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Homer's Iliad, Books XXIII and XXIV. The Greek Text, with an Accurate English Version, Notes Grammatical, Critical and Explanatory, and Short Prolegomena.
viii 76p 51p original green cloth with printed title label to front board, light library markings, ...
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The Hammer of Thor.
156p paperback, illustrated cover in very good condition, clean pages, firm binding, illustrations ...
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Celtic Myth and Legend, Poetry and Romance. With Illustrations in Colour and Monochrome after Paintings by J H F Bacon ARA and other Artists.
xiv 450p thick volume, original green cloth with gilt decor, gilt lettering to spine fresh, colour ...
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Russkaja Chudozestvennaja kul'tura konca XIX - nacala XX veka. 1908-1917. Volume 3: Zreliscnye Iskusstva, Muzyka:.
511p large format hardback, with dark red dustjacket, clean and tight copy, illustrated throughout, ...
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Folk Quilts. A Universe Calendar.
spiral bound collection of 12 large postcards depicting quilts, doubling as a desk-top calendar, ...
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The Archetypal Context of Political Experience. (= Tract # 14)
35p paperback, green illustrated cover, uncommon title
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The Archetypal Context of Political Experience. (= Tract # 9)
30p paperback, blue illustrated cover, uncommon title
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Myth and Symbol in Education. (= Tract # 29 & 30)
104p paperback, illustrations throughout, essays by Abbs, Marshak, Gravett, Moulson, Wiles, etc, ...
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Griechische Mythologie. Vierte Auflage von Carl Robert. Erster Band, Erste Hälfte.
428p original paperback, spine broken once or twice, text is still clean, light library markings, ...
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The Faber Book of Ballads.
267p paperback, well preserved, collection of traditional, poluar and broadside ballads from the ...
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Vas privetstvuet skazka.
237p hardback with laminated colourfully illustrated boards, excellent copy, very fresh and clean, ...
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Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs. The Sixth Edition.
vi 123p full calf binding with gilt rule to boards, spine hinges precarious and yielding, binding ...
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Erscheinungsformen kultureller Prozesse. Jahrbuch 1988 des Sonderforschungsbereichs "Übergänge und Spannungsfelder zwischen Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit".
350p green paperback, two or three essays with faint pencil marks to margin, some of which are ...
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The Every-Day Book or a Guide to the Year, describing the Popular Amusements, Sports, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events.
two very large and very thick volumes bound in illustrated blue cloth, with 460 illustrations ...
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Jesus. In History, Legend, Scripture, and Tradition.
2 volume complete set, fresh, in excellent condition, clean and firm, new, still sealed
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Old Scottish Christmas Hymns. Designed by Joan Hassall.
12p sewn pamphlet, well preserved, with illustrations, very good indeed
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Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England.
ix 237p hardback, a fresh copy, small tear to dustjacket corner, in excellent condition overall, ...
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Groundless. Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier.
ix 391p hardback, a fresh copy, in excellent condition, clean and firm, new
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Little Red Riding Hood.
8p blue booklet, 1966 facsimile of the 1852 edition attractively printed by John Foreman, the ...
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Tales of Ancient Greece.
viii 325p original faint blue cloth, a fresh and clean copy with foral carpet design to spine, now ...
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Mother Goose in Hieroglyphics.
oblong format, illustrated throughout, hardback with dustjacket, fresh and clean copy of the ...
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Tales from the Arabian Nights. With 48 Colour Plates by A E Jackson.
340p tan cloth with black lettering, to spine and front, colour illustrated endpapers, a nice clean ...
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Fox Fables.
64p large format hardback, lovely fresh copy, very well illustrated, Russian folk tales retold
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Deutsche Balladenbibel für die Höheren Schulklassen Frankreichs und die Mittleren Deutschlands. Kritisch-objektive Auswahl nach der Methode Herrn Professors Ernest Lichtenberger.
xiv 282p (lacking last page), binding yielding/poor, cover absent, portraits and printer's ...
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The Myths that Make Us.
136p large format paperback, excellent fresh copy, as new, includes many illustrations, uncommon ...
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Energie aus dem Nichts. Macht, Magie und Wissenschaft.
285p hardback, a fresh copy, clean pages, firm binding, in excellent condition, like new
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Fables Heroiques, où sont renfermées les plus importantes maximes de la politique & de la morale; avec des discours historiques sur chaque fable. Two Volumes in One.
two volumes bound in one, full vellum binding a little darkened and soiled but holding well, spine ...
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Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song… A Texas Chronicle.
328p paperback, very clean and firm copy, musical transcriptions by Jessie Ann Owens and David Skuse
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Jonson Versus Bakhtin. Carnival and the Grotesque.
267p paperback, excellent condition, as new
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Njala. Udgivet efter gamle Handskrifter af det kongelige nordiske Oldskrift-Selskab. Förste Bind.
xv 910p binding tight but both boards detached and spine missing, first edition, volume 1 ONLY, ...
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Nibelungenstudien: Nibelungenlied, Thidrikssage und Balladen.
x 274p blue cloth fresh, large folding table not opened, excellent copy, first edition
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Danmarks Helte Digtning. First Part: Rolf Krake og den Aeldre Skjoldungraekke.
353p original paperback, grey card cover, binding firm, text clean except for a few faint pencil ...
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Wurd - Das Sakrale in der altgemanischen Epik.
204p hardback with dustjacket, seemingly an excellent copy, but on closer inspections we find faint ...
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Moograbah. An Australian Aboriginal Legend. Illustrated by Margaret Horder.
32p small format, stapled, colour illustrations, very good
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Cherkesskie Razskazy. Tom I.
301p original paperback, front cover detaching, spine with slight loss, Rouse donation bookplate, ...
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Narodnyia Russkiia Skazki i Zagadki. Sobrannyia sel'skimi uchiteliami Tul'skoi gub. v'' 1862 i 1863 godakh''
190p original period paperback, paper cover loose and fragile, light markings from a Cambridge ...
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Über die Entstehung des Nibelungenliedes.
32p offprint, Sitzungsbericht, very good, cover fragile
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Yanagita-gaku zenshi.
353p paperback, excellent condition, clean and tight copy, as new
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Das Anegenge. Textkritische Studien, Diplomatischer Abdruck, Kritische Ausgabe, Anmerkungen zum Text.
298p grey cloth with blue title panel to front, this copy clean and fresh, never used, excellent
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Folkloristische Streifzüge.
238p crude rebinding in plain card with tape along spine, title page largely missing, first ...
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Streifzüge auf dem Gebiete amerikanischer Volkskunde. Altes und Neues.
284p original grey cloth well preserved, first edition, library stamp, also bookplate of Ralph ...
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Zauberwahn, Inquisition und Hexenprozess im Mittelalter und die Entstehung der großen Hexenverfolgung.
xvi 538p original yellow cloth binding with black title label to spine, reprint of the 1900 ...
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Kulturelles Erbe und Aneignung: Festschrift für Richard Wolfram zum 80. Geburtstag.
310p yellow paperback, well preserved, reproduced from typescript, illustrations in the back, very ...
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Ausstellung Südtiroler Volkskunst. Katalog.
approx 160pp complete issue of Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, for sale is the entire ...
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Alte Puppenspiele in und um Innsbruck. Ein Beitrag zum Höttinger Peterlspiel.
20p essay in Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, for sale is the entire issue, with light ...
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Allgemeine Methodik der Volkskunde: Berichte über Erscheinungen in den Jahren 1890 - 1897.
134p brown bound in plain brown cloth, a few marks in red pencil, very good copy, only 100 copies ...
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Die Gestalt des Teufels in der deutschen Volkssage.
84p original cloth binding, author inscribed, excellent copy
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