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Pygmy Kitabu.
434p hardback, brown cloth with black and white jacket, good condition, light wear, sticker trace ...
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Indo-European Folk-Tales and Greek Legend. The Grey Lectures 1932.
vii 158p hardback, terracotta cloth, title label to spine, very good condition, boards a little ...
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Von Sophokles zu Sartre. Griechische Dramenfiguren antik und modern.
222p rebound in plain cloth, a well preserved copy, discarded from a Cambridge college library
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The Composition of Mutanabbi's Panegyrics to Sayf al-Dawla.
viii 128p large format hardback, fresh dustjacket with dark brown design, excellent copy, never ...
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Ballads and Ballad-Plays.
268p bright blue cloth with gilt lettering, slightly aged, pages unmarked binding firm, very good
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Folktales from Somalia (Sheekoxariirooyin Soomaaliyeed). Dual-Language Edition, English and Somali.
209p large format hardback, beige cloth with illustrations, like new condition, little to no wear, ...
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Zauberwahn, Inquisition und Hexenprozess im Mittelalter und die Entstehung der großen Hexenverfolgung.
xvi 538p original yellow cloth binding with black title label to spine, reprint of the 1900 ...
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The Epic Songs of Russia.
xiii 358p two tone cloth, yellow boards and new brown cloth spine, expertly repaired re-using title ...
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Stars and Keys: Folktales and Creolization in the Southwest Indian Ocean.
xxv 413p large hardback fresh dustjacket, clean and tight copy, pencil marks to half a dozen pages, ...
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Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England.
ix 237p hardback, a fresh copy, small tear to dustjacket corner, in excellent condition overall, ...
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Primitive Paternity. The Myth of the Supernatural Birth in Relation to the History of the Family. Volume I.
vii 325p hardback, maroon cloth with gilt lettering, good condition, light wear commensurate with ...
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Primitive Paternity. The Myth of the Supernatural Birth in Relation to the History of the Family. Volume II.
327p hardback, dark green cloth, fair condition, light wear commensurate with age, wear along ...
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King Arthur on Film. New Essays on Arthurian Cinema.
xi 275p hardback, maroon cloth with silver lettering, like new condition, little to no wear, ...
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The Memorial Feast for Kokotoy-Khan: A Kirghiz Epic Poem.
xvi 283p large format (quarto size) green cloth fresh, top edge a little dusty, red stamp to title ...
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The Odyssey of Homer, Edited, with Marginal References, various readings, Notes and Appendices. Volume 1 & 2 ONLY.
ciii 240p clii, cxxxviii 292p xli, burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine, text in Greek with ...
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Energie aus dem Nichts. Macht, Magie und Wissenschaft.
285p hardback, a fresh copy, clean pages, firm binding, in excellent condition, like new
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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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Nibelungenstudien: Nibelungenlied, Thidrikssage und Balladen.
x 274p blue cloth fresh, large folding table not opened, excellent copy, first edition
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Der Teufels- und Hexenglaube. Seine Entwickelung, seine Herrschaft und sein Sturz.
159p original hardback with cloth spine, light library markings, fresh clean copy, first edition
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Legends of the Flowers. With Woodcut Illustrations by W R H Johnson.
96p blue cloth fresh, gilt flower to front, tight binding, fresh copy, some foxing to initial ...
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Von Geheimnissen und Wundern des Caesarius von Heisterbach. Ein Lesebuch.
310p hardback, dustjacket, as new, excellent fresh copy unused
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Gender and Print Culture. New Perspectives on International Ballad Studies.
xv 164p light blue paperback, collection of essays, first part entitled: Women in the Folk Ballad, ...
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Gesta Romanorum. Das älteste Märchen- und Legendenbuch des christlichen Mittelalters.
286p half calf binding with marbled paper boards, spine a little dry and fragile but still holding ...
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Fünf Geschichten von Aechtern und Blutrache.
353p hardback with fresh dustjacket, two folding plans well preserved, excellent copy
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Contes Dramatiques. With French Songs Exercises, Directions for Acting and Vocabulary.
x 206p olive cloth, black lettering to cover, vocabulary and notes in back, many illustrations, ...
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Contes Dramatiques. With French Songs, Exercises, Directions for Acting and Vocabulary.
x 206p olive cloth, black lettering to cover, vocabulary and notes in back, many illustrations, ...
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Index of Archived Resources for a Folklife and Cultural History of the Inland Pacific Northwest Frontier.
191p very well preserved copy from a Cambridge college library with stamp and shelfmark, excellent ...
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The Faber Book of Ballads.
267p paperback, well preserved, collection of traditional, poluar and broadside ballads from the ...
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Shona Praise Poetry.
xiv 401p hardback, black cloth without jacket, very good condition, binding tight, minimal wear, ...
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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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Folksong and the Culture of Hate. Essay in: The Use of English, Volume 18, No 1, 1966.
short essay by Holbrook, for sale is the complete issue, orange paper cover, very good, clean and ...
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Tales of the Castle, or Stories of Instruction and Delight, Being Les Veillees du Chateau. Vol 2, 3 and 5 ONLY.
3 volumes (of 5), second edition, bound in full calf, spines decorated gilt, title labels lost, ...
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Homeri Ilias, cum Brevi Annotatione Curante C G Heyne, Accedunt Scholia Minora Passim Emendata necnon Heraclidis Allegoriae Homericae. Volume 1 ONLY.
x 569p bound in plain green cloth (1910?) with gilt lettering, binding fresh, last page of text is ...
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Homeri Ilias. Annotationes in usum serenissimi principis Gulielmi Augusti, Ducis de Cumberland, etc. Volume 1 & 2.
375p 383p frontispiece map (browned but intact) to each part, Greek text throughout with extensive ...
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The Iliad of Homer with a Carefully Corrected Text; with Copious English Notes Illustrating (…) the Mythology and Antiquities of the Heroic Ages; and Preliminary Observations on Points of Classical Interest.
l 712p library rebound in plain blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, tight and clean binding, ...
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The Iliad of Homer, in English Hexameter Verse.
xii 550p text printed in a red frame, long hexametrical lines, this copy bound in library quality ...
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The Odyssey of Homer, Translated into English Verse in the Spenserian Stanza, Volume 2: Books 13 - 26.
xxviii 322p terracotta cloth fresh and tight, gilt lettering to spine, light library markings, a ...
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The Odyssey.
374p paperback, black and yellow cover, good condition, light wear, spine a bit loose but binding ...
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The Every-Day Book or a Guide to the Year, describing the Popular Amusements, Sports, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events.
two very large and very thick volumes bound in illustrated blue cloth, with 460 illustrations ...
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Romance and Legend of Chivalry. With Illustrations in Colour and Monochrome.
xii 439p green cloth volume with gilt lettering to spine, lighter illustration to front board, ...
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Chronicles of King Arthur.
191p large hardback, black cloth with colourful jacket, very good condition, little to no wear, ...
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Noble and Heroic Deeds of Men and Women.
128p fragile paperback, back cover only present, some illustrations, very original, aged with minor ...
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Jesus. In History, Legend, Scripture, and Tradition.
2 volume complete set, fresh, in excellent condition, clean and firm, new, still sealed
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Cuchulain. The Hound of Ulster.
279p hardback, grey cloth with black ornamentation, good condition, light wear and some marks to ...
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Literarische Einflüsse in schottischen Volksballaden. Versuch einer kritischen Variantenvergleichung.
118p bound in plain green cloth with lettering to spine, from a Cambridge college library, nice ...
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The Myths that Make Us.
136p large format paperback, excellent fresh copy, as new, includes many illustrations, uncommon ...
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Histoire Médiévale du Bhoutan: établissement et évolution de la Théocratie des Brug pa.
259p hardback, terracotta cloth as new, excellent copy, as new, never used, text in French
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The Magic of Number.
96p paperback with lime green cover, a little yellowed but pages clean with diagrams, very good
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Münchhausen: Eine Geschichte in Arabesken. Zweite Ausgabe, vierter Theil.
v 168p small green cloth, cover a little dirty, foxing, firm binding, still very well preserved copy
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Münchhausen. Eine Geschichte in Arabesken. Zweite Ausgabe. Zweiter Theil.
iv 189p original paper covered boards (a little dusty but firm), contains Acta ...
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