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1925Best.-Nr. 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
1950Best.-Nr. 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
1988Best.-Nr. 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
1935Best.-Nr. 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
1884Best.-Nr. 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
1938Best.-Nr. 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
1900Best.-Nr. 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
1915Best.-Nr. 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
1973Best.-Nr. 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
1894Best.-Nr. 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
1898Best.-Nr. 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
1972Best.-Nr. 52995Garden City NY: Doubleday and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards and jacket lightly worn jacket price-clipped and sunned. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by both of the Caldecott medalist author-illustrator team on the title page. Illustrated boards. Humorous colorful and earthy tales about trolls grounded in Norwegian folklore. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Doubleday and Company hardcover
1912Best.-Nr. 50353Boston: Little Brown and Company. Good with no dust jacket; Usual library stamps and markings pages toned . and finger soiling throughout spine cocked. 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy rebound in orange patterned reinforced cloth. xii 333pp. Black and white plates and many other smaller elegant illustrations by Alexander Popini. A collection of 41 fairy tales from Grimm and Andersen as well as traditional fairy tales from Greece Norway Roumania Ireland India Turkey China and some other countries. Johnson notes in his introduction that he has edited the stories to remove savagery distressing details and excessive pathos and removed references to cruel fathers and wicked stepmothers. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Little, Brown, and Company hardcover
1869Best.-Nr. 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
1939Best.-Nr. 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
1937Best.-Nr. 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
2021Best.-Nr. 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
1992Best.-Nr. 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
1902Best.-Nr. 010795Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge 1902. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Later printing uncommon institutional / educational issue. Featuring the Riverside Press title-page layout and omitting publisher advertisements. 19 cm. 6 259 pp. In publisher's original olive-green cloth. Very Good. Light shelf wear to spine ends and corners. Issued as part of Houghton Mifflin's push into the progressive education movement printed on heavier-duty stock for bulk distribution to classrooms and public libraries. Uncommon for copies to survive in this condition. . Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge Hardcover
1975Best.-Nr. 011555New York: Alfred A Knopf 1975 73 pgs. Hard cover with cloth spine sunning to board edges else fine; color illustrated dust jacket with a few edge tears and creasing light rubbing original price intact $4.95. Celebrated author and writing teacher John Gardner's first book for a juvenile audience; four fairy tales the title story plus The Tailor and the Giant The Miller's Mule and The Last Piece of Light. Illustrated in b&w by Charles Shields. . First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Charles Shields. 8vo. Alfred A Knopf hardcover
1970Best.-Nr. 010581Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1970. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Second printing stated. Original French by Mircea Eliade. Rust cloth covered boards with black cloth spine wrap and gilt lettering to the spine. Bollingen Series LXXVI. Near Fine in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket designed by Paul Rand. Dust jacket has a small price sticker showing P.U.P. $12.50 next to the clipped area. Top page edges dyed gray. Scattered underlining in ink throughout. Dust jacket has an old wraparound tape repair to top of spine; light rubbing and chipping to edges; and lightly sunned spine. Princeton University Press Hardcover
1922Best.-Nr. 010626Boston : Richard G. Badger: The Gorham Press 1922. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Second Edition 1922 the First published 1916. Black cloth covered boards with blind stamped decorative front and rear. Gilt lettering to the spine. Illustrated with 14 black and white plates most with multiple figures. Frontispiece. Mostly uncut pages. Top edge gilt. Near Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. Slight toning under the jacket flaps. Dust jacket lightly toned spine; 1/8" chip across spine top; small chip to spine bottom. SCARCE in dust jacket. Richard G. Badger: The Gorham Press Hardcover
1940Best.-Nr. 010655Chicago: The Norman Press 1940. Book. Fine. Hardcover. SIGNED BY PUBLISHER. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER Norman W. Forgue at first blank rear end page and Uncommon Thus. First Edition. Gold speckled red paper covered boards with gilt title frame and blue lettering to the front. Fine no jacket as issued. Norman W. Forgue was an American bookmaker typographe printer and founder of several private presses including At the Sign of the Gargoyle The Black Cat Press The Norman Press and Normandie House. . The Norman Press Hardcover
1933Best.-Nr. 010534New York : Macmillan and Co 1933. Book. Illus. by Yeats Jack. Very Good. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition. First published August 1933. Green cloth covered boards with black lettering to the front and spine. This copy is Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Spine sunned end papers are toned at hinges and edges of paste downs. Dust jacket a bit darkened at spine. Spine ends are chipped. Edges and tips have small chips and creases. Front flap has the numeral 2 in ink at bottom corner and stamped price of $2.25. Uncommon in dust jacket and in such nice condition. . Macmillan and Co, Hardcover
1931Best.-Nr. 010369Indianapolis Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1931. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine early prior owner gift inscription at first blank in a Very Good dust jacket small chips at spine ends and light edge wear spine a shade sunned. 357 pages photographic end papers original orange cloth lettered in red. Blockson 9809. A book remebered now more for the attempt than for the execution of telling the true story of slavery. . The Bobbs-Merrill Company Hardcover