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1950005068Saint Michaels AZ: St. Michaels Press 1950. Book. Near Fine. Printed Wrappers. First Edition. 372 pages. Book in English and Navajo with two beautiful fold-out color reproductions of sandpaintings. SCARCE especially so in such lovely condition. Near Fine small date in ink front endpage spine a bit bowed. St. Michaels Press Paperback
1939006603Goteborg Sweden: Dr. Walter Kaudern Gothenburg Ethnographical Museum 1939. Book. Very Good. Printed Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front wrapper - "To G. Herzog with the compliments of A. Metraux". A wonderful folklore Association Copy Alfred Metraux published landmark studies of South American Indians Haitian Voodoo and Easter Island. As a human rights leader he participated in the framing of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and was a permanent member of UNESCO's Department of Social Science. George Herzog was a noted anthropologist linguist and ethnomusicologist who studied under Franz Boas at Columbia University and later assembled the Archives of Folk and Primitive Music at Columbia University. Reprinted without changes of paging from "Ethnological Studies 9 1939 the book is Very Good light soiling and edge wear to wrappers. 127 pp. Stamped Herzog Collection at first page. SIGNED works by Metraux are RARE. Dr. Walter Kaudern, Gothenburg Ethnographical Museum Paperback
192459392London Cambridge & Harrogate UK: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. Lady Frazer 1924; 1936-1938. Three pieces. 1st - Tall 8vo. xii 248 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher’s ads. Frontisp. illustrated title numerous plates. Blue publisher’s cloth gilt lozenge illust. on front cover gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear slight bumping to corners rubbing still VG copy w/ presentation inscription on ffep. to Mrs. Helen Otavia McCormick Kirk “from a proud woman who sits continually in the shade of the “Golden Bough†August 1936; 2nd - 2 leaves ALS from Lady Frazer to Mrs. Helen Kirk 1872-1967 dated 17 December 1936 on ruled paper w/ approx. 350 words fold creases from mailing slight shelfwear; 3rd - 8vo. 4 pp. ALS from Lady Frazer to Mrs. Kirk on Crown Hotel Harrogate letterhead w/ approx. 300 words fold crease light creasing laid-in. First edition signed presentation copy of Lady Frazer’s adaptation of many of the Golden Bough’s chapters for children featuring Brock illustrations. The first letter to Helen Kirk Dec. 17 1936 thanks her for birthday wishes and notes “also it was gratifying that you thought of my poor little book Pasha the Pom: the Story of a Little Dog 1937 -- what a set-back in the publishing way just after you left & I missed the Xmas market.†Lady Frazer also writes of Sir James Frazer’s ongoing “infirmities go on culminating and for me to stand there a helpless witness to such suffering hourly that is a tragedy†against the backdrop of his dramatic loss of eyesight and other physical ailments in the 1930’s. The also describes the goal of publishing Frazer’s note-books “containing a mine of learning -- a mine he built for about 50 years but in which so far he has hardly delved.†The second letter in August 1938 details how they were leaving Harrogate the following week and intended to meet the Kirk’s sailing into Southampton as well as her efforts to help a friend with the Library of Congress. She writes about Frazer’s publishing that “On the whole the subscriptions are very satisfactory . . . we only commit ourselves -- so far to one vol. ‘Africa’ -- but Australia is nearly ready. . . “Lilly Frazer 1855-1941 was the daughter of a French merchant taught French and published French schoolbooks and plays promoting multi-media education by using phonographic records and was working on a history of dance when she met and married Frazer. She not only continued publishing and translating works and worked with James Frazer on his writings and notebooks including this volume and the children’s book Pasha the Pom. She died one day after Frazer in 1941. Helen Kirk 1872-1967 was married to noted Presbyterian minister and moderator in Baltimore MD Dr. Harry Kirk 1872-1953. See: Papers of Sir James Frazer Trinity College Cambridge Letter from Helen Kirk to Sir James & Lady Frazer dated Nov. 4 1937 thanks them for “Pasha the Pom†for their daughter Helen Lucretia Verner. Macmillan & Co., Ltd., Lady Frazer, 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
1917009853New York: G. P Putnam's Sons 1917. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxviii 341 ps. oroginal blue gloth with gilt lettering top edge gilt. Very Good gilt at spine dulled front hinge cracked yet holding nicely 3 pages of Introduction with top corner creases. Originally from the collection of Anne F. Oberndorfer her signature in pencil front end page. Anne Shaw Faulkner Oberndorfer 1877-1948 a prominent Chicago music educator and a frequent contributor to Better Homes & Gardens The Ladies' Home Journal and Child Life magazines during the 1920s. Later from the collection of noted music professor John Planer of Manchester University his bookplate front paste down. G. P Putnam's Sons Hardcover
1967228841967. Organización Editorial Novaro Joyas de la Mitología archive 1967 documents Mexican educational comics as a vehicle for adapting Indigenous and world mythologies into Spanish-language visual narratives for young readers. The series belongs to a cultural sphere in which comics served instruction moral formation literary adaptation and historical imagination; UNAM's Pepines catalog describes Joyas de la Mitología as an emblematic Mexican educational comics series with cultural ambitions published by Novaro from 1963 to 1980 across 557 numbers and devoted to the mythologies of multiple civilizations. These four consecutive issues focus on Indigenous Latin American and South American mythic worlds showing how late-1960s Mexican popular print used full-color sequential art explanatory essays and dramatic heroic imagery to make pre-Hispanic and Indigenous narrative traditions legible to a mass youth readership. <br /> <br /> Joyas de la Mitología. Mexico City: Organización Editorial Novaro 1967. Four issues Nos. 77-80. Text in Spanish. Staple-bound in original color pictorial wrappers. 32 pages each. Approved by the Secretaría de Educación Pública. The group includes Alfredo Gurza and Delia Larios credits for at least the first issue and comics databases document their recurring work on the series as writer and artist. The issues combine comic-strip myth adaptations with contextual historical essays presenting Colombian Catío Peruvian Chachapoya and Tupi-Guaraní subjects through lush jungle scenes divine figures celestial architecture Andean landscapes maps ancient structures floods fire and origin narratives.<br /> <br /> 1 Gurza Alfredo and Larios Delia. Joyas de la Mitología: Séver el Vengador Divino. No. 77. Mexico City: Organización Editorial Novaro 1967. Adapted by Alfredo Gurza with art by Delia Larios this issue presents the Colombian myth of Séver a divine avenger formed by the earth god Caragabí to repopulate the world. Its narrative of sacred clay betrayal cosmic justice and ancestry visualizes Indigenous cosmology through heroic bodies and dense tropical settings. 2 Organización Editorial Novaro. Joyas de la Mitología: La Escalera al Cielo. No. 78. Mexico City: Organización Editorial Novaro 1967. This issue presents a Catío story of a celestial ladder built by Caragabí at the end of creation joining human life to the divine sphere. The comic treats death transcendence unity and memory through radiant skies and golden stairways translating afterlife belief into visual allegory for young readers. 3 Organización Editorial Novaro. Joyas de la Mitología: La Cascada Divina. No. 79. Mexico City: Organización Editorial Novaro 1967. This issue centers a Chachapoya-related Peruvian myth around a sacred Andean waterfall as divine gift and portal. Illustrated maps architectural reconstructions mountain scenery and water imagery connect ecological abundance to ancestral knowledge and place-based sacred geography. 4 Organización Editorial Novaro. Joyas de la Mitología: El Incendio Universal. No. 80. Mexico City: Organización Editorial Novaro 1967. This issue presents a Tupi-Guaraní origin narrative from the Amazon basin centered on Túpacurá and his sons Tupi and Guaraní. Its flood and fire narrative frames purification destruction and renewal through a hemispheric Indigenous mythic tradition rather than Greco-Roman classical source material.<br /> <br /> Minor toning to margins light edge wear firm staples and bright fully legible interiors very good overall. Focused run of Mexican educational comics preserving late-1960s visual adaptations of Indigenous mythology for Spanish-speaking youth with particular value for the study of Latin American popular pedagogy Indigenous representation and the use of comics to transmit mythic history across national and regional boundaries. unknown
1959008083Newport RI: Board of Directors Newport Folk Festival 1959. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. RARE program for the First Newport Folk Festiaval 24 pp. featuring daily programs and two artist biographies with black and white photos per page Introduction by Billy Faier editor and publisher of CARAVAN magazine. In original stapled pictorial wrappers Very Good foxing and slight discoloration to wrappers. Featured artists included are: Pete Seeger Odetta Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry Josh White The New Lost City Ramblers Memphis Slim The Stanley Brothers The Kingston Trio Earl Scruggs Jean Ritchie and Bo Diddley among others. Board of Directors, Newport Folk Festival Paperback
1955008277London: Workers' Music Association Ltd. 1955. Journal. Very Good. No Binding. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Founded in 1936 by composer and radical Alan Bush and still in operation the Workers' Music Association has long been a beacon for the rights and music of workers. This collection consists of 49 issues of the WMA Bulletin from the years 1955 -1959; May-Dec 1955 Annual Report 9 issues; 1956 11 issues including Annual Report; 1957 12 issues; 1958 8 issues; and 1959 9 issues. Additionally 14 related separate pieces of ephemera from both the WMA and Topic Records assorted brochures flyers and price lists. RARE collection individual copies of the Bulletin unfound in online market searches. Overall Very Good or better mailing stampings small corner creases. Workers' Music Association, Ltd. unknown
1956232891956. Aventuras de la Vida Real comic archive documents mid-20th century Mexican efforts to disseminate national history and cultural identity through mass-market illustrated media. Published in the late 1950s under educational frameworks supported by the Secretaría de Educación Pública these comics present dramatized narratives of Latin American and Mexican history combining visual storytelling with didactic content for youth audiences. The selected issues foreground themes of anti-colonial resistance Indigenous heritage and revolutionary leadership situating popular media within broader state initiatives to shape historical consciousness. <br /> <br /> Aventuras de la Vida Real. Mexico: Ediciones Recreativas S.A. 1956-65. Archive of 5 issues staple-bound in original pictorial wrappers text in Spanish. Includes: 1 Año I No. 10 Don José María Morelos y Pavón 1 de octubre de 1956 a biographical account of Morelos tracing his early life in Valladolid his association with Miguel Hidalgo and his insurgent campaigns through Cuautla Oaxaca and Acapulco; 2 Año II No. 23 Netzahualcóyotl el Príncipe Fugitivo 1 de noviembre de 1957 a historical-romanticized treatment of the Texcocan ruler with supplementary text headed "El Coyote Hambriento" explaining the meaning of his name and his literary and political legacy; 3 Año V No. 49 La Guerrillera de Luto 1 de enero de 1960 recounting the defense of the Fortress of the Immaculate Conception by Rafaela Herrera against British attack framed as a narrative of female military leadership in colonial Nicaragua; 4 Año VI No. 66 El Tesoro de los Mayas 1 de junio de 1961 pairing its adventure narrative with the historical note "Los Cenotes" which discusses Yucatán cenotes Maya settlement and Diego de Landa; 5 Año VI No. 111 Al Borde de la Hoguera 1 de marzo de 1965 exploring themes of traditional folk practices and "witchcraft" in victorian era San Francisco. Each issue includes supplementary historical notes and explanatory content aligned with the series' instructional purpose.<br /> These publications formed part of a broader mid-century cultural program in Mexico that used accessible print media to reinforce national identity across diverse audiences. By combining figures such as a Central American heroine Indigenous cultural narratives and Mexican revolutionary leadership the series reflects an inclusive yet state-directed historical framework. The integration of entertainment and instruction aligns with contemporaneous educational strategies that emphasized cultural cohesion through widely distributed media. Light toning throughout with minor offsetting to inner margins; wrappers show moderate edge wear and light creasing; interiors intact with sound slightly oxidized staples; overall very good condition. A rich illustrated series of Mexican educational comics tying together themes of nationalism pedagogy and popular culture. unknown
17189272Leiden: Chez J. A. Langerak; Marchand Libraire 1718. First French edition. 12mo 2 volumes in 1 continuously paginated with separate titles 6 324 6 325-621pp. In French. Extra engraved title title pages in two colors folding map 3 plates plus numerous vignette engravings in the text. Contemporary mottled calf gilt-tooled spine panels and board edges red morocco spine label page edges stained red marbled endpapers. Contemporary ownership signature to title scattered marginal foxing map with very small inner-margin tear at fold. Joints flaked edges lightly rubbed else very solid and untouched. A near fine example in beautiful contemporary binding. <br /> <br /> Fine example of this 18th century study of the Amazons through classical sources and modern scholarship. French scholar and physician Pierre Petit 1617-1685 first published De Amazonibus Dissertatio in 1685 with this 1718 French edition anonymously translated and greatly expanded. Petit attempts to prove the Amazons existed not just in myth through medals and monuments which are illustrated in the text. The debate of the time was also about where they might have lived and Petit places them in Cappadocia. An interesting treatise on the Ancient female warrior cultures in myth and scholarship. Chez J. A. Langerak; Marchand Libraire unknown
000480Freiburg im Breisgau: Adolph Emmerling. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. 4 individual volumes 1839 1840 1841 and 1844 of this annual periodical handbook of southern German history and folklore which was published between 1839 and 1846. The 1839 volume is re-backed preserving the original publisher's blue paper boards with a decorative title printed on the front cover. The volumes for 1840 and 1844 are bound in early blue paper boards; the 1840 volume is re-backed and the 1844 volume is carefully strengthened along the hinges. The volume for 1841 is bound in brown cloth. Both the 1841 and 1844 volumes contain the remnants of original paper spine labels and also paper institutional shelf tickets. The boards and extremities to all volumes show some rubbing wear and spotting. Personal bookplates present on inside front covers; institutional blind stamp on title pages and two other leaves in each book; a shelf number is handwritten on the bottom margin of the second leaf in each volume. Pages are generally clean but with some light scattered foxing; occasional leaves are uncut; the volume for 1839 is untrimmed; the upper corner of the final leaf in the 1840 volume shows some wear - a couple small marginal tears and a tiny hole are neatly sealed. Contents include interesting articles on local historical events; superstition and folklore; Celtic Germanic and Roman antiquities folk songs Volkslieder and folk tales; church and reformation history etc. Three of the volumes contain fold out plates depicting Celtic antiquities manuscript and sheet music facsimiles a land chart showing ancient graves and an ancient wall in the Alps. <br/> <br/> Adolph Emmerling hardcover
198836444Oxford Clarendon Press. 1988. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Scholar's name to ffeps D. Gerber. Vol. 2 has light bumping to 1 corner. Djs have a few tiny tears.; A three-volume commentary compiled by an international team of scholars includes an introduction discussing previous research on the Odyssey its relation to the Iliad the epic dialect and the transmission of the text. Vol. I: 1988 396 pp ISBN: 0198140371; Vol. II: 1989 300 pp ISBN: 0198140479; Vol. III: 1992 447 pp ISBN: 0198140487;; 3 Volume Set COMPLETE. Commentary on Homer's Odyssey.; 1-3; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1143 pages . Oxford Clarendon Press 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
1951008276Palmer Michigan: National Hillbilly Record Collectorss Exchange 1951. Journal. Very Good. No Binding. First Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. RARE. 16 issues of Disc Collector; Official Organ of National Hillbilly Record Collectors' Exchange later renamed Disc Collector: "The Country Record Collectors Bible". This mimeographed country and folk music journal which has been called a veritable "research discography". Published quarterly starting in 1951 the 16 issues are Vol. 1 Nos.1-4 1951; Vol. 2 Nos. 1-3 1952; and Nos. 10 12-19 1957-1961. With a hand-written artist index on 4" x 6" index cards giving artist name issue number and page number no indication of author but from the collection of noted folklorist Frank Hoffman. Additionally Disc Collectors New Letter Nos. 1-5 Jan.-Sept. 1964 along with 2 pages of New Releases and a blank application for membership to Disc Collectors Record Club. Very Good or better overall slight musty smell assorted small corner creases. A remarkable and RARE treasure trove for the collector of early country and folk music. National Hillbilly Record Collectorss Exchange unknown
1970009855Cardiff: University of Wales Press 1970. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. One of Griffiths two most important works. "This is the first modern commentary on Plutarch's De Iside et Osiride to be accompanied by a new recension of the greek text and also the first to be undertaken by a classical scholar who is at the same time an Egyptologist." front flap. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket tiny tear at top edge of spine faint staicker shadow rear panel. University of Wales Press Hardcover
1959190810-MYB09Berkeley: University of California Press 1959. Very Good Hardcover 1959 first edition scarce. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Cover. University of California Press 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
1930008099Cambridge MA: Folk - Song Society of the Northeast 1930. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. RARE Worldcat shows 3 holdings worldwide all in Europe and no individual numbers found in any commercial database. The complete 12 issue run of this seminal folksong journal published 1930-1937 from the collection of noted folklorist Frank A. Hoffmann his folk music-inspired bookplate front paste down. Bound in green cloth with two black leather labels at spine lettered in gilt Near Fine staining to rear board and rear paste down the bulletins are all Fine. The Folk-Song Society was founded by Phillips Barry American academic and collector of traditional folk ballads in New England in 1930 and he edited this journal until his death in 1937. Folk - Song Society of the Northeast Hardcover
1927009657Garden City N.Y.: Doubleday Page and Co. 1927. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Trade Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presentation Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at dedication page in blue ink -"And now Margaret here's another of those books so gaily planned." CJF" . Tipped in at rear end page is the author's original manuscript in black ink of his recording of the songs Doo Me Ama and The Female Smuggler which is printed in facsimile in the book at page 4 where Finger states at bottom page 3 and top of p. 4 "Such notes as I made were made furtively and as this book aims to set forth things correctly by way of showing how I made my notes in places where blank paper was scarce here is a facsimile." And indeed the music for those two songs was written on the back of a letter 6' x 7 3/4" with ragged edges dated 10 Mars. March '90 1890 presumably sent to Finger by an unknown writer which includes part of the lyrics for the French folksong Les Trois Hussards. Additionally laid in is a publisher's 3 1/4' x 5 1/2' advertising card for the book The Incredible Marquis : Alexander Dumas by Herbert Goodman. In 1889 at age twenty Finger began to travel extensively visiting first Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia. In Chapter One at ps. 15-20 he starts the book with his description of recording these two songs - "Aboard the three-master "The Fairy Queen" .Bill Curzon who was a sailor of the old school sang a song called Doo Me Ama a ballad with a faint Rabelaisian flavour about it ". Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering and decorations front cover and spine Near Fine small rubs at corners in a Very Good dust jacket spine sunned small chips at edges. A remarkable Presentation Copy of the First Trade Edition. While Finger is best remembered for his 1925 Newberry Medal Winner "Tales From Silver Lands" his contributions to folklore were also considerable and he numbered Carl Sandburg among his friends and supporters. . Doubleday, Page and Co. Hardcover
1918L0253<p>i-ii i-x-175printer's imprint with frontispiece and 7 plates. Small octavo 7 1/4" x 4 7/89" bound original publisher tan cloth with brown lettering to spine and pictorial cover in original jacket. BAL: 7168 First edition.</p><p>Uncle Remus Returns is a posthumous collection of African American folktales compiled by Joel Chandler Harris and published in book form in 1918. The volume serves as a sequel to his highly popular yet historically controversial plantation folklore series. The text originally appeared as stories published between 1905 and 1906 in the <em>Metropolitan Magazine</em> before being consolidated into a single volume. Folklore scholars note that the stories in this specific volume weave together a mix of traditional African European and regional indigenous folklore themes.</p><p>Joel Chandler Harris was an American journalist fiction writer and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton Georgia where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent the majority of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution. Harris led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris he supported a vision of the New South with the editor Henry W. Grady 1880–1889 stressing regional and racial reconciliation after the Reconstruction era. As Joel Chandler Harris fiction writer and folklorist he wrote many 'Brer Rabbit' stories from the African-American oral tradition and helped to revolutionize literature in the process.<br /><br /><strong>Condition:</strong><br /><br />Some staining to back cover previous owner's neat ink gift inscription to front end paper. Jacket edges and spine ends chipped else a very good copy in like jacket.</p> Houghton Mifflin Company 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
17996587Paris: Didot Jeune chez Deterville 1799. Nouvelle Edition. 12 volumes 12mos various paginations. Text in French. Complete with 100 hand colored plates throughout the set most after Jean-Marie Mixelle. Contemporary mottled calf ornately gilt spines with black morocco labels marbled endpapers g.e. Contemporary ownership signatures at front in each embossed stamp from Westport Public Library to titles. Light chipping to a few spines some wear at joints and hinges but all sound and very good. <br /> <br /> Beautiful 18th century set of this "Mythology for everyone" which as stated in the subtitle was designed for use and reference by students. Mythologie was first published in 1793 and issued with uncolored colored or both groups of plates. This set with wonderful brightly colored engravings in each volume. Scarce in this condition. Didot Jeune, chez Deterville unknown
199661434Motilal Banarsidass Delhi 1996. Reprint. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". 57 volumes only of set or series. Internally clean. Bindings firm spines faded. Edge marked. Covers marked. This set is published over the period 1986-96. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 5 kilos. Category: Religion & Theology; India; Myths Legends & Folklore. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 61434. . This is a SET of books therefore heavier than a standard volume and will involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Motilal Banarsidass 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
