Folk Tales of Britain: Narratives
London: The Folio Society, 2011. Firmin, Hannah. Hardcover. First printing of this edition. Three volumes in a slipcase. Set 1: Narratives. More
Folklore
Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers. In 3 Volumes. A Story as Sharp as a Knife; Nine Visits to the Mythworld; Being in Being, The Collected Works of a Master Haida Mythteller Skaay of the Qquuna Oiighawaay
Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2000. Hardcover. 3 volumes. V.I: First paperback edition. V.II: Hardcover, first edition. V.III: First paperback edition, 2002. The three volumes in 'like new' condition, fresh and bright copies, bindings tight and square. More
The Cradle of the Twin Giants, Science and History
London: Richard Bentley, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 12mo. Pp. xxxiv, 354; iv, 402. An error in pagination in volume at p. 337, and incorrect chapter headings, printing errors only, content in good order. Original brown cloth with gilt spine titles, and decorative borders to the boards in blind..... More
The Birth and Growth of Myth. Periodical. From The Humboldt Library.
New York: 1884. Softcover. 8vo. [230 x 150mm]. Small tears at bottom of spine. Lots of pencil and blue pencil notes, underlines throughout. Ink name to the head of the front cover. Softcover periodical, with yellow wrappers. One of the periodicals Edward Clodd contributed to the Humboldt Library of Popular..... More
Tales of the Tepee
New York: D. C. Heath & Company, Publishers, 1920. Hardcover. Signed. 12mo. pp. x, 119. Original brown cloth, lettered in darker brown, with an illustration on the upper cover. Corners and spine ends bumped, with a small splash mark to the upper cover at the upper fore-edge. Clean and bright..... More
Hiwa. A Tale of Ancient Hawaii
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 108 pp. Tan cloth darkened to light brown, colour image to the front board and gilt titles to front board and spine. Cloth a touch rubbed in a few spots. Endpaper very neatly removed, clean throughout and very good otherwise..... More
The Zande Trickster
Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Cloth boards with gilt lettering, in a price clipped dust jacket. Ink name and Oxford University Press ink stamp to the front endpaper, dust jackjet spine sunned, with one piece of paper tape to the inside of the jacket at..... More
Folk-Lore bresilien : Poesie populaire-contes et legendes-fables et mythes-poesie, musique, danses et croyances des Indiens accompagne de douze morceaux de musique. Preface du Prince Roland Bonaparte.
Paris: Perrin et Cie, 1889. First Edition. Softcover. Small 8vo. Pp. xii, 272, [8] music. Original green wraps. Unopenned pages. Bookplate of Col. Victor de Guinzbourg. Fine clean and unread copy, with a slight fade to the spine. Very near fine copy. More
Little Ta-Wish Indian Legends from Geyserland
Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1914. Kyohei Inukai. Hardcover. 8vo. 124p. [4] ads. Blue cloth with gilt lettered front board and spine, with a mounted illustration on the front cover. Light rubbing to the cloth at the corners and spine, otherwise a fine copy in a tight..... More
Songs of the Dream People. Chants and Images from The Indians and Eskimos of North America
Don Mills, Ontario: Longman Canada Limited, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 83, [1], [2]. Grey cloth boards, in dust jacket. Like new copy in a near fine dust jacket. Edited and illustrated by James Houston. More
The Cuchullin Saga in Irish Literature: Being a Collection of Stories Relating to the Hero Cuchullin.
London: David Nutt, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter olive cloth over olive boards with paper title label on spine. 316 pp plus 4 pp ads. Fold out map of Ireland as frontis. General wear. New cloth spine expertly matching the original. Spine label is new, facsimile of original. Ink name..... More
The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, In England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments . In Three Volumes
London: Charles Knight and Co., 1839. William Harvey. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. 1839, 1840, 1841. 3 volumes. 4to. Pp. xxxii, 618, [1]; xii, 643, [1]; xii, 763, [1]. In the original gilt stamped green cloth, with blind-stamped borders to the boards, gilt devices to front and back. Bookplate of Thomas..... More
The Honey Drum. Seven Tales from Arab Lands
Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. Near fine, as new copy. More
Trojan Women. The Trojan Women by Euripedes and Helen and Orestes by Ritsos
Toronto: Exile Editions, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. Very lightly sunned spine, else a fine copy. More
Gaelic Songs of Mary MacLeod
Edinburgh: Scottish Gaelic Texts Society, 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. 158pp. Green cloth with gilt lettered spine, light nicks to the board corners, else a clean and tight copy in a very good dust jacket. First printing of this edition. Scottish Gaelic Texts Volume Nine. More
Highland Lore and Legend
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Pp. xv, 90, [2] ads. Decorated and lettered in silver to front board and spine. With a frontispiece illustration of the author. A fresh and bright copy without wear or any sign of use. More
Song and Legend from the Middle Ages
Meadville Penna: Flood and Vincent, 1893. Hardcover. 12mo. Pp. 141. Maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. Very light bumping to spine ends, boards clean and bright, ink name to front endpaper, with an erasure to rear endpaper, rather clean and tight and overall a great copy. More
A Guide to the Imaginary Birds of the World
Cambridge/Watertown: Apple-Wood Books, 1984. David Frampton. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed. 4to. Blue cloth, black spine lettering. Slight publication defect to the spine head, very small nick to the jacket at the spine head and very faint stain to the spine foot. 125 copies of this special edition have been numbered..... More
Australian Legendary Tales Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs As Told To The Piccaninnies
Alpha Editions, 2018. Softcover. 8vo, 98pp. Matte cover. Near fine condition, like new. More
The Hidden Treasure of Rasmola
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 181pp. Orange cloth with black lettering and front cover illustration, in the dust jacket. Board corners and spine ends a little bumped, offsetting and toning to endpapers, contents clean and the binding is tight and square. Dust jacket darkened..... More
How St. Patrick Saves the Irish
Privately Printed, 1931. Hardcover. [Gaylordsville, Conn.] Privately Printed at the Slide Mountain Press, stylized monogram SMP at end with a limitation statement of 37 copies, this being no. 20. 8vo [207 x 135mm]. 6pp. White squares on green boards, some soiling, faintly sunned, light spotting, and top corners and head..... More
Morte Darthur. Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table. (THe Globe Edition)
London: Macmillan & Co., 1886. Hardcover. 12mo. Pp. 509, [2] p. of ads. Green cloth with gilt lettered spine. Very light bumping to the conrers and spine ends, half-title and title with light foxing, and some faint brown spotting to the contents page. Page 256-7 with a strange circular stain/abrasion..... More
The Facetious Nights of Straparola, with The Pecorone of Ser Giovanni (7 Volumes)
London: The Society of Bibliophiles, 1898. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. The Facetious Nights of Straparola (4 Volume set). The Pecorone (3 Volume set). Sold together, 7 volumes. Limited set of 1000 numbered copies, both of these sets are 838. Now first translated into English from the Italian by W. G...... More
Bermuda and the Supernatural
Bermuda: Longtail Publishers, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed. First printing. 8vo. Signed and dated 1972 by the author on the title page. Pink cloth slightly darkened at the joints; bright white dust jacket with minor scuffing. Otherwise, a clean and attractive copy. More
SKULPTUR PROJEKTE MÜNSTER 2017
Leipzig: Spector Books, 2017. Soft cover. Periodical. Very good condition. Minor creasing along the sides of the binding. Otherwise, as new copy. More