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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, ...
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Russkie narodnye skazki.
327p hardback with paper covered boards and cloth spine, purple décor to front, slightly aged but ...
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Poslovitsy russkogo naroda.
xxvii 990p original brown cloth with red lettering, tight and fresh copy, excellent condition, ...
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Krylatye slova.
448p grey cloth with red lettering, nice clean copy, fresh and tight, very little used,
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Istoricheskie korni volshebnoi skazki.
365p grey cloth with gilt lettering, nice fresh and tight copy, a few faint pencil marks, very good
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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 (?)
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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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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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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 ...
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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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De Swienegel als Wettrenner. Ein plattdeutsches Märchen.
stapled pamphlet, 16p, printed with illustrations and green ornaments, staple rusted, original
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Counting-Out Rhymes. A Dictionary.
243p from a Cambridge college library, hardcover with usual library markings, dustjacket a little ...
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Legenda o doktore Fauste. (RUSSIAN)
574p 14 illustrations, olive green cloth hardback with gilt lettering to cover and spine, pages ...
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Viliam Rol'ston - propagandist Russkoy literatury i fol'klora. (RUSSIAN)
330p burgundy cloth hardback with gold ornamentation and lettering to cover and spine, inscription ...
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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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Myth in Africa.
309p paperback, red cover, very good condition, minimal wear to cover edges, spine sunned and ...
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Left in Charge. Designed by F Volski.
24p large format stapled, from a Cambridge college library, in colour
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The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights, Drawings V Konashevich.
36p large format stapled, from a Cambridge college library, in colour
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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 ...
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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, ...
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Mythes, Rêves et Mystères.
305 original paperback, second edition, with marginalia (mostly in pencil) to approx 10 pages
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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
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Annuaire des Traditions Populaires. Deuxieme Annee.
xxx 183p original paperback with crude blue cloth tape to spine, from a Cambridge college library, ...
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Märchen und Erzählungen der Suaheli.
264p small period paperback, tape along spine, library shelfmark, well preserved, first edition, ...
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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, ...
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Les Chants Oraux du Peuple Russe.
254p paperback a little worn, from a Cambridge college library with transparent tape to spine, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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In Yancuic Nahua Tlahtolli: Relatos y Cantos en Nahuatl.
59p slim paperback with red illustration to cover, very good, as new
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Nastennyi Kalendar. Russian Language.
365p metal clasp, some pages detached, but all present, pages clean, browned
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Historie en Legende. Vervolg op Mozaiek.
250p original cloth binding, a very good copy from a Cambridge college library, hardly used
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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, ...
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Folk-Songs du Midi des Etats-Unis.
original paperback, first edition, from a Cambridge college library with tape along paper spine, ...
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Ballad Formulas.
approx 30p yellow card cover, offprint, two essays: "Report on the Transactions of the Stockholm ...
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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
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La Roumanie Pittoresque.
220p large format paperback binding, cover missing, spine with fraying to head and foot, pages ...
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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 a little dusty, page edges tanned otherwise very good, 30 ...
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The Hutchinson Dictionary of World Myth.
240p hardback, dustjacket, from a school library, a fresh copy
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Volkstümliche Redekunst: Erfahrungen und Ratschläge.
88p grey paperback, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good
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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
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