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Left in Charge. Designed by F Volski.
24p large format stapled, from a Cambridge college library, in colour
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Myth in Africa.
309p paperback, red cover, very good condition, minimal wear to cover edges, spine sunned and ...
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Old Deccan Days; or, Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India.
xxxv 331p rebound in plain burgundy cloth, from a Cambridge college library with stamp to title ...
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John Dietrich and other Stories from The Fairy Book.
158p small format blue cloth with gilt lettering and colour illustration to front, fresh gilt ...
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Viliam Rol'ston - propagandist Russkoy literatury i fol'klora. (RUSSIAN)
330p burgundy cloth hardback with gold ornamentation and lettering to cover and spine, inscription ...
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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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Counting-Out Rhymes. A Dictionary.
243p from a Cambridge college library, hardcover with usual library markings, dustjacket a little ...
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De Swienegel als Wettrenner. Ein plattdeutsches Märchen.
stapled pamphlet, 16p, printed with illustrations and green ornaments, staple rusted, original
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The Religion of Ancient Rome.
112p original green green cloth (cloth at front board somewhat hurt), small format, this is a very ...
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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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Lingua e Cultura della Valle di Poschiavo. Una Terminologia della valle di Poschiavo.
407p large paperback with illustrated cover, many photographic plates to appendix, errata, author ...
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Frankfurter Feste. Von Wem? Für Wen?
228p paperback, many photographic illustrations in the text, printed from typescript, library ...
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De l'Expression des Voeux dans l'Art Populaire Chinois.
[iv] 44p + 8p plates, red library cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front, 18 figures, 14 ...
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Pocahontas, Little Wanton: Myth, Life and Afterlife.
xii 209p plus 12 full page illustrations (one folding), blue cloth with pictoral dustjacket, new
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Saga 1960.
176p paperback, cover detaching, library markings, still very useful, papers in Icelandic (?)
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Aurelias Sagenkreis. Die schönsten Geschichten, Sagen und Märchen von Baden-Baden und dem Schwarzwalde. 4te Auflage.
231p original illustrated green cloth, frontispiece and additional high quality illustrations, on ...
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The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called The Arabian Nights' Entertainments.
508p original red cloth worn with hurt to spine, paper yellowing, a less than perfect copy, with ...
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Istoricheskie korni volshebnoi skazki.
365p grey cloth with gilt lettering, nice fresh and tight copy, a few faint pencil marks, very good
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Krylatye slova.
448p grey cloth with red lettering, nice clean copy, fresh and tight, very little used,
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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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Russkie narodnye skazki.
327p hardback with paper covered boards and cloth spine, purple décor to front, slightly aged but ...
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Chastushki v zapisiakh sovetskogo vremeni.
495p tan cloth with red lettering, title page printed red and black, includes musical notation, ...
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The Nibelungenlied, translated by Margaret Armour.
xviii 235p blue cloth, pages clean, binding tight
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Ballads of All Nations. Translated by George Borrow. A Selection Edited by R Brimley Johnson.
342p green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, text clean, binding tight, corners a bit worn, nice ...
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Mazes and Labyrinths: Their History and Development.
252p blue paperback, fresh clean copy
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Playing Cards. The History and Secrets of the Pack.
196p hardcover with dustjacket still bright though a little edgeworn, red cloth boards faded but ...
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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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Legends of the Monastic Orders as Represented in the Fine Arts. New Edition.
481p very attractive single volume, full vellum binding only slightly worn, leather title label and ...
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Spanish Ballads.
220p paperback, black and white cover, good condition, light wear commensurate with age, binding ...
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The Pendle Witches.
32p stapled booklet, brown card cover faded to edges, a few small stains to cover, text unmarked, ...
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Inns, Ales, and Drinking Customs of Old England.
xxiv 392p thick paperback, reprint of 1851 edition, illustrations, nice copy, well preserved
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Snakes in Fact and Fiction.
xix 214p paperback, plates, clean pages, firm, cover in very good condition, well preserved, cover ...
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Waltzing Matilda. Second Edition Commemorating our Song's 110th Anniversary.
36p A4 paperback, stapled binding, illustrated cover bright and uncreased, text excellent, appears ...
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Kniga Bylin: svod izbrannykh obraztsov russkoi narodnoi epicheskoi poezii.
320p xli bound in plain green cloth, light markings from a Cambridge college library, many plates, ...
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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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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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Märchen aus Tausend und einer Nacht. Neu bearbeitet für die Jugend. Mit 6 Farbdruckbildern nach Original-Aquarellen von E Offterdinger.
171p original half cloth with colour illustration to front, red cloth spine, colour frontispiece ...
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The Popular War-Songs of Switzerland.
6p extract from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 14, 1843, disbound, original print, very good
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Die Sprichwörter der Russen die einen allgemeinen Charakter haben, im Gegensatz zu denen, die eine lokale Färbung tragen. Jahrbücher für Slavische Literatur, Kunst und Wissenschaft. Heft 6 & 7, 1855.
pp 377 - 536, original green paperback, back cover with tear, spine fragile, contains 150p essay by ...
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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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The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children.
xx 223p blue cloth fresh, printed with ornaments, nice and tight copy
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Folktales and Legends of Cambridgeshire.
64p plue paperback, library bookplate, never used, very good
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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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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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Household Guide and Almanac 1954.
336p green paperback, nice clean copy, many adverts, illustrations, plates, compelling period piece
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Household Guide and Almanac 1953.
336p blue paperback, nice clean copy, many adverts, illustrations, plates, compelling period piece
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The Fall of the Nibelungen, translated by Margaret Armour.
235p blue cloth with flatback floral carpet design to spine, clean firm copy
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Sea Fights and Land Battles, From Sluys to the Bombardment of Alexandria and from Hastings to the War in the Soudan.
x 296p 295p burgundy cloth with blindstamped floral thistle design to boards, spine lettered gilt, ...
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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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