Search Results: Mythology & Folklore from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Ann Arbor: Ars Ceramica, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 400 p. w/ b&w illus, recipes, appendices. A fun and interesting work covering all apsects of the Chinese New Year.

London: Heinemann, 1918. Limited edition. Hardcover. Good. Quarto (oversized). Bound in vellum with gilt lettering & design on front board. Limited edition 81/500, signed by Rackham on limitation page. Scuffing to boards, with one scratch at front board. Corners bumped. In newer slipcase. Sixteen color plates on white paper, with captioned tissue guards. Forty-one drawings in black and white. An entertaining collection of fairy tales, wonderfully illustrated by reknowned artist Rackham in an uncommon edition. One of the more scarce Rackham books, due to smaller edition.

Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thick, small quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 703 p. w/ foot notes and endnotes, annotated list of names, index. A serious stufy lookign not onlyy at the history of the discipline of folklore studies, but also of the "role of 'the folk' in European culture from the Renaissance" to the mid 20th c.

Philadelphia: The American Folklore Society, 1975. Later printing of revised 1964 edition. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jacket issued. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. 298 p. w/ footnotes, bibliography, index of ballads and songs. Despite the title, this is a work noting home grown American ballads, not those of native peoples. About half of the work is scholarly study, the other half a syllabus listing ballds on war, cowboys and pioneers, lumberjacks, sailors and the sea, criminals and outlaws, murder, tragedies and disasters, "negros", and misc topics.

South Hadley, MA: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, 1984. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corner of boards and a bit more so to dust jacket. xi, 298 (2) p. w/ color and b&w illus., notes, selected chronological bbliography or Red Riding Hood texts, general bibliography. A study of over 30 "best" versons of this tale and a detailed examination of the social history.