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1) The Legend of Galisteo / La Leyenda de Galisteo
Atwood, Marjorie. Spanish Translation by Jane Bethune. Illustrated by Mina Yamashita

Santa Fe, NM: Sunstone Press, 1992. 31 pp. A New Mexico tale in English and Spanish.. First Edition. Stapled Wraps. Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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2) Discovering Hill Figures
Bergamar, Kate

Bucks, UK: Shire Publications, 1972, 1972. 48 pp., b/w photos, text illustrations. A guide to the more than thirty major figures cut out of the grass on Britain's hillsides, their location, the best points from which they can be seen, and their history and legends. Front of wrapper creased at corners, also lightly affecting lower fore-corners of pages throughout.. Revised Edition. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 12mo. more information

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3) Abuelitos: Stories of the Rio Puerco Valley
Garcia, Nasario, Collected and Edited by

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1992. 310 pp., illustrated. Wrappers very lightly rubbed and edgeworn.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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4) So We Can Remember: Showing Family Photographs
Greenhill, Pauline

Ottawa: National Museums of / Musees Nationaux de Canada, 1981. National Museum of Man Mercury Series, Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies / Musee National de l'Homme Collection Mercure, Centre Canadien d'Etudes sur la Culture Traditionelle, Paper / Dossier No. 36. 134 pp., 71 b/w photos. Light edgewear to wrappers, spine and wrapper edges sunned, slight rippling to fore-edges of last few pages, previous owner name.. Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 4to. more information

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5) Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales
Hallmundsson, May and Hallberg, Selected and translated with foreword and notes by

Reykjavik: Iceland Review, 2002. Reprint. 123 pp. Top fore-edge corner very lightly bumped.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). Illus. by Kjartan Gudjonsson. 8vo. more information

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6) Lu Ban Learns Carpentry
Ji Hua, Adapted from the Legend by. Illustrated by Du Dakai

Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1981. 45 pp., full-page color illustrations. Wrappers a bit rubbed and edgeworn, head of spine and top of fore-edge bumped, gift inscription on title page, otherwise unmarked.. First Edition. Stapled Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). Square 12mo. more information

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7) Volsunga Saga: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs, with certain Songs from the Elder Edda
Magnusson, Eirikr, and William Morris, Translated by. Edited by H. Halliday Sparling

Walter Scott, London, (1888). 276 pp. + publisher's catalog. Covers darkened, some loss at head and heel of spine and corners, spine label chipped, hinges starting, page edges tanned, small stain at heel affecting front endpapers and first few leaves, faint staining to rear endpapers, several page corners bumped. Binding is sound and text unmarked.. First Thus. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo. more information

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8) Other People's Myths: The Cave of Echoes
O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger

New York: Macmillan, 1988. Mircea Eliade Lectures in the History of Religions. 225 pp. Very faint soiling to top edge, otherwise Fine, in lightly handled jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. more information

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9) The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
Opie, Iona and Peter

London: Oxford University Press, 1980. Later printing (orig. 1959). Rhymes, chants, superstitions, etc., collected in interviews with English children. Head of spine slightly pulled, previous owner name marked out on front pastedown, otherwise Fine. Jacket lightly edgeworn, faded at spine.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. more information

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10) Dionysus: Myth and Cult
Otto, Walter F. Translated by Robert B. Palmer

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1965, 1965. 243 pp. A reading copy with with wrappers worn and stained, spine cocked, small amount of underlining in text.. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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11) El Condor: Dimension mitica del Ave Sagrada
Palma, Milagros

Managua, Nicaragua: Editorial Nuestra America, 1983. 113 pp. Minor handling to wrappers.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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12) Folklore Chicano del Valle de San Luis, Colorado
Reyna, Jose R

Penca Books, San Antonio, TX, [1980]. 35 pp. Cuentos, versos.. Stapled Wraps. Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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13) Contes Marie-Galantais de Guadeloupe: Krik! Rete Koute...Krak! Pou Konpwann
Rutil, Alain (Recueillis par). Preface de Guy Tirolien

Paris: Editions Caribeennes, 1981, 1981. 304 pp., line illustrations. Collection of folk tales in Creole (transcribed phonetically) with French translation, appendices, bibliography. Wrappers worn and sunned at spine, spine creased, a few page corners bumped, small stain on front blank.. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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14) A Dictionary of English Folklore
Simpson, Jacqueline, and Steve Roud

Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 2000. 411 pp. Includes Bibliography. Very light handling to jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo. more information

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15) Myths & Legends of Our New Possessions & Protectorate
Skinner, Charles M

Ann Arbor, MI: Gryphon Books, 1971. Facsimile reprint of 1900 edition. 354 pp. Folklore from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines. Covers a bit dull with a couple of very light scuffs, page edges dusty, otherwise clean and unmarked.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. more information

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16) He Who Hunted Birds in His Father's Village: The Dimensions of a Haida Myth
Snyder, Gary. Preface by Nathaniel Tarn

Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox, 1979. 133 pp. Head and heel of spine and top of fore-edge lightly bumped, wrappers worn at edges and corners with a couple of small spots, price marked out at rear; interior clean and unmarked.. First printing, wraps issue. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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17) El leon y el grillito / The Lion & the Cricket
Suarez, C. S., Arreglado por / Told by

Santa Fe, NM: Spanish Colonial Arts Society, 1972. 15 pp., b/w illustrations. Very slightly bumped at bottom edge.. Stapled Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). 24mo. more information

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18) Cuentos y Leyendas de la Argentina
Sugobono, Nahuel (Seleccion y prologo)

Barcelona: Planeta, 1997. Biblioteca de Cuentos Maravillosos 93. 115 pp., illustrated. Light handling to wrappers only.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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19) Once There Was and Twice There Wasn't: Turkish Tales
Walker, Barbara K., Collected by

Chicago: Follett, 1968. 128 pp. Light wear to head and heel of spine.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Library Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Gordon Kibbee. Wide 8vo. more information

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20) Le Livre des sept viziers (Sendbadnameh)
Zahiri de Samarkand. Traduit du persan par Dejan Bogdanovic

Paris: Sinbad, 1976. Bibliotheque Persane. 290 pp. Light dustsoiling to wrappers, head of spine bumped, tiny nick to front spine edge. Interior Fine.. First Printing. Self-Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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