Category: Mythology

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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Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers. [Three volumes]: A Story as Sharp as a Knife / Nine Visits to the Mythworld. Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas / Being in Being

By: Bringhurst, Robert

Price: $263.25

Publisher: Vancouver, B.C., Douglas & McIntyre: 2002

Seller ID: Books012820

Condition: Very Good

527; 222; 397 pages. Being in Being is inscribed by Bringhurst on the title page; no other markings. A clean set, with no signs of use. Included with the tree volumes is Translating Haida Poetry : an Interview with Robert Bringhurst, by Therese Rigaud. [23 pages. Douglas & McIntyre, 2002]
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Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm with original etchings by David Hockney

By: Brothers Grimm

Price: $75.63

Publisher: London, Petersburg Press: 1970

Seller ID: Books011650

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

Unpaged; measuring 4.25 x 3 inches. Unmarked, with light foxing to the two final leaves.
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Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty

By: Dumézil, Georges

Price: $110.00

Publisher: New York, Zone Books: 1988

Seller ID: Books011105

ISBN: 0942299124

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

189pp. previous owner's bookplate to inside front cover
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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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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 Oak Island Mystery

By: Harris, R. V. [Reginald]

Price: $171.88

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson: 1967

Seller ID: Books012678

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xi, 209 pages plus photo plates. First issue of the second edition. As noted in the Preface: "The first edition [1958] was written at the urgent request of Mr. Blair.... The great success of the first edition, the discovery of new facts and the need for adding an account of more recent efforts to recover the treasure have led to this second edition and the almost complete revision of the story." The only textual difference between this 1967 and the later printing of the second edition (with wavy green money pit jacket) is the jacket flap blurbs. Light rubbing to jacket. ex-lib Nova Sco...
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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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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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The Journal of American Folk-Lore. Vol. 38 January - March, 1925 No. 147 edited by Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas

By: Speck, F.G.; Michelson, Truman; Parsons, Elsie Clews

Price: $60.75

Publisher: New York, The American Folk-Lore Society: 1925

Seller ID: Books012645

Condition: Good

148 pages. Ex university library with withdrawn stamps, spine titles damaged at base. Mythology and folklore recorded from Naskapi, Montagnais and Micmac peoples.
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Quel Tell?

By: Stunzi, Lilly

Price: $35.75

Publisher: Lausanne - Paris, Payot: 1973

Seller ID: Books000532

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

340pp Extensively illustrated in colour and black and white. Dossier iconographique de Lilly Stunzi. Textes de Alfred Berchtold, Manfred Hoppe, Ricco Labhardt, J.R. de Salis, Leo Schelbert. Text in French.
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Die Glasernen Turme Von Atlantis: Erinnerungen an Megalith-Europa

By: Tributsch, Helmut

Price: $28.60

Publisher: Frankfurt, Ullstein: 1986

Seller ID: Books007353

ISBN: 3548343341

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

319 pages plus photo plates. Text in German. Minor spotting to spine and covers; else clean and unmarked with uncreased spine. Embellished with line drawings and photographs in colour.
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The Changelings: A Classical Japanese Court Tale

By: Willig, Rosette F. (translated, with introduction and notes)

Price: $68.75

Publisher: Stanford, CA., Stanford Univ Press: 1983

Seller ID: Books012022

ISBN: 0804711240

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

248 pages. Top edges of boards sunned, chipping to top edge of dust jacket, now protected in removable archival sleeve
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Seaside and Fireside Fairies

By: Wister, A. L.

Price: $107.25

Publisher: Philadelphia, Ashmead & Evans: 1864

Seller ID: Books009686

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

292 pages, frontispiece and two plates within. Purple cloth with gilt to spine. Considerable staining to cloth; interior dampstained, smudged and with pencil scribbles to a few leaves. Binding remains sound, though the gathering from page 81-96 is loose at the upper end. Bookseller's blind embossed oval stamp to first white endpaper: John Sheaffer North Queen Street Lancaster PA. Not pretty, but a servicable copy of this uncommon fairy book translated from the German of George Blum and Louis Wahl.
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Ancient Peoples and Modern Ghosts: The Saga of Oak Island; Modern Ghost Stories; Modern Gems

By: Young, George

Price: $240.63

Publisher: Halifax, NS, Halcraft Printing, for the Author: 1990

Seller ID: Books012189

Binding: Saddle Stapled Card Covers

Condition: Very Good

82 pages. As new: clean and unmarked. Sixth printing. Part 1, the first 43 pages, discusses Oak Island and is illustrated with photographs and line drawings.
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Category: Mythology