Search Results: Folklore & Mythology from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

Black Mountain, NC: Lorien House, (1986). Illustrated by maps and line drawings. Stated first edition. Yellow wraps. 8vo. pp. iv, 100. Near Fine. Old cover crease on rear only flaw, unread copy..

New York: (G.P. Putnam's) Whitebird Book (Tomie DePaola, Creative Director), 1992. Illustrated by author. First edition. Blue gloss pictorial blue boards with faux purple quarter binding, orange pictorial eps. (Library). 4to. pp. unpaginated. Near Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Brother of anthropologist Dr. Clement W. Meighan who went with his brother on digs. Story is inspired by an ancient Peruvian tapestry showing a mysterious winged figure holding a torch..

Santa Barbara: Ross-Erikson, 1976. First (SD) thus edition. c.1913 as "The Divine Mystery:...Christianity..." . Brown washable cloth (faux leather). Large Post 8vo (22cm). pp. xxxv, [3], 384, [8] blank. Very Good +/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Short rubs to cap folds and corners in bright jacket with corresponding shallow edgewear, light soil, some offset. There is one long shallow chip and one closed tear at top edge (pictured). Anthropological study of Christian mythology from poet, lawyer, teacher, politician, novelist raised Plymouth Brethren. ISBN: 091520028..

Gainesville, FL: Southeastern Folklore Society, 1949. First edition. Vol.XIII, No.3 Southern Folklore Quarterly, September. Printed covers, yapp edges. 8vo. pp. 161-226. VG. Ink owner, some crushing to edges, red pencil mark in margin of introduction. Scarce folklore library classification for books, articles, cards, papers, film, slides, sound recordings, museum pieces and other folklore materials according to group, category, type, form, division and subdivisions A-Z groups with keyword index..

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1979. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. Second thus edition. c.1934, 1978. Brown paper boards decorated gilt. 16mo. pp. [60]. As New/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Twergler Notlysocks, Vitus McSaint, Thug O'Bristle, Lady Chicken Peck, Toodley Gronickpet, Jack Migger, etc. ISBN 009131920X..

Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1946. Illustrated by (comic) frontis of "The Specter Whalemen". First edition. Clay cloth, gilt print spine. 8vo. pp. viii, [2], 274. Index. VG/Fair/Unclipped price in mylar. Salmon paper jacket is chipped at folds and edges (one larger rear chip, no text loss) with darkened spine and overall soil. New England Story Telling, Tall Tales, Supernatural stories, Yankee Yarns, Local legends, Literary Folktales from early almanachs, periodicals and town histories..

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1897. Illustrated by Chapter line illuminations. First (SD) edition. 2 volumes. Brown paper covered boards, quarter vellum, uncut, t.e.g. 12mo. pp. lx, [2], 229, [1], [1] colophon, [3] blank; [viii], 267, [1], [1] colophon, [3] blank. Notes. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Light edge wear, tiny head chips Vol II and hinges starting. Copy of (Julia) Vida Dutton Scudder (1861-1954) with her signature in one volume and "Man Has Forever" bookplates both volumes..

Boston: Barefoot Books, Horticultural Hall, 1994. Illustrated by Bronwyn Bancroft in color. First edition. (First juvenile title for anthropologist). White boards. Small 4to. pp. 31, [1]. As New/As New/Unclipped price in mylar. Illustrated story of the Creation of Aboriginal tribes in Australia, artist is descendant of the Bundjalung tribe of northern New South Wales..

New York: University Books, (1964). Illustrated by b/w plates. First thus (NAP) edition. c.1910. Turquoise and yellow dec. cloth, Green topstain. 8vo. pp. 620. Indices. VG/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Light edgewear, Ex-Libris plate in jacket with several short rear chips. Foreword by Al. N. Oikonomides. (Postage as 2 books)..

Rzym [Rome]: Polska Y.M.C.A, 1946. First thus edition. Blue stiff wraps. 17cm. pp. 264, [2] Spiz Rzeczy. Near Fine. prawie nowy stan..

Stockbridge MA: Berkshire Traveller Press, 1969. Illustrated by Alan R. Will woodcuts. First thus edition. Stapled-wraps. Small 4to. pp. 31. VG. The Murdered Traveller, Storm Breeder, Spooky Old New England, No Pocahontas, Incomparable Myrmidon, Strange Letter of Philip Ashton..

N.P: Self Published, n.d. Illustrated by b/w photos, vignettes by Moira Wallace & E. Dickinson. Reprint edition. (c.1921). Stapled-wraps, Brown cover printed red, b/w paste-on. 8vo. pp. 39, [1]. VG. Owner stamp, red tape on binding..

New York: Random House, 1931. Illustrated by author. First edition. Seafoam boards with color pictorial whale weather vane paste-on. 8vo. pp. unpaginated. Very Good. Foxed eps.with soil and wear to boards with spine chipping. After having heard and researched the tale from Bob Nesmith, a wonderful illustrated nautical tale..

Stuttgart: J. Scheible, 1839. Illustrated by Title vignette and 30 plates (with 52 drawings, 2/plate, except 2 full-page). Leiblingsbucher in alten und neueren Geschichten, Sagen und Schwanken, Vol. 1. Stitched wraps, printed paper wrapper, uncut. 8vo (cm). pp. xxxvi, 37-195. Very Good. Ink owner on cover and title page, edges curled, cinder stain to rear cover. Several plate papers used with the thinner toned, some toning to text blocks. Till Eulenspiegel aka "Owlglass" was a practical joker or trickster in German folklore, born about 1300 and model for the jester or fool of court life..