Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908)Biblio.com
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1918L0253<p>i-ii i-x-175printer's imprint with frontispiece and 7 plates. Small octavo 7 1/4" x 4 7/89" bound original publisher tan cloth with brown lettering to spine and pictorial cover in original jacket. BAL: 7168 First edition.</p><p>Uncle Remus Returns is a posthumous collection of African American folktales compiled by Joel Chandler Harris and published in book form in 1918. The volume serves as a sequel to his highly popular yet historically controversial plantation folklore series. The text originally appeared as stories published between 1905 and 1906 in the <em>Metropolitan Magazine</em> before being consolidated into a single volume. Folklore scholars note that the stories in this specific volume weave together a mix of traditional African European and regional indigenous folklore themes.</p><p>Joel Chandler Harris was an American journalist fiction writer and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton Georgia where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent the majority of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution. Harris led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris he supported a vision of the New South with the editor Henry W. Grady 1880–1889 stressing regional and racial reconciliation after the Reconstruction era. As Joel Chandler Harris fiction writer and folklorist he wrote many 'Brer Rabbit' stories from the African-American oral tradition and helped to revolutionize literature in the process.<br /><br /><strong>Condition:</strong><br /><br />Some staining to back cover previous owner's neat ink gift inscription to front end paper. Jacket edges and spine ends chipped else a very good copy in like jacket.</p> Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
1959190810-MYB09Berkeley: University of California Press 1959. Very Good Hardcover 1959 first edition scarce. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Cover. University of California Press Hardcover
198836444Oxford Clarendon Press. 1988. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Scholar's name to ffeps D. Gerber. Vol. 2 has light bumping to 1 corner. Djs have a few tiny tears.; A three-volume commentary compiled by an international team of scholars includes an introduction discussing previous research on the Odyssey its relation to the Iliad the epic dialect and the transmission of the text. Vol. I: 1988 396 pp ISBN: 0198140371; Vol. II: 1989 300 pp ISBN: 0198140479; Vol. III: 1992 447 pp ISBN: 0198140487;; 3 Volume Set COMPLETE. Commentary on Homer's Odyssey.; 1-3; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1143 pages . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
192862742London & New York: Cassell & Co. Ltd.; Charles Scribner’s Sons 1928. 4to. 251 1 pp. Colour frontisp. 11 colour plates and text illustrations. Quarter vellum over blue cloth gilt ruling gilt lettering on spine t.e.g. minor shelfwear front inner hinge just barely starting still VG bright copy numbered & signed by Dulac on limitation page. First edition signed No. 602 of 1000 copies of this beautifully illustrated collection of fairy tales including the stories Puss in Boots Riquet with the Tuft Bablet Green Dragon Fortunata The Blue Bird Princess Rosetta and Mayblossom. Cassell & Co., Ltd.; Charles Scribner’s Sons, hardcover
1847000110London: Longman. Brown Green & Longmans 1847. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 2 volumes. Vol. I. pp. viii xxxviii 2 391 1. Vol. II. pp. 4 vii 1 xxii 2 447 1. Frontispiece in each volume. Wood engravings by F.W. Fairholt. Green cloth with gilt front cover image of Medieval knights. Some shelf wear and rubbing. Hinges and corner tips carefully repaired. Inner joints strengthened. Name and date 1858 written in an old hand on front fly leaf of each volume. Some foxing to frontispieces and title pages. Occasional mild marginal soiling on several pages. Otherwise a generally clean copy. An excellent source book of Robin Hood lore. Volume I contains J.M. Gutch's biography of Robin Hood; a printing of the Middle English ballad "The Lytell Geste of Robin Hode" accompanied by a modern English version; W. Hone's "Dissertation upon the Morris Dance and Maid Marian" taken from his "Year Book"; Francis Douce's "A Dissertation on the ancient English Morris Dance" from his "Illustrations of Shakspeare"; "The Lament of Simon de Montfort" in Anglo-Norman French with a translation by Sir Walter Scott; "Life of Robin Hood" - taken from Sloane MS No. 715 - an early biographical sketch of Robin Hood. Volume II contains a collection of many other ballads songs and poems about Robin Hood; "Musical Illustrations of the Robin Hood Ballads" edited by E.F. Rimbault. Lowndes p.2108; CBEL I p.272. <br/> <br/> Longman. Brown, Green, & Longmans hardcover
1987180527-MYB98Dorset Press 1987. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket illustrated folio 491 pages . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio. Dorset Press hardcover
197943841Institut Historique Belge De Rome. 1979. Softcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. A bit of chipping to djs. Creasing to corners of some pages.; Vol. 1: 318 pp; vol. 2: 106 pp; Études De Philologie D'Archéologie Et Histoire Anciennes. Tome XVIII . Institut Historique Belge De Rome paperback
1887DEMO013716IBoston: Roberts Brothers 1887. Deluxe Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Wilhelm von Kaulbach. 4to 342 pages new full dark morocco leather spine label original pictorial top cover bound in at rear .top edge gilt fore-edge untrimmed; ex libris A. Freiberg of Cincinnati. <br/><br/>No. 224 of 400 copies printed for America of the English Edition De Luxe. Twelve India Proof steel engravings after Joseph Wolf engraved by Augustus Fox. Modern form of the traditional legend of REINHART FUCHS. "Under the veil of animals the symbolic representations of the diverse passions of men stand boldly in relief ." Roberts Brothers hardcover
1949biblio423<p>This is a hardly opened extremely rare copy of an largely unknown Hungarian/Viennese woman surrealist writer who published in Hungarian with this exception. These two early 20th century folk tales reveal a romantic sensibility with fantastic shadings in the vein of Meyrinck even Kafka from a writer virtually unknown in the U.S. She is a discovery waiting to be made for the energetic student of the modern melding of Eastern European artistic traditions.</p><p>Photo on request.</p> Universum Book Publishing Company hardcover
196429074Weidmannsche Buchhandlung. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Very minor shelfwear to all volumes except vol. 1 which has bumped corners and bumping to lower edge of front board.; V1: 1964 964 pp; vol. 2.1 1966 : xii 419 pp; vol. 2.2 1967 : viii 421-756 pp; Vol. 2.3: 1967 VI 757-1532; 1-2.3; 2496 pages . Weidmannsche Buchhandlung hardcover
196833639Éditions E. De Boccard. 1968. Softcover. Very Good. Very faint shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep Jenifer Neils.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 350 pages . Éditions E. De Boccard paperback
201342484Oxford University Press. 2013. Softcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Underlining in pencil to a few pages.; 9.3 X 1.4 X 6.4 inches; 508 pages . 0199574685 . Oxford University Press paperback
201433780New York: A.A.Knopf 2014 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. Built in the fifth century b.c. the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West's ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment it has also come to represent our political ideals the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model for our most hallowed civic architecture. But how much do the values of those who built the Parthenon truly correspond with our own And apart from the significance with which we have invested it what exactly did this marvel of human hands mean to those who made it In this revolutionary book Joan Breton Connelly challenges our most basic assumptions about the Parthenon and the ancient Athenians. Beginning with the natural environment and its rich mythic associations she re-creates the development of the Acropolis -the Sacred Rock at the heart of the city-state- from its prehistoric origins to its Periklean glory days as a constellation of temples among which the Parthenon stood supreme. In particular she probes the Parthenon's legendary frieze: the 525-foot-long relief sculpture that originally encircled the upper reaches before it was partially destroyed by Venetian cannon fire in the seventeenth century. . The frieze's vast enigmatic procession -a dazzling pageant of cavalrymen and elders musicians and maidens - has for more than two hundred years been thought to represent a scene of annual civic celebration in the birthplace of democracy. But thanks to a once-lost play by Euripides the discovery of which in the wrappings of a Hellenistic Egyptian mummy is only one of this book's intriguing adventures Connelly has uncovered a long-buried meaning a story of human sacrifice set during the city's mythic founding. In a society startlingly preoccupied with cult ritual this story was at the core of what it meant to be Athenian. Connelly reveals a world that beggars our popular notions of Athens as a city of staid philosophers rationalists and rhetoricians a world in which our modern secular conception of democracy would have been simply incomprehensible. The Parthenon's full significance has been obscured until now owing in no small part Connelly argues to the frieze's dismemberment. And so her investigation concludes with a call to reunite the pieces in order that what is perhaps the greatest single work of art surviving from antiquity may be viewed more nearly as its makers intended. Marshalling a breathtaking range of textual and visual evidence full of fresh insights woven into a thrilling narrative that brings the distant past to life The Parthenon Enigma is sure to become a landmark in our understanding of the civilization from which we claim cultural descent. 512p. illus some col bibliographyindex Remainder mark else new . A.A.Knopf hardcover
19945115New York: Derrydale Press 1994 . First Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/good. 8vo 137 pages green cloth small name label on endpaper; glassine dj torn in the repaired publisher's box lacking one edge panel <br/><br/>Copy no. 149 of 322 copies signed by Alvord on the title-page and by its "sponsor" Harold "Pick" Pickering at the end of his letter. 98 pages on Paul the remainder on the North Woods. The first state of 322 copies signed on the title. . Siegel 81; Frazier A1. Nine charming full-page plates by Alvord with a number of humourous black-and-white sketches. Laid in in a memo from the original owner of the book explaining that Alvord was the brother of her friend Charlotte. Alvord was a commercial artist in Superior Wisconsin and told these stories at the Happy Home Club there. Derrydale Press hardcover
1978044118London: Thera & the Aegean World 1978 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Comprehensive collection of papers presented at the second International Scientific Congress Santorini Greece August 1978 by a wide range of specialists and scholars. In three sections : Part I - Geosciences; Part II Archaeology; Part III Related Sciences. 822p. diagrams plates tables illus. maps NOTE : Seriously over sized 30x22x6 cm VERY heavy volume 3 kg Name of previous owner else as new. Thera & the Aegean World hardcover
1912323671Paris: L'Edition D'Art 1912. Limited. hardcover. very good. Brunelleschi Umberto. Five fairy tales. 20 beautiful tipped-in plates by Umberto Brunelleschi. 123 pages. Small folio simple leather-backed yellow cloth lightly soiled; bookplate. Paris: L'Edition D'Art 1912. One of 400 copies printed on Japanese paper.<br/> <br/> Five fairy tales: La Belle Aux Cheveux D'or; L'Oiseau Bleu; Gracieuse et Percinet; L'Adroite Princesse; Le Prince Cheri.<br/> <br/> L'Edition D'Art unknown
1754000354Paris: Duchesne 1754. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. First Edition. 12mo. pp. lxviii 129 15. Fleuron on title and three chapter head vignettes by Aliamet Pitre-Martenaise and Sornique after Eisen. Bound in period mottled calf boards re-backed with original gilt spine preserved; well rubbed but still attractive; morocco spine label is renewed; corner tips to boards are neatly repaired. Early ownership ticket on inside front cover "D.F. Lesne Maitre en Chirurgie rue S. Benoit." First French translations from the German of Christian Furchtegott Gellerts fables. Some of John Gays fables are also translated. The fables are preceded by Boulenger de Riverys essay "Discours sur la literature allemande" pp. lxvii which discusses the Fables of Gellert Gay and Fontaine. Cohen-De Ricci p. 182; Lewine p. 79; Cioranescu 13457; Barbier II p. 414. <br/> <br/> Duchesne hardcover
1897140428-B02Washington D. C.: Government Printing Office 1897. Good hard cover. 1897. 366 pages. color plates . Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Government Printing Office Hardcover
199533577E. J. Brill. 1995. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Minor creasing and edgewear to DJ. Very light wear to book.; Religions in the Graeco-Roman World; 473 pages; The Early Amazons offers a new understanding of the ancient Amazon myth situating mythical representations in the realm of cultural history. The first section examines how the Amazons have presented a challenge to views on history myth and gender in classical mythology from the late eighteenth century up to the impact of structuralism. Topics included are nineteenth-century historiography and the interest in linguistics. The second section sheds new light on the culture of archaic Greece offering a coherent assessment of literary and visual representations. Taking mythical narrative as a form of oral storytelling it shows the emergence of the Amazon motif and its meaning in the world of epic. Iconographical analysis reveals how the visual arts have made a contribution of their own to the imaginary presence of the Amazons. . 9004100776 . E. J. Brill hardcover
199518694E. J. Brill. 1995. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Front upper corner bumped and a bit creased. Else light shelfwear.; Religions in the Graeco-Roman World; 473 pages; The Early Amazons offers a new understanding of the ancient Amazon myth situating mythical representations in the realm of cultural history. The first section examines how the Amazons have presented a challenge to views on history myth and gender in classical mythology from the late eighteenth century up to the impact of structuralism. Topics included are nineteenth-century historiography and the interest in linguistics. The second section sheds new light on the culture of archaic Greece offering a coherent assessment of literary and visual representations. Taking mythical narrative as a form of oral storytelling it shows the emergence of the Amazon motif and its meaning in the world of epic. Iconographical analysis reveals how the visual arts have made a contribution of their own to the imaginary presence of the Amazons. . 9004100776 . E. J. Brill hardcover
199034305Konrad Triltsch Verlag. 1990. Softcover. Near Fine. Beiträge Zur Archäologie 19; 453 pages . 3878250428 . Konrad Triltsch Verlag paperback
199136993Oxford University Press. 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Very minor shelfwear to book and DJ.; "Much influenced by structuralism she insisted long before it was fashionable to do so that cultural products - texts images myths rituals - do not bear their meaning on their face but need to be decoded: the title of a collection of her essays Reading Greek Culture 1991 summed up her approach."; 336 pages . 0198147503 . Oxford University Press hardcover
1949009557New York: Limited Editions Club 1949 Three volumes #1302 of an edition of 2500 books Near Fine with slightly sunned spines one volume with a tiny pen mark to cover lacking glassine dust wrappers slip case chipped with wear. Ali Baba signed by Ardizzone Sleeping Beauty unsigned Ugly Duckling signed by the editor Jean Hersholt and Everett Gee Jackson. Signed by Artist. First Limited Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Everett Gee Jackson Sylvain Sauvage and Edward Ardizzone. 4to. Limited Editions Club hardcover
1884000390James R. Osgood and Company 1884. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo. pp. 225 1. Original publisher's yellow-green cloth with black oriental design on front cover. Re-hung / re-cased preserving end papers ; small repairs to head and tail caps of spine and to outer corner tips of boards.; spots of wear to extremities; some fading or discoloration along the upper edge of the rear board. Inner hinges are neatly strengthened; color book plate on inside front cover. Pages are clean. This edition contains the JR.O & Co insignia at the bottom of the spine. Lafcadio Hearn's first book. The contents contain supernatural stories based on folklore from Buddhist and Indian literature the Finnish Kalavala The Jewish Talmud Muslim literature Egyptian papyri etc. Many of the stories deal with the themes of the pursuit of wisdom and of the spectral lover. BAL 7912. <br/> <br/> James R. Osgood and Company hardcover
199036828Walter De Gruyter. 1990. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Very minor shelfwear.; Untersuchungen Zur Antiken Literatur Und Geschichte - Band 35; 6.14 X 0.75 X 9.21 inches; 301 pages . 3110122316 . Walter De Gruyter hardcover
