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Very Good Turkish Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 481 p. Kilis masallari (Derleme ve inceleme). Folk tales compilation from Kilis city and region.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Price sticker residue on cover. 190 pages. Many colorful illustrations.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased and frayed at edges. This work, together with 'Life in a Devon Village', includes substantially rewritten elements of the author's earlier 'The Village Book' and 'The Labouring Life'. Gretton 31; Matthews A31.
New English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. Large roy. 8vo. (25 x 17 cm). In English, German, Turkish and Chinese. 218, [1] p. Color and b/w ills. Niobe and the mysterious history of Manisa.= Niobe und die geheimnisvolle geschichte von Manisa.= Niobe ve Manisa'nin gizemli tarihi. Translated by Halit Anginer, Burçin Yarali, Emine Tanriver.
8vo. 403p. + Drawings by Michael Ayrton. DJ. The unexpurgated text. W120
pp. 475, (5) [Publisher's catalogue]. Title page ruled in black. 12mo. 185mm. Original full blue decorated cloth binding. Extremities rubbed and slightly worn. Hardbound. Very good. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist who is now chiefly remembered for: his celebration of British imperialism; tales and poems of British soldiers in India; and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. KIP BX 3
Very Good English In modern cloth bdg. with aesthetic embossing. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 11 cm). In Turkish. 432, [4] p., b/w plates. Az gittik uz gittik.
New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. 334 p. In Turkish. Seyyid Battal Ghazi 's Battalnamah. Battalnâme. Hazret-i 'Ali Kerrema'llâhu Vechehu Hazretlerinin sülâle-i tahirelerinden. Seyyit Battal Gâzi hazretlerinin gazavâtidir. Edited by Çetin Sisman. Prep. by: Prof. Dr. Hasan Kavruk, Salim Durukoglu.
First (NAP) edition. Illustrated paper boards, quarter green cloth, thick paper issue. Large Post 8vo. pp. 143. VG+/No jacket. Slight dye loss to top of spine, traces of edgewear, one rear nick to boards, internally NF. [BL-En] Eight tales.
pp. xxxvi, (3), 40-251, (1) [Publisher's catalogue]. Early manuscript ownership and note 'M. Canby Bot. at Auction price $33/100' on title page. Text browned but not brittle. 12mo. 170 mm. Original full leather binding, worn. Front board detached. Old clear tape repair covers spine and hinges. Title continues: "With The Life Of The Author. To Which Are Added, The Deserted Village; The Traveller; or, Prospect of Society: By Goldsmith. Elegy Written In A Country Church Yard: By Gray. The Hermit: By Parneli. The Snow-Storm: By Dr. Trotter." Preface and appendix to the Farmer's Boy, by Capel Lofft. "Rural Tales" has special title page. S&S/AI 3843 + 3846. Hardbound. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AI BX 2
287 p. Top edge gilt. Deckled edges. Unopened. 200mm. From Morley's Universal Library, uniformly bound with others in the series. Gilt lettered faux vellum spine over blue gray linen boards. Spine very slightly darkened. Second edition. Fine condition. Henry Morley (1822-1894) was a popular lecturer and prolific writer who did more to promote education and love of literature than any other person in the Victorian era. LOC W48/BAG 14
Covers show light use only, text/interior is clean and unmarked in any way, solid binding. 106 pages with b&w illustrations. Oblong format
Book appears in mint unread condition. 202pp. Tales from the land of the Iroquois people of North America. The author was a friend of General Washington. Originally published 1938. Illustrated. Very scarce in the UK.
Very Good Turkish Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 92, [10] p. Malatya masallari. Fairy and folk tales of Malatya city and around (Malathia-Malateia).
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name or label inside. 324 pages. "Ethnomimesis is Robert Cantwell's word for the process by which we take cultural influences, traditions, and practices to ourselves and then manifest them to others. Ethnomimesis is an element of ordinary social communication, but springing out of it, too, is that extraordinary summoning up that produces our literature, our art, and our music."
Very Good French Paperback. Large demy 8vo. (23 x 14 cm). In French. 398, [2] p. David de Sassoun: Epopee en vers (Collection Caucase). Traduit de l'Armenien avec une introduction et des notes de Frederic Feydit. Preface de Joseph Orbeli. David of Sasun [= Sasuntsi Davit] is the main hero of Armenia's national epic Daredevils of Sassoun, who drove Arab invaders out of Armenia. As an oral history, it dates from the 8th century, and was first put in written form in 1873 by Garegin Srvandztiants.
pp. xv, 367 + Frontis and full page plates. Map end papers and text maps and drawings. Book label of Dorothy K. Bond on front paste down. 240 mm. Original full orange cloth binding decorated in gold. Edges soiled. Original dust jacket, very worn with loss. The Guild selection for February, 1931. Hardbound. Good. W11
New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 16 cm). In Turkish. 351 p. A Turkish translation of Firdevsî's 'Book of Alexander the Great'. Iskendername.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 223, [16] p. Folklore of Bursa City. Bursa folkloru.
Fine English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 100 p. Types of Indic oral tales: Supplement (FF Communications No. 100).
pp. xix, 324. Title page ruled in red and black. Uncut. Top edge gilt. Bookplate of Sylvia Hathaway on front paste down. Inked inscription of N. H., Jr. to Sylvia Hathaway, July 27, 1908 on first fly leaf. Bookseller's label, Brentano's New York, on rear paste down. 8vo. 205mm. Original full green cloth binding. Front board ruled in black and decorated with a ship under sail. Front board and spine embossed and lettered in gold. Extremities slightly rubbed. Nice copy. Hardbound. Very good+. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist who is now chiefly remembered for: his celebration of British imperialism; tales and poems of British soldiers in India; and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! KIP BX 1
Very Good German Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In German. [viii], 146, [1] p. Über das Märchendrama bei Lope de Vega (Müncher Romanistische Arbeiten Heft IX). Herausgegeben von F. Ruhut, H. Rheinfelder und V. Vossler. Some stains and foxing on pages. Otherwise a good copy. [i.e. On the fairy tale drama in Lope de Vega, (1562-1635)].
Very Good English In very aesthetic modern cloth bdg. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [xii], 534 p., 2 huge folding plts. Elazig City local fairy tales and other folk tales compiled by Günay in Propp school. Elazig masallari. (Inceleme).
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, text browning at edges, neat inscription on dedication; decorative cloth blocked in silver, backstrip lettered in silver, one corner lightly bruised else a very good, tight copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and with minor loss at lower edge of front panel. The bibliography of this school tale is confused. The author is given variously as W.E. Eastways (dustwrapper and title) and W.W. Eastways (series catalogue on dustwrapper rear panel). BLPC gives the latter and records two editions, neither of which matches the present copy. Here the pagination matches the first edition of 1949, though the imprint is Children's Press (not Collins). A scarce survival in this condition.
287 p. Hardcover Good condition; spine soiled & ends worn
