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45229New York: Garland Publishing Inc. 1990. 1st edition. Garland Folklore Casebooks Vol.5. "The critical theoretical point is that one cannot tell whether or how a folktale is really unique to one culture without knowing if the same tale is found in other cultures." Pp.xviii/405. Tan cloth. VG. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1990. hardcover
1925053323Istanbul: Blindstamped Photograph Studio 1925. No Binding. Very Good. Original b/w photo. 9x14 cm. Signed and dated by Mehmed Halit Bayri as '27 Mayis 1341' May 1925. His early b/w photograph with his fez. Mehmed Halid who started his writing and intellectual career with the encouragement of Fuad Köprülü and Yahya Kemal worked as the editor-in-chief of the journal "Düsünce" i.e. Thought 1922 which was published during the Armistice years and later "Anadolu Mecmuasi" i.e. The Anatolian Journal 1924-1925. He was found in the concept of folklore and folkloric studies in Turkey in the settlement of important services in a systematic and broadly spread. <br/> <br/> Blindstamped Photograph Studio unknown
198810127The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1988. Hardcover. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Very minor shelfwear to DJ at heel of spine else Fine. DJ has minor discoloration to spine and front panel.; Surveys the literary treatment of the Orpheus myth as the myth of the essence of poetry its ability to encounter the fullest possible intensity of beauty and sorrow and to transform they into song. The first half concentrates on the ancient literary tradiiton. Later chapters focus on the continuities of the myth in modern literature.; 256 pages . 0801837081 . The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover
198236890University of Toronto Press. 1982. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Dampstaining to lower corners of last few pages. Does not affect text.; 272 pages; The Myth of Orpheus shaman and teacher musician and lover is the subject of this study. Contents: Orpheus of Virgil and Ovid: flebile nescio quid. W. S. Anderson; Songs of Orpheus and the New song of Christ Eleanor Irwin ; Sparagmos: Orpheus among the Chrisitians Patricia Vicari ; Orpheus and Ficino Warden ; Myth of Orpheus in Italian Renaissance Art 1400-1600 Scavizzi ; Orfeo and Euridice the first two operas Timothy J. McGee ; Orpheus and the Devil in Calderon's El Divino Orfeo c. 1634 Pedro Leon ; Triumph of Art of Death: Orpheus in Spenser and Milton Vicari. . 0802055184 . University of Toronto Press hardcover
198215643University of Toronto Press. 1982. Hardcover. Near Fine in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Very Minor Shelfwear. Else fine.; 272 pages; The Myth of Orpheus shaman and teacher musician and lover is the subject of this study. Contents: Orpheus of Virgil and Ovid: flebile nescio quid. W. S. Anderson; Songs of Orpheus and the New song of Christ Eleanor Irwin ; Sparagmos: Orpheus among the Chrisitians Patricia Vicari ; Orpheus and Ficino Warden ; Myth of Orpheus in Italian Renaissance Art 1400-1600 Scavizzi ; Orfeo and Euridice the first two operas Timothy J. McGee ; Orpheus and the Devil in Calderon's El Divino Orfeo c. 1634 Pedro Leon ; Triumph of Art of Death: Orpheus in Spenser and Milton Vicari. . 0802055184 . University of Toronto Press hardcover
198217099University of Toronto Press. 1982. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Minor Shelfwear. Faint foxing to top of textblock. Else fine.; 272 pages; The Myth of Orpheus shaman and teacher musician and lover is the subject of this study. Contents: Orpheus of Virgil and Ovid: flebile nescio quid. W. S. Anderson; Songs of Orpheus and the New song of Christ Eleanor Irwin ; Sparagmos: Orpheus among the Chrisitians Patricia Vicari ; Orpheus and Ficino Warden ; Myth of Orpheus in Italian Renaissance Art 1400-1600 Scavizzi ; Orfeo and Euridice the first two operas Timothy J. McGee ; Orpheus and the Devil in Calderon's El Divino Orfeo c. 1634 Pedro Leon ; Triumph of Art of Death: Orpheus in Spenser and Milton Vicari. . 0802055184 . University of Toronto Press hardcover
20002111902160306848Matsumoto City Museum Japan Folklore Museum 2000. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 70 pages Size: B5 size Matsumoto City Museum Japan Folklore Museum paperback
1911010159London & New York: Augener Ltd / G Schirmer 1911 Light blue cloth titled in gilt with oval pastedown light shelf wear and darkening to cloth at extremities a few spots to endpapers mild reading wear. Illustrated with 31 oval illustrations in color and each tune is surounded by a line art floral border. Nursery rhymes are set to music harmonized by Alfred Moffat. . Probable First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by H. Willebeek Le Mair. Oblong 4to. Augener Ltd / G Schirmer hardcover
19782091502135417335Not Available 1978. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Not Available paperback
199826360Cambridge University Press. 1998. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Light bumping to 2 corners. Scholar's name to ffep Elaine Fantham. Minor shelfwear to DJ.; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; 304 pages; Book IV of Ovid's celebration of the calendar and the associated legends of the Roman year treats the month of April a particularly happy phase of the Augustan ceremonial year. Around the festival of Venus and the anniversary of the foundation of Rome Ovid retells the legends of Rome's royal founder Romulus and the Trojan hero Aeneas. The introduction and commentary pay special attention to Ovid's art as a poet but aim to provide both the general background and specific explanations of his historical and religious material.; Signed by Editor . 0521445388 . Cambridge University Press hardcover
193262106New York: The Vanguard Press 1932. Tall 8vo. 279 1 pp. Double-page photo-illustrated title 8 photo plates. Yellow publisher’s cloth rust-coloured decorative toning to fore-edges illustration front cover red lettering on spine rust-coloured upper fore-edge as issued pictorial maps on endpapers minor shelfwear slight rubbing couple corners w/ slight bumping w/ d.j. cover art photo of paddle boat on creek minor shelfwear rubbing a couple very minor closed tears still VG/VG bright copy. First edition of this scarce folklore and ethnology study of inhabitants of the Ozarks over Missouri and Arkansas referred to as “hill-billy†by lowlanders by the noted author and folklorist. Included are sections on “Witches and Witch-Masters†“School on Little Greasy†“Frolic up the Holler†“The Sport of Ballad-Hunting†and “The Singing-Teacher†featuring poetry and music & lyrics in dialect. Randolph 1892-1980 was a folklore specialist of the Ozarks who first began publishing on Ozark superstitions and dialect in 1927 and followed by decades of work including his later work on “Kate Bender The Kansas Murderess†published under the Allison Hardy pseudonym. Exceedingly scarce in the original dustjacket. The Vanguard Press, hardcover
188361764Whittaker & Co London 1883. Fourth Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". cxvi 448 / lxviii 570 / x 541pp. 3-volume set complete. Text is in English & Latin. School prize binding with gilt emblems embossed on both boards. Title pieces and gilt decoration to spines. Bindings firm. Slight foxing front/rear pages but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's address in ink. Edge marked. Boards bowed. Covers marked. This set is published over the period 1881-3. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-5 kilos. Category: Poetry; Rome; Ancient BC; English & Latin Language; Myths Legends & Folklore. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 61764. . This is a SET of books therefore heavier than a standard volume and will involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Whittaker & Co hardcover
2007122438Athens: Indictus 2007. Brand new. Contes de Mycono. In greek. Soft cover book 2 CDs 24 cm 726 pp.; illustrated by Genevieve Couteau & Z. Iosefides. Indictus paperback
1840008542Finsbury London: A. Park 47 Leonard Street 1840 Circa 1840 publisher was at this address from 1835-1863. 7 x 4 inches 18 x 12 cm . Pictorial blue paper wraps with some wear and corner creasing amazingly clean but with some offsetting. 8 leaves containing an abbreviated version of the familiar humorous verse about Mother Hubbard and her talented dog with equally amusing engravings colored by hand as issued. . Original Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Archibald Alexander Park Engraver. 12mo. Chap Book. A. Park, 47 Leonard Street paperback
1984S7638<p><em><strong>Proverbs of the Cypriot People 3 VOLS.</strong></em></p><p>Nicosia: Archbishop Macarios III Foundation 1984-1985. In Greek. A rich collection of proverbs in three volumes. Net weight 3940 gr.</p><p><strong>IMPORTANT: The shipping cost is an important parameter of this order; it is NOT included in the price and depends on the actual weight and destination; you will have to approve it after the confirmation of the order. You may ask for an estimate before placing the order at: dem.siatras@gmail.com</strong></p> Archbishop Macarios III Foundation
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
19402512170067Pennsylvania German Folklore Society Allentown Pa 1940 - 1962 1940. Hardcover. Good. 10 volume set. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Some volumes have library stamps. This is an oversized or heavy set which WILL require additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Includes: v.5. Indian Names of Streams Rivers and Places Lenni Lenape by Heckewelder / The Ephrata Printing Press / Of Months and Days / Pennsylvania German Folk Culture: Its Value in Modern Education 1940; v.7. Bucks County Historical Society - Schwenkfelder Historical Library - Pennsylvania State Museum - Berks County Historical Society - Hershey Museum - Landis Valley Museum / Lancaster Rifles 1943; v. 8. Conrad Weiser Pennsylvania peacemaker by Arthur D. Graeff 1943; v.10 v. 10. The influence of the Pennsylvania Dutch in the middle west by G.M. Ludwig; Emigrants from Wuerttemberg the Adolf Gerber lists edited by Donald Herbert Yoder; V. 11. The Pennsylvania Germans in Ontario Canada by Arthur D. Graeff; Coppersmithing in Pennsylvania by Henry J. Kauffman; Lexical differences between four Pennsylvania German regions by Lester W.J. Seifert 1946; v. 12. In memoriam Lloyd A. Moll; Am Schwarze Baer vum Lloyd A. Moll; Pennsylvania German pioneers from the County of Wertheim by Otto Langguth translated and edited by Don Yoder 1947; v. 14. Mysticism in the German Devotional Literature of Colonial Pennsylvania by E. Ernest Stoeffler 1949; v. 15. Pennsylvania German wills by Russell Wieder Gilbert; Humorous tales told by contemporary Pennsylvania Germans 1950; v. 18. Pennsylvania German tombstones by Preston A. Barba 1953; v. 26. The Pennsylvania Germans of the Shenandoah Valley by Elmer Lewis Smith John G. Stewart M. Ellsworth Kyger 1962 Pennsylvania German Folklore Society (Allentown, Pa), 1940 - 1962 hardcover
1942PGS69 Pennsylvania German Folklore Society Allentown: 1942. 1942 174p. Illustrations. Original full cloth binding. Covers foxed. Limited edition. Useful study of "Kentucky" rifles. BEFORE ORDERING PLEASE Email to RareBooks@POBox.com so that we can CONFIRM AVAILABILITY. Hardcover. Very Good. Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, Allentown: 1942. hardcover
1950PGS76 Pennsylvania German Folklore Society Allentown: 1950. 1950 195p. Original full cloth binding. Limited edition. PRICE JUST REDUCED!. Hardcover. Very Good. Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, Allentown: 1950. hardcover
1956PGS82 Pennsylvania German Folklore Society Allentown: 1955-1956. 1956 380p. Illustrations. Original coarse linen cloth binding. Hardcover. Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, Allentown: 1955-1956. hardcover
1958PGS84 Pennsylvania German Folklore Society Allentown: 1957-1958. 1958 154p. Original coarse linen cloth binding. Pennsylvania German marriage based on the casting of lots & drawing of straws. Hardcover. Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, Allentown: 1957-1958. hardcover
1955PGS81 Pennsylvania German Folklore Society Allentown: 1954-1955. 1955 176p. Illustrations. Original coarse linen cloth binding. BEFORE ORDERING - PLEASE Email to RareBooks@POBox.com so that we can CONFIRM AVAILABILITY. Hardcover. Very Good. Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, Allentown: 1954-1955. hardcover
1958PGS83 Pennsylvania German Folklore Society Allentown: 1958. 1958 312p. Highly Illustrated. Original coarse linen cloth binding. Scarce and important. Hardcover. Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, Allentown: 1958. hardcover
1951PGS77 Pennsylvania German Folklore Society Allentown: 1950-1951. 1951 139p. Original full cloth binding. Limited edition. Wills and Vendue lists are great storehouses of information. BEFORE ORDERING PLEASE Email to RareBooks@POBox.com so that we can CONFIRM AVAILABILITY. Hardcover. Very Good. Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, Allentown: 1950-1951. hardcover
1963PGS87 Pennsylvania German Folklore Society Allentown: 1961-1963. 1963 354p. Original coarse linen cloth binding. BEFORE ORDERING PLEASE Email to RareBooks@POBox.com so that we can CONFIRM AVAILABILITY. Hardcover. Very Good. Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, Allentown: 1961-1963. hardcover
