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The Treasure of the Tigris: A Tale of Mesopotamia.
282p green cloth illustrated with rider on white horse, spine also shows illustrations, colour ...
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Teatralizovannye prazdniki i obrjady v SSSR. (Theatrical Holidays in the USSR)
206p white paperback, fresh copy, very good, with many plates, no names or stamps
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Skazki i pesni rozennye v doroge. Cyganskij fol'klor. (Tales and Songs Born on the Road. Gypsy Folklore.)
520p hardback with yellow boards and grey cloth spine, nice clean and tight copy, no names or ...
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Po Gutsulshchine. (In the Hutsul Language)
166p small format paperback, yellow cover, many illustrations throughout, uncommon title
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Poslovitsy Russkogo naroda sbornik. (Proverbs of the Russian People)
xxvii 990p mustard cloth with red and gilt lettering, a solid and clean copy, name in pencil, a few ...
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The Roxburghe Ballads: Illustrating the Last Years of the Stuarts. Volume 7 Part 1. Groups of Trades and Sports, of Cupid Ballads, of Matrimonial and Anti-Matrimonial Ballads.
xvi 240p rebound in dark plain cloth, library markings and stamps, original orange paper cover ...
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The Tengu. Extracted from Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 1908.
99p extracted from binding, original print fresh, pages holding together very well, nice clean ...
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Sumiyoshi Monogatari. Translated by Harold Parlett. Extracted from Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 1901.
123p extracted from binding, original print fresh, pages holding together very well, clean copy, ...
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The Dog and the Cat in Japanese Superstition. Extracted from Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 1909.
84p extracted from binding, original print fresh, pages holding together very well, nice clean ...
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Earth Magic. A Wisewoman's Guide to Herbal, Astrological, and Other Folk Wisdom.
208p paperback, glossy beige and brown covers, very good condition, a little light wear to edges, ...
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The Myth of Morgan la Fey.
xiii 262p sturdy hardback, beige and brown covers with colourful artwork, tight binding and sharp ...
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The Arthur of the French. The Arthurian Legend in Medieval French and Occitan Literature.
xii 637p large paperback, shiny blue covers with colour artwork, good condition, a little light ...
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The Object and the Cause in the Vulgate Cycle.
170p large sturdy hardback, blue paper-covered boards, like new, tight binding, slight wear to end ...
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Arthurian Literature XVI.
ix 211p hardback journal in earth-brown cloth, like new condition, free from wear and marks, tight ...
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Arthurian Literature VIII.
206p sturdy hardback in earth-brown cloth, beige jacket, very good condition, a little light wear ...
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Arthurian Literature XV.
vii 216p sturdy hardback in earth-brown cloth, like new condition, free from wear, no marks or ...
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The Fool and the Trickster. Studies in Honour of Enid Welsford.
viii 142p neat hardback, earth-brown cloth with off-white jacket, very good condition, free from ...
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Slovar Slavianskoi Mifologii.
368p hardback, black laminated boards with yellow designs, very good condition, firm binding and ...
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Riazhene v Russkoi Traditsionnoi KultureIz. Fondov Kabineta Rukopisei Rossiiskogo Instituta Istorii Iskusstv.
233p neat paperback, grey card covers with brown lettering and illustration, excellent condition, ...
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Russkii Fol klor Bibliograficheskii Ukazatel 1800 - 1855.
262p paperback, white and turquoise cover, firm binding, free from wear, spine a little creased, ...
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Épica Náhuatl.
100p paperback, like new condition, bright white and blue covers, tight binding, no sign of use, ...
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Arabian Nights. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Teheran Edition). 17 Volumes Complete Set including Supplemental Nights.
17 large volumes in black cloth with gilt lettering (silver lettering for the Supplemental Nights), ...
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The Works of Homer According to the Text of Baeumlein. The Odyssey, with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory by T H L Leary. Volume 1, Part 1: Books 1-6; Part 2: Books 7-12;
xv 143p 132p two titles bound together in one, plain black cloth tight and clean without flaws, ...
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Kalevala - The Land of Heroes. Translated from the original Finnish by W F Kirby. Volume One.
xvi 327p green cloth firm and square, "EL" monogram to spine, free endpaper had been glued down to ...
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Kalevala - The Land of Heroes. Translated from the original Finnish by W F Kirby. Volume Two.
viii 285p green cloth firm and square, "EL" monogram to spine, light library markings to endpaper, ...
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The Mabinogion. Translated by Lady Charlotte Guest.
432p green cloth EL monogram design to spine, a fresh and tight copy, spine without marking, front ...
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The Geoffrey Shaw Song Book. (Curwen Edition 6335)
25p large format booklet, brown card cover, stapled, fresh copy, no names or stamps, very good
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A Book of Descants: Treble Parts and Supplementary Tunes.
viii 58p 12p musical score, oblong format tight fresh copy, from the library of the composer, with ...
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The Legend of Rock-Buoy Bell. Ballad for Chorus and Orchestra. The Words Written by Susan K Phillips.
30p musical score, large format booklet, cover missing, text clean, no names or stamps, a useful ...
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The Songs from Shakespeare's Plays. Set to the Old Tunes. Part 1. (Curwen Edition 6335)
vii 42p large format booklet, brown card cover, stapled, some traces of use and light marginal ...
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Dionysos. Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life.
xxiii 474p very large hardback with fresh red dustjacket, first edition, name to endpaper, many ...
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Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research. Volume 27, 2003.
156p blue paperback, fresh and tight copy, as new, various essays and reviews: Troublesome ...
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Forty-Two Fables of La Fontaine. Translated by Edward Marsh.
viii 89p slim booklet, fine buckram cloth with title label to front and spine, both perfect, tiny ...
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Christ and the Sailor. A Study of the Maritime Incidents in the New Testament.
xviii 198p small neat hardback, sea-blue cloth with tanned blue and white jacket, very good ...
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The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde.
viii 194p blue laminated boards, fresh clean copy, light library markings, never used, first edition
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Popular Orthodoxy in Late Imperial Rural Russia. Volume 1 and 2.
763p thick paperback, blue card cover, title label to front, text reproduced from typescript, fresh ...
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Obshchestvennyi i Semeinyi byt Russkogo Selskogo Naseleniia Srednego Povolzhia: Istoriko-Etnograficheskoe Issledovanie: (seredina XIX-nachalo XX vv.).
164p blue hardback with fold out map in back: white cloth spine, fresh clean copy: Social and ...
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Russkie: Narodnaja Kultura: (Istorija i Sovremennost) Volume 5: Duchovnaja Kultura Narodnye Znanija. (Spiritual Culture, Folk Knowledge)
376p orange paperback, clean and fresh copy, no names or stamps, very good uncommon title
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Mudrost Narodnaia: Zhizn Cheloveka v Russkom Folklore: Mladenchestvo Detstvo.
590p terracotta cloth, gilt lettering, thick volume, solid binding, includes many color ...
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Vostochnoslavianskaia Etnografiia.
507p green hardback with white lettering, nice clean copy, with illustrations, colour plates, ...
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Modern Tales.
xii 415p large format hardback, grey cloth with gilt lettering, vivid colour artwork to cover, more ...
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Myths from Many Lands.
xiv 335p large format hardback, grey cloth with gilt lettering, vivid colour artwork to cover, more ...
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Russkie Narodnye Skazki v Illiustratsiiakh Palekhskogo Khudozhnika Aleksandra Kurkina. / Russian Fairy Tales with Palekh Illustrations by Aleksandra Kurkina.
large format hardback, black illustrated boards, colour plates throughout, excellent
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The Faerie Queene. Volume Two.
vii 480p small neat hardback, moss-green cloth with gilt title and floral crest to spine, very good ...
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Jewish Legends of the Second Commonwealth.
xxviii 477p large hardback, grey cloth with green jacket, very good condition, light wear to jacket ...
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Gatto, Amico, Mago.
289p white paperback, light pencil annotation to a couple of pages, mostly to rear endpaper and a ...
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Chipo and the Bird on the Hill: A Tale of Ancient Zimbabwe.
Oblong paperback booklet, large format, printed on yellow paper, illustrated throughout, not ...
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Amori di Sicilia.
134p well preserved paperback, small format, no names, no traces of use, based on a RAI radio ...
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Li Cunti te la Nonna: Sessantacinque Racconti in Dialetto Salentino, corredati di Traduzione Italiana.
338p large paperback, grey card showing light traces of use, introduction with a few words ...
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Harlekin. Eine Ausstellung im Österreichischen Theatermuseum.
68p large format paperback, white illustrated cover, light library markings, uncommon title with ...
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