Books on Folklore
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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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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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Engaging With Animals. Interpretations of a Shared Existence.
262p new paperback, excellent copy, black spine with white titles
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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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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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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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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 ...
£64.00