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197736783Boston: Little Brown & Co 1977. 1st ed. Hardcover. Hyman Trina Schart. 1st ptg. small 4to picture book full brown cloth stamped in gilt illustrated in color throughout by the author. Fine in fine unclipped dj. Little, Brown & Co hardcover
198632577New York: Knopf 1986. 1st ed. Hardcover. Sanderson Ruth. 1st ptg. of the Yolen retelling illustrated in full color throughout by Ruth Sanderson. Small square 4to full gray cloth stamped in copper illlustrated endpapers. Signed by Yolen on the title page. Fine in fine unclipped dj no previous owner's marks. Signed by the author. Knopf hardcover
195725184New York: Walck 1957. 1st edition US. Hardcover. Fine. Hodges Walter C. 1st ptg. 8vo full blue cloth Vikings vs. Normans. Light shelfwear else fine in fine price-clipped dj no previous owner's marks. Walck hardcover
200030237Boston: Little Brown & Co 2000. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine. Hyman Trina Schart. 1st ptg. 4to glossy pictorial boards "stories of strong women illustrated in color throughout by Trina Schart Hyman working with her author daughter to present empowering stories from many cultures. Signed by Tchana and Hyman on the half title page. As new in fine unclipped dj no previous owner's marks. Signed by author and illustrator. Little, Brown & Co hardcover
18938837London: David Nutt 1893. First edition thus Bibliotheque de Carabas Vol. VIII. 8vo lxv 5 92 2pp ads at rear. Frontis plate by Lockhart Bogle and one other vignette illustration preceding the Kirk text. Stitched in publisher's plain card wraps with printed paper jacket. Deaccession stamps and labels from Boston library to title and inner front cover worming to edge of ffep else clean internally. Staining to jacket spine mostly chipped away with remaining portion neatly adhered. A good sound copy. <br /> <br /> Gaelic folklorist Robert Kirk's 1644-1692 famous treatise on fairly folkore witchcraft and second sight. This edition published by David Nutt contains a lengthy introductory commentary by Andrew Lang. Scarce. . David Nutt unknown
198963961Philosophical Research Society Los Angeles 1989. Diamond Jubilee Edition Reduced Facsimile. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: J. Augustus Knapp. Size: Folio 12 - 19". 246 pp. Binding firm. Slight foxing front/rear pages but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Bookshop ink-stamp. Edges foxed. Covers slightly creased. Illustrator: J. Augustus Knapp. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Magic Paranormal & Occult; Myths Legends & Folklore. ISBN: 089314830X. ISBN/EAN: 9780893148300. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 63961. . 9780893148300 Philosophical Research Society paperback
19690006632Chicago: Reilly & Lee 1969. New edition. Hardcover. Very Good . John R. Neill. Quarto 239 pages blue cloth with small holes as if made by a stapler some inside but most are on the covers; with some crayoning scriibbles before p. 16 and on the endpapers <br/><br/>Baum wrote this in response to certain of his fans who "implored me to 'write something about the mermaids'." The first in the Borderland of Oz series. Illustrated by John R. Neill: here in black-and-white only. Reilly & Lee hardcover
18916815London: Walter Scott 1891. First edition. 8vo vii 372 4pp. publisher's ads at rear. Burgandy cloth stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. Bookplate of H. Ringwood Peace an expert on Irish fairy tales to front pastedown. Later ownership signature on ffep. Spine sunned with wear at ends and corners. Very good and sound. <br /> <br /> Interesting work from Hartland 1848-1927 whose works focused on folklore and mythology from a ethnological perspective. This book contains sections on Fairy Births and Human Midwives Changelings The Supernatural Lapse of Time in Fairyland Swan-Maidens and others. Walter Scott unknown
19410006638Chicago: Reilly & Lee 1941. Later printing. Hardcover. Fine/good. John R. NEILL. Small 4to 309 pages yellow cloth no pictorial label; repaired tears in dj with two large chips at the fold of the top flap tips of spine worn top of rear flap cut off. <br/><br/>OZIANA 35. The second Oz book by Ruth Plumly Thompson's temporary successor as the Historian of Oz. This later printing has 32-page gatherings and different titling on the spine. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Reilly & Lee hardcover
19952091British Columbia: Theytus Books Ltd. 1995. Paperback. Good . Oversized trade paperback green with a tribal design to the cover. No additional printings stated so assumed to be a first edition. Good condition with all wear being external. Bumping at the corners and at the cover edges and remnants of sticker removal to the top of the rear cover spineward. Interior is clean and unmarked. Binding is solid with no splits or creases at the spine column. 254 pp. some black and white photos of tribal elders. A collection of wisdom and history from the elders of the Nuu-chah-nulth first nations in British Columbia Canada. <br/><br/> Theytus Books Ltd. paperback
198035144American Schools of Oriental Research. 1980. Softcover. Very Good-. Light creasing to wraps. Spine browned. Minor edgewear to extremities. Small tear to base of spine.; The story of Sargon's birth and childhood is given in the "Sargon legend" a Sumerian text purporting to be Sargon's biography. The extant versions are incomplete but the surviving fragments name Sargon's father as La'ibum.; American Schools of Oriental Research dissertation series ; no. 4; 298 pages . 0897571045 . American Schools of Oriental Research paperback
1912509271Charles Scribner's Sons 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. First Printing with 'Published October 1912' and Scribner's seal to verso. viii 2 368pp. 4 color plates illustrated by N. C. Wyeth frotispiece tissued guard intact. 8vo sewn binding in green publisher's cloth with gilt stamped lettering and black whicte orange and blue stamped figure of Ilmarinen at the forge to front cover deckled fore and tail edges. Some light rubbing to the very tips two small dampstains to front cover a few leaves cut a bit jagged otherwise a very clean fresh copy with crisp bright pages. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
199144766Routledge. 1991. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Foxing to textblock and DJ. Dustjacket is protected in mylar.; First full-length interpretation of the foundation sets out a completely new methodology for analysing large inscriptions and challenges some of the basic assumptions scholars have made about the origins and significance of the "Second Sophistic". Argues that Ephesians used their past to define their present during the Roman Empire and his study sheds new light on how second-century Greeks established and maintained their identities in relation to Romans Christians and jews.; 1 x 9 x 6 Inches; 192 pages . 041505530X . Routledge hardcover
199111226Routledge. 1991. Hardcover. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. book has one bump to upper edge of front board else fine. Dustjacket has very minor shelfwear with one small scratch to foreedge of back panel.; First full-length interpretation of the foundation sets out a completely new methodology for analysing large inscriptions and challenges some of the basic assumptions scholars have made about the origins and significance of the "Second Sophistic". Argues that Ephesians used their past to define their present during the Roman Empire and his study sheds new light on how second-century Greeks established and maintained their identities in relation to Romans Christians and jews.; 1 x 9 x 6 Inches; 192 pages . 041505530X . Routledge hardcover
19914511Routledge. 1991. Hardcover. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Former book price on ffep has been rubbed out.; First full-length interpretation of the foundation sets out a completely new methodology for analysing large inscriptions and challenges some of the basic assumptions scholars have made about the origins and significance of the "Second Sophistic". Argues that Ephesians used their past to define their present during the Roman Empire and his study sheds new light on how second-century Greeks established and maintained their identities in relation to Romans Christians and jews.; 1 x 9 x 6 Inches; 192 pages . 041505530X . Routledge hardcover
19915355Routledge. 1991. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Dustjacket has very minor shelfwear to top corner else Fine.; First full-length interpretation of the foundation sets out a completely new methodology for analysing large inscriptions and challenges some of the basic assumptions scholars have made about the origins and significance of the "Second Sophistic". Argues that Ephesians used their past to define their present during the Roman Empire and his study sheds new light on how second-century Greeks established and maintained their identities in relation to Romans Christians and jews.; 1 x 9 x 6 Inches; 192 pages . 041505530X . Routledge hardcover
19917360Routledge. 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Very Minor bump to base of spine. Light shelfwear to DJ. Gift inscription from author to Fergus Millar on ffep.; First full-length interpretation of the foundation sets out a completely new methodology for analysing large inscriptions and challenges some of the basic assumptions scholars have made about the origins and significance of the "Second Sophistic". Argues that Ephesians used their past to define their present during the Roman Empire and his study sheds new light on how second-century Greeks established and maintained their identities in relation to Romans Christians and jews.; 1 x 9 x 6 Inches; 192 pages; Signed by Author . 041505530X . Routledge hardcover
192237134London: A. & C .Black 1922. 1st ed. Hardcover. Owen J.H. 4to blue cloth with gilt titling and color cover plate onlaid. An uncommon edition Illustrated with 8 color plates and numerous line drawings by J. H. Owen. The classic Grimm's tale is illustrated with the rats attired in elegant Japanese style. Professionally rebound appearance matching the first edition but with darker blue cloth and lacking the gilt rules around the covor plate. Pages are unevenly toned but the overall effect is very good and the bright plates are in fine condition. No name or bookplates. A. & C .Black hardcover
19762091502135412610social science publisher 1976. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 social science publisher paperback
198334385New York: Holt Rinehart Winston 1983. 1st ed. Hardcover. Hague Michael. #341 of 350 copies signed by Michael Hague and containing a specially commissioned drawing that appears only in the limited edition. 4to brown cloth over green tweed cloth in matching brown coth slipcase. With color illustrations throughout by Hague and quite a charming dragon. Fine in slightly faded cloth-covered slipcase with a trace of soil no previous owner's marks. Signed by the artist. Holt, Rinehart, Winston hardcover
2006PO-14London U.K.: Continuum Publishing 2006. This volume brings together research from international scholars focusing attention on the longevity and complexity of Blake`s reception in Japan and elsewhere in the East. It is designed as not only a celebration of his art and poetry in new and unexpected contexts but also to contest the intensely nationalistic and parochial Englishness of his work and in broader terms the inevitable passivity with which Romanticism and other Western intellectual movements have been received in the Orient. 348 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Continuum Publishing Hardcover
1991MF-6IthacaN.Y.: Cornell University Press 1991. Classic scholarly text presents an insightful view of the relationship between early Indic myth and ritual; including a detailed examination and interpretation of the recurrences of the myths "Indra fed the Yatis to the hyenas" and "Svabhanu pierced the sun with darkness"; focusing on their verbal form and ritual setting. 335 pgs. Tiny pen mark on lower outer edge. Dustjacket in mylar. Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cornell University Press Hardcover
19825948Oxford Clarendon Press. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. DJ is protected in plastic sleeve that has been taped down to boards.; Donaldson examines the possible origins of the story and the many ways in which over the centuries it has been interpreted criticized elaborated and transformed. The changing fortunes of the story reflect changing attitudes to suicide republicanism and the concept of heroism; 216 pages . 0198126387 . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
199337233New York: Morrow 1993. 1st ed. Hardcover. As New. Hague Michael. 1st ptg. large 8vo cloth-backed boards illustrated in color and black and white by Michael Hague inscribed by him on the half-title page. A fine bright copy in fine unclipped dj no previous owner's marks publisher's promotional poster laid in. Signed by the author. Morrow hardcover
189025090187George Allen UK 1890. Third Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. 233 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: George Allen UK 1890. Third Edition. CONDITION: This book is in good condition but dust jacket is not included. More specifically: Covers have superficial rubbing/wear. Edges of boards have moderate edgewear and corners are moderately bumped. Pages are reasonably tanned. Previous owner's name in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Myths Legends & Folklore; History. Inventory No: 25090187. George Allen hardcover