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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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Hayots hin grakanutian patmutyun.
xvi 599p original hardback brown boards with silver lettering, portrait frontispiece, clean text, ...
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God and Man in African Religion. A Case Study of the Igho of Nigeria.
181p rare blue paperback, scarce title in good condition, only very minor wear to edges, book firm ...
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Tessiner Legenden.
131p grey cloth, nice clean copy, tight and fresh, first edition, excellent condition
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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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Svarnalata. Scenes from Hindu Village Life in Bengal. Translated by Dakshinacharan Roy.
vi 281p brown cloth with black lettering very fresh, frontispiece, bookplate and small library ...
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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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Romantic Tales from the Punjab, with illustrations by Native Hands.
xlvi 483p original green cloth, floral pattern to front and gilt lettering, spine a little dull but ...
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Bibliotheke Marasle: Meletai peri tou biou kai te s glosses tou Hellenikou Laou.
(xxxvi?) 600p, 699p, 686p scarce copy of the first edition, three volume set, extremely well ...
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Børnespejl (Bornespejl)
xi 45p fragile pamphlet, paper cover front and back missing, text clean, partly un-cut, colour ...
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Myth and History. Special Issue of 'African Literature Today'.
231p red and white paperback, cover and text bright and fresh, appears hardly used, binding firm, a ...
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Die hebräische Version der Sage von Arthur und Lanzelot aus dem Jahre 1279.
approx 10p, removed from binding, uncut, German language
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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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Folk-Lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend and Law. Abridged Edition.
476p hardback, navy cloth, good condition, minimal wear to cover edges and spine, rough-cut pages ...
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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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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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Rymovana Kronika Ceska tak receneho Dalimila: Podle Prvotniho Textu Ceskeho i s Pripojenim Obou Prekladuv Nemeckych.
xxviii 301p large format, recently rebound in plain green cloth, title printed red and black, text ...
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Macedonian Folklore.
x 372p original blue cloth, title label to spine, also white title label with gilt lettering to ...
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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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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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Apollonius de Rhodes et Virgile. La Mythologie et les Dieux dans les Argonautiques et dans l'Énéide.
viii 778p bound in plain green cloth, excellent copy, without library markings, first edition
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Essays und Studien zur Sprachgeschichte und Volkskunde.
412p plain brown cloth with gilt title label to spine, faint library stamp, very well preserved, ...
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Benches and Stalls in Suffolk Churches.
39p slim booklet, brown card cover, stapled binding, excellent condition, many plates, previously ...
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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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Engaging With Animals. Interpretations of a Shared Existence.
262p new paperback, excellent copy, black spine with white titles
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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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Heldensagen des Firdusi. In deutscher Nachbildung nebst einer Einleitung.
295p 324p 327p three volumes bound in one thick volume, brown publisher's cloth with gilt lettering ...
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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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Spoken en Kastelen in Nederland.
large format hardback with dustjacket, fresh clean copy, with illustrations, first edition
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The Ozark Culture Region as Revealed by Traditional Materials.
25p offprint, maps, very good, author compliments, together with a second related offprint (The ...
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Hausa Folk Tales.
xii 240p burgundy cloth fresh and tight, spider design to front board, includes text in Hausa and ...
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The Anglo-Saxon Sagas. An Examination of their Value as Aids to History.
xi 178p original green cloth blindstamped, light markings from a Cambridge college library, first ...
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The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales.
148p green cloth discoloured and aged, binding a little soft but holding, frontispiece removed, ...
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The Religion of Ancient Rome.
112p original green green cloth, spine gilt, small format, this is a very well preserved copy of ...
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Le Feu du Ciel. Introduction à la Littérature Prométhéenne.
170p paperback, a fresh copy, seems unused, an excellent copy
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The Legend of Spring Heeled Jack. Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures.
vii 262p hardback, illustrated dustjacket, several colour plates, a bright and firm copy, like new
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Alpha Centauri.
255p hardback, a clean dustjacket, firm binding, illustrated by Kurt Mitchell, a fresh copy, like ...
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Teutonic Myth and Legend. An Introduction to the Eddas and Sagas, Beowulf, the Nibelungenlied, etc.
xlvii 469p hardback, green decorative cloth, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, clean text, a ...
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Gargantua and Pantagruel Volume 2 only.
ix 332p blue cloth, publisher's blindstamp to cloth, gilt lettering to spine, illustrated, clean ...
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Spanish Folk Songs.
58p small hardback with printed red boards and matching red dustjacket, a couple of tears and small ...
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The Age of Fable.
x 371p red cloth, "EL" monogram to spine, light library markings, endpaper removed, spine a bit ...
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Asgard and the Norse Heroes Retold.
x 268p red cloth, "EL" monogram to spine, light library markings to endpaper, worn cloth, spine a ...
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A Book of British Ballads.
xxiv 333p green cloth, "EL" monogram to spine, light library markings to endpaper, pages are bright ...
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The German Novelists.
xv 623p burgundy cloth with blindstamped floral thistle design to boards, spine lettered gilt, very ...
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The Spanish Novelists.
xiv 515p burgundy cloth with blindstamped floral thistle design to boards, spine lettered gilt, ...
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Beiträge zur Eddaforschung, mit Exkursen zur Heldensage.
vi 512p original paperback in worn state, back cover missing, spine fragile, binding broken at one ...
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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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Fortuna im Alexanderroman Rudolfs von Ems: Studien zum Verhältnis von Fortuna und Virtus bei einem Autor der späten Stauferzeit.
223p green paperback, reproduced from typescript, faint pencil marks to margins on some pages, ...
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