Myths, Legends & Folklore
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Stories from the Pentamerone
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First Thus.
26cm x 19cm. xii, 304 pages, 32 colour plates. Original maroon cloth, gilt and black lettering, glit decoration.
32 stories from Giambattista Basile’s 17th century collection of fairy tales here selected and edited by E. F. Strange each illustrated by Warwick Goble.
Corners very lightly pushed. Minor foxing. Near Fine Condition. -
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The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm [Grimm’s Fairy Tales]
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Sixth Folio Printing.
25cm x 18.5cm. xvi, 325 pages, 40 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text. Publisher’s blue cloth, gilt lettering and decoration, slipcase.
Translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas.
Slight discolouration to spine. Minor shelf wear to slipcase. Very Good Condition. -
Illustrating Camelot
$80.00 Add to cartBarbara Tepa Lupack; Alan Lupack
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008. -
Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales: With Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson
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Fourth Folio Printing.
25cm x 19cm. xi, 289 pages, illustrations, some colour. Red cloth, gilt lettering and decoration, top edge red, slipcase.
FORD-SMITH 836.
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Out of This World: The Complete Book of Fantasy
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First Edition.
34cm x 25cm. 240 pages, colour illustrations. Grey cloth, white lettering, illustrated french fold jacket.
Classic encyclopaedia of fantasy written by Michael Page and illustrated throughout by Robert Ingpen.
Minor foxing to first and last page, moderate to jacket verso. Very minor tanning to page extremities. Minor discolouration to jacket.. Very Good Condition. -
The Greek Myths (2 Volumes)
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Twenty-third Folio Printing.
24cm x 16cm. 700 pages, 2 volumes (continuous pagination), black and white illustrations. Quarter leather, illustrated papered boards, gilt lettering, slipcase.
Illustrations by Grahame Baker. Introduction by Kenneth McLeish. FORD-SMITH 924.
Minor crease to fore-edge of page 671/2. Very minor shelf wear to slipcase. Near Fine Condition. -
Huichol Indian Sacred Rituals
$120.00 Add to cartMariano Valadez; Susana Valadez
Oakland: Amber Lotus, 1992.
Monograph of the peyote inspired paintings of the Huichol Indians. “The sacred ways of the Huichol Indians are vividly communicated in traditional art works called “yarn paintings”. Their symbols represent natural forces that are normally invisible, as well as shamanic ceremonies performed by the Huichol to contact, learn from, and work with these energies.” (from jacket blurb) -
The Goddess Roma in the Art of the Roman Empire
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First Edition.
28cm x 21cm. [iv], 131 pages, 12 plates. Brown library cloth, gilt lettering.
A detailed study of representations of the goddess Roma in imperial Roman art including numismatics, glyptic, sculptural, paintings, and mosaics. Coins and medallion-types are given particular attention. Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III (1925-2008) was an American scholar of ancient art and curator of classical art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1957 to 1996.
Ex-City of Liverpool Public Library, plates. Very minor general wear. Very Good Condition. -
Folktales of the Native American
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24cm x 15cm. xx, 156 pages, [7] leaves of plates. Green cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated onlay, slipcase.
Folktales of the Native American, retold by Dee Brown, introduced by Joy Porter, illustrated by Caroline Smith. FORD-SMITH 1800. There being two Folio printings, this copy still sealed so printing unknown.
Still sealed. Fine Condition. -
The Pegasus Story of Atlantis
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First Edition.
20cm x 13cm. 192 pages, black and white illustrations. Black cloth, silver and gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.
Minor foxing. Previous owner’s name and bookseller’s stamp of QLD. Assembly Book Shop, Brisbane. Clipped jacket with moderate shelf wear. Good Condition. -
Dragons and Dragon Lore
$500.00 Add to cartErnest Ingersoll
New York: Payson & Clarke, 1928.
With an introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn. -
Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai
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Third Printing.
23cm x 15cm. xvii, 292 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
Foster explores 300 years of Yokai history and considers how the phenomenon has influenced Japan’s cultural imagination.
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The Anwar-i-Suhaili or Lights of Canopus Commonly Known As Kalilah and Damnah
$1,800.00 Add to cartArthur N. Wollaston
London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1877.
Being an adaptation by Mulla Husain Bin Ali Al Wai’z-Al-Kashifi of The Fables of Bidpai. Translated from the Persian by Arthur N. Wollaston. The 1877 English translation by Arthur Naylor Wollaston (1842-1922) of the Persian version of the Panchatantra, an ancient collection of animal fables. Wollaston began work as a civil servant in the India Office at age 16 going onto become registrar. He was also an ardent Persian scholar, translating this work, as well as compiling an English-Persian Dictionary in 1882. -
Cassirer and Langer on Myth: an Introduction
$100.00 Add to cartWilliam Schultz
New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.
A detailed overview of the significance of myth in the context of civilization and cultures, conducted by way of two leading twentieth century philosophers on myth, Ernst Cassirer and Susanne Langer. -
Bagh O Bahar: Consisting of Entertaining Tales in the Hindustani Language by Mir Amman of Dihli
$80.00 Add to cartDuncan Forbes
London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1873.
To Which is Added, A Vocabulary of all the Words Occurring in the Work. -
Vedic and Mesopotamian Interactions
$10.00 Add to cartN. Kazanas
Adyar: The Adyar Library and Research Centre, The Theosophical Society, 2007. -
Katu Folktales and Society
$150.00 Add to cartInstitute of Research on Lao Culture and Society; Nancy A. Costello
Vientiane: Ministry of Information and Culture, Institute of Research on Lao Culture and Society, 1993.
A collection of stories of the Katu peoples of Vietnam and Laos. An oral storytelling tradition many stories are here recorded in Katu phonetically and with Lao and English translation. -
Seduction and the Secret Power of Women: The Lure of Sirens and Mermaids
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Second Edition.
23cm x 15cm. x, 230 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
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Russian Traditional Folksong
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ISSN: 0078-3099.
Tape NOT included.
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Mephistopheles and the Androgyne: Studies in Religious Myth and Symbol
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First US Edition.
21.5cm x 14cm. 223 pages. Brown cloth, black lettering, lettered jacket.
Originally published in French, as Mephistopheles et l’Androgyne (1962), here published in English for the first time, translated by J. M. Cohen.
Ex-Library of the College of Preachers, Washington D.C., spine label, plate, and pocket. Minor general wear. Previous owner’s name to title page. Good Condition (ex-library). -
The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion
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First Edition.
23cm x 14.5cm. xii, [2], 409, [3]; [vi], 408 pages, 2 volumes, frontispiece. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering and decoration.
First edition of James George Frazer’s highly influential comparative study of mythology and religion, with the frontispiece and 2 pages of advertisements in volume 1. PMM 374. This copy with a 1914 Cambridge letter calling on committee members and funds for the establishment of a Frazer Fund for Social Anthropology laid in.
Minor shelf wear. Minor foxing, mostly to endpapers. This copy without tissue guard at frontispiece. Very minor pencil annotations. Near Fine Condition. -
Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales: With Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson
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25cm x 19cm. xi, 289 pages, illustrations, some colour. Red cloth, gilt lettering and decoration, top edge red, slipcase.
FORD-SMITH 836. Numerous Folio printings, this copy still sealed and so printing unknown, though likely later.
Still sealed. Fine Condition. -
The Greek Myths (2 Volumes)
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Eleventh Folio Printing.
24cm x 16cm. 700 pages, 2 volumes (continuous pagination), black and white illustrations. Quarter cloth, illustrated papered boards, gilt lettering, slipcase.
Illustrations by Grahame Baker. Introduction by Kenneth McLeish. FORD-SMITH 924.
Books are in Fine Condition, very minor shelf wear to slipcase. Near Fine Condition. -
Giants from the Dreamtime: The Yowie in Myth and Reality
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First Edition. Inscribed by Author
23.5cm x 16cm. [iv], xxiv, 379 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
A thorough investigation of the Australian mythological “bigfoot”/ape-like creatures known as yowie by cryptozoologist Rex Gilroy. Aboriginal names for yowies and yowie-like creatures are quinkin, joogabinna, ghindaring, jurrawarra, myngawin, puttikan, doolaga, gulaga, thoolagal, yahweh, noocoonah, wawee, pangkarlangu, jimbra, and tjangara. This copy inscribed by Gilroy.
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Out of This World: The Complete Book of Fantasy
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Second Printing.
34cm x 25cm. 240 pages, colour illustrations. Grey cloth, white lettering, illustrated french fold jacket.
Classic encyclopaedia of fantasy written by Michael Page and illustrated throughout by Robert Ingpen.
Minor foxing. Previous owner’s inscription. Jacket spine slightly discoloured. Very Good Condition. -
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The [Rainbow] Fairy Books (12 Volumes)
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26cm x 19cm. 12 volumes. Illustrated cloth, slipcases.
A complete set of The Folio Society edition of Andrew Lang’s Rainbow Fairy Books. Lang’s original fairy books were compilations of fairy tales from around the world, many appearing in English for the first time, and were extremely influential on the English imagination in the late 19th and early 20th century. This set is one of The Folio Society’s most sought after productions with the later volumes in the series printed in smaller numbers, and with all volumes except Blue out of print and difficult to obtain. The books are bound in the usual Folio style with elaborately designed cloth covers in slipcases, and each volume with newly commissioned illustrations by: Blue: Charles van Sandwyk, Red: Niroot Puttapipat, Green: Julian de Narvaez, Yellow: Danuta Mayer, Pink: Debra McFarlane, Grey: Lauren Nassef, Violet: Bob Venables, Crimson: Tim Stevens, Brown: Omar Rayyan, Orange: Tomislav Tomic, Olive: Kate Baylay, and Lilac: Caitlin Hackett.
All unopened in the original Folio shrinkwrap seal with Folio Prize stickers. All in Fine Condition, and in like slipcases bar the Crimson and Orange which have the slightest of bumps to one tail fore-edge corner. Near Fine Condition. -
Gnomes and Gardens: A Field Guide to the Little People
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First Edition.
25.5cm x 27cm. 96 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated padded papered boards.
Tanning to boards. Hinges a little shaken. Good Condition. -
Thai Folk Tales: A Selection Out of Gems of Thai Lit.
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Third, Enlarged Edition.
21cm x 13.5cm. [ii], 146 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor foxing and soiling. Corners reinforced with adhesive tape. Remnant of sticker on rear. Previous owner’s name. Good Condition. -
Danawasar the Giant Princess: A Tale from Lombok
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First Edition.
20.5cm x 14.5cm. 88 pages, two-colour illustrations. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
Minor shelf wear and foxing. Previous owner’s name. Very Good Condition. -
Japanese Tales
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First Folio Society Edition.
28cm x 18cm. lxi, 303 pages, 8 colour plates (4 double page). Illustrated blue cloth, top edge silver, slipcase.
Illustrated by Yoko Shimizu.
Very minor bump to crown fore-edge corner of upper board, minor to slipcase.. Near Fine Condition.