Legends
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The Life and Death of Jason
by Morris, William
Morris' epic poem on Jason and the Argonauts. Green cloth cover with blind Embossed Vignette of a Ship on front. Similar design in Gilt on spine. Gift inscription on ffep and name faintly written at top of title page. No other inscriptions.
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£25.00
The Adventures of Grey-Dawn
by The Ghostwriter
Prince George: Caitlin Press., 2001 First printing in trade paperback. Minor curl to covers othewise Fine.
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£12.21
The Myths and of Greece and Rome: Their Stories Signification and Origin
by Guerber, H A
London, UK: George G Harrap, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Reprint (of 1907 first edition). 394pp, with colour plate frontispiece and 41 further monochrome plate illustrations. In green cloth boards , with gilt titles and decorations front and spine. Deckled edges. 8vo. Cloth a little rubbed and rounded on corners and spine ends, very gently sunned on spine. Previous owner's name inked on front free endpaper. Hint of creaminess to first and last...
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£20.00
Guardian of the Grail: A New Light on the Arthurian Legend
by Whitehead, John
London: Jarrolds Publishers (London) Ltd., 1959 First edition in hardcover with dust jacket. 352 pp. Illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index of dates, general index. Jackewt has one tiny nick, hint of sunning to spine. Fine/Very Good.
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£12.21
Beasts of Fact & Fable
by Marchant, R A
London, UK: Phoenix House, 1962. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Pratt, David. 152pp. With 14 full-page drawings. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends and corners. Cocked. Text block edges just starting to fox. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine sun-faded, has shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price clipped. 12mo. Facts and fancies behind the world's oddest...
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£13.00
The Owl Sacred Pack of the Fox Indians (Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 72)
by Michelson, Truman
Washington: Government Printing Office. 1921. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Stamp of previous owner (Royal Society of South Australia) to front pastedown and title page. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 83 pages + plates. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£13.18
All About King Arthur
by Ashe, Geoffrey
W H Allen, 1969. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 168pp. Lightly illustrated. In blue cloth-covered boards (lightly worn at edges). Well-read with signs of fingering and wear, and a little tone, but sound and strong, front free endpaper absent. In its original dust jacket (very gently rubbed at edges, some shelf wear showing on rear), now protected in mylar wrapper. A presentation of the history and legends of King Arthur for younger readers, with maps,...
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£10.00
The Legend of The Anchorite
by Anonymous; Seyzinger, E Edmund (introduction)
Cambridge, UK: W Heffer and Sons, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Undated, dated from introduction. [ii], 34pp. Quarter bound in linen over marbled paper boards, paper title label (boards a little rubbed and chipped at edges, rounded at spine tips and corners, minor paper scar on top edge near spine). Some faint, occasional spotting on first and last few pages, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. An attractive, slim volume. 12mo.
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£25.00
Marblehead's Pygmalion: Finding the Real Agnes Surriage (Signed)
by Bauer, F Marshall
Charleston, SC, USA: The History Press, 2010. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 144pp, with numerous black and white illustrations. In laminated, illustrated card covers. Signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. Very slightly bumped on edges, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. A deconstruction of the legend of Agnes Surriage - the real life New England Pygmalion who found her own Henry Higgins. She modelled herself on the codfish widows, the wives...
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£13.00
The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Myth and marvels
by (BARHAM, Richard). Ingoldsby, Thomas
London: Bentley, 1855. hardcover. near fine. Series I, II & III. Illustrations by George Cruikshank, John Leech, and Dalton. 3 volume, 8vo, full polished calf, gilt backs with green leather labels, gilt tops; original covers bound in. London: Bentley, 1855. Near fine.<br/><br/> Eleventh Edition. Humorous parodies of medieval folklore and poetry.<br/><br/>
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£1,224.60
Die grüne Schule im Märchenwald beim Alten Haus :
by Matthiessen, Wilhelm:
Freiburg im Breisgau, Herder, 1931. Good. 8°, Leinen. Altersgemäß angedunkelt/altersspurig, Deckel lagerspurig, Schmutztitel mit Eintrag, Inhaltsverzeichnis mit Markierungen, sonst sehr gut erhalten
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£36.58
XII Canadian Croatian Folklore Festival. Mississauga 1986
by Jurinic, Nick, Editor
The Croatian Folklore Federation of Canada., 1986 First printing in paper covers with French flaps. 160 pp. Photographs, maps, advertisements. Rubbing to covers and spine edges, contents fine. Very Good.
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£40.78
Ancient Customs within the Towns of Knaresborough and Scriven
Knaresborough, Yorkshire: Printed by Willaim Parr, 1844. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 16pp booklet in printed card covers, stitched. Card covers a little faded and soiled, slightly rubbed along spine. Internally a few signs of fingering and the last page has a small chip on lower corner, but basically clean and tidy. Firmly bound. An account of the customs - fishing, fowling, markets, courts etc - and their origins of Knaresborough and Scriven and...
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£50.00
The Trail of Tamowenuk. Essay in Alberta Folklore Quarterly. Vol. 1 No. 3. December 1945.
by Godsell, Philip H
Edmonton: University of Alberta Press., 1945 First printing in stapled card covers. 29 pp. Very light shelfwear. Very Good.
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£16.29
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen : The Enchanting Stories of the World's Best-loved Storyteller
by Andersen, Hans Christian
Reader's Digest, 2005. Hardcover. As New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Laminated pictorial paper-covered boards. No dust jacket. A large and heavy volume which will require an additional charge for overseas delivery. 4to. Features a host of the author's everlasting stories - The Princess and the Pea; Thumbelina; The Ugly Duckling; The Emperor's New Clothes; The Little Match Girl, etc.
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£14.00
The Book of Reykjaholar
by Kalinke, Marianne E
Toronto: University of Toronto Press., 1996 First printing in trade paperback. 322 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Very minor shelfwear otherwise Fine.
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£12.21
Fifteen Norse Tales (Teaching of English series)
by Dasent, Sir George; Reynolds E E (selected by)
Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1935. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Pailthorpe, Doris. 1935 reprint of 1931 first issue in series. viii, 180pp. Decorated endpapers, full page line drawing illustrations. Red cloth-covered boards with blind ruled border and gilt lettering to spine (boards a little worn and marked, gently rounded on corners and slightly sunned on spine). Internally generally neat, clean, bright and tight, with just a few signs of fingering and...
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£10.00
Viking Myths and Legends
by Sullivan, K E
London (20 Bloomsbury Street): Brockhampton Press, 1998. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 128pp, with stunning full page colour plate illustrations from artists including Arthur Rackham, J Doyle Penrose, Sir Frank Dicksee, Willy Pogany, Richard Jack and many others. In pictorial boards (mild indentations on upper edge). Internally neat. clean, bright and tight. In its original pictorial dust jacket (very slightly bumped along upper edge)....
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£15.00
Gammer Grethel's Fairy Tales
by Grethel, Gammer
London, UK: Alexander Moring, 1902. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Cruikshank and Others. 360pp, black and white frontispiece tissue-guarded). Illustrated with numerous steel engravings. Blue cloth-covered boards; three colour illustration and titles on front, three colour illustration and gilt titles on spine. Wear to covers. Bumped spine ends and corners, cloth wearing through. Top text block edge gilt, other edges untrimmed and foxing. Binding loose. Missing front...
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£30.00
Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance and Folklore, Nos. 1 & 3: Celtic and Medieval Romance; Ossian and the Ossiane Literature (2 vols)
by Nutt, Alfred
London, UK: David Nutt, 1899. Soft cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Two booklets, in plain paper wrappers. 36pp; 60pp. 16mo. Wrappers are faded and marked, rubbed at edges and spine ends. Ossian Literature is a little chipped on back cover, with one signature a little loose. Both volumes have two bookplates inside the front cover indicating they were presented to Harlech College by J H Jones; and a small college stamp on the first and last pages . A little page aging in...
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£16.00
Celtic Myths & Legends
by Duane, O B
London, UK: Brockhampton Press, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 128pp, richly illustrated with full page, full colour images. In pictorial card covers (strong, square, clean and unblemished). Internally bright, neat and clean. With its original illustrated dust jacket (very mild shelf wear). 4to. A lovely copy of this collection of the myths and fables, vividly retold, of the Celtic peoples.
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£20.00
Pendragon: King Arthur and His Britain
by Clancy, Joseph P
Macmillan, 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 136pp. Lightly illustrated. 8vo. In brown cloth-covered boards (clean and sharp, just a little rounding on corners). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Image on front free endpaper. Bookplate on front paste down. In its original dust jacket (edge worn, a little shelf wear). Clancy pieces together the fragments of historical evidence, constructing a framework around them, filling the...
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£11.00
The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England's Legends, from Spring-heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys
by Westwood, Jennifer Beatrice; Simpson, Jacqueline
London, UK: Penguin Books, 2005. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 918pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Red endpapers. 4to. A large and very heavy volume requiring an additional charge for overseas delivery. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine sun-faded, has very light shelf wear, not price clipped.
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£25.00
