Books on Folklore
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Tessiner Legenden.
131p grey cloth, nice clean copy, tight and fresh, first edition, excellent condition
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Legenda o doktore Fauste. (RUSSIAN)
574p 14 illustrations, olive green cloth hardback with gilt lettering to cover and spine, pages ...
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Velikorusskie skazki Permskoj gubernii. (Velikorussian Tales from Perm Province)
543p thick volume, yellow cover illustrated with owl, reset "reprint" (?) of the 1914 edition, with ...
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Fêtes d'hiver et calendrier liturgique des Pays-Bas méridionaux.
272p large format black paperback, colour illustration to front, many illustrations throughout, ...
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100 Canti Popolari Ordinati per 3 e 4 Voci ad Uso deo Cori Misti senza Accompagnamento.
239p thick grey paperback, tight and clean copy
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Motivgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zur Artusepik: Szenen an und auf dem Meer.
223p green paperback, reproduced from typescript, faint pencil marks to margins on some pages, ...
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The History of the Forty Vezirs, or, The Story of the Forty Morns and Eves.
xl 420p hardback, mustard cloth, very good condition, some wear to covers and spine, binding intact ...
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Fiabe Irlandesi.
670p white cloth hardback, shrink-wrapped in place, crimson cloth slipcase with illustration ...
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Der rote Großvater erzählt: Berichte und Erzählungen von Veteranen der Arbeiterbewegung aus der Zeit von 1914 bis 1945. Herausgegeben von der Werkstatt Düsseldorf des Werkkreises Literatur der Arbeitswelt.
250p red paperback, a very good copy from a Cambridge college library with label on spine, pages ...
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Spanish Ballads.
104p mauve paperback with white lettering, bibliography, fresh clean copy without names or stamps, ...
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Der Fliegende Holländer. Eine Seemannsage.
191p burgundy cloth, gilt lettering on cover, 41. Tausend, the book has been fitted with a unique ...
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Die niedersächsischen Berggeistsagen.
240p hardback with fresh dustjacket, excellent copy, never used
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Nederlandsche Volksoverleveringen, Verzameld en met Aanmerkingen Voorzien. Op nieuw bewerkt en met bijvoegselen vermeerderd.
ix 218p rebound in plain red cloth with gilt lettering to spine, excellent fresh copy, name of ...
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Heldensage und Epos: Zur Konstituierung einer mittelalterlichen volkssprachlichen Gattung im Spannungsfeld von Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit.
461p hardback, green cloth, minimal wear to cover edges, binding firm, pages clean and unmarked, ...
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Der Ring. Nach der Ausgabe Edmund Wiessners übertragen und mit einer Einleitung versehen von Helmut Birkhan.
311p illustrated hardcover, lovely book, two illustrations, table and map, hardly used, very good
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Draussen vor dem Ghetto: Leopold Kompert und die 'Schilderung jüdischen Volkslebens' in Böhmen und Mähren.
399p paperback, sky blue cover with white and black lettering, very good condition, as new, no ...
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Heroes of Asgard.
118p green decorated limp cloth, good condition, pages clean, edges slightly soiled, large school ...
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Folk Traditions in Westmorland (Journal of the Folklore Institute, Vol 3, No 3)
276-293p green card cover, offprint, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good
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A Thorn in the King's Foot: Stories of the Scottish Travelling People.
304p illustrated paperback, minor shelfwear, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good
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Nalopakhyanam. Story of Nala, an Episode of the Maha-Bharata: The Sanskrit Text.
330p original cloth, binding very poor, boards detatching, spine consumed, text thoroughly ...
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The Last Word. The Lure and Lore of Early New England Graveyards.
39p grey paperback, excellent copy, almost as new, well illustrated with photographs and rubbings ...
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Political Ballads of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. In Two Volumes.
2 volumes, xv 284p vii 342p brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, blindstamped cover, both ...
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Ballad and the Scholars: Approaches to Ballad Study.
xii 54p paperback booklet, clean and tight copy
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Internationale Volkskundliche Bibliographie. International Folklore Bibliography. Bibliographie Internationale des Arts et Traditions Populaires. Annees 1950 et 1951. German, English and French.
xviii 664p large paperback, grey cover, fair condition, wear commensurate with age, binding loose ...
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Von Berg und Thal. Mit sechs Stahlstichen nach Originalzeichnungen von Rothbart.
vi 242p square green cloth, privately rebound and repaired, dritte durchgesehene Auflage, paper ...
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Fausts Leben: Das ärgerliche und schreckliche Leben des viel-berüchtigten Erz-Schwarzkünstlers D Johannis Fausti. Erstlich vor vielen Jahren fleissig beschrieben etc von G R Widman, jetzo aufs neue übersehen durch Joh Nicolaum Pfitzerum.
236p blue blindstamped cloth, title ctd: 'mit neuen Erinnerungen, als nachdenklichen Fragen und ...
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A Dictionary of Chinese Mythology.
xxiii 627p large format hardback, black cloth fresh with bright red symbol to front, tight and ...
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Myths and Legends of the Bantu.
335p large hardback, navy cloth, sunned spine, binding intact and firm, some pencil and pen marks ...
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Motivation und Menschenbild der Eneide Heinrichs von Veldeke als Ausdruck der geschichtlichen Kräfte ihrer Zeit.
355p blue paperback, reproduced from typescript, faint pencil marks to margins on some pages, notes ...
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Legends of Eastern Saints Chiefly from Syriac Sources. Volume 1: Archelides; Volume 2: Hilaria. Bound with: Eusebii Pamphilii Historiae Ecclesiasticae Lib X, Ed A Schwegler.
xxi 20p, plus many pages with print in script, xxxiv 93p plus many pages with print in script, ...
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Legends of Eastern Saints Chiefly from Syriac Sources. Volume 1: Archelides.
xxi 20p, plus approx 150 pages with print in Arabic, Syriac and Aethiopic script, original ...
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Einführung in den Atlas der schweizerischen Volkskunde.
xv 110p cloth, dustjacket, maps, this copy from the library of Wayland Hand with his name to ...
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The American Myth of Success: From Horatio Alger to Norman Vincent Peale.
Hardback with blue skies dustjacket, a fresh clean copy, first edition, Signed with best wishes, ...
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Töpferwerk in der Oberlausitz. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Oberlausitzer Töpferhandwerks.
viii 200p hardback with cloth spine, more than 100 plates, author inscription, very good
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Florilegio di Canti Toscani. Folk Songs of the Tuscan Hills. With English Renderings.
305p lilac cloth with gilt lettering, large format, top edge gilt, many colour plates and musical ...
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Die Gestalt des Teufels in der deutschen Volkssage.
84p original cloth binding, author inscribed, excellent copy
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Visramiani. The Story of the Loves of Vis and Ramin. A Romance of Ancient Persia.
xii 409p back cloth fresh with gilt lettering to spine bright, excellent copy, without name or ...
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Man in the Panther's Skin: A Romantic Epic.
xviii 273p hardback, black cloth fresh, a clean and tight copy, translated from the Georgian
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Diocles of Carystos and German Popular Medicine.
this is a 20 page essay published in Medium Aevum, for sale is the entire issue of the journal with ...
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Zhimeigengdeng.
115p 115p small format paperback, illustrated throughout, text in Chinese and Tibetan, story from ...
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Eight Nursery Rhymes set to music for mixed voices (S A T B) or for ladies' voices only (S S A) With or without Piano Accompaniment. New Edition.
26p purple card covers a little aded otherwise very good, binding firm, pages clean
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Mythographi Graeci: Vol 1: Apollodori Bibliotheca. Pediasimi Libellus de Duodecim Herculis Laboribus. Editio Altera.
lxxv 335p this is an original paperback in mixed condition: The copy is entirely uncut, never read, ...
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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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Tradicionnyj fol'klor Novgorodskoj oblasti: skazki, legendy, predania, bylichki, zagovory, po zapisam 1963 - 1999. (Traditional Folklore of the Novgorod Region: Tales, Legends, Bylaws, Incantations from the Records of 1963 - 1999)
542p hardback with laminated boards, a fresh and clean copy, never used, as new
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Fonti per la Storia della Religione Cyrenaica.
xxii 168p large paperback, grey card cover, light library markings, very well preserved, first ...
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Mythe et Tragédie en Grèce Ancienne.
184p paperback, white and purple cover, very good condition, minimal wear, name to endpaper, ...
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Märchen und Erzählungen der Suaheli.
264p small period paperback, tape along spine, library shelfmark, well preserved, first edition, ...
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Légendes et traditions orales d'Alsace. Tome 3: Basse Alsace.
485p period paperback with orange paper cover, tape along spine and minor library markings, aged, ...
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Non al suo Amante più Diana Piacque: I Miti Venatori nella Letteratura Italiana.
359p large format paperback, a fresh and clean copy, as new
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