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1939ref. 008735New York: Holiday House 1939 Paperboard covers stamped in red with cloth spine red stain to top corner of rear board of Tom Thumb else fine. The books are housed in their original star-spangled slipcase which has a few damp stains and edge wear. A dear set of two small books Thumbelina & History of Tom Thumb. Each is illustrated by Hilda Scott and hand-colored limited to 1200 copies designed by Helen Gentry. See Bader pgs 213-14. . First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Hilda Scott. Square 32mo. Holiday House hardcover
1902ref. 201031-MB57Dodd Mead and Company 1902. Very good Hardcover with ornate illustrated cover 1902 illustrations and decorations by C.L. Hinton . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Cover. Illus. by Hinton C.L. Dodd Mead and Company Hardcover
1925ref. 053323Istanbul: Blindstamped Photograph Studio 1925. No Binding. Very Good. Original b/w photo. 9x14 cm. Signed and dated by Mehmed Halit Bayri as '27 Mayis 1341' May 1925. His early b/w photograph with his fez. Mehmed Halid who started his writing and intellectual career with the encouragement of Fuad Köprülü and Yahya Kemal worked as the editor-in-chief of the journal "Düsünce" i.e. Thought 1922 which was published during the Armistice years and later "Anadolu Mecmuasi" i.e. The Anatolian Journal 1924-1925. He was found in the concept of folklore and folkloric studies in Turkey in the settlement of important services in a systematic and broadly spread. Blindstamped Photograph Studio unknown
1950ref. 053252Ankara: Etnografya Müzesi Müdürlügü Hususi" Letterhead = Ethnography Museum Directorate 1950. No Binding. Very Good. Original ALS by Hamid Zübeyr Kosay sent to Ibrahim Hakki Konyali. With its envelope. 21x144 cm. In Turkish. He congratulates Konyali and he says that he's working on the ancient civilizations reports and he has to return his ex-duty in Ethnography Museum. He praises 'Tarih Dünyasi' periodical which was a historical magazine published in 1950s by Konyali. Hamit Zübeyir was a Turkish archaeologist ethnographer writer and folklore researcher. He was the son of Ubeydullah Efendi who was a scholar of the period and Rizaetdin Fäxretdin a close friend of Musa Carullah a famous scientist was his brother-in-law. He was sent to Turkey with the support of Rizaetdin Fäxretdin for his education in 1909. He graduated from Thessalonica Central Secondary School in 1911. At the break of the Balkan War he returned to Istanbul when he was in Sultaniye. He finished the teacher training school in 1916 and became a teacher. After attending courses on ethnography and the Hungarian language at university for the winter semester he went to Hungary to continue his education where he completed pedagogy. He was accepted to the Advanced Teachers Training School at Eötvös Kollegium Eötvös Loránd University with the support of Prof. Ne'meth Gyula. Then he attended the same university's Faculty of Philosophy and received the title of Doctor of Language and Turcology. He went to Germany in 1924 to attend the courses of Prof. Bang Koup at Berlin University and did research at the State Library and museums. In 1925 he returned to Turkey and worked at the Ministry of National Education. After working as the Inspector of Libraries at the Ministry of Culture he was a director for the Department of Culture Antique Works and Libraries at the same ministry. He continued as the General Director of Antique Works and Museums board member of Culture Training and for the second time as the Director of the Ethnography Museum. He retired on 1 December 1969 after working for two years as Deputy Director of the Ethnography Museum and Consulting General Director of Antique Works and Museums. Etnografya Müzesi Müdürlügü Hususi" Letterhead [= Ethnography Museum Directorate] unknown
1988ref. 019144New York.: Moyer Bell Ltd. 1988. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover 1988 First American Edition. Text dust jacket and boards in very good condition. Binding firm. Highlighting to a couple of sentences. 412 pages. Moyer Bell Ltd. Hardcover
1935ref. 006562New York: Columbia University Press 1935. Book. Very Good Plus. Printed Wrappers. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. RARE extract. Paginated 389-515. Very Good Plus from the collection of noted anthropologist linguist and ethnomusicologist George Herzog his signature last name in ink top edge front cover sticker shadow front cover wrappers toned at edges. Printed on cover and title page as coming from Vol. IV pencil corrected to Vol. III. Columbia University Press Paperback
1884ref. 006620Edinburgh: Privately Printed 1884. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Limited First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. One of 275 small-paper copies printed for subscribers. Very Good in the original red cloth light soiling to cloth ribbon marker the usual offsetting to endpapers spine label with complete lettering the label with small chip and darkened and a bit rubbed. Overall a handsome copy. Privately Printed Hardcover
1972ref. 15739"la Nuova Italia" Editrice. Very Good with no dust jacket. Paperback. Scholar's name in pen to ffep E. Robbins. Very light corner crease to a few pages. Else minor shelfwear to book. DJ is present but DJ flaps are detached.; IL Pensiero Storico 61; 520 pages . 1972. "la Nuova Italia" Editrice paperback
1950ref. 000576New York: Limited Editions Club 1950 41 pgs. #1283/1500. Signed By Edmund Dulac. Maroon cloth with inlaid brass cockerel lt. oxidization prev. owner's name lt. fox near gutter of front ep Maroon chemise with stamped cockerel design sp. faded. Maroon slipcase with fading at edges and wear to bottom flap. Illustrated and decorated by Dulac his first work for the Limited Edition Club. First Limited Edition. Very Good. Limited Editions Club hardcover
ref. BN371314Il meraviglioso. Leggende fiabe e favole ticinesi. Il luganese Vol. 2 Folclore e etnografia Mar 29 2016 Il meraviglioso. Leggende fiabe e favole ticinesi. Il luganese Vol. 2 Folclore e etnografia Mar 29 2016 Il meraviglioso. Leggende fiabe e favole ticinesi. Il luganese Vol. 2 Folclore e etnografia Mar 29 2016 unknown
ref. BN372978Il meraviglioso. Leggende fiabe e favole ticinesi. Bellinzonese e Tre Valli Vol. 4 Folclore e etnografia Aug 31 2016 Il meraviglioso. Leggende fiabe e favole ticinesi. Bellinzonese e Tre Valli Vol. 4 Folclore e etnografia Aug 31 2016 Il meraviglioso. Leggende fiabe e favole ticinesi. Bellinzonese e Tre Valli Vol. 4 Folclore e etnografia Aug 31 2016 unknown
1938ref. 27942London: George G. Harrap 1938. Book. Illus. by Aris Ernest. Good. Hardback. First. 4vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. 190 Pages. Light Blue cloth cover. No inscriptions. English Language. George G. Harrap Hardcover
1900ref. 10598London: Longmans Green 1900. Book. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 5.5 x 8.25"; 86 pages; blue cloth boards some soiling beige vellum spine with gilt title; all edges uncut; good tight book; six illustrations;. Longmans Green Hardcover
1915ref. 17601London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. 1915. Book. Good. Hardback. Fifth Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Contains 73 Russian tales. Green cloth with decorations. 350 pages. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Hardcover
1967ref. 63149Rutland VT & Tokyo Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Co. Publishers 1967. Thick 4to. 623 1 pp. Title in red & black colour frontisp. 15 colour plates over 500 black & white photos. Pictorial red publisher’s cloth decorated in gilt lettered in black & gilt w/ d.j. price-clipped still NF/NF copy preserved in original open-backed slipcase w/ former ownership marking on ffep. First Tuttle edition of this lavishly illustrated work first issued in 1908 carefully examining how Japanese folklore and symbols influenced and permeated Japanese Art. Included is a special index allowing non-Japanese speakers to locate English translation of the traditional kanji or Chinese characters. Charles E. Tuttle Co., Publishers, hardcover
1932ref. 62106New York: The Vanguard Press 1932. Tall 8vo. 279 1 pp. Double-page photo-illustrated title 8 photo plates. Yellow publisher’s cloth rust-coloured decorative toning to fore-edges illustration front cover red lettering on spine rust-coloured upper fore-edge as issued pictorial maps on endpapers minor shelfwear slight rubbing couple corners w/ slight bumping w/ d.j. cover art photo of paddle boat on creek minor shelfwear rubbing a couple very minor closed tears still VG/VG bright copy. First edition of this scarce folklore and ethnology study of inhabitants of the Ozarks over Missouri and Arkansas referred to as “hill-billy” by lowlanders by the noted author and folklorist. Included are sections on “Witches and Witch-Masters” “School on Little Greasy” “Frolic up the Holler” “The Sport of Ballad-Hunting” and “The Singing-Teacher” featuring poetry and music & lyrics in dialect. Randolph 1892-1980 was a folklore specialist of the Ozarks who first began publishing on Ozark superstitions and dialect in 1927 and followed by decades of work including his later work on “Kate Bender The Kansas Murderess” published under the Allison Hardy pseudonym. Exceedingly scarce in the original dustjacket. The Vanguard Press, hardcover
1853ref. 45066Philadelphia: J.W. Moore 1853. Tall 8vo. 383 1 pp. Engravd frntsp. numerous engravd plates woodcut-engraved historiated initials and text illustrations. Dark-blue embssd cloth gilt lettrng & decrtn on spine a.e.g. interior foxing chppng hd & ft of spine soilng varished covrs wear rubbng couple interior clsd tears reference copy w/ frmr ownrshp signatures on endpapers. Early illustrated edition of this anthology of Irish fairy tales folklore and short stories. J.W. Moore, hardcover
1973ref. 011569New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux 1973 Blue cloth with a whisper of sunning to edges; color pictorial dust jacket with mild wear to extremities 1/4" tear to rear panel price-clipped award seal present. Re-telling of an old Cornish play that was performed at Christmas time. Brilliantly pictured by Zemach in color throughout. Caldecott Medal. This copy signed by Margot Zemach on the half-title page. Second Printing. Cloth Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Margot Zemach. 4to. Farrar Strauss Giroux hardcover
1894ref. 010101New York: The Century Co. 1894. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x 239 pp.; beige cloth pictorially stamped in gold orange & green; frontis. & 22 illustrations reproducing George Wharton Edwards' drawings after the author's photographs. Very Good spine darkened slight soiling to boards interior clean tight and unmarked. SCARCE. The Century Co. Hardcover
1898ref. 010120Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin 1898. Book. Very Good Plus. Decorative Cloth. Later Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good Plus in original brown cloth lettered in gilt and blindstamped with red decorations black end papers professionally restored small rubs to cloth at corners scattered marginal stamps of a hand with pointing finger no other markings clean and tight. xv 1 379 pages 12 illustrations. Originally published 1884 title page date of 1898. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover
1869ref. 007788Melbourne Australia: George Robertson 1869. Book. Near Fine. Morocco. New Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New Edition containing prefaces to First and Second Editions xliii 255 pp with six full page color illustrations and numerous black and white illustrations. Master Tyll Owlglass is the Anglicized name for the German jokester Till Eulenspiegel. Finely bound in lovely Art Deco brown morocco with vertical sets of double gilt rules five raised bands with gilt lettering decorative end pages all edges gilt wide inner dentelles with double gilt rules. Likely an early 20th c. California binding. Bearing the small leather bookplate of Alfred Sutro General Counsel of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company of which organization he had been a director since 1940 and noted bibliophile whose leadership as President of the Book Club of California was indtrumental in its growth. Near Fine original cloth covers bound in front and rear moderate toning to end pages and first few pages two small rubs to morocco at rear joint prior owner name half-title page. George Robertson Hardcover
1939ref. 006603Goteborg Sweden: Dr. Walter Kaudern Gothenburg Ethnographical Museum 1939. Book. Very Good. Printed Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front wrapper - "To G. Herzog with the compliments of A. Metraux". A wonderful folklore Association Copy Alfred Metraux published landmark studies of South American Indians Haitian Voodoo and Easter Island. As a human rights leader he participated in the framing of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and was a permanent member of UNESCO's Department of Social Science. George Herzog was a noted anthropologist linguist and ethnomusicologist who studied under Franz Boas at Columbia University and later assembled the Archives of Folk and Primitive Music at Columbia University. Reprinted without changes of paging from "Ethnological Studies 9 1939 the book is Very Good light soiling and edge wear to wrappers. 127 pp. Stamped Herzog Collection at first page. SIGNED works by Metraux are RARE. Dr. Walter Kaudern, Gothenburg Ethnographical Museum Paperback
1937ref. 006611Lincoln Nebraska: University of Nebraska 1937. Book. Good. Printed Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A notable folklore Association Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page - "To Stith Thompson - "Hop skip down the wilderness" BA Botkin 6/30/37". Botkin is best remembered for his "A Treasury of American Folklore" and for his government positions at the Federal Writers' Project Joint Committee on Folk Arts of the Works Progress Administration and as chief editor of the Writers' Unit of the Library of Congress Project. Stith Thompson is best known for his work on the classification of motifs in folk tales. His six-volume "Motif-Index of Folk-Literature "1955-1958 is considered the international key to traditional material. The book is Good only mostly because of wrappers- old tape mends at spine 1/3 approx. of rear wrapper torn and missing label taped at spine and stamped "Folklore Institute Reading Collection" title page. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. A SCARCE thesis and 1st book for this noted folklorist. University of Nebraska Paperback
2021ref. S6656In Greek. Soft cover 24 cm 504 pp. ill. ISBN: 9789609826174. Therasia is a suitable field for the observation of small island communities having preserved significant traces of a cultural landscape connected with the diachronic ekistic history of the island the uses of land and the perception and experience of the space by human communities on the past. These traces have been recorded in the context of the Island Cultures in a Diachronic Perspective: The Case of Therasia research project and the ongoing excavations on the island. This volume focusses on the geological archaeological and historical research carried out on Therasia in order to gain an understanding of the history of the landscape in the longue duree from prehistory to the 21st century. The research combines archaeological survey geological and geophysical study and excavation methods while the investigation of the available historical sources and archival research complete the wide range of sources data and perspectives. Ta Pragmata paperback
1992ref. 1121 O42SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING stated complete number line to 1 Cambridge Candlewick Press 1992 ISBN #156402072X. Deluxe Limited Slipcased Edition #7 of 350 numbered copies. Signed by Sendak and Iona Opie. New and includes publishers paper with original price of $75 and Limitation Number No. 7 on the label. A collection of traditional children's poems and riddles illustrated by Maurice Sendak mostly in color. Books are Carefully Packed and Shipped Daily with Delivery Confirmation from Dry Smoke-Free shop. Complete Satisfaction Guaranteed. Candlewick Press hardcover