Folklore/Mythology General

Franklin Watts New York 1980 HB. Describing both instantaneous and conscious astral travel. VG, no DJ 117pp. more information

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MacMillan & Co. London 1922 HB. Reprint. In the Golden Treasury Series. Philosphical discourse on Urn Burial and on Gardens - the quincunx. First published in 1658. Blue cloth, bright gold lettering and initials, neat inscription to ffep and a partially erased price in purple pencil, pages just a little yellowed, occasional pencil underling now erased, o/w VG in lightly marked and edge-worn DJ, pencil inscription to front cover and to rear flap of DJ, a sound and still handsome copy. 208pp. more information

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Thomas Nelson & Sons London HB. Undated. A miscellany of tales for children, some of them traditional, with 31 colour illus. and many b/w. Two of the b/w illustrations have been clumsily coloured in. Red cloth covers with gold lettering and staircase motif, rather worn and marked and the gold a little dull, name to ffep, creases to some pages and the occasional grubby mark, good, no DJ. 527pp. more information

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Librairie Honore Champion Paris 1974 PB. Translated into modern French largely from the mss P, which formed the basis of the 1927 edition by Maurice Wilmotte, with some additions from the mss C VG 96pp. more information

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Sierra Club Books San Francisco 2001 PB. 'Confessions, Druidic rants, reflections, bird-watchings, fish-stalkings, visions, songs and prayers refracting light from living rivers, in the age of the industrial dark'. Slightly edge-worn, generally VG 294pp. more information

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Frederick Muller Limited London 1st 1977 HB. 'The highwayman and his brothers-in-arms the bandit and the bushranger'. The criminal as romantic hero. Cover rather worn, generally VG, in edge-worn and chipped but good DJ 177pp. more information

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Society for promoting Christian Knowledge London HB. Contains: The Brownies, The Land of Lost Toys, Three Christmas Trees, An Idyll of the Wood, Christmas Crackers, and Amelia and the Dwarves. No date, is part of the SPCK authorized editions of Mrs Ewing's works. Good - corners and spine bumped and worn; inscribed by previous owner on FFEP, fold marks on the first three pages, pages have occasional marks and age spotting; hinge starting at rear. 238pp. more information

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George Bell and Sons London 1899 HB. The two volumes of moral fables, based on sound natural history, gathered together, with a memoir of the author by her daughter Juliana Horatia Ewing, and illustrated with fine engravings by Holman Hunt, Burne-Jones, Tenniel and others Illustrative green cloth, a little worn, esp. to spine edges and top and tail, gilt all round, black eps, small name to back of ffep, no other inscriptions, tissue guarded frontis, pages yellowed, tight, sound and still a handsome copy. 492pp. more information

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Theosophical Publishing House London 1949 PB. The Blavatsky lecture, delivered to the annual convention of the Theosophical Society in 1949. Staped booklet, good. 28pp. more information

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Pelican Lon 1989 PB. Subtitled 'The history and impact of literacy from Homer to Huxley and from UNIVAC to Uniquack', this has much to say on the transition from oral culture. Cover a little worn, generally VG 166pp. more information

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Odense University Press 1982 PB. The proceedings of the 6th International Symposium organised by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages, 1981. With contributions by Ehrismann, Shippey, Gudmundsson, Bo,Mjoberg, Brondsted, Olsen and Glamann. VG 172pp. more information

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J M Dent - Everyman London 1920 HB. Cover a little worn, split to spine, initials stamped to ffep, good 302pp. more information

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John Hopkins Press Baltimore 1966 PB. First published in 1933, this is a biography of the 12th century knight, revealing the wider historical background Neat name to ffep, o/w no inscriptions, cover just a little worn and lightly marked, generally VG 305pp. more information

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Neville Spearman Jersey 1st 1979 HB. Extraordinary correspondence, from the founder of the Big Ben Silent Minute, the Chalice Trust, a Seer and explorer of alternate reality. VG, no inscriptions, in edge-worn, slightly marked but generally VG DJ 212pp. more information

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1977 PB. A biographical memorial to the mystic and seer. With seven photographs. Privately printed. Stapled booklet, covers very slightly worn, creased and marked, good 48pp. more information

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Henry J Drane London HB. Undated. Illustrated by W F Coles. Blue illustrated boards, worn and marked, small neat name to front paste down, some age mottling and browning to pages, tight and sound, good 178pp. more information

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