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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
20022080202102707032National Museum of Japanese History and Folklore 2002. Soft Cover. Fine. Page size: 58 pages Size: A4 size National Museum of Japanese History and Folklore paperback
004744New York: Crescent Books 1964. 460pp illus w/16 color 354 b&w. photos. Addresses in depth the mythology of the cultures and countries of Persia Kafirs Buddhism of India Brahmanic Lamaism Indo-China and Java Central Asia and the arts of China & Japan Buddhist icons Shinto etc. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Crescent Books hardcover
1947009948Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1947. Book. Very Good. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page-" To my colleague and friend James W. Marchand with greetings Clair Hayden Bell 28th March 1960". Four volumes in original red cloth Very Good no jackets spines slight sunning spine lean Marchand's name stamp front end page with laid in photocopy of a review of the book published in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology Vol. I No. 4 October 1951. Bell's monumental study of Meistergesang one of the most characteristic forms assumed by German literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With presentation inscription to the noted medieval scholar linguist and polyglot James W Marchand. A wonderful scholarly Association Copy. University of California Press Hardcover
1968009856London Melbourne Toronto: Macmillan 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at title page -"John Johnson with best wishes Margaret Laurence". Review Copy with publisher's review slip laid in. Near Fine small corner bumps in a Very Good dust jacket light edge wear mainly at corners and spine ends. With Johnson's blind stamp front end page. John William Johnson 1942 is a noted folklorist with a distinguished teaching and publishing career and who spent a year and a half translating and editing for the renowned Somali folklorist and poet Haaji Muuse Galaal. A great folkloric Association Copy. Macmillan Hardcover
37133Philadelphia: David McKay 191. Hardcover. Smith Jessie Wilcox. Small 4to full tan cloth. Early edition with black rather than gilt titling. Illustrated with 8 shadowy color plates by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Bookplate to front pastedown lightly bumped corners near fine. David McKay 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
1330097777.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1950053252Ankara: Etnografya Müzesi Müdürlügü Hususi" Letterhead = Ethnography Museum Directorate 1950. No Binding. Very Good. Original ALS by Hamid Zübeyr Kosay sent to Ibrahim Hakki Konyali. With its envelope. 21x144 cm. In Turkish. He congratulates Konyali and he says that he's working on the ancient civilizations reports and he has to return his ex-duty in Ethnography Museum. He praises 'Tarih Dünyasi' periodical which was a historical magazine published in 1950s by Konyali. Hamit Zübeyir was a Turkish archaeologist ethnographer writer and folklore researcher. He was the son of Ubeydullah Efendi who was a scholar of the period and Rizaetdin Fäxretdin a close friend of Musa Carullah a famous scientist was his brother-in-law. He was sent to Turkey with the support of Rizaetdin Fäxretdin for his education in 1909. He graduated from Thessalonica Central Secondary School in 1911. At the break of the Balkan War he returned to Istanbul when he was in Sultaniye. He finished the teacher training school in 1916 and became a teacher. After attending courses on ethnography and the Hungarian language at university for the winter semester he went to Hungary to continue his education where he completed pedagogy. He was accepted to the Advanced Teachers Training School at Eötvös Kollegium Eötvös Loránd University with the support of Prof. Ne'meth Gyula. Then he attended the same university's Faculty of Philosophy and received the title of Doctor of Language and Turcology. He went to Germany in 1924 to attend the courses of Prof. Bang Koup at Berlin University and did research at the State Library and museums. In 1925 he returned to Turkey and worked at the Ministry of National Education. After working as the Inspector of Libraries at the Ministry of Culture he was a director for the Department of Culture Antique Works and Libraries at the same ministry. He continued as the General Director of Antique Works and Museums board member of Culture Training and for the second time as the Director of the Ethnography Museum. He retired on 1 December 1969 after working for two years as Deputy Director of the Ethnography Museum and Consulting General Director of Antique Works and Museums. <br/> <br/> Etnografya Müzesi Müdürlügü Hususi" Letterhead [= Ethnography Museum Directorate] unknown
19912091202133403314Folklore and Literature Association A5 version 1991. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 203p Size: 21cm Folklore and Literature Association A5 version paperback
18753624Weidmannsche Buchhandlung. 1875. Hardcover. Very Good-. Former classics scholar's name on ffep Alan E. Samuel. Former owner's bookplate on inner cover. Foxing to ffeps. Pages are browned. Corners are worn. Light chipping to a few pages. Browning to front cover.; Greek writer of fables who lived probably in the second century AD. Greek text with latin apparatus.; 100 pages . Weidmannsche Buchhandlung hardcover
1955biblio425380 pp. Opracowal wstepem i przypisami opatrzylRachmiel Brandwajn. Obwolute okladke i strone tytulowa projektowal Marek Rudnicki.Illustrated by French caricaturist Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard 1803-1847 generally known by the pseudonym of J. J. Grandville. More than 140 engraved woodcuts preceding each fable.The spine missing and front cover torn out. Otherwise in very good condition. Panstwowy, Instytut Wydawniczy hardcover
195732931Container Corporation of America 1957. 1st ed. Balet Jan. 1st ptg. narrow 4to pictorial paper covered boards fine in near fine unclipped dj with Slottie intact at back. Inscribed possibly by author but no provenance by "Marty". Fine in near fine unclipped dj with closed tear to back panel no previous owner's marks. Container Corporation of America unknown
73589Cambridge MA The Comic. Com © 1998. . Das Grimmsche Märchen vom Bärenhäuter als Comic in düsteren Bildern. Erste Seite vom Illustrator Gareth Hinds geb. 1971 SIGNIERT. - Gutes sauberes Exemplar (Cambridge, MA, The Comic. Com, © 1998). unknown
201624938New York: HarperCollins 2016. 1st ed. Hardcover. new. Craft Kinuko. 1st ptg. 4to picture book pictorial laminated boards illustrated in lush color by Kinuko Craft. As new in fine unclipped dj. HarperCollins hardcover
197937149New York: Doubleday 1979. 1st edition US. Hardcover. Fine. Le Cain Errol. 1st ptg. oblong 8vo picture book pictorial cloth with Errol Le Cain's lavish color paintings throughout. Reinforced publisher's library binding no previous owner's marks or any indication of library use. Fine without dj. Doubleday hardcover
197033768Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Münchener Archäologische Studien 1; 116 pages . 3770504348 . Wilhelm Fink Verlag hardcover
200732993Phoibos Verlag. 2007. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. 1 corner bumped. Else minor shelfwear.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 156 pages . 3901232699 . Phoibos Verlag hardcover
1937LS-58Portland Maine: Falmouth Book House 1937. Classic scarce text contains stories and tall tales of lumber-camp life in the Maine woods including modern Paul Bunyans bunk-house gossip narratives of fearless men and their exploits with death while bringing the logs out back-woods humour etc. 164 pgs. Illustrated by the author. Dustjacket has a few tiny closed edge tears and a small chunk missing on lower spine edge; in mylar. Text has minimal shelfwear. . First Edition. Original Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Falmouth Book House Hardcover
2000044524London England: Victor Gollancz 2000. First U.K. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x 246pp w appendix bibliography and index. Textured blue paper-over-boards w crisp silver lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Illustrated DJ is clean showing slight wear to head. Octavo. <br/> <br/> Victor Gollancz hardcover
194926428Paris: Flammarion 1949. Hardcover. Davanza. Folio full cream boards printed in maroon the classic tales and some less well-known in French handsomely illustrated by Davanza in two-color chapter heads and full color page artwork. Boards a bit edgeworn with a short crack to base of spine. Near fine in edgeworn tanned dj no previous owner's marks. Flammarion hardcover
193717443<p>Text in Norwegian/Teksten i norsk. Good HC no DJ. Blue and white paper over boards backed with red cloth; front cover with pictorial design; rear cover plain but for publisher's device; gilt stamped title on spine. Covers are lightly scuffed; clean but for a faintly mottled appearance perhaps from past mildew; slight rubbing wear at fore corners; spine is slightly faded; gilt titles on spine are somewhat dulled; tightly bound; gift inscription and date 1937 on front free end paper; bright clean interior. 8vo 93 pp; illustrated.</p> Oslo: A.M. Hanches hardcover
189932639NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. History French; B&W Illustrations; 9; xv212 pages; Gilles de Retz was the basis for 'Bluebeard'. One of the leading figures in the kingdom he was executed for horrific crimes against children. 5 illustrations and facsimiles. . G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
1976006858Ann Arbor MI: Bear Claw Press 1976. Book. Very Good Plus. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Howard Norman's SCARCE first published book. First Edition stated. Very Good Plus small rub to wrappers near bottom edge of spine faint label shadow top edge front wrapper. faint creases to wrappers. Bear Claw Press Paperback
1994MF-8New York: Garland Publishing 1994. Scholarly text presents a survey of Brazilian folklore studies and an annotated bibliography of major works on the subject. It examines orally-communicated tales as well as theoretical and methodological literature and folk narrative scholarship before and after 1950 and compares major research developments in Euro-American folk narrative. 234 pgs. Very minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Garland Publishing Hardcover