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The Rainbow Book: Being a Collection of Essays & Illustrations Devoted to Rainbows in Particular & Spectral Sequences in General. Focusing on the Meaning of Color (Physically & Metaphysically) from Ancient to Modern Times

By: N/A

Price: $168.75

Publisher: Berkeley & London, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, In Association with Shambhala: 1975

Seller ID: Books012997

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

224 pages. Light wear to edges of cover; name inked over on first leaf. A tidy example.
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The Big Book of Fairy Tales

By: N/A

Price: $263.25

Publisher: London, Glasgow, Blackie and Son:

Seller ID: Books013134

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

viii, 344 pages, with 12 coloured plates and 15 black-and-red plates unpaged as called for; numerous black and white illustrations throughout. No stated date of issue. Top edge gilt, others with foxing; no gilt to front panel. Light foxing to half title, and occasionally within. Spine sunned; binding sound; no inscriptions.
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Die Schlangenkraft. Die Entfaltung schöpferischer Kräfte im Menschen

By: Avalon, Arthur (Sir John Woodroffe)

Price: $309.38

Publisher: Weilheim, Otto Wilhelm Barth: 1971

Seller ID: Books004889

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

373 pages. Seventeen tipped in colour plates. Dust jacket chipped and worn; boards slightly bowed; no inscriptions. Binding is sound.
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Korean Folk Tales. Imps, Ghosts and Fairies

By: Bang, Im and Yi Ryuk; James S. Gale trs.

Price: $3,850.00

Publisher: London; New York, J. M. Dent; E. P. Dutton & Co.: 1913

Seller ID: Books011243

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

xi, 233 pages, with one leaf of adverts at rear. Considerable soiling to cloth. Top edge gilt. Personal bookplate to front pastedown. Offsetting to front and rear free endpaper and light foxing to adjacent leaves. binding is sound. Overseas shipping at cost: please inquire.
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Arthurian Literature XI

By: Barber, Richard (ed.)

Price: $41.25

Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, D.S.Brewer: 1992

Seller ID: Books012145

ISBN: 0859913503

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

vii, 154 pages. Marginal pencil to main article. Contains: In Quest of Jessie Weston by Janet Grayson; Update - Arthurian Legend in Fine and Applied Art of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Roger Simpson, and Index to Arthurian Literature, volumes I - X by Richard Wright.
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The Dew-Babies [inscribed]

By: Broadbent, Helen

Price: $303.75

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1902

Seller ID: Books013117

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

319 pages. No date of publication indicated. Christmas inscription from the illustrator dated 1902. All edges gilt. Attractive publisher's binding rubbed at extremities. Spine slightly cocked; scattered foxing throughout. Binding is sound.
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Windigo: An Anthology of Fact and Fantastic Fiction

By: Colombo, John Robert, ed.

Price: $148.50

Publisher: Saskatoon, Western Producer Prairie Books: 1982

Seller ID: Books013190

ISBN: 0888330979

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

[4], 208 pages. Jacket creased and with shallowclosed tears along upper and lower edge; now in a removable archival sleeve. Contents unmarked.
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Myths & Legends of Japan

By: Davis, F. Hadland

Price: $1,012.50

Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Company: 1912

Seller ID: Books013249

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

432 pages; all 32 plates present. Ornate publisher's binding; top edge gilt; light scuffing to extremities. First few and final few leaves toned; former owner's bookplate to front pastedown; Christmas gift inscription to front free endpaper; discreet brown line inked vertically x6 to Introduction margin and one line of intro. scored, else unmarked. Bookseller's ticket of Thomson Stationary Company, Vancouver to rear pastedown.
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Symbols and Values in Zoroastrianism: Their Survival and Renewal

By: Duchesne-Guillemin, Jacques

Price: $74.25

Publisher: New York, Harper and Row: 1966

Seller ID: Books013217

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xvii, 167 pages. Jacket price clipped. First edition stated. Clean and unmarked
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The Gods of the Ancient Northmen (UCLA Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology. Publications III )

By: Dumézil, Georges

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 1973

Seller ID: Books011107

ISBN: 0520020448

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xlvi, 157pp. small stain to fore edge only, tiny amount of silverfish damage to dust jacket. Edited and translated by Einar Haugen. Introduction by C. Scott Littleton and Udo Strutynnski
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Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy

By: Eliade, Mircea; Willard R. Trask trs.

Price: $87.75

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books / Bollingen: 1964

Seller ID: Books013214

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xxiii, 610 pages. Publisher's blue topstain; light foxing to fore-edge of textblock. No inscriptions, in sound binding.
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Arthurian Literature XXXIV

By: Elizabeth Archibald and David F. Johnson eds.

Price: $82.50

Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, D.S.Brewer: 2018

Seller ID: Books012799

ISBN: 0859913503

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xii, 161, [4] pages. As new, with no inscriptions
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Grimm's Goblins. Selected from the Household Stories of the Brothers Grimm

By: Grimm Brothers [Jacob, Wilhelm]

Price: $446.88

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields.: 1867

Seller ID: Books009891

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

111 pages, and 7 chromolithograph plates after designs by Cruikshank [complete]. Title-page in red and brown. Publisher's cloth bordered in blind, with gilt to front and spine. Spine professionally rebacked, retaining the full title [half inch loss of original panel at head and foot] and original brown slate endpapers. Christmas 1867 gift inscription in pencil to second front endpaper. Some leaves stained/smudged. Uncommon US edition.
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The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries

By: Heckethorn, Charles William

Price: $573.75

Publisher: New York, New Amsterdam Book Company: 1897

Seller ID: Books013248

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xxvii, 352; xvi, 350, [1] pages. 'New edition: thoroughly revised and greatly enlarged'. Burgundy cloth; paper spine labels, top edges gilt. Extremities rubbed; bookplate of one Charles E. Dana to front pastedowns, and his stamp to rear. Paper along hinges splitting but boards and binding fully secure. Small corner lower left of front endpaper excised in each.
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The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. III (Ottawa Mediaeval Texts and Studies)

By: Henry J. Stauffenberg, ed.

Price: $35.75

Publisher: Ottawa, University of Ottawa Press: 1985

Seller ID: Books007926

ISBN: 0776648144

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

xx, colour frontispiece, 241 pages. Clean and unmarked with no creasing to spine.
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The Were-Wolf

By: Housman, Clemence

Price: $171.88

Publisher: London; Chicago, John Lane / Bodley Head; Way and Williams: 1896

Seller ID: Books011185

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

123 pages and six plates as called for. Frontispiece tissue guarded, thereafter each plate with titled full-paper guard (not tissue). Light rubbing, soiling to cloth. Personal bookplate to front pastedown and to front free endpaper. Light foxing to first few and final few leaves.
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Zoroaster: The Prophet of Ancient Iran

By: Jackson, A.V. Williams

Price: $195.75

Publisher: London / New York, Macmillan / Columbia University Press: 1901

Seller ID: Books013216

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xxiii, 312 pages, with folding map and Key to it at rear. Printed for Columbia UP by Macmillan, with Columbia's insignia in gilt to front and spine. Top edge gilt. Cloth rubbed at extremities; paper along rear hinge split but binding remains sound. No inscriptions. WITH: two related items of ephemera laid in: prospectus/order form for the present work and Jackson's Persia Past and Present, and an advert from Open Court publishing Co..
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Psychology and Religion: West and East

By: Jung, Carl [C.G.]; Trs.: F.C. Hull

Price: $101.25

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books / Bollingen: 1958

Seller ID: Books013218

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xiii, 699 pages. Publisher's blue topstain; slight foxing to fore-edge of textblock and to verso of jacket - not price clipped and now in a removable archival sleeve. No inscriptions; sound binding.
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Dogrib Legends Handbook Books 1 - 6

By: MacDiarmid, J.A.

Price: $48.13

Publisher: Yellowknife, NWT, Department of Education, Northwest Territories: 1972

Seller ID: Books011449

Binding: Saddle Staped card covers

Condition: Good

54 pages, slight dog earring to corners
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Myth and Law Among the Indo-Europeans (Publications of the UCLA Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology, 1)

By: Puhvel, Jaan (edited by)

Price: $82.50

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 1970

Seller ID: Books011146

ISBN: 0520015878

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

x, 276pp. Dustjacket worn and damp stained to rear panel, bottom 1 1/2' lower right corner of text block has high water mark not affecting text. Previous owner's book plate to inside front cover.
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Category: Mythology