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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.
3 vols., 8vo., with coloured frontispiece and 28 monochrome illustrations in each volume; pictorial green cloth, upper boards and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and black, green endpapers, a fine set in publisher's illustrated board slip-case.
The Title 'Dracula written/authored/edited by Bram Stoker', published in the year 2018. The ISBN 9788121214643 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 430 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Literature & Fiction / Mythology & Folk Tales. Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:-
The Title 'Dracula written/authored/edited by Bram Stoker', published in the year 2018. The ISBN 9788121214636 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 430 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Literature & Fiction / Mythology & Folk Tales. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-
Signed and generically inscribed by author upon title page. "A series of broadcast talks designed to make us familiar with our city and province and to revive memories of days and events which have made Nova Scotia Canada's most storied province." - subtitle. viii, 234 pages. Several black and white illustrations in text. Average wear to unmarked book. Binding sound. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Amtmann 1805. Morley pp. 102. Book
38pp. 21 cm. Hardcover Very good condition
Two Volumes. pp. Frontis, Engraved Title, XVI (lacks 2 leaves in this section - apparently blanks), 611, [1]; Engraved Title, 493, [3] + Engraved frontis portrait of Boccaccio. Both title pages are fully engraved, each with a vignette showing Cupid sharing tales with Boccaccio as women wait on the veranda of a house in the background. Italian text. 8vo. 205 mm. Wide margined; uncut; deckle edges. Some slight age stain. Old tape repair at frontis hinge. No front free fly-leaf. Early vellum backed marbled boards binding. An attractive (if mis-leading) edition. The Decameron is a collection of novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375). It is a 14th-century medieval allegory told as a frame story encompassing 100 tales by ten young people. Boccaccio probably began composing the work in 1350, and finished it in 1351 or 1353. The bawdy tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic. Tales of wit, practical jokes, and life lessons contribute to the mosaic. In addition to its literary import, it documents life in 14th-century Italy - From Wiki. A false imprint - Because of its sometimes erotic nature, printers and publishers were often loathe to claim the Decameron as their own. Therefore 'Amsterdamo' appears in the imprint of this edition. It was not printed in Amsterdam, but almost certainly in Venice, by Antonio Locatelli. There are several similar, but different editions. They are identified by examination of the occasional ornaments and a notice at the very end of volume two, which in our example reads: "Si Vende Lire Venti Venete." (Sell this for 20 pounds). No priority noted for the variants. W118
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
pp. xxxvi, (3), 40-251, (1) [Publisher's catalogue]. Early manuscript ownership of A. McIlhenny, U.S. Army, on title page. XLib bookplate of the Union Philosophical Society of Dickinson College given to the library by L. McIlhenny. Text browned but not brittle. 12mo. 170 mm. Original full leather binding, worn. Original leather spine label. Front board detached. 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. AI BX 2
Folio 46p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [vi], 222 p. A research on collected folk tales in Erzurum City. Erzurum efsaneleri: Erzurum'da belli yerlere bagli olarak derlenmis efsaneler üzerinde bir inceleme.
288 pages. After flipping from the Stanley Cup Playoffs to Martha Steward, author resolved to follow Canada's best export to the rest of the world, to find out whether the true game still existed elsewhere. Weaves hilarious stories of encounters with odd-sized rinks and players of wildly different talents and experiences with tales of his travels and bang-on observations about the game and players in North America. As he discovers, the tropic of hockey connects players and fans around the world. A wonderful gift for your special hockey fanatic. Book
438pp. 22 cm. Paperback Very good condition
254 pages including glossary. Based upon interviews with Arne Johnson, Hjalmar Bergren, John McCuish, George Grafton, Edna Brown, and others who helped organize a woodworker's union in British Columbia. This work was begun in 1957 with the intent of recording a history of the woodworker's union in the Lake Cowichan area, of which so many oft-repeated tales have been heard. Intended to embrace only the camps and mills in the area, it grew to be a larger story, until the author was faced with a mountain of data on paper ad tape, and the necessity to draw a line. For this reason, the story is based on the Cowichan region, appropriately enough, since it was one of the vital areas in the establishment of the woodworker's union. Small address label inside front cover else unmarked. A little above average wear. Binding aging but remains intact. Remains a decent copy. Book
Two Volumes. 8vo. 215mm. Original full blue cloth bindings. Head and tails of spines rubbed. Small nick on bottom of spine on Volume Two. Hardbound. Very good. Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943) was an American author, poet, short story writer, and novelist. Benet is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War - "John Brown's Body" (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929; and for two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By the Waters of Babylon". POETRY BX 3
93pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
4to., First Edition, with numerous delightful illustrations in the text, half-title lightly browned; original pictorial boards, ivory buckram back, very neatly recased with endpapers to style, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy.
4to., First Edition, with illustrated title and very numerous illustrations in the text, free endpapers mildly browned; original pictorial boards printed in red and black, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, fresh, clean copy. Cahill 24 , variant A (with Bedford St address and picture in black).
4to., Second Impression, with illustrated title and very numerous illustrations in the text, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original pictorial boards printed in red, brown and black, cloth back lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. The second of Belloc's collaborations with Nicholas Bentley, whose wonderful illustrations are the prefect complement to the master's humorous verse. Published a month after the first edition. Cahill, 115B (recording the first impression).
viii, 168 p. 20 cm. Hardcover Good condition
Good English Paperback. Pbo. 120 p. First Edition. Famous lexical study on mythology. Küçük mitologya sözlügü.
Hardcover and dustjacket, both a very nice clean copy. A Picture of the Painting Bailed Up by Tom Roberts, depicting an incident in the days of bushrangers, Illustrates the front cover. Pages 310. Size 8vo. The book contains pen drawings by Cedric EMANUEL. [P-15] Pictorial illustrated inside front and back covers with Australian Pictorial Symbols.
Very Good German Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In German. 349 p. Volksmärchen aus Südost-China (Sammlung Mr. Ts'ao Sung-Yeh). [i.e. Folk tales from Southeast China (Mr. Ts'ao Sung-Yeh Collection)]. Eberhard was a famous sinologist and professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley focused on Western, Central and Eastern Asian societies. This is his very comprehensive Chinese fairy tales collection and compilation in 1941 printed by Folklore Fellows Communications in Finland, Helsinki (Edited by Walter Anderson, Friz Boehm, Uno Harva, Knut Liestol, C. W. von Sydow, and Archer Taylor).
8vo. 403p. + Drawings by Michael Ayrton. DJ. The unexpurgated text. W120
BASILE Giovan Battista. Il Pentamerone overo Lo Cunto de li Cunte trattenimento de li Peccerille. In Napoli, ad istanza di Antonio Bulifon libraro all'Insegna della Sirena, 1674. In 16mo; pp.12n.nn., 633, 3n.nn. Pergamena coeva, titolo calligrafato al dorso. Ex libris. Rara e celebre raccolta di fiabe in dialetto napoletano, la più antica opera di racconti fiabeschi e tradizioni popolari della storia europea. In questa edizione compare per la prima volta il titolo "Pentamerone". Lo Cunto de li Cunte ebbe grande influenza in tutta Europa su scrittori come C. Brentano, i fratelli Grimm, Perrault, Carlo Gozzi, Wieland. Dall'introduzione di Benedetto Croce all'edizione del 1891: "Il Cunto de li Cunti è un libro di fiabe. E le fiabe, non occorre quasi il dirlo, sono racconti popolari tradizionali di avventure, alle quali pigliano parte esseri umani, ed esseri sovraumani od estraumani della mitologia popolare, come fate, orchi, animali parlanti, ecc. Questo complesso di racconti tradizionali, la cui origine è incerta e discussa e risale senza dubbio a una remota antichità, viene ora considerato dalla moderna filologia come un gruppo di documenti importanti per la storia del genere umano e per la psicologia popolare. Ma, per molti secoli, essi non furono se non un oggetto di diletto e di trattenimento pel popolo ingenuo e pei fanciulli, che avidamente li ascoltavano: lo scienziato disdegnava d'appressarvisi, e solo, di rado, vi si appressò l'artista. E uno dei primi artisti, anzi il primo, che vi si appressasse, fu appunto il nostro Giambattista Basile... Nel 1674 l'editore Antonio Bulifon, un francese stabilito a Napoli, «vedendo, com’egli stesso dice, che veniva sommamente desiderato questo, altrettanto arguto quanto giocoso, Pentamerone del vivace e bizzarro ingegno del Cavalier Giovan Battista Basile», fece sì che, «ridotto alla vera lettione, per mezzo delle stampe ei rinascesse». Chi lo ridusse alla «vera lettione» fu un abate pugliese, Pompeo Sarnelli, poi vescovo di Bisceglie, appassionato cultore del dialetto napoletano, che allora serviva, a quanto sembra, da correttore nella stamperia del Bulifon. Il Cunto de li Cunti fu, in quest'edizione, intitolato, per la prima volta, sul frontespizio: Il Pentamerone: titolo più breve, che ricorda illustri precedenti, e che perciò prevalse. Ed, anche sul frontespizio, è detto «co tutte le zeremonie corrietto»; e, certo, il Sarnelli vi spese intorno molte cure". Le cinquanta fiabe delle cinque giornate sono tutte collegate tra loro, e racchiuse in una cornice generale, che ravvicina questo libro di fiabe ai più classici libri italiani di novelle, ai Decameron, alle Cene, ai Diporti, alle Piacevoli Notti, ecc. Pironti, Editori francesi in Napoli, pag.87.