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CONTENTS:- PREFACE • INTRODUCTION • THE ELEUSINIAN LEGEND • THE RITUAL OF THE MYSTERIES • PROGRAMME OF THE GREATER MYSTERIES • THE INITIATORY RITES • THEIR MYSTICAL SIGNIFICANCE • BIBLIOGRAPHY The Title 'The Eleusinian Mysteries & Rites written/authored/edited by Dudley Wright', published in the year 2017. The ISBN 9789351287704 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 112 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Mythology & Folk Tales / Fairy Tales. Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:-
CONTENTS:- PREFACE • INTRODUCTION • THE ELEUSINIAN LEGEND • THE RITUAL OF THE MYSTERIES • PROGRAMME OF THE GREATER MYSTERIES • THE INITIATORY RITES • THEIR MYSTICAL SIGNIFICANCE • BIBLIOGRAPHY The Title 'The Eleusinian Mysteries & Rites written/authored/edited by Dudley Wright', published in the year 2017. The ISBN 9789351287698 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 112 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Mythology & Folk Tales / Fairy Tales. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-
22 pages. Text in French. Gorgeous romantic color cover art. Illustrated romantic tales. Elizabeth Taylor appears in Forvil ad. Cartoon on back cover Average wear. Unmarked. A charming vintage copy. Magazine
26 pages. Text in French. Gorgeous romantic color cover art. Illustrated romantic tales. Image of Martine Carol and Jacques Dacqmine in Lux ad. Arthur and Zoe (Nancy and Sluggo) cartoon. Average wear. A charming vintage copy. Magazine
1939009767London: Hatchard & Co 1939 190 pgs. Vellum backed cloth boards blue spine label. a tiny bit of wear to edge of spine label else fine and clean housed in a later slip case which has a long abrasion to one panel. Illustrated with 2 color plates there would have been more if the book had not been rushed to publication to avoid WWII paper restrictions. Limited Edition #371/500 signed by Dulac and Crary on the limitation page. A delightful modern fairy tale. Hughey 91a. . Signed by Author & Illustrator. First Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Edmund Dulac. 4to. Hatchard & Co hardcover
1928011137<p>London: Cassell & Company 1928 251 pgs. TEG. Blue cloth with parchment spine titled and ruled in gilt some fraying and soil to cloth occasional light foxing but clean overall. 12 wonderful color illustrations by Dulac in the style he adopted later in his career. Tales by Charles Perrault Mme. D'Aulnoy Ct. Anthony Hamilton. Copy #389 / 1000 signed by Edmund Dulac. . Signed by Illustrator. Signed Limited Edition. Cloth Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Edmund Dulac. 8vo.</p> Cassell & Company hardcover
1950000576New York: Limited Editions Club 1950 41 pgs. #1283/1500. Signed By Edmund Dulac. Maroon cloth with inlaid brass cockerel lt. oxidization prev. owner's name lt. fox near gutter of front ep Maroon chemise with stamped cockerel design sp. faded. Maroon slipcase with fading at edges and wear to bottom flap. Illustrated and decorated by Dulac his first work for the Limited Edition Club. First Limited Edition. Very Good. Limited Editions Club hardcover
1913010418London: Hodder and Stoughton 1913 113 pgs. White cloth decoratively stamped in teal and gilt light wear to top of spine 3 tiny marks to lower cover else a bright beautiful copy. Tipped in color frontis & 9 other very beautiful tipped in color plates with captioned guards. Dulac most celebrated for his "Arabian Nights" illustrations continues his heavily mid-east influenced style in this fabulous volume. Hughey 31a. First Trade. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Edmund Dulac. Thick 4to. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
1923010108New York: George H Doran 1923 Circa 1923. 228 pgs. Red cloth pictorially stamped and titled in gilt rubbing to extremities gift inscription occasional soil and stains but clean overall 2 pages mended. An abridged version of the 1910 edition containing the title story Blue Beard Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. Illustrated with 16 gorgeous tipped-in color plates mounted on text stock. Hughey 23i. Later American Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Edmund Dulac. Large Thick 8vo. George H Doran hardcover
11236No place; 'Wednesday' no date. 3 pp 12mo. 41 lines. Text clear and complete. Fair on lightly-aged paper with a couple of closed tears. He is sending 'the trans. of the Baghobahan together with the Original' and trusts that Robinson will keep his promise 'and not detain it long'. Considers it fair that Robinson's friend 'should pay the carriage thereof from & to London'. 'The younger Stewart is to send me up a book of mine in about a week - the best way will be to send the Bagh along with it as it will be the same expence'. Suggest sending another book with 'the Bagh to Haileybury' rather than to Portman Square. 'I hope you have all got down safe - and that Abercrombie has not been beat again - I guess you have not yet seen Anderson at College - I saw Roberts yesterday afternoon who told me he had just been seeing Anderson at his lodgings where he left him comfortably in bed as usual Of course the man is mad . I believe he is quite well in body - tis the immortal part of him that needeth the physician'. No place; 'Wednesday' [no date]. unknown
190630890Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill 1906. 1st ed. Kerr George F. small 4to full green cloth printed in light green red and gold. Illustrated by George F. Kerr with 8 color plates and 39 lightly tinted vignettes scattered throughout over patterned backgrounds that change color and design from signature to signature in the style of early Oz books. Fraying to top and bottom of spine some splitting to back of spine and bumping to corners but stil a handsome copy. Bobbs-Merrill unknown
166p. Original bookseller's label. 8vo. Original full red cloth binding, gold lettered. Spine faded. Slightly dust spotted. First (American) edition. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878-1957) was an Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays - Wiki. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! WWI 2
1851008553New York: Elton & Co Publishers 18 Division Street 1851 Pictorial yellow paper wraps overall wear light soil and foxing uncolored. The familiar and sad verse about Jenny Wren with 8 engravings after Harrison Weir followed by 4 pages of the text of The Frog Who Would A-Wooing Go. This copy makes no mention of John McLoughlin and the publisher was located at 18 Division St in 1851 only. Scarce. Original Wraps. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Harrison Weir . 16mo. Elton & Co, Publishers, 18 Division Street paperback
1886009502New York: McLoughlin Bros 1886 Covers printed in red green & black cover illustration signed W Momberger small loss to corner of cover base of spine with later stitching occasional soil but clean overall. A rather gruesome version of the Three Little Pigs illustrated with colored engravings printed on one side of paper only. AAS dates this version from around 1886. Pictorial Wraps. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by William Momberger and Other Engravings. Large 8vo. McLoughlin Bros unknown
008245York: J Kendrew 1820. Original yellow covers are faded top corner with creases otherwise a beautiful survival. 16 woodcuts including covers illustrated the nursery rhyme. Davis 28. Osborne pg 105. Original Wraps. Very Good. Illus. by Engravings. 64mo. J Kendrew paperback
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.
19272Berlin Hans Lüstenöder 1890. . Wiedergabe e. gereimten Erzählung über den "lustigen Geistlichen" Vincenz Weigand "Der Pfaffe von Kahlenberg" die Georg Rudolf Widman Achilles Jason Widman von Hall zugeschrieben wird. Mit ausführlicher Einleitung. Berlin, Hans Lüstenöder, 1890. unknown
Paperback Like New (unread). Pages all clean with no writings and no tear.
189724<i>This book is over 122 years old. <br />"The Raven"</i> in particular—Poe investigates the loss of ideal beauty and the difficulty in regaining it. These pieces are usually narrated by a young man who laments the untimely death of his beloved. <i>"To Helen"</i> is a three stanza lyric that has been called one of the most beautiful love poems in the English language. The subject of the work is a woman who becomes in the eyes of the narrator a personification of the classical beauty of ancient Greece and Rome. <i>"Lenore"</i> presents ways in which the dead are best remembered either by mourning or celebrating life beyond earthly boundaries. In <i>"The Raven"</i> Poe successfully unites his philosophical and aesthetic ideals. In this psychological piece a young scholar is emotionally tormented by a raven's ominous repetition of "Nevermore" in answer to his question about the probability of an afterlife with his deceased lover. Charles Baudelaire noted in his introduction to the French edition of <i>"The Raven"</i>: "It is indeed the poem of the sleeplessness of despair; it lacks nothing: neither the fever of ideas nor the violence of colors nor sickly reasoning nor drivelling terror nor even the bizarre gaiety of suffering which makes it more terrible." Poe also wrote poems that were intended to be read aloud. Experimenting with combinations of sound and rhythm he employed such technical devices as repetition parallelism internal rhyme alliteration and assonance to produce works that are unique in American poetry for their haunting musical quality. In <i>"The Bells"</i> for example the repetition of the word "bells" in various structures accentuates the unique tonality of the different types of bells described in the poem.Poe's stature as a major figure in world literature is primarily based on his ingenious and profound short stories poems and critical theories which established a highly influential rationale for the short form in both poetry and fiction. Regarded in literary histories and handbooks as the architect of the modern short story Poe was also the principal forerunner of the "art for art's sake" movement in nineteenth-century European literature. Whereas earlier critics predominantly concerned themselves with moral or ideological generalities Poe focused his criticism on the specifics of style and construction that contributed to a work's effectiveness or failure. In his own work he demonstrated a brilliant command of language and technique as well as an inspired and original imagination. Poe's poetry and short stories greatly influenced the French Symbolists of the late nineteenth century who in turn altered the direction of modern literature. It is this philosophical and artistic transaction that accounts for much of Poe's importance in literary history.<br /><br />This book contains the first collection of Poems Poems and Tales. See Pictures Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
New Turkish Paperback. Foolscap 8vo. (18 x 12 cm). In Turkish. 142 p. Iran masallari. Translated by Servin Sariyer. Iranian tales.
New Turkish Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [viii], 630, [16] p., ills. and map. Tastarakay'dan Keloglan'a Türk dünyasi masal arastirmalari. Researches on folk and fairy tales of Turkic / Turkish world.
Very Good Kirghiz Original bdg. HC. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Kirghiz and Russian. [3], 256, [1] p. Orus körköm adabiyati Kirgiz tilinde. Sunus kilingan bibliyografiialik körsötküch. Bibliography of Russian literary books translated in Kirghiz language. Scarce.
New English Paperback. Demy 8vo. (22 x 14 cm). In English. [12], 136 p. A collection of Kurdish tales.
As New English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 232 p. Collected articles on Circassians political history in Caucasus between Russia and Turkey. Çerkesleri anlamak: Türkiye, Rusya ve Kafkaslar.
194533415New York: Weird Tales 1945. Pulp Magazine Near Fine. Lee Brown Coye. New York: Weird Tales: 1945. Pulp Magazine Near Fine 128 pp.<br/> Cover artwork by: Lee Brown Coye Clean straight tight complete spine no tape no tears still glossy. Remarkably well-preserved. Allison V. Harding Manly Wade Wellman Robert Bloch Edmond Hamilton Carl Jacobi Reeder Gould Ray Bradbury and Irwin J. Weill. Cover art by Lee Brown Coye. Weird Tales unknown