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New York: Macmillan Company, 1927. First American edition. . Hardcover. See Description. First U.S. edition of this compilation of Frazer’s studies. 8vo. pp. xvi, 437, [1], 2 pages adverts. Bound in blue publisher’s cloth. No dust jacket. Binding is generally clean with minor rubbing to the extremities and slight fading to the spine. Interior pages are clean. Remnants of the dust jacket (the front wrap) are loosely inserted inside the rear cover. Frazer’s preface states: "In this volume are collected some of the more general conclusions to which my studies of early society and religion led me in the past years… The volume has been compiled under my direction by my friend Pierre Sayn…" The work is divided into four parts – "the study of man", "man in society", "man and the supernatural", "man and immortality." Originally published as The revised edition was published simultaneously in London, 1927.

London: Watts & Co., 1947. Hardcover. See Description. Second impression. 8vo. pp. x, 202. With 24 photo plates. Bound in red publisher’s cloth. Binding is clean and tight. Interior pages are clean. The dust jacket contains wear and chipping to the extremities; a large 35 x 41 mm piece is chipped away fr0m the upper inner corner of the front wrapper, almost completely obscuring the word "myth." The top 23 mm of the jacket spine is also chipped, obscuring the lettering. The author tries to reveal the myths and religious backgrounds to folk-dances, nursery-rhymes, and children’s games. Included are chapters on "the religious origin of primitive games", "dancing and primitive religion", "vestiges of ritual in folk-dancing", "traces of myth and ritual in popular rhyme," etc. Lewis Spence was a British occultist and popular folklore writer.

Freiburg im Breisgau: Adolph Emmerling. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. 4 individual volumes (1839, 1840, 1841, and 1844) of this annual periodical handbook of southern German history and folklore which was published between (1839 and 1846). The 1839 volume is re-backed preserving the original publisher's blue paper boards with a decorative title printed on the front cover. The volumes for 1840 and 1844 are bound in early blue paper boards; the 1840 volume is re-backed and the 1844 volume is carefully strengthened along the hinges. The volume for 1841 is bound in brown cloth. Both the 1841 and 1844 volumes contain the remnants of original paper spine labels and also paper institutional shelf tickets. The boards and extremities to all volumes show some rubbing, wear and spotting. Personal bookplates present on inside front covers; institutional blind stamp on title pages and two other leaves in each book; a shelf number is handwritten on the bottom margin of the second leaf (in… Read More