related to atmospheric phenomena storms sun moon and stars tides animals plants etc. <br/><br/> Francis P. Harper hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000646
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NORRIS Hugh WEAVER Frederic William MAYO Charles Herbert
Notes & queries for Somerset and Dorset.
Sherborne: J.C. Sawtell the Parade 1890. First edition. Hardcover. First collected edition of the first four years. 4 volumes. Volume I. pp. iv 272 15 1. Volume II. pp. iv 320 27 1. Volume III. pp. iv 344 27 1. Volume IV. pp. iv 410 vii 1. Illustrated and photo plates. Titles printed in red and black. Pages are clean; some leaves are uncut / untrimmed; marginal tear neatly and professionally sealed in vol. I. p. 229. Uniformly bound in half brown calf with marbled boards and end papers. Some rubbing to extremities. An attractive set. The periodical "Notes & queries of Somerset and Dorset" began publication in 1888 and is still published today. In 1890 the first years of the journal started to be issued to subscribers in collected volumes each "rendered complete with an accompanying index and title page�" Volumes I-IV contain the years 1888-1891. The contents include much of antiquarian interest including articles on folklore and customs genealogy and heraldry architecture and antiquities parish records literature superstition history. <br/><br/> J.C. Sawtell, the Parade hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000424
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