Books on Folklore
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The Carisbrooke Library IV. Early Prose Romances.
446p hardback, olive cloth with gilt lettering, good condition, light wear commensurate with age, ...
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Der ewige Verlierer. Das Bild des Juden in der deutschen Volksliteratur.
30p many illustrations, very well preserved
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Volksmedizin und Aberglaube in Oberbayerns Gegenwart und Vergangenheit.
xii 243p hardback, burgundy cloth with silver lettering, reprint of the 1888 edition, clean copy, a ...
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Popular Beliefs and Practices from Alabama.
x 270p large paperback, yellow card cover, text reproduced from typescript, a well preserved copy, ...
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The Wandering Jew.
641p 657p two volumes uniform in dark blue cloth with gilt decor to spine, top edge gilt, many ...
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So feiern die Bayern. Bilder, Texte und Untersuchungen zum öffentlichen Festwesen der Gegenwart.
106p paperback, blue illustrated cover, illustrations throughout, well preserved, ...
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The Devil's Box (Volume 17, No 1, Spring 1983)
54p stapled pamphlet, A4 format, with illustrations, from typescript, a little aged, well preserved
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The Oral Nature of the Homeric Simile.
ix 212p clean paperback, large format, very well preserved, with appendix
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Rosanders, des heblich flötenden Schäffers und klirrend Gassatim gehenden Purschen Studentengärtlein.
194p hardback with paper covered boards, black cloth spine with shelfmarking, a clean and tight ...
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Verbrechen und Aberglaube. Skizzen aus der volkskundlichen Kriminalistik.
vii 139p original brown cloth fresh with black lettering, first edition, a few neat notes in ink ...
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Ballad and the Scholars: Approaches to Ballad Study.
xii 54p paperback booklet, clean and tight copy
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Studia Mythologica Slavica. Volume 1.
316p large format paperback, fresh and clean copy, name to endpaper, excellent condition, with ...
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Artes Populares. A Folklore Tanszek Evkönyve. Volume 7: Oblata Floclorica et Ethnologica Emerico Katona Sexagenario Dedicata.
290p large format paperback, white cover with orange lettering, Imre Katona Festschrift, small dent ...
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Russian Epic Studies.
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Argonautica.
xvi 431p hardback, olive cloth with gilt lettering, very good condition, some light marks to covers ...
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The Characters of Theophrastus.
vii 364p hardback, olive cloth with gilt lettering, very good condition, binding firm, light pencil ...
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El Romancero Judeo-Español en el Archivo Menendez Pidal.
408p 394p 358p three volumes in bright and firm burgundy cloth, bright gilt lettering and ornaments ...
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Die niedersächsischen Berggeistsagen.
240p hardback with fresh dustjacket, excellent copy, never used
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Varifran kommer vara sagor Utkast til de svenska folksagornas uppkomst- och utbredningshistoria. Jämte översiktstabla.
xv 537p large format paperback, faint green cover with gilt lettering to spine and horse design to ...
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Bilmece: A Corpus of Turkish Riddles.
vii 1063p large paperback, yellow card cover, very thick volume, text reproduced from typescript, a ...
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Two Studies on Modern Greek Folklore.
132p plus 14 plates in the back, large format paperback, fresh jacket, well preserved, clean and ...
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Die Paradieserzählung. Eine Auslegung von Genesis 2,4b-3,24.
129p paperback, white and blue cover, very good condition, minimal wear, covers lightly tanned, ...
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The Lushei Kuki Clans.
xxiii 250p original blue cloth with gilt design to front and spine, first edition, colour ...
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Fairy Tales From the Arabian Nights.
117p small hardback, red cloth, very good condition, minimal wear to cover, ink stamps on endpaper, ...
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Saltanat: The Saga of a Desperate Warrior.
219p (re-?)bound in grey library cloth without lettering, a tight and clean copy, never used, ...
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Textauslegung und gesellschaftliche Selbstdeutung: Aspekte einer sozialgeschichtlichen Interpretation von Hartmanns Artusepen.
144p large white paperback, very good condition, minimal wear to cover edges, binding strong, pages ...
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Das Deutsche Volksrätsel.
88p slim paperback in light brown cover, acceptable condition, general light wear, cover detached ...
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Das Deutsche Sprichwort.
77p slim paperback, light brown cover, good condition, pages rough-cut but clean and bright, text ...
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Da Saul a David: Le Origini della Monarchia Israelitica alla Luce della Storiografia Contemporanea.
30p offprint, "with best wishes", grey card cover a little aged, text clean, text printed in two ...
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Cleomenes on the Acropolis. An Inaugural Lecture.
33p stapled booklet, blue card cover, this copy with extensive highllighting in yellow, still very ...
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Nordisches Geistesleben in heidnischer und frühchristlicher Zeit.
xiii 230p hardback in navy cloth, minimal wear, some light sunning to spine, binding firm, pages ...
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The Rushbearing in Grasmere and Ambleside.
28p stapled booklet, blue card cover, staples rusted, otherwise very clean, photographic ...
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Kalevipoeg. Eesti Rahva Eepos. Kogunud ja umber tootanud Fr. R. Kreutzwald. Illustreerinud Evald Okas.
376p large format, brown cloth with black and red illustration to front, illustrated endpapers and ...
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Tales of Epic Ancestry: Boiotian Collective Identity in the Late Archaic and Early Classical Periods.
238p large format paperback, card cover with white and dark burgundy panels, an excellent copy, as ...
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Corpus Codicum Norvegicorum Medii Aevi. Quarto Serie, Vol 2: Legendarisk Olavssaga.
large folio volume, half morocco binding with red spine, red morocco medallion with gilt arms inset ...
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Homer and the Homeric Problem.
51p stapled booklet, brown card cover, excellent clean copy, stamped "Preliminary Publication, Not ...
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Catalogue of Astronomical and Mythological illuminated Manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages. Vol. IV: Astrological Manuscripts in Italian Libraries (other than Rome).
xxx 111p firm and strong cloth binding, 12 plates, a tight and clean copy, without name or stamp, ...
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The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that Changed a Continent.
xvi 307p hardback with fresh dustjacket, a new copy, never used, with frontispiece and maps, ...
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The Myths of the New World: A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America.
viii 307p original terracotta cloth, spine complete but torn, piece secured with magic tape, text ...
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Miners' Folk Songs of Sri Lanka.
ii 78p slim booklet, very well preserved, private shelfmark to spine, this copy un-cut, never read, ...
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The Ring of the Forgetful Husband in World Mythology.
24p stapled booklet, well preserved, clean copy
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Gling ge sar rgyal po'i sgrung: Mon gling g.yul 'gyed.
470p yellow paperback, with colour plates, Tibetan text: Legend of King Gesar of Ling.
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Mthing gling g'yul 'gyed dpa' bo rtsal 'gran zhes bya ba bzhugs so.
241p paperback with blue illustrated cover: An episode from the Tibetan epic.
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Zhimeigengdeng.
115p 115p small format paperback, illustrated throughout, text in Chinese and Tibetan, story from ...
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Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études. Section des Sciences Religieuses. Annuaire 1971 - 1972, Tome 79.
539p yellow cloth fresh with gilt lettering to front, spine a hint dull only, excellent clean and ...
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Folklore in Buddhist and Jaina Literatures.
xv 120p hardback red dustjacket, well preserved, clean and tight copy, never read, partly un-cut
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Folk Tales of Orissa.
110p hardback with coloured boards, old shelfmark to spine, a clean and tight copy, very good
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Raganius. Prieskariniu Laiku Sodziaus Gyvenimo Seseliai.
192p paperback, illustrated cover, this copy in an old transparent jacket which left traces of ...
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Frankfurter Sagen- und Geschichten-Buch.
vii 312p original grey cloth with gilt décor, a fresh and tight copy of the first edition, without ...
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