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The Tristan Legend. A Study in Sources.
xiv 189p hardback in yellow cloth, very good condition, no significant wear, very slight marks on ...
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Da Saul a David: Le Origini della Monarchia Israelitica alla Luce della Storiografia Contemporanea.
30p offprint, "with best wishes", grey card cover a little aged, text clean, text printed ...
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Nordisches Geistesleben in heidnischer und frühchristlicher Zeit.
xiii 230p hardback in navy cloth, minimal wear, some light sunning to spine, binding firm, pages ...
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Kalevipoeg Kunstis. Kalevipoeg v Iskusstve.
86p large format hardback, tan cloth, plus an additional 63 pages of illustrations, some in ...
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Water Springing from the Ground. An Anthology of the Writings of Rolf Gardiner.
332p hardback with yellow dustjacket, jacket a little worn with some spotting to top edge, book ...
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Tales of Epic Ancestry: Boiotian Collective Identity in the Late Archaic and Early Classical Periods.
238p large format paperback, card cover with white and dark burgundy panels, an excellent copy, as ...
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Kult - Politik - Ethnos. Überregionale Heiligtümer im Spannungsfeld von Kult und Politik. Kolloquium, Münster, 23.-24. November 2001.
287p large format paperback, card cover with white and dark burgundy panels, an excellent copy, as ...
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Corpus Codicum Norvegicorum Medii Aevi. Quarto Serie, Vol 2: Legendarisk Olavssaga.
large folio volume, half morocco binding with red spine, red morocco medallion with gilt arms inset ...
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Homer and the Homeric Problem.
51p stapled booklet, brown card cover, excellent clean copy, stamped "Preliminary Publication, ...
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Catalogue of Astronomical and Mythological illuminated Manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages. Vol. IV: Astrological Manuscripts in Italian Libraries (other than Rome).
xxx 111p firm and strong cloth binding, 12 plates, a tight and clean copy, without name or stamp, ...
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Cults, Myths, Oracles, and Politics in Ancient Greece. With two Appendices: The Ionian Phylae, the Phratries.
179p original paperback, cover a little soft, text clean, binding holding, very good, first edition
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The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that Changed a Continent.
xvi 307p hardback with fresh dustjacket, a new copy, never used, with frontispies and maps, ...
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Bdud rtsi sman gyi 'grungs dpe legs bshad nor bu'i phred mdzes = Gan lu ben chao ming jing.
27p 5p 770p 10p plus colour plates, large format, heavy volume with dustjacket, very good, ...
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The Myths of the New World: A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America.
viii 307p original terracotta cloth, spine complete but torn, piece secured with magic tape, text ...
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Miners' Folk Songs of Sri Lanka.
ii 78p slim booklet, very well preserved, private shelfmark to spine, this copy un-cut, never read, ...
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The Ring of the Forgetful Husband in World Mythology.
24p stapled booklet, well preserved, clean copy
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Gling ge sar rgyal po'i sgrung: Mon gling g.yul 'gyed.
470p with colour plates: Legend of King Gesar of Ling.
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Mthing gling g'yul 'gyed dpa' bo rtsal 'gran zhes bya ba bzhugs so.
241p paperback with blue illustrated cover: An episode from the Tibetan epic.
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Zhimeigengdeng.
115p 115p small format paperback, illustrated throughout, text in Chinese and Tibetan, story from ...
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Maui-of-a-Thousand-Tricks: His Oceanic and European Biographers.
300p well preserved paperback, fresh and clean, 1971 reprint of 1949 first edition, with maps
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Norwegian Folk Tales.
195p hardback with blue jacket, minimal wear, some slight sunning, pages very clean and neat, very ...
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Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Section des Sciences Religieuses. Annuaire 1971 - 1972, Tome 79.
539p Yellow cloth fresh with gilt lettering to front, spine a hint dull onlty, excellent clean and ...
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Folklore in Buddhist and Jaina Literatures.
xv 120p hardback red dustjacket, well preserved, clean and tight copy, never read, partly un-cut
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Folk Tales of Orissa.
110p hardback with coloured boards, old shelfmark to spine, a clean and tight copy, very good
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Raganius. Prieskariniu Laiku Sodziaus Gyvenimo Seseliai.
192p paperback, illustrated cover, this copy in an old transparent jacket which left traces of ...
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Frankfurter Sagen- und Geschichten-Buch.
vii 312p original grey cloth with gilt décor, a fresh and tight copy of the first edition, without ...
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The Odyssey of Homer, Translated into English Verse in the Spenserian Stanza, Volume 2: Books 13 - 26.
xxviii 322p terracotta cloth fresh and tight, gilt lettering to spine, light library markings, a ...
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The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets. Never before in any Language Truly Translated, with a Comment on some of his Chief Places, Done According to the Greek by George Chapman. Volume 2. Third Edition.
302p this copy rebound in strong library half calf aged but solid, text clean, binding tight, ...
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The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets. Never before in any Language Truly Translated, with a Comment on some of his Chief Places, Done According to the Greek by George Chapman. Volume 2. Third Edition.
302p bookblock detached from binding, binding broken in one place, library markings, text is clean, ...
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Homeri Ilias, cum Brevi Annotatione Curante C G Heyne, Accedunt Scholia Minora Passim Emendata necnon Heraclidis Allegoriae Homericae. Volume 1 ONLY.
x 569p bound in plain green cloth (1910?) with gilt lettering, binding fresh, last page of text is ...
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The first Eight Books of Homer's Iliad Carefully Printed from the Text of Heyne; with Copious English Notes and Preliminary Dissertation on the AEolic Digamma.
xi 397p x old full ribbed cloth binding dark green with black title label to spine, light library ...
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People and Themes in Homer's Odyssey.
xv 163p hardback with dustjacket (protected under removable sleeve), first edition, light library ...
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Homer and his Critics.
xii 302p hardback with white dustjacket, book excellent, never used, light library markings, pages ...
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Homerou Ilias: Littera Digamma Restituta ad Metri Leges Redegit et Notatione Brevi Illustravit Thomas Shaw Brandreth.
viii 370p vi 370p two volumes in failing half calf binding, Greek text throughout, Latin notes, ...
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The Iliad of Homer with a Carefully Corrected Text; with Copious English Notes Illustrating (…) the Mythology and Antiquities of the Heroic Ages; and Preliminary Observations on Points of Classical Interest.
l 712p library rebound in plain blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, tight and clean binding, ...
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Homeri Ilias. Annotationes in usum serenissimi principis Gulielmi Augusti, Ducis de Cumberland, etc. Volume 1 & 2.
375p 383p frontispiece map (browned but intact) to each part, Greek text throughout with extensive ...
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The Iliad of Homer, in English Hexameter Verse.
xii 550p text printed in a red frame, long hexametrical lines, this copy bound in library quality ...
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Mythographi Graeci: Vol 1: Apollodori Bibliotheca. Pediasimi Libellus de Duodecim Herculis Laboribus. Editio Altera.
lxxv 335p this is an original paperback in mixed condition: The copy is entirely uncut, never read, ...
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The Similes of the Iliad and the Odyssey Compared.
vi 80p paperback library rebound as hardback, tight and clean copy, very good indeed
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The Homer of Aristotle.
ix 245p original dark blue cloth, binding tight, from a London library, monogram blind-stamped into ...
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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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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. 4. Aufl., bearb. v. C. Robert. Bd. 1 Hälfte 1./ Vierte Auflage von Carl Robert, Erster Band, Erste Hälfte.
428p original paperback, spine broken once or twice, text clean, light library markings, paper ...
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Come All Ye Bold Miners: Ballads and Songs of the Coalfields.
144p large paperback, with illustrated jacket, clean and tight copy of the first edition, edges ...
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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".](images/books/194882_small_90w_x_126h.jpg "Erscheinungsformen kultureller Prozesse. Jahrbuch 1988 des Sonderforschungsbereichs "Übergänge und Spannungsfelder zwischen Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit".")
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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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The Fause Knight and other Fancies. 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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Britain's Secret Heritage: Mysterious Britain, The Quest for Arthur's Britain and The Changing Face of Britain.
287p, 238p, 256p three paperbacks in a green slipcase, very well preserved set, the books appear ...
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Der Geisterseher.
203p small format hardback, yellow dustjacket in very good condition, clean pages, firm binding, a ...
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The Sacred Pipe. Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux.
xx 140p black paperback, well preserved copy, clean and fresh, 2nd printing of the first Penguin ...
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Little Red Riding Hood.
8p blue booklet, 1966 facsimile of the 1852 edition attractivelyprinted by John Foreman, the ...
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Germanische Heldensage. Stoffe Probleme Methoden.
178p firm and tight paperback, illustrations, no name or stamp, excellent copy, uncommon title
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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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Aesop's Fables. An Anthology of the Fabulists of All Countries.
xiii 231p blue cloth well preserved, corners sharp, hinges tight, spine with floral carpet design ...
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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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Knights-Errant of the Western World. Population Migrations in Pre-History.
258p paperback with illustrated cover, excellent condition, as new
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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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The Religions of the World.
227p blue cloth, well preserved copy, text clean, binding tight
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£24.00
A Book of British Song for Home and School.
141p hardback, green paper-covered boards and brown cloth spine, gilt title to spine, some foxing, ...
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£48.00
Mother Goose. The Old Nursery Rhymes. Volumes 1 and 2.
2 volumes, cream hardbacks with illustrated white dustjackets, 2 inch loss to top of dustjacket of ...
£48.00
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Legends and Lyrics. A Book of Verses. With an Introduction by Charles Dickens.
xxiv 383p hardback blue cloth decorated in green floral design and gilt lettering, top edge gilt, ...
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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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An Ilchester Word List and Some Folklore Notes. A Glossary of Words, Phrases and Rhymes Used at Ilchester and Recorded before 1925.
54p booklet, cream card printed cover, very good condition
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Glastonbury, Her Saints A.D. 37 - 1539.
89p brown hardback, very clean and firm copy with old library markings including gilt shelf-number ...
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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 ...
£580.00
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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
£14.00
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Jonson Versus Bakhtin. Carnival and the Grotesque.
267p paperback, excellent condition, as new
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£74.00
The Odyssey of Homer, Edited, with Marginal References, various readings, Notes and Appendices. Volume 1 & 2 ONLY.
ciii 240p clii, cxxxviii 292p xli, burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine, text in Greek with ...
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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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Das Ebersignum im Germanischen. Ein Beitrag zur Germanischen Tier-Symbolik.
vii 207p original brown cloth fresh, but the text of the book has been marked up by in attentive ...
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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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New England Legends and Folklore.
192p hardback with very good green dustjacket, endpaper inscribed and detached but present, ...
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Fünf Geschichten von Aechtern und Blutrache.
353p hardback with fresh dustjacket, two folding plans well preserved, excellent copy
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£36.00
Oral Traditional Literature: A Festschrift for Albert Bates Lord.
461p hardback, blue cloth with gilt lettering to front, frontispiece, reproduced from typescript, a ...
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£180.00
Cherkesskie Razskazy. Tom I.
301p original paperback, front cover detaching, spine with slight loss, Rouse donation bookplate, ...
£180.00
£240.00
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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£64.00
The Legends of the Panjab. Volume 1.
xxvii 546p original terracotta cloth with black lettering, a tight and firm copy of the first ...
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Grettis Saga Ásmundarsonar.
lii 348p large paperback, green paper cover detaching, this copy laregly un-cut, never read, text ...
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Über die Entstehung des Nibelungenliedes.
32p offprint, Sitzungsbericht, very good, cover fragile
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£26.00
Yanagita-gaku zenshi.
353p paperback, excellent condition, clean and tight copy, as new
£26.00
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The Origins and Audience of the Ballads of Robin Hood.
22p offpint, grey card cover, fresh and clean, together with one similar offprint: Barbara Lowe: ...
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Angus Lore and Legend.
48p stapled booklet, map inserted, with illustrations, very good
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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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£12.00
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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Begegnung der Völker im Märchen. Rencontre des peuples dans le conte. Band 1: Frankreich - Deutschland. France - Allemagne.
336p original green cloth fresh, gilt lettering to front, tight and clean copy, light library ...
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£34.00
Kulturelles Erbe und Aneignung: Festschrift für Richard Wolfram zum 80. Geburtstag.
310p yellow paperback, well preserved, reproduced from typescript, illustrations in the back, very ...
£34.00
£22.00
Ausstellung Südtiroler Volkskunst. Katalog.
approx 160pp complete issue of Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, for sale is the entire ...
£22.00
£14.00
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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Literarisches und Graphisches auf Habaner Keramiken.
40p essay in Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, for sale is the entire issue, with light ...
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£36.00
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 ...
£36.00
£46.00
Die Gestalt des Teufels in der deutschen Volkssage.
84p original cloth binding, author inscribed, excellent copy
£46.00
£14.00
Volkserzählungen aus dem nördlichen Böhmerwald.
xi 135p large white paperback, illustration to front, spine a little worn, light library markings
£14.00
£24.00
Einführung in den Atlas der schweizerischen Volkskunde.
xv 110p cloth, dustjacket, maps, this copy from the library of Wayland Hand with his name to ...
£24.00
£20.00
El Negro y la Brujeria en Venezuela.
40p essay in the first issue of the Revista Venezolana de Folklore, for sale is the complete issue, ...
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£24.00
Töpferwerk in der Oberlausitz. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Oberlausitzer Töpferhandwerks.
viii 200p hardback with cloth spine, more than 100 plates, author inscription, very good
£24.00
£24.00
Amerikanischer Aberglaube der Gegenwart. Ein Beitrag zur Volkskunde.
156p rebound hardback, library markings, tight clean copy, Ralph Boggs bookplate
£24.00
£36.00
Neue Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Volksrätsels.
152p bound in plain green cloth, excellent fresh copy, first edition, from the library of Wayland ...
£36.00
£22.00
Rheinisches Sagenbuch. Zweite Auflage.
xii 397p original pictorial cloth showing castle, gilt lettering bright, library stamp, bookplate, ...
£22.00
£24.00
Gemeinwerk im Wallis: Bäuerliche Gemeinschaftsarbeit in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart.
91p large format paperback, library stamp, very good, first edition
£24.00
£16.00
Der Abdecker. Seine Bedeutung als Träger magischer Vorstellungen im Zeitalter des Barocks.
30p essay in Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, for sale is the entire issue, with light ...
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£16.00
Bienenhaltung und Bienenaufwecken zur Petri Stuhlfeier.
20p essay in Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, for sale is the entire issue, with light ...
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Volkskunst der Ostkirche. Katalog mit 8 Abbidungen.
40p essay in Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, for sale is the entire issue, with light ...
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£16.00
Volkstümliche Fiebervorstellungen. Ein Beitrag zur steirischen Volksmedizin.
20p essay in Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, for sale is the entire issue, with light ...
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Jagglschutzen und Fuchsprellen. Zur Bezeugungsgeschichte eines Brauchelementes.
30p essay in Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, for sale is the entire issue, with light ...
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Der Bildinhalt der hochmittelalterlichen Wiener und verwandten Pfennige in volkskundlicher Sicht.
30p essay in Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, for sale is the entire issue, with light ...
£18.00
£58.00
Medizin, Aberglaube und Geschlechtsleben in der Türkei. Mit Berücksichtigung der moslemischen Nachbarländer und der ehemaligen Vasallenstaaten. Volume 1 ONLY.
437p original paperback, green card cover well preserved but hinge fragile, text clean and tight, ...
£58.00
£46.00
Aberglaube des Mittelalters. Ein Beitrag zur Culturgeschichte.
xxiv 359 bound in blue cloth, gilt lettering to front, Wayland Hand's copy with his name to ...
£46.00
£46.00
Nederlandsche Volksoverleveringen, Verzameld en met Aanmerkingen Voorzien. Op nieuw bewerkt en met bijvoegselen vermeerderd.
ix 218p rebound in plain red cloth with gilt lettering to spine, excellent fresh copy, name of ...
£46.00
£68.00
Chants Populaires de la Grèce, de la Serbie et du Monténégro.
180p original paperback, from a university library, adhesive tape to spine, paper cover missing, ...
£68.00
£46.00
Maltese Folklore Review. Volume 1, Number 1.
84p original card cover, period adverts, library stamp, editor inscription, essays in English and ...
£46.00
£30.00
Die Knaffel-Handschrift. Eine obersteirische Volkskunde aus dem Jahre 1813.
172p large format paperback, paper cover with crude repair, library stamps, first edition, includes ...
£30.00
£40.00
Tradition Wallonne. Volume 3, 1986. Special Issue on Carneval.
315p large format black paperback, colour illustration to front, many illustrations throughout, ...
£40.00
£26.00
Artisanat et Folklore au Pays de Châtelet.
164p large format black paperback, colour illustration to front, many illustrations throughout, ...
£26.00
£26.00
Médailles de Saint Hubert: Enseignes, Médailles et Cornets du XVe au XXe Siècle.
124p large format black paperback, colour illustration to front, many illustrations throughout, ...
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£26.00
Tradition Wallonne: Congrès de Namur. Ethnographie, Dialectologie, Onomastique.
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Fêtes d'hiver et calendrier liturgique des Pays-Bas méridionaux.
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De Malmédy et d'Ailleurs.
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£46.00
Le Hainaut. Ethnographie, Dialectologie, Onomastique.
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£36.00
Limes. 1: Les langues régionales Romanes en Wallonie. 2: Choix de textes en langues régionales Romanes de Wallonie.
two volumes, large format black paperback, colour illustration to front, many illustrations ...
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£46.00
Les Témoins de l' Au-Delà. Tome 1 & 2.
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£36.00
Le Culte Populaire en Province de Liege. Inventaire A - G & H - W.
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Der Teufels- und Hexenglaube. Seine Entwickelung, seine Herrschaft und sein Sturz.
159p original hardback with cloth spine, light library markings, fresh clean copy, first edition
£46.00
£14.00
Mexican Mining Tales.
48p stapled booklet, paper yellowing, excellent condition: The dead men's mine -- Mendoza was game ...
£14.00
£46.00
Tradiciones y Leyendas de Puebla y otros Poemas.
210p original paperback, this copy entirely un-cut, first edition, never used, tight binding, paper ...
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£46.00
A Hebrew Deluge Story in Cuneiform, and Other Epic Fragments in the Pierpont Morgan Library.
86p plus 7 plates in back, black cloth with gilt lettering, excellent fresh copy, first edition, ...
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£36.00
A Calvalo e a Rosa. Illustracoes de Carybe.
113p large format paperback, cover in red and black, author inscription addressed to library, first ...
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£14.00
Rye Spirits. Faith, Faction, and Fairies in a Seventeenth Century English Town.
xv 304p paperback, decorative cover, full colour plates, clean pages, a bright copy, in excellent ...
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£12.00
The Last Word. The Lure and Lore of Early New England Graveyards.
39p grey paperback, excellent copy, almost as new, well illustrated with photographs and rubbings ...
£12.00
£36.00
Studies in the Demonic in Selected Middle High German Epics.
ix 245p blue paperback, text is bright and unmarked, a firm and useful copy, scarce, includes note ...
£36.00
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£18.00
Sprecher als Träger der "Tradition Vivante" in der Gattung "Märe.".
110p red paperback, light pencilled lines to margins of many pages, reviewed copy, text is bright, ...
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The Czech Chivalric Romances Vévoda Arnost and Lavryn in their Literary Context.
viii 312p red paperback, text is bright and unmarked, a firm and useful copy, scarce, like new
£36.00
£20.00
Motivgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zur Artusepik: Szenen an und auf dem Meer.
223p green paperback, reproduced from typescript, faint pencil marks to margins on some pages, ...
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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, ...
£24.00
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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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Beiträge zur Eddaforschung, mit Exkursen zur Heldensage.
vi 512p original paperback in worn state, back cover missing, spine fragile, binding broken at one ...
£26.00
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Essay de Poétique Médiévale.
520p white paperback, very well preserved, clean and tight, no name or stamp
£20.00
£14.00
The Spanish Novelists.
xiv 515p burgundy cloth with blindstamped floral thistle design to boards, spine lettered gilt, ...
£14.00
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The German Novelists.
xv 623p burgundy cloth with blindstamped floral thistle design to boards, spine lettered gilt, very ...
£12.00
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A Book of British Ballads.
xxiv 333p green cloth, "EL" monogram to spine, light library markings to endpaper, pages ...
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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, ...
£16.00
£8.00
The Age of Fable.
x 371p red cloth, "EL" monogram to spine, light library markings, endpaper removed, spine ...
£8.00
£12.00
Spanish Folk Songs.
58p small hardback with printed red boards and matching red dustjacket, a couple of tears and small ...
£12.00
£12.00
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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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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Saga 1960.
176p paperback, cover detaching, library markings, still very useful, papers in Icelandic (?)
£26.00
£36.00
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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£28.00
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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Frankfurter Feste. Von Wem? Für Wen?
228p paperback, many photographic illustrations in the text, printed from typescript, library ...
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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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£24.00
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 ...
£24.00
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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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£8.00
De Swienegel als Wettrenner. Ein plattdeutsches Märchen.
stapled pamphlet, 16p, printed with illustrations and green ornaments, staple rusted, original
£8.00
£12.00
Counting-Out Rhymes. A Dictionary.
243p from a Cambridge college library, hardcover with usual library markings, dustjacket a little ...
£12.00
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Legenda o doktore Fauste. (RUSSIAN)
574p 14 illustrations, olive green cloth hardback with gilt lettering to cover and spine, pages ...
£24.00
£24.00
Viliam Rol'ston - propagandist Russkoy literatury i fol'klora. (RUSSIAN)
330p burgundy cloth hardback with gold ornamentation and lettering to cover and spine, inscription ...
£24.00
£12.00
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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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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Burial Reform and Funeral Costs.
xv 248p large format black cloth, excellent copy with minimal library markings
£36.00
£12.00
Left in Charge. Designed by F Volski.
24p large format stapled, from a Cambridge college library, in colour
£12.00
£12.00
The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights, Drawings V Konashevich.
36p large format stapled, from a Cambridge college library, in colour
£12.00
£28.00
Ocherki po iazyku russkoi ustnoi poezii v zapisiakh XVII - XX vv. (RUSSIAN)
348p grey cloth hardcover with brown lettering, spine sunned, very slight pencil markings, large ...
£28.00
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A Collection of English Miracle-Plays or Mysteries containing Ten Dramas from the Chester, Coventry, and Towneley Series, with Two of Latter Date to which is prefixed, an Historical View of this Description of Plays by William Marriott.
271p hard cover, grey boards quite soiled, tape repair to spine with title handwritten on the tape, ...
£24.00
£14.00
Mythes, Rêves et Mystères.
305 original paperback, second edition, with marginalia (mostly in pencil) to approx 10 pages
£14.00
£15.00
Klingende Kostbarkeiten. Tischglocken aus 5 Jahrhunderten in Bronze, Porzellan, Silber, Glas.
80p catalogue, paperback, many b/w illustrations, nice copy - Pieces from the Sammlung Lange
£15.00
£20.00
Annuaire des Traditions Populaires. Deuxieme Annee.
xxx 183p original paperback with crude blue cloth tape to spine, from a Cambridge college library, ...
£20.00
£18.00
Märchen und Erzählungen der Suaheli.
264p small period paperback, tape along spine, library shelfmark, well preserved, first edition, ...
£18.00
£18.00
Légendes et traditions orales d'Alsace. Tome 3: Basse Alsace.
485p period paperback with orange paper cover, tape along spine and minor library markings, aged, ...
£18.00
£64.00
Les Chants Oraux du Peuple Russe.
254p paperback a little worn, from a Cambridge college library with transparent tape to spine, ...
£64.00
£18.00
Le Folklore de la Touraine. Préface de René Boylesve.
377p original paperback with private plain paper jacket, clean firm copy of the first edition, with ...
£18.00
£180.00
La Tradition au Pays Basque. Art Populaire, Ethnographie, Folk-Lore, Hagiographie, Histoire.
589p some plates, large format paperback with minor library markings and transparent tape along ...
£180.00
£88.00
La Tradition en Poitou et Charentes. Art Populaire, Ethnographie, Folk-Lore, Hagiographie, Histoire.
xxi 479p plates, large format paperback with minor library markings and transparent tape along ...
£88.00
£34.00
In Yancuic Nahua Tlahtolli: Relatos y Cantos en Nahuatl.
59p slim paperback with red illustration to cover, very good, as new
£34.00
£30.00
Nastennyi Kalendar. Russian Language.
365p metal clasp, some pages detached, but all present, pages clean, browned
£30.00
£20.00
Historie en Legende. Vervolg op Mozaiek.
250p original cloth binding, a very good copy from a Cambridge college library, hardly used
£20.00
£30.00
Eusko-Jakintza. Revue d'Etudes Basques. Vol 3, no 4-6, 1949.
single issue of journal, paginated 299 - 530, original paper cover aged, minor library markings, ...
£30.00
£24.00
Folk-Songs du Midi des Etats-Unis.
original paperback, first edition, from a Cambridge college library with tape along paper spine, ...
£24.00
£8.00
Ballad Formulas.
approx 30p yellow card cover, offprint, two essays: "Report on the Transactions of the ...
£8.00
£12.00
Eight Nursery Rhymes set to music for mixed voices (S A T B) or for ladies' voices only (S S A) With or without Piano Accompaniment. New Edition.
26p purple card covers a little aded otherwise very good, binding firm, pages clean
£12.00
£80.00
La Roumanie Pittoresque.
220p large format paperback binding, cover missing, spine with fraying to head and foot, pages ...
£80.00
£8.00
Spanish Ballads.
218p red publisher's cloth, spine a little sunned, otherwise an excellent copy with fresh and clean ...
£8.00
£14.00
Villotte e Canti Popolari Friulani a cura della Società Filologica Friulana G I Ascoli. Edizione sovvenuta dal Comune di Udine. Fascicolo 1.
69p undated grey paperback, card covers soiled, page edges tanned otherwise very good, 30 Italian ...
£14.00
£10.00
Volkstümliche Redekunst: Erfahrungen und Ratschläge.
88p grey paperback, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good
£10.00
£12.00
Psychology and Folk-Lore.
ix 275p original burgundy cloth, from a Cambridge college library, a well preserved copy from a ...
£12.00
£9.00
Motifs Concordantes dans le Narrations Populaires de Peuples de la Péninsule Balkanique (=Zeitschrift für Balkanologie, Jahrgang 9, Heft 1 und 2)
5-10p green offprint (Sonderdruck), this is not the entire issue, pages unmarked, very good
£9.00
£12.00
Folk Traditions in Westmorland (Journal of the Folklore Institute, Vol 3, No 3)
276-293p green card cover, reprint, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good
£12.00
£240.00
A Glossary of North Country Words with their Etymology and Affinity to other Languages and occasional Notices of Local Customs and Popular Superstitions.
254p 242p 2 vols bound in one, engraved frontispiece, library donation bookplate, oversized ...
£240.00
£15.00
Märchenhafte Elemente bei Chrétien de Troyes.
300p mint paperback, spine sunned, pages unmarked, binding firm, printed from typescript, nice ...
£15.00
A Bundle of Ballads.
245p cloth with brown dustjacket with plastic protective covering, some creasing to plastic cover, ...
£18.00
£16.00
Märchen, Sage und Dichtung.
55p grey card cover, sunned, text detaching from cover, pages unmarked, useful
£16.00
£14.00
Indonesian Folk Tales.
101p small illustrated green card cover, small tear to front cover, pages unmarked with b&w plates, ...
£14.00
£14.00
A Thorn in the King's Foot: Stories of the Scottish Travelling People.
304p illustrated paperback, minor shelfwear, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good
£14.00
£10.00
Legends and Lyrics together with a Chaplet of Verses.
viii 298p blue cloth with slightly faded gilt ornaments and lettering to spine, no date, looks like ...
£10.00
£64.00
English Popular Ballads.
ix 382p small format blindstamped brown cloth, 13 cm, boards worn, gilt lettering to spine faded, ...
£64.00
£8.00
Tales, Songs, Traditions: Selected from the Archives of the School of Scottische Studies. Tocher, No 28.
approx 80p, green card cover, stapled, pages unmarked, with musical notation, binding firm
£8.00
£48.00
Faro de Jose Ignacio. Su historia y su gente.
158p paperback, illustrations, very good: A village in Uruguay
£48.00
£36.00
Leyendas Guanajuatenses. Segunda Parte de Relatos y Sucedidos de Guanajuato.
120p large paperback, with illustrations, very good
£36.00
£12.00
La Fiaba come Racconto.
174p large orange paperback, first edition, faint marginal ink notes on one or two pages and to ...
£12.00
£8.00
Von Volksliederen: Aus dem Wunderhorn.
paginated 435 - 484, bound in blue card cover, nice and clean, hardly used copy, excellent: ...
£8.00
£22.00
Rumpelstilzchen. Illus Otto Schott.
small booklet with colour illustrations on cover and additional colour illustrations in text, ...
£22.00
£14.00
Mumming Plays in Oxfordshire: An Interim Checklist.
42p stapled booklet (blue), reproduced from typescript, library stamp, very good
£14.00
£14.00
An Interim List of Nottinghamshire Folk Plays and Related Customs.
42p stapled booklet (green), reproduced from typescript, library stamp, very good
£14.00
£64.00
Muslim Philippines.
108p stapled booklet with illustrated cover, b/w illustrations, from a Cambridge college library, ...
£64.00
£12.00
Hope Viltis. A Folklore Magazine. Vol. 23, No. 6, 1964. Haiti and Voodoo History.
Single issue of large format journal, 30p, stapled, with many illustrations, minor wear to cover, ...
£12.00
£12.00
Hope Viltis. A Folklore Magazine. Vol. 22, No. 4, 1963. Lithuanian Christmas Ornaments Contest.
Single issue of large format journal, 30p, stapled, with many illustrations, minor wear to cover, ...
£12.00
£12.00
Hope Viltis. A Folklore Magazine. Vol. 22, No. 5, 1964. The Bavarians.
Single issue of large format journal, 30p, stapled, with many illustrations, minor wear to cover, ...
£12.00
£12.00
Hope Viltis. A Folklore Magazine. Vol. 23, No. 1, 1964.
Single issue of large format journal, 30p, stapled, with many illustrations, minor wear to cover, ...
£12.00
£12.00
Hope Viltis. A Folklore Magazine. Vol. 23, No. 3, 1964.
Single issue of large format journal, 30p, stapled, with many illustrations, minor wear to cover, ...
£12.00
£12.00
Hope Viltis. A Folklore Magazine. Vol. 23, No. 4, 1964.
Single issue of large format journal, 30p, stapled, with many illustrations, minor wear to cover, ...
£12.00
£12.00
Hope Viltis. A Folklore Magazine. Vol. 23, No. 2, 1963. The Amerindians.
Single issue of large format journal, 30p, stapled, with many illustrations, minor wear to cover, ...
£12.00
£12.00
Hope Viltis. A Folklore Magazine. Vol. 22, No. 1, 1963.
Single issue of large format journal, 30p, stapled, with many illustrations, minor wear to cover, ...
£12.00
£12.00
Hope Viltis. A Folklore Magazine. Vol. 22 No. 3, 1963. Special Scotland Number.
Single issue of large format journal, 30p, stapled, with many illustrations, minor wear to cover, ...
£12.00
£15.00
Swiss Dress.
large format paperback with library markings, includes period advertisement, English Language ...
£15.00
£16.00
Il meraviglioso e il sogno nella narrativa inglese del Medioevo.
158p blue paperback, author's handwritten dedication on half title, pages clean, hardly used, very ...
£16.00
£15.00
The Folk-Dance of India.
128p original cloth with black lettering, many illustrations, a slim booklet well preserved, ...
£15.00
£40.00
Index of Archived Resources for a Folklife and Cultural History of the Inland Pacific Northwest Frontier.
191p very well preserved copy from a Cambridge college library with stamp and shelfmark, excellent ...
£40.00
£20.00
An Anthropologist at Play: Balladmongering in Ireland and its Consequences for Research.
152p paperback, library marking, very good
£20.00
£12.00
Folklore Studies in Honor of Arthur Palmer Hudson.
157p card cover, frontispiece, illustrations, very good condition
£12.00
£30.00
Inteligência do Folclore.
316p large paperback in very good condition, signed by the author, library stamp with tape along ...
£30.00
£40.00
The Handbook of Folklore. New edition, Revised and Enlarged.
x 364p brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, appears hardly used, clean and bright pages, tight ...
£40.00
£32.00
Political Ballads of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. In Two Volumes.
2 volumes, xv 284p vii 342p brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, blindstamped cover, both ...
£32.00
£56.00
A Collection of Seventy-Nine Black-Letter Ballads and Broadsides. Printed in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Between the Years 1559 and 1597.
xxxvi 319p cloth binding, gilt lettering to spine, blindstamped and sunned cover, from a Cambridge ...
£56.00
£8.00
Oral Literature. Seven Essays.
vii 107p green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, dustjacket present, pages clean and bright, ...
£8.00
£10.00
Fifty Folk Songs: Compiled at the Request of the English Folk Dance Society.
55p small brown sewn card cover (small splash), pages unmarked, binding firm, very good
£10.00
£10.00
John Dietrich and other Stories from The Fairy Book.
158p small blue cloth with gilt lettering and colour illustration to front, fresh gilt lettering to ...
£10.00
£80.00
Finlands Ryor. Textilhistorisk undersökning. Med 93 färgplanscher och 334 bilder i texten.
large volume in half calf binding with only minor imperfections, nice fresh copy, lavishly ...
£80.00
£12.00
History. First Series. Book 1: Children of Athens, London and Rome.
160p white/red cloth, from a Cambridge college library, pages unmarked, very good condition
£12.00
£10.00
Folklore Studies: Past, Present - and Future? (= Special issue of Lore and Language, 1997)
218p purple paperback, near fine condition
£10.00
£9.00
The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children.
320p decorative blue cloth, b/w plates, foxing to pages and edges, pencil markings, name to front ...
£9.00
£7.00
Der rote Großvater erzählt: Berichte und Erzählungen von Veteranen der Arbeiterbewegung aus der Zeit von 1914 bis 1945. Herausgegeben von der Werkstatt Düsseldorf des Werkkreises Literatur der Arbeitswelt.
250p red paperback, a very good copy from a Cambridge college library with label on spine, pages ...
£7.00
£6.00
Rübezahls Grab: Erzählungen, mit einem Nachwort von Wilfrid Bade.
73p small cream paperback, light foxing to covers, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, # 7377 ...
£6.00
£6.00
Machtnix: Märchenerzählungen.
94p small cream paperback, pages clean and binding firm, front hinge beginning to tear, good ...
£6.00
£8.00
Fabeln, Parabeln und Gleichnisse.
370p red paperback, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, minor shelfwear, excellent
£8.00
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Sämtliche Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten, vierter Band.
585p yellow hardback, binding expertly repaired, minor shelfwear, pages clean and unmarked, binding ...
£10.00
£10.00
The Laird of Logan. Anecdotes and Tales illustrative of the Wit and Humour of Scotland.
608p marbled boards with red leather spine, worn copy, spine cracked and detached, hinges cracked, ...
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Heldensage und Epos: Zur Konstituierung einer mittelalterlichen volkssprachlichen Gattung im Spannungsfeld von Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit.
461p green hardback, corners slightly bumped, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, as new, ...
£40.00
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Arabian Love Tales Being Romances From The Book of The Thousand Nights And One Night.
245p green/brown cloth, corners rubbed, stain to boards, spine sunned, pencil marks to pages, b&w ...
£14.00
£16.00
The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales.
248p blue cloth with gilt lettering, minor shelfwear, front endpaper browned, very good condition
£16.00
£15.00
Der Hamburger Musikant, Teil A - B. Vom 3 - 6. Schuljahr; vom 7. Schuljahr ab.
160p 192p set of 2 vols, blue and red hardback with cloth spine, name in ink, illustrations, ...
£15.00
£8.00
Folk-Lore: Being the Quarterly Transactions of the Folk-Lore Society. Volume 62, No 3, September 1951.
approx 110p orange paperback, includes "Folklore Studies in the United States Today" by ...
£8.00
£12.00
Antike und Alter Orient: Interpretationen.
444p hardback with dustjacket, pages clean, 2 or 3 plates, index, very good, errata inserted
£12.00
£10.00
Tales from the Arabian Nights.
128p brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, undated, illustrated label, soiled and worn ...
£10.00
£12.00
Devonshire and Cornish Stories. Fourth Edition.
76p white paperback, many ornaments, a slightly worn copy, spine rubbed, light wear, original item
£12.00
£18.00
Erzähl noch was: 300 kleine Geschichten. Gesammelt von W Stendel.
243p yellow cloth, illustrated cover a little dusty, selection of stories from Niedersachsen, ...
£18.00
£24.00
Mille et un Contes, Récits & Légendes Arabes. Volume 1: Contes Merveilleux, Contes Plaisantes.
552p large format hardback with cloth spine and corners, private binding, covers and spine rubbed ...
£24.00
£8.00
Mutter der Barmherzigkeit: Mittelalterliche deutsche Mirakelerzählungen von der Gottesmutter. Ausgewählt und aus dem Altdeutschen übertragen von Manfred Lemmer.
271p cloth gilt dustjacket, colour illustrations, as new
£8.00
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The Heroes. Or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children.
296p green cloth pictorial boards, corners badly rubbed, inscription to front endpaper, stain ...
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£180.00
A Book of Saints. First Edition.
124p light blue cloth first edition, slightly rubbed corners, spine sunned, pages clean and ...
£180.00
£10.00
Legenden: Heiligengeschichten vom Altertum bis zur Gegenwart.
519p neat little cloth with blue illustrated jacket, page ribbon, illustrations, hardly used, ...
£10.00
£22.00
Mythe et Science. Actes du Colloque.
218p blue/black paperback, some pages highlighted, near fine condition
£22.00
£36.00
Proverbi Toscani. Raccolti ed illustrati da G Giusti, ampliati e pubblicati da Gino Capponi.
448p small format 12cm, dark green cloth, gilt lettering with bands and small library shelf label ...
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£20.00
Der Ring. Nach der Ausgabe Edmund Wiessners übertragen und mit einer Einleitung versehen von Helmut Birkhan.
311p illustrated hardcover, lovely book, two illustrations, table and map, hardly used, very good
£20.00
£20.00
Textauslegung und gesellschaftliche Selbstdeutung: Aspekte einer sozialgeschichtlichen Interpretation von Hartmanns Artusepen.
144p large white paperback, paper yellowed, hardly used, very good
£20.00
£10.00
Games and Songs of American Children.
paperback with white cover, slightly used copy from a Cambridge college library but no faults, very ...
£10.00
£10.00
Indian Story and Song from North America.
126p terracotta cloth, from a Cambridge college library, reprint of 1900 edition, nice copy, small ...
£10.00
£20.00
West Country Folk Tales.
109p blue hardback, from a Cambridge college library, nice clean copy
£20.00
£8.00
Heroes of Asgard.
118p green decorated limp cloth, good condition, pages clean, edges slightly soiled, large school ...
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The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
433p & 531p bound in one volume, from a Cambridge college library with minor signs of use, still ...
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Gipsies in Denmark. A Social-Biological Study.
179p original paperback, plates, minor library marks, a fresh and clean copy, largely uncut, with ...
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£12.00
Sagen aus Rheinland-Pfalz.
272p hardback with brown dustjacket, as new, excellent copy
£12.00
£26.00
Arthurian legend and literature: An annotated bibliography.
467p black cloth, as new, fine copy
£26.00
£24.00
Bibliographie zur deutschen Frauenmystik des Mittelalters.
444p blue paperback, as new, never used, very good mit einem Anhang zu Beatrijs con Nazareth und ...
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Von Geheimnissen und Wundern des Caesarius von Heisterbach. Ein Lesebuch.
310p hardback, dustjacket, as new, excellent fresh copy unused
£8.00
£16.00
Hans Folz and the Adam Legends. Text and Studies.
184p orange paperback, fresh clean copy, unused
£16.00
£38.00
Die Tannhäuser-Legende: Eine Studie über Intentionalität und Rezeption katechetischer Volkserzählungen zum Bußsakrament.
157p blue cloth, a nice fresh copy, almost as new, first edition
£38.00
£18.00
Zur frühesten Geschichte der europäischen Balladendichtung. Der Tanz in Kölbigk. Legendarische Nachrichten - Gesellschaftlicher Hintergrund - Historische Voraussetzungen.
x 281p original cloth, dustjacket present, fresh and clean
£18.00
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£16.00
Die "Wandelunge". Studien zum Jahreszeitentopos in der mittelhochdeutschen Literatur.
170p blue grey paper cover, plates, unused copy, excellent
£16.00
£8.00
Death in the Secular City: A Study of the Notion of Life After Death in Contemporary Theology and Philosophy.
192p blue hardback, from a Cambridge college library, a nice and clean and very little used copy
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Spisy Bratri Capku. Marsyas. / Marsyas cili na okraj [okraji] literatury (1919 - 1931)
259p original grey cloth with red lettering, spine absent, stamp "Haytor Stratford", a ...
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Von Berg und Thal. Mit sechs Stahlstichen nach Originalzeichnungen von Rothbart.
vi 242p square green cloth, privately rebound and repaired, dritte durchgesehene Auflage, paper ...
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Jüdische Balladen. Aus dem Magyarischen übersetzt von Otto Hauser.
ix 28p green papercovered boards with printed label on cover, top of spine hurt, paper yellowing, a ...
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Folk Literature of the British Isles. Readings for Librarians, Teachers and Those Who Work With Children and Young Adults.
263p green hardback with white lettering to cover and spine, first edition, pages clean with ...
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The Influence of the Arthurian Romances on the Five Books of Rabelais.
257p green hardback with gilt lettering to spine, hardly used, pages clean with footnotes and ...
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£14.00
Arthur of Britain.
vii 299p blue hardback, yellow dustjacket present, excellent copy, reprint of the 1929 edition, a ...
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£18.00
Myth and Legend in French Literature.
252p blue hardback with gilt lettering to spine, hardly used first edition, pages clean with index ...
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£10.00
The Map of Who We Are.
320p hardback with blue illustrated jacket, as new, wrapped in sealed plastic so completely ...
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£6.00
The Link with Nature and Divine Meditations in Asia.
169p black / grey / white paperback with laminated cover, as new, pages clean with footnotes, very ...
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The Magic of Number.
96p paperback with lime green cover, a little yellowed but pages clean with diagrams, very good
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£8.00
Stories from the Earthly Paradise. Retold from W Morris by Madalen Edgar.
xvi 239p half calf with green cloth, fresh gilt ornaments to front cover, top end of leather spine ...
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Mythologie de la Jeunesse; Ouvrage Elementaire par Demandes et par Reponses.
viii 460p index, 127 illustrations, full leather with gilt lettering and ornaments on spine, ...
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The Vision of Sir Launfal.
63p + Ariel Booklets catalogue, full flexible red morocco, with gilt lettering and decoration, from ...
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Tales of Bielkin.
84p red cloth with gilt title and picture and illustrated purple dustjacket, illustrated in black ...
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Fausts Leben: Das ärgerliche und schreckliche Leben des viel-berüchtigten Erz-Schwarzkünstlers D Johannis Fausti. Erstlich vor vielen Jahren fleissig beschrieben etc von G R Widman, jetzo aufs neue übersehen durch Joh Nicolaum Pfitzerum.
236p blue blindstamped cloth, title ctd: 'mit neuen Erinnerungen, als nachdenklichen Fragen und ...
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Von Sophokles zu Sartre. Griechische Dramenfiguren antik und modern.
222p rebound in plain cloth, a well preserved copy, discarded from a Cambridge college library
£9.00
£46.00
The Countess Cathleen. Sage - Drama - Oper - Illustration.
193p large paperback, notes, bibliography, photographic plates, inscribed by the author to title ...
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Mythological Painting.
from a Cambridge college library with stiff plastic wrapper, clean copy, colour plates, very good
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Der Fliegende Holländer. Eine Seemannsage.
191p burgundy cloth, gilt lettering on cover, 41. Tausend, the book has been fitted with a unique ...
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Der Schneider von Ulm: Geschichte eines zweihundert Jahre zu früh Geborenen. Volksausgabe, Vols 1 - 2.
320p 363p 2 volumes bound in one, cloth with illustration on cover, Volksausgabe, in excellent ...
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Münchhausen. Eine Geschichte in Arabesken. Zweite Ausgabe. Zweiter Theil.
iv 189p original paper covered boards (a little dusty but firm), contains Acta ...
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Münchhausen: Eine Geschichte in Arabesken. Zweite Ausgabe, vierter Theil.
v 168p small green cloth, cover a little dirty, foxing, firm binding, still very well preserved copy
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Mythologie der Griechen und Römer unter stetem Hinweis auf die künstlerische Darstellung der Gottheiten. Mit 135 Abbildungen.
xiv 371p hardback with cloth spine, frontispiece, index, photographic plates, excellent copy, 6th ...
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Bulfinch's Complete Mythology: The Age of Fabel, The Age of Chivalry, Legends of Charlemagne.
778p original grey cloth, index, clean pages, hardly used, minimal library marking
£12.00
£9.00
Tales from the Longhouse. By Indian Children of British Columbia.
112p paperback, illustrations, various contributors, very good
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£12.00
Disinformation and Distortion: An Anarchist Exposé of AIDS Politics.
64p stapled booklet, exploding myths about HIV and AIDS, very good
£12.00
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£36.00
Hop O' My Thumb's Wanderings, and Other Fairy Tales from "Grimm".
104p hardback, red cloth spine, colour frontispiece, engraved illustrations, colour plates, stories ...
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Folk Dance Progressions.
x 342p large cloth, appendix, index, bibliography, maps, very good copy, with ballet notation
£20.00
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Odysseys and Oddities: A 'Tarpaulin Muster' of Seagoing Facts and Whimsicalities.
280p pale blue cloth, blue & gilt title panel to spine, nice fresh copy, well preserved
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The Arabian Nights: A Selection.
viii 733p green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, stories include Aladdin, The Caliph and the ...
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Arts in the Religions of the Pacific: Symbols of Life.
xvii 219p blue hardback, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, plates, figures and plates in text, ...
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Pennsylvania Dutch American Folk Art. (revised and enlarged edition)
146p large paperback, halftone plates throughout, spine cracked in places, otherwise very good
£12.00
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Spanish Ballads.
xvi 218p 19cm terracotta cloth, collection of Spanish ballads and verse romances including ...
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Die Sprichwörter und sprichwörtlichen Redensarten der Deutschen. Rebst den sprichwörterlichen Redensarten der deutschen Zechbrüder und Aller Praktik Großmutter. 2nd ed.
xxxii 580p quarter cloth with marbled boards and edges, black highlights, title panels in black and ...
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Folklore. Volume 85, Summer 1974.
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Von Königen, Hexen und allerlei Spuk. Märchen aus Schleswig-Holstein und dem Unterelbe-Raum.
159p blue cloth, fresh and clean copy: Mundarttexte
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Peasant Customs and Savage Myths. Selections from the British Folklorists.
2 Vols, xii 751p red cloth, index, a fresh set
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The Theory of Accumulations. A Proposal for a Unified Explanation of Universe, Life, Environment and Behavior. The Derivation of a Universal Index.
52p cloth, author inscr, very good, out of the ordinary
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£120.00
Estoire; Prophecies.
Reprint of the edition published in Paris: Verard 1498. 3 vols in brown cloth fresh, approx 1200p ...
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£22.00
Essays on the Literature, Popular Superstitions and History of England in the Middle Ages.
Vol 2 (of 2) only. 306p original cloth fresh, essays on Friar Rush and the Elves, Dunlop's History ...
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Bibliografia do Folclore Brasileiro.
360p paperback, very good indeed, faint library stamp
£12.00
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Macht auf das Tor. Alte deutsche Kinderlieder, Reime, Scherze und Singspiele, zum Teil mit Melodien.
196p dark purple card cover, illustrations, musical notation, fresh and clean copy, Ausstattung ...
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[North American Indian Mythology. (1965)].
Japanese translation, 1990, hardback, new, with dustjacket
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£12.00
Ungava. A Tale of Esquimau Land.
272p brown illustrated cloth, inscribed "Fred Shakespear with my love, 1902"
£12.00