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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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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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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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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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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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Macedonian Folklore.
x 372p original blue cloth, title label to spine, also white title label with gilt lettering to ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Børnespejl (Bornespejl)
xi 45p fragile pamphlet, paper cover front and back missing, text clean, partly un-cut, colour ...
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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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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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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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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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Ballads and Ballad-Plays.
268p bright blue cloth with gilt lettering, slightly aged, pages unmarked binding firm, very good
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Tessiner Legenden.
131p grey cloth, nice clean copy, tight and fresh, first edition, excellent condition
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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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Hayots hin grakanutian patmutyun.
xvi 599p original hardback brown boards with silver lettering, portrait frontispiece, clean text, ...
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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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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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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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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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Household Guide and Almanac 1953.
336p blue paperback, nice clean copy, many adverts, illustrations, plates, compelling period piece
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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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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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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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Folktales and Legends of Cambridgeshire.
64p plue paperback, library bookplate, never used, very good
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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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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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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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The Popular War-Songs of Switzerland.
6p extract from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 14, 1843, disbound, original print, very good
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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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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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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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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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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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Snakes in Fact and Fiction.
xix 214p paperback, plates, clean pages, firm, cover in very good condition, well preserved, cover ...
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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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The Pendle Witches.
32p stapled booklet, brown card cover faded to edges, a few small stains to cover, text unmarked, ...
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Spanish Ballads.
220p paperback, black and white cover, good condition, light wear commensurate with age, binding ...
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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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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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Mazes and Labyrinths: Their History and Development.
252p blue paperback, fresh clean copy
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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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The Nibelungenlied, translated by Margaret Armour.
xviii 235p blue cloth, pages clean, binding tight
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Chastushki v zapisiakh sovetskogo vremeni.
495p tan cloth with red lettering, title page printed red and black, includes musical notation, ...
£64.00