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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
1889008058No Place: Privately Printed 1889. Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. Limited and Numbered Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. #35/52 copies privately printed. xl 585 pp. Bound in contemporary dark blue pebbled morocco over blue buckram boards blue end papers top edge dyed red. Very Good Plus light rubbing at edges of morocco. Unique bookplate of the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research bottom corner front end page with its faded call letters bottom edge of spine. A wonderful provenance. Privately Printed 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
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
1898010120Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin 1898. Book. Very Good Plus. Decorative Cloth. Later Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good Plus in original brown cloth lettered in gilt and blindstamped with red decorations black end papers professionally restored small rubs to cloth at corners scattered marginal stamps of a hand with pointing finger no other markings clean and tight. xv 1 379 pages 12 illustrations. Originally published 1884 title page date of 1898. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover
1897000015247Philadelphia: William Finley & Co 1897. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 10 vol. 8vo. For pagination please inquire. Half contemporary brown sheep over marbled paper boards ruled in gold gold lettering and decorations on the spines; top edges gilt fore-edges and bottom edges deckled. Green floral endpapers and pastedowns. Title pages in red and black. Illustrated with over 100 photogravures from paintings by the world's best artists these are plates. Edited by Julian Hawthorne and Professor J.P. Lamberton. The Imperial edition limited to 1000 copies numbered 430 on the limitation page and signed by the editor. With excerpts from the literature of the Celts Greeks Chinese Hindus Native Americans Middle Eastern peoples Ango-Saxons and from many other cultures with literary and oral traditions. This is a large set and may require extra shipping. Light wear to the boards' edges. Overall a sharp set. William Finley & Co 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
180254390George Nicholson Poughnill 1802. First Thus. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Size: 18mo 5 1/2 - 6 1/2". 60 / 49 / vi 23 / 24 / 28 / 24 / 28pp. Rebacked with original boards retained. Gilt titles to spine. Scattered foxing. Previous owner's book-plate laid in and ink signature dated 1804. Edges browned. Covers worn. Corners bumped. Published over the period 1801-2. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Politics & Government; Myths Legends & Folklore. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54390. . George Nicholson hardcover
1869007788Melbourne Australia: George Robertson 1869. Book. Near Fine. Morocco. New Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New Edition containing prefaces to First and Second Editions xliii 255 pp with six full page color illustrations and numerous black and white illustrations. Master Tyll Owlglass is the Anglicized name for the German jokester Till Eulenspiegel. Finely bound in lovely Art Deco brown morocco with vertical sets of double gilt rules five raised bands with gilt lettering decorative end pages all edges gilt wide inner dentelles with double gilt rules. Likely an early 20th c. California binding. Bearing the small leather bookplate of Alfred Sutro General Counsel of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company of which organization he had been a director since 1940 and noted bibliophile whose leadership as President of the Book Club of California was indtrumental in its growth. Near Fine original cloth covers bound in front and rear moderate toning to end pages and first few pages two small rubs to morocco at rear joint prior owner name half-title page. George Robertson Hardcover
1864009973London and Cambridge: Macmillan & Co. 1864. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. lvi 190 pages. In original brick cloth gilt lettering back Near Fine faint name in ink front end page tiny rubs to corners the small bookseller's ticket of Gustav E. Stechert of New York verso front end paper. SCARCE and important edition and study of the Stanzaic or Harleian Le Morte Arthur. Collectible copies uncommon in current market. Macmillan & Co. Hardcover
1892006542London: T. Fisher Unwin 1892. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. First Trade Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The First Trade Edition there was also a limited edition of 100 copies. Very Good in the original salmon cloth with black decorations to boards; title in red on front and spine Unwin monogram likewise on rear. Color frontispiece. Spine darkened and red title dulled 3" tear top edge half-title page light foxing to end pages period interesting bookplate front pastedown. From the collection of the Richard M. Dorson Memorial Library Folklore Institute Indiana University the only library indicators being its stamp verso of frontispiece and blindstamp to title page. With RARE and important three page ALS tipped to front end page sent from Leland at the Hotel Victoria Florence Italy to Mr Sampson noted linguist John Sampson possiby dated 1899 with "99" after heading. "Dear Mr Sampson I have written and sent you separately by this mail that which I contribute to our book." He then discusses his wishes for the Preface and Introduction before adding "The Tinkers. This is quite unfinished. It needs a great deal from you. Please note that I have got some queer items as to the Tinkers of old times." In the next paragraph he mentions Shelta Shelta Thari being an esoteric language spoken by the tinkers which Leland had discovered in 1876. He goes on to ask "Can you send me an Old Irish alphabet' and later "I hope it will not take you long to put together what you and Professor Meyer will give" referring to Professor Kuno Meyer a German scholar distinguished in the field of Celtic philology and literature. Then an address in Hamburg Germany where he can be reached after June and "Sincerely Charle G. Leland". While I can find no book that these three men published together Sampson and Meyer did much work later to carry forward research and knowledge of the Shelta language and customs. A quite fascinating correspondence and ASSOCIATION COPY. T. Fisher Unwin Hardcover
