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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
196054812Paris: Printed in France at the Imp. Ruegger 1960. 4to. 10 x 10 in. 14 pp unpaginated. Colour-illustrated throughout w/ 10 in. 33 1/3 rpm vinyl LP inserted into rear pocket still retaining original protective sleeve. Colour-illustrated stiff softcovers slight shelfwear NF copy. First edition in English of this Atlas Tale-Spinners interactive version of the beloved fairy tale with voiceovers including Marjorie Westbury Judith Bailey Judith Whale Michael Murray Alan Rowe John Whale and Tony Church as Bluebeard. Westbury 1906-1989 was an English radio actress and singer for over 50 years best remembered as Steve Temple wife of Paul Temple in the long running series as well as Elsa Strauss in the Hilda Tablet series. Tony Church 1930-2008 was a founding member of the new Royal Shakespeare Company with Peter Hall and later appeared in Tess Krull and the 1963 BBC production of As You Like It. Worldcat locates 1 copy Bowling Green. Printed in France at the Imp. Ruegger, paperback
193462703New York: The Macmillan Co. 1934. 4to. 18 pp unpaginated. illustrated title colour and black & white illustrations on alternating pages. Blue pictorial publisher’s cloth white lettering & illust. front cover minor shelfwear dustsoiling w/ d.j. cover art by Sewell minor chipping & scuffing to spine dustsoiling edgewear still VG/G copy w/ former ownership markings on ffep. First edition of this uncommon Sewell title as she embellishes the classic fairy tale with her distinctive artwork. Sewell 1896-1957 was one of the most prolific artists in the 1930’s through 1950’s and this title was issued just the year after her collaboration with Laura Ingalls Wilder in the second Little House Book Farmer Boy 1933 and had also published with Macmillan “ABC for Everyday†“A head for happy†and “Blue Barns.†See: Anita Silvey Helen Sewell -- American Illustrator and Writer of Children’s Books 2025. The Macmillan Co., hardcover
193457015Racine WI: Whitman Publishing 1934. Folio. 9.75 x 13 in. 48 pp unpaginated. colour plates and black & white plates throughout. Quarter-blue cloth over colour-illustrated boards cover art by Lorioux some edgewear minor dampstain to spine a few pages w/ evidence of a young child trying to aid the illustrator still a G- copy. First Whitman omnibus edition of this delightfully inventive rendition of Fontaine’s fables by one of France’s most beloved artists. In 1919 he was recruited by Walt Disney who was driving an ambulance at the time following World War I and hired him to illustrate his works released in French. Lorioux would leave Disney in the early 1930’s when he refused to relocate to California to join the studio Whitman Publishing, hardcover
196054813Paris: Printed in France at the Imp. Ruegger 73 rue Pigalle 1960. 4to. 10 x 10 in. 16 pp unpaginated. Colour-illustrated throughout w/ 10 in. 33 1/3 rpm vinyl LP inserted into rear pocket still retaining original protective sleeve. Colour-illustrated stiff softcovers slight shelfwear NF copy. First edition in English of this Atlas Tale-Spinners interactive version of the beloved fairy tale with voiceovers including Robert Hardy as Robin John Wood Geoffrey Lewis Tony Church John Baddeley Ralph Hallett Judith Whale as Lady Marian and others. Robert Hardy 1925-2017 is best remembered as Siegfried Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small Cornelius Fudge in the Harry Potter films and Winston Churchill in many different productions. Worldcat locates 1 copy National Library of New Zealand. Printed in France at the Imp. Ruegger, 73, rue Pigalle, paperback
195260673New York: Modern Library 1952. Thick 8vo. xxi 1 746 pp. Blue cloth red & gilt lettering w/ verso of d.j. listing to 370 titles wonderful cover art NF/NF. First Modern Library Giant edition No. G-76 containing 177 Fairy tales. Uncommon in original dustjacket. Modern Library, hardcover
199648221Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 1996. 4to. 159 1 pp. Colour frontisp. 6 colour plates. Full burgundy-coloured calf elaborate gilt & red illustrated decorative border on front cover & spine gilt lettering raised bands silk endpapers a.e.g. NF copy. First Easton Press edition of this beloved collection of Fairy Tale stories by the noted author of Babes in Toyland and the wonderful illustrations of Jessie Willcox Smith. The Easton Press, hardcover
196154811Paris: Printed in France at the Imp. M. Gros 155 rue de belleville 1961. 4to. 10 x 10 in. 14 pp unpaginated. Colour-illustrated throughout w/ 10 in. 33 1/3 rpm vinyl LP inserted into rear pocket still retaining original protective sleeve. Colour-illustrated stiff softcovers slight shelfwear NF copy. First edition in English of this Atlas Tale-Spinners interactive version of the beloved fairy tale with voiceovers including Denise Bryer Jocelyn Page Judith Whale Gillian Wood and Peggy Butt. Bryer b. 1928 is perhaps best remembered as the voice actress as Twizzle in the late 1950s Adventures of Twizzle Terrahawks science fiction series as well as the Junk Lady in Labyrinth. Worldcat locates 1 copy National Library of New Zealand. Printed in France at the Imp. M. Gros, 155, rue de belleville, paperback
19699236Editions A. Et J. Picard. 1969. Softcover. Very Good. Spine mildly sunned. Light edgewear to wraps with a few small chips. Light Creasing to top corners of wraps.; En Francais.; 396 pages . Editions A. Et J. Picard paperback
1985WA6774Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1985. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to full red leather gilt all edges gilt some foxing. Out-of-print thus. <br/><br/>With color plates by Michael Hague. Easton Press hardcover
19971036Cummington Historical Commission 1997. Paperback. Very good. No dustjacket as issued. Cover has light wear and slight fading of spine. Cummington Historical Commission paperback
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
19140005909Chicago: Rand McNally 1914 . First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Milo Winter with 16 plates plus the endpapers and the top cover. Octavo green cloth spine sunned hinge cracking at frontispiece short tear in the fore-edge of one plate otherwise tight and fresh; attractive period bookplate on front free endpaper. <br/><br/>Seven of the Nights including Sinbad the Sailor. Illustrated by Milo Winter with 16 plates plus the endpapers and the top cover. Rand McNally hardcover
197530324London: Panther 1975 Book. Fine. Pbk. Reprint. The Cadbury project the search for the true site of Camelothas been a major tourist atraction. Here its secretary examines not only all the conflicting and scarce facts but the remarkable power of the legend itself. Who was Arthur Crisp tight unmarked copy.269p. bibliography. index. Panther paperback
199418030I. B. Tauris. 1994. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Former owner's name in pencil and blindstamp to ffep. Else very minor shelfwear to book and DJ.; This study in comparative mythology interprets the Greek myths in the light of the mythologies of other Indo-European cultures - Indian Celtic Scandinavian Roman Greek Iranian and Ossetian. The author uses a modified version of the schema proposed by the French theorist Dumezil to consider the profound connections between such works as the "Iliad" the "Odyssey" the Indian epics - the "Ramayana" and the "Mahabharata" - the Iranian "Book of Kings" and the Scandinavian "Yaglingasaga". The book includes a long critical exposition of the discipline of comparative mythology from its 18th-century origins to the revival of the discipline by Dumezil and his followers from 1938 to the present. It also reassesses the profound critique of Dumezil which linked him with Nazi ideology.; 256 pages . 1850438315 . I. B. Tauris 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
197418692E. J. Brill. 1974. Softcover. Very Good. Faint bump to top of spine. Faint dampstaining to spine.; Contents: introduction. Aphrodite's Origin in an Indo-European Tradition; Names and Epithets of Aphrodite; Aphrodite and the Chorós; Aphrodite and her Mortal Lover; Mnemosyne Bibliotheca Classica Batava : Supplementum 32; 97 pages . 9004039465 . E. J. Brill paperback
199435513Oxford University Press. 1994. Hardcover. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. Light bumping to corners. Light shelfwear to dustjacket.; The first full history of ancient Georgia ever to be written outside Georgia itself this book also serves as a valuable introduction to the substantial archaeological work that has been carried out there in recent decades. Designed to open up ancient Georgia for the world of scholarship at large it is not only a history of a neglected region but also a sustained attempt to inform topics and issues that are more familiar to the historians of antiquity. Examples include myths of the periphery; Caucasian mountains and their passes; Greek colonization; the Persian Athenian and Selecuid empires; Pompey's conquest of Mithridates' empire; the development of the Roman frontier in the eastern Black Sea region; Roman diplomacy in Iberia; the Christianization of Iberia; Sassanian ambitions in Transcaucasia; and Byzantine warfare there.; 9.75 x 1 x 6.5 Inches; 359 pages . 0198144733 . Oxford University Press hardcover
198737250Croom Helm. 1987. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Light Bmp to head of spine. Scholar's name to ffep D. Gerber. Else Minor shelfwear. DJ has minor shelfwear.; Interpretations of Greek Mythology first published in1987 builds on the innovative work of Walter Burkert and the ‘Paris school’ of Jean-Pierre Vernant and represents a renewal of interpretation of Greek mythology. The contributors to this volume present a variety of approaches to the Greek myths all of which eschew a monolithic or exclusively structuralist hermeneutic method. Specifically the notion that mythology can simply be read as a primitive mode of narrative history is rejected with emphasis instead being placed on the relationships between mythology and history ritual and political genealogy. The essays concentrate on some of the best known characters and themes – Oedipus Orpheus Narcissus – reflecting the complexity and fascination of the Greek imagination. The volume will long remain an indispensable tool for the study of Greek mythology and it is of great interest to anyone interested in the development of Greek culture and civilisation and the nature of myth.; 294 pages; The volume's fundamental concern is with how the Greeks conceptualized the experience of poetry and debated the values of that experience. The book's organizing theme is a recurrent Greek dialectic between ideas of poetry as on the one hand a powerfully enthralling experience in its own right a kind of 'ecstasy' and on the other a medium for the expression of truths which can exercise lasting influence on its audiences' views of the world. Citing a wide range of modern scholarship and making frequent connections with later periods of literary theory and aesthetics Halliwell questions many orthodoxies and received opinions about the texts analysed. The resulting perspective casts new light on ways in which the Greeks attempted to make sense of the psychology of poetic experience - including the roles of emotion ethics imagination and knowledge - in the life of their culture . 0709932707 . Croom Helm hardcover
198737317Croom Helm. 1987. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Minor sheflwear to book. Scholar's name to ffep Bonnie Maclachlan née Ward. DJ has some dampstaining; Interpretations of Greek Mythology first published in1987 builds on the innovative work of Walter Burkert and the ‘Paris school’ of Jean-Pierre Vernant and represents a renewal of interpretation of Greek mythology. The contributors to this volume present a variety of approaches to the Greek myths all of which eschew a monolithic or exclusively structuralist hermeneutic method. Specifically the notion that mythology can simply be read as a primitive mode of narrative history is rejected with emphasis instead being placed on the relationships between mythology and history ritual and political genealogy. The essays concentrate on some of the best known characters and themes – Oedipus Orpheus Narcissus – reflecting the complexity and fascination of the Greek imagination. The volume will long remain an indispensable tool for the study of Greek mythology and it is of great interest to anyone interested in the development of Greek culture and civilisation and the nature of myth.; 294 pages; The volume's fundamental concern is with how the Greeks conceptualized the experience of poetry and debated the values of that experience. The book's organizing theme is a recurrent Greek dialectic between ideas of poetry as on the one hand a powerfully enthralling experience in its own right a kind of 'ecstasy' and on the other a medium for the expression of truths which can exercise lasting influence on its audiences' views of the world. Citing a wide range of modern scholarship and making frequent connections with later periods of literary theory and aesthetics Halliwell questions many orthodoxies and received opinions about the texts analysed. The resulting perspective casts new light on ways in which the Greeks attempted to make sense of the psychology of poetic experience - including the roles of emotion ethics imagination and knowledge - in the life of their culture . 0709932707 . Croom Helm hardcover
198733530Croom Helm. 1987. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Bmp to upper edge of rear board. Scholar's name to ffep Jenifer Neils. Else Minor shelfwear. DJ has minor shelfwear.; Interpretations of Greek Mythology first published in1987 builds on the innovative work of Walter Burkert and the ‘Paris school’ of Jean-Pierre Vernant and represents a renewal of interpretation of Greek mythology. The contributors to this volume present a variety of approaches to the Greek myths all of which eschew a monolithic or exclusively structuralist hermeneutic method. Specifically the notion that mythology can simply be read as a primitive mode of narrative history is rejected with emphasis instead being placed on the relationships between mythology and history ritual and political genealogy. The essays concentrate on some of the best known characters and themes – Oedipus Orpheus Narcissus – reflecting the complexity and fascination of the Greek imagination. The volume will long remain an indispensable tool for the study of Greek mythology and it is of great interest to anyone interested in the development of Greek culture and civilisation and the nature of myth.; 294 pages; The volume's fundamental concern is with how the Greeks conceptualized the experience of poetry and debated the values of that experience. The book's organizing theme is a recurrent Greek dialectic between ideas of poetry as on the one hand a powerfully enthralling experience in its own right a kind of 'ecstasy' and on the other a medium for the expression of truths which can exercise lasting influence on its audiences' views of the world. Citing a wide range of modern scholarship and making frequent connections with later periods of literary theory and aesthetics Halliwell questions many orthodoxies and received opinions about the texts analysed. The resulting perspective casts new light on ways in which the Greeks attempted to make sense of the psychology of poetic experience - including the roles of emotion ethics imagination and knowledge - in the life of their culture . 0709932707 . Croom Helm hardcover
198035748New York: St.Martin's Press. 1980 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Uncorrected Proof. Ancient Crete and the story of Ariadne Priestess of the Goddess a sort of counterpoint to the legend of Theseus as described in Mary Renault's novel "The King Must Die." 240p. bibliography. Uncorrected Proof Slight sun-fading to paper wraps else fine. St.Martin's Press. paperback
198633619Aristide D. Caratzas. 1986. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Book is near fine. DJ spine a bit sunned. DJ has minor creasing.; 8.5 X 5.6 X 0.6 inches; 103 pages . 0892413751 . Aristide D. Caratzas hardcover
1911200914-MB15Rand McNally 1911. Very Good Hardcover pictorial cover 12 color plates plus b & w illustrations throughout by Lucy Fitch Perkins . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Perkins Lucy Fitch. Rand McNally Hardcover
