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Very Good English Original bdg. HC. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In English. [20] p. Color ills. Hans Andersen fairy tales: Thumbelina & the nightingale. Ills. by John Patience.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). In Turkish. 79 p. B/w ills. Çiplak kral. [= The emperor's new clothes]. Ills. by Kenan Tunca; Edited by Öykü Zerrem.
8vo., Second Edition, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; red pebble-grain cloth, upper board ruled in blind and blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, hinges starting (but binding wholly sound), a very good, bright, clean copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue at end. Collects five of Hardy's finest short stories: An Imaginative Woman, The Three Strangers, The Withered Arm, Fellow-Townsmen, Interlopers at the Knap, and The Distracted Preacher. The work was never reprinted in its original two-volume form (1888). ‘Macmillan reissued the collection in one volume in an edition of 1,500 copies in late February 1889.’ See Purdy, p.60.
55 pages. Sees the Arctic world as one, united by the extremeties of climate, where people are able to create for themselves the warmest Christmases of all. Usual library markings. Moderate wear. Solid clean copy. Book
82-minute colour VHS Hi-Fi tape. "...quite simply the finest program on Asian art that I have ever seen." - M.K. Hearn, Curator, The Metropolitain Museum of Art. Filmed on location, four beloved stories of India, Indonesia, Korea and Japan are told through the masterpieces of misual art and the stirring performances these tales have inspired for centuries." - from cover. Stories include: The Ramayana; Korean Masked Dance Drama; Gita Govinda; The Tale of the Genji. Unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Binding is loose but still hanging together. Looks like it was dropped off a table or two; nice black leather(ette?), too. Otherwise very clean with a few marks to the text in pencil. 422 pages.
In 8o, pp. (XXVIII,188), br. con sovraccoperta, Introduz. e note di Alfredo Orbetello,testo in lingua inglese, con ritratto dell'autore in antiporta, minimi strappi alla sovracc., ottimo (7266/ HAWTHORNE - THE SNOW-IMAGE AND OTHER TWICE-TOLD TALES - LETTERATURA AMERICANA OTTOCENTO)
79 pages. Circa 1920s? Prize inscription upon front free endpaper else unmarked. Yellowing to contents. Somewhat above-average wear. Illlustrated brown boards. Binding intact. Book
in-16, 253 pp, broché. Bel exemplaire. [LP-2]
566 p. Includes 3 complete books Kwaidan, Some Chinese Ghosts, & Chita plus other stories and essays. Hardcover Very good condition chipped d.j. fair
Fine English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 100 p. Types of Indic oral tales: Supplement (FF Communications No. 100).
Fine English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 156 p. Whom does God favor: The wicked or the righteous? The reward-and-punishment fairy tale (FF Communications 240).
New English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. B/w ills. 355, [6] p. Turkish Edition of Zimmer's 'The king and the corpse: Tales of soul's conquest of evil'. Kral ve hortlak. Ruhun kötülügü yenmesine dair hikâyeler. Translator: Ilker M. Iyidogan. Edited by Joseph Campbell.
Book is nearly new, in excellent condition with very light shelf wear only. Binding is solid, creaseless covers and spine. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 249 pages.
Very Good German Original cloth bdg. Spine slightly chipped. Otherwise a good copy. Foolscap 8vo. (17 x 11 cm). In German and Ottoman script (Turkish with Arabic letters). [4], [xiii], 20, [26], [11] p. Ahmeds Glück (Ein Marchen).= Ahmed'in saâdeti. Bearbeit von Sebastian Beck. (Der Islamische Orient: Erste Abteilung: Türkische Schriften. C. Die Türkische Literature. A) Volksliteratur. Band I). An early Turkish / Islamic fairy tale. It includes a dictionary, original text in Ottoman script with a transcription in Latin letters, and German translation.
114 pages. "First published in 1915, Knulp was Hesse's most popular book in the years before Demian. This is the first edition in English." Knulp is an amiable vagabond who wanders from town to town, staying with friends who feed and shelter him. Refusing to be tied down, he even deserts the companion who might be considered Hermann Hesse himself the summer they go tramping together." - from back cover. Discard inkstamp upon top edge of text else unmarked. Not an ex-library copy. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Inscribed by author on the title page.
234 pages. For many millenia before their first known contact with the white man in 1905, the Nez Perce or Sahaptin peoples roamed over an extensive region of the inland Pacific Northwest. Their approximate territory included a vast portion of Northern Idaho, and portions of Eastern Oregon and Washington. Represents an overview of some of the essential dimensions of their tribal culture and history. Black and white illustrations. Extensively referenced. Clean and unmarked. Light wear. Bright gilt lettering and decoration upon dark maroon boards and spine. Very nice copy. Book
Two volumes in one. Ca. 200 p. Sanskrit text, with German pencil annotations. 8vo. Contemporary cloth backed marbled boards. Edited by Narayana Balakrishna Godabole and Kasinath Pandurang Parab. Collected around the 13th and 14th Century A.D., these stories and fables in the Sanskrit language feature both animal and human characters. They incorporate maxims, worldly wisdom and advice on worldly and political affairs in simple, elegant language. The work has been widely translated. Little is known about its origin, and dating of the work has been problematic. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! INDIA BOX
Minor shelfwear. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. ; Studies in Classical Antiquity - Band 1; 310 pages
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and numerous wood-engraved illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss at tail of backstrip.
55 pages. Clean, bright and unmarked in attractively illustrated glossy boards. Minimal wear. Excellent copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full brown cloth boards a bit faded at edges. Small tears on edge worn dust jacket. Signed by illustrator Stephen Walker.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows light wear only, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Books 1 - 24, 327 pages, text is in English.
Reprint. 12mo, 310 pages, not illustrated. Very good condition mass market paperback. (Wordsworth Classics). 39849. eng