Books on Folklore
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Cossmann: Die Entwicklung des Gerichtsgedankens bei den Alttestamentlichen Propheten; Messel: Die Einheitlichkeit der Jüdischen Eschatologie; Eichrodt: Die Quellen der Genesis von neuem Untersucht.
231p 188p 156p three issues of Beihefte bound in one volume, fresh green cloth, very good, minor ...
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La Légende et Les Aventures Héroïques, Joyeuses et Glorieuses d'Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak au Pays de Flandres et Ailleurs.
xviii 411p large format, original paperback, largely uncut, fresh and clean text, binding a bit ...
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Tales of Ancient Greece.
viii 325p original faint blue cloth, a fresh and clean copy with foral carpet design to spine, now ...
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John Dietrich and other Stories from The Fairy Book.
158p small blue cloth with gilt lettering and colour illustration to front, fresh gilt lettering to ...
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Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno. A Cura di Nicola Lisi. Con Xilografie di Pietro Parigi.
232p large paperback, stiff binding, excellent cover, nice illustrations, excellent fresh copy
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Bog-Myrtle and Peat: Tales chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895.
426p original dark green cloth ribbed, top edge gilt, first edition, cloth fresh and tight, spine ...
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Homer's Iliad, Books XXIII and XXIV. The Greek Text, with an Accurate English Version, Notes Grammatical, Critical and Explanatory, and Short Prolegomena.
viii 76p 51p original green cloth with printed title label to front board, light library markings, ...
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Racconti Leggendi Ricordi della Vita Italiana.
xlii 181p small paperback, tan covers, very good condition, cover detached but present, binding ...
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Le Mythe de Faust.
440p paperback, brown and turquoise cover, very good condition, minimal wear, binding firm, pages ...
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Poslovitsy russkogo naroda.
xxvii 990p original brown cloth with red lettering, tight and fresh copy, excellent condition, ...
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Volkstümliche Redekunst: Erfahrungen und Ratschläge.
88p grey paperback, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good
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Haa Shuka, Our Ancestors. Tlingit Oral Narratives.
xvi 513p large hardback, brown cloth with illustrated jacket, good used condition, general light ...
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The Superhuman Life of Gesar of Ling.
271p paperback, mustard cover with illustration, good condition, minimal wear to cover edges, spine ...
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Les Cultures du Peuple. Rituels, Savoirs et Résistances au 16e Siècle.
444p paperback, sunned white cover, good condition, light wear, small tear to back cover, binding ...
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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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A Flame in the Snow. A Russian Legend.
168p small hardback, navy cloth with silver lettering to spine, very good condition, minimal wear, ...
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La Tradition au Pays Basque. Art Populaire, Ethnographie, Folk-Lore, Hagiographie, Histoire.
589p some plates, large format paperback with minor library markings and transparent tape along ...
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Il Sangue e la Rosa: Storie di Vampiri.
225p well preserved paperback, faint mauve cover, fresh and clean copy, contains texts by Vernon ...
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Early Irish Art.
60p paperback, grey-blue photograph cover, good condition, light wear to cover edges and corners, ...
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Dix-Huit Chants et Poèmes Mongols. Avec Notations Musicales, Texte Mongol, Commentaires et Traductions.
31p 28p very large format paperback, greyish cover, very good condition, light wear, some spots and ...
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Le Astuzie Sottilissime di Bertoldo e Bertoldino.
145p hardback, white silk-like cloth cover with green fleur-de-lis and gilt lettering to front, ...
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Karpathos and Kasos: A Folklore Paradise.
112p paperback, large format, photographic cover, like new, pages and photographs bright and ...
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Medieval Comic Tales. Translated from Seven Languages.
xi 160p paperback, blood-red card cover, very good condition, light wear to covers, binding stiff ...
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Diodorus of Sicily. Volume 3.
vi 429p hardback, dark green cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, very good condition, light ...
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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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Folktales and Legends of Cambridgeshire.
64p plue paperback, library bookplate, never used, very good
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Bibliografia do Folclore Brasileiro.
360p paperback, very good indeed, faint library stamp
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La Fiaba come Racconto.
174p large orange paperback, first edition, faint marginal ink notes on one or two pages and to ...
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The Ring of the Forgetful Husband in World Mythology.
24p stapled booklet, well preserved, clean copy
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Groundless. Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier.
ix 391p hardback, a fresh copy, in excellent condition, clean and firm, new
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Homerische Poetik. Band 1: Drerup: Das Homerproblem in der Gegenwart. Prinzipien und Methoden der Homererklärung; Band 3: Stürmer: Die Rhapsodien der Odyssee.
xv 511p, xi 632p, library bound in plain burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine, firm and ...
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Historie en Legende. Vervolg op Mozaiek.
250p original cloth binding, a very good copy from a Cambridge college library, hardly used
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Les Témoins de l' Au-Delà. Tome 1 & 2.
two volumes, large format black paperback, colour illustration to front, many illustrations ...
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Tradition Wallonne: Congrès de Namur. Ethnographie, Dialectologie, Onomastique.
194p large format black paperback, colour illustration to front, many illustrations throughout, ...
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Oral Literature. Seven Essays.
vii 107p green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, dustjacket present, pages clean and bright, ...
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Maha-Bharata. The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse. Introduction F Max Müller.
188p 12 tinted gravure plates, white cloth with gilt lettering and décor, spine a little dull but ...
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Les Dieux de la Gaule.
134p paperback, beige cover with illustration, good copy, light pencil marks, binding a little ...
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Legenden: Heiligengeschichten vom Altertum bis zur Gegenwart.
519p neat little cloth with blue illustrated jacket, page ribbon, illustrations, hardly used, ...
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The Cock, the Dog, the Serpent, and the Monkey. Reception and Transmission of a Roman Punishment, or Historiography as History.
33p essay in the International Journal of the Classical Tradition, for sale is the entire issue of ...
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Mythes, Rêves et Mystères.
305 original paperback, second edition, with marginalia (mostly in pencil) to approx 10 pages
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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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Narodnyia Russkiia Skazki i Zagadki. Sobrannyia sel'skimi uchiteliami Tul'skoi gub. v'' 1862 i 1863 godakh''
190p original period paperback, paper cover loose and fragile, light markings from a Cambridge ...
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The Secret History of the Jersey Devil: How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster.
x 147p hardback, dustjacket, as new, never used, excellent copy
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The Legend of John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, and a Mummy.
xv 268p hardback, dustjacket, as new, never used, excellent copy
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Ocherki po iazyku russkoi ustnoi poezii v zapisiakh XVII - XX vv. (RUSSIAN)
348p grey cloth hardcover with brown lettering, spine sunned, very slight pencil markings, large ...
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Der Schneider von Ulm: Geschichte eines zweihundert Jahre zu früh Geborenen. Volksausgabe, Vols 1 - 2.
320p 363p 2 volumes bound in one, cloth with illustration on cover, Volksausgabe, in excellent ...
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No! in Thunder. Essays on Myth and Literature.
xvi 341p paperback, bright red cover, tight and clean copy, never used, fresh
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Composer and Nation: The Folk Heritage in Music.
342p paperback, laminated cover well preserved, school library bookplate to title page, binding ...
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