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Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 130, 10 p., 1 folding map, 8 b/w plates. 'Cut-head' motif in the Turkish - Islamic legends and folkloric materials. First Edition. Türk folklorunda kesik bas (Tarih - folklor iliskisinden bir kesit).
Fine Turkish Original bdg. HC. 4to. (28 x 20 cm). In Turkish. 306 p., [248] p. facsimile edition of original Ottoman text. Türk Islam tarihinde ve geleneginde Seyyid Battal Gazi ve Battalname. Signed and inscribed by Say.
Fine Turkish Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. [x], 181 p. Türk masallari.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. 2 volumes set: [xvi], 285, 336 p. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). First edition of Naki Tezel's important compilation of Turkish fables and tales. Türk masallari. 2 volumes set.
New Turkish Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 1 cm). In Turkish. 304 p., ills. Türklerin seytani masallari: Türk masal ve efsanelerinde demonik varliklar. Demonic creatures in the Turkish / Turkic legends and fairy tales.
pp. 224, 156 (Including WEE WILLIE WINKIE and other stories) + Portrait Frontis and Full page plates. Title page decorated with a purple border. Title page loose. Top edge gilt. Bookplate of Augustus Clemens Ehrenfeld on front paste down. 12mo. 190mm. Original full purple publisher's cloth binding. Spine lettered and decorated in gold. Head and tail of spine slightly worn. Library of Famous Books by Famous Author's series. 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 2
New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English and Turkish. 942 p., ills. Understanding the 21st Century with Nasreddin Hoca. International Symposium Aksehir, 8-9 May 2008, Papers.= 21. Yüzyili Nasreddin Hoca ile anlamak. Uluslararasi Sempozyum Aksehir, 8-9 Mayis 2008 . Bildiriler.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 224 pages. Pictorial cover. 7 1/8"w x 9 3/8"h. Book 3 in the Book House series. Profusely illustrated.
Fair (paper covered boards with black/blue/pink illustration of Chinese boys in boat, spine covering is missing, corners of front board bumped,shadow browning free endpapers and faint spotting fixed endpapers, no inscriptions and pages clean) octavo 102pp. First edition. Faraway Tales No.1. With clean bright 3-colour frontispiece and 10pp b/w illustrations.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Price sticker residue on cover. Beautiful illustrations in color. Text in Dutch. 319 pages.
160 pages including bibliography. Presents a multitude of current restaurant menus and intriguing tales from Victoria's past, along with fascinating heritage photographs, many of which date back to the early 1900s. "Did you know that a prominent Victoria hotel was once host to an indoor, nine hold golf tournament? Did you know that a Victoria heritage building, now home to a French restaurant, gained notoriety when its Chinese cook jealously beheaded a prostitute with the kitchen fish slicer?" - from back cover. Unmarked with minimal wear to glossy decorated covers. Contents clean and crisp. An unusual and interesting volume in giftable condition. Book
A clean, unmarked copy. Dual-language with Vietnamese and English on facing pages. 474 pages. Some color plates. Slight waviness to pages due to paper quality.
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).
Hardcover Good condition
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 8 3/4"w x 11 1/4"h. 304 pages. Gilt page ends. Ribbon bookmark. "Walt Kelly, Disney animator on Dumbo, Fantasia, Snow White, and Pinocchio and the creator of the Pogo comic strip, created beautiful, action-packed fairy tale comic book stories from his own incredible imagination and ones based on The Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson classics. Comic fans of all ages will thrill to stories of witches, princesses, giants, dragons, fairy queens, elves, and goblins. Enjoy fairy tale classics like "The Emperor?s New Clothes," "The Gingerbread Man," "The Wise Men of Gotham," "The Lost Prince," and "Cinderella" (published eight years before the Disney Classic) in this gorgeous collection." [publisher]
215p. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. DJ. First Edition Very Good. REF 8
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.
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).
Folio 46p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Tears on worn dust jacket. 146 pages. Illustrations in black and white and color by Evelyn Copelman. Old-fashioned morality tales for children.
122 pages. "This edition is twice as long as before; the stories previously published in Maori Tales of Long Ago have been incorporated, together with all the illustrations from the two earlier books." - from dust jacket. Black and white line illustrations throughout. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. One inch square patch of minor discolouration upon back panel of dust jacket where price sticker removed. Dust jacket now in archival-grade Brodart protector. Lovely copy. Book
As New English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. Large 8vo. (22 x 22 cm). In English and Turkish. Color ills. 132 p. World of cartoonists Nasreddin Hodja.= Dünya çizerlerinden Nasreddin Hoca.
New English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). In Kurdish. 52 p., color ills. Xoxek hezar xox. Translated by Nezîr Ocek.
New English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. Demy 8vo. (22 x 15 cm). In Turkish. 148 p. Kurds in Turkish author Yashar Kemal's books. "Diyarbakir surlarinin dibine geldim. Topragina diz çöktüm, eski taslarin, eski otlarin, eski kapilarin, eski demirlerin, çok eski bakirlarin yesiline diz çöktüm. Eski sularin aydinligina, isigina, yalimina diz çöktüm. Üç kere bagirdim Diyarbakir surlarindan içeri. Üç kere yerle bir ettim Diyarbakir surlarini, üç kere yiktim Diyarbakir mahpushanesini." -Yasar Kemal, Demirciler Çarsisi Cinayeti-. Rohat Alakom bu çalismasinda Yasar Kemal'in yapitlarinda Kürtlerin izini sürüyor. Can derdine düsmüs yoksul Kürtlerin yüzyillik çirpinisi, çigliklari, insanlarin ölüleri için yaktigi agitlar, gördügü aci ve izdirap, jandarma despotizminin yarattigi tedirginlik ve her seyden önce insanlarda yan yana yasayan hüzün ve umudun yarattigi sarsici etkinin gücünü bütün çiplakligiyla Yasar Kemal'in eserlerinde görülebilir.
As New English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In Turkish. Ills. 144 p. An illustrated anthology on world folkloric tales, legends, fables etc. Yeryüzünden binbir efsane. Bakir daglar, kör kuyular, büyülü kuslar.
