Folk-Lore from the Cape Verde Islands: Part I and Part II ; Two Volumes by Parsons, Elsie Clews - 1923

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Legare Street Press. New. Special order direct from the distributor

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

American Folk - Lore Society, 1923, 267 Pp. , 1923. Hardcover; ex-library; with bookplate "From the library of Americo Paredes" and with Paredes' stamp (Paredes, 1915-1999, was a well-known Mexican-American folklorist, poet, writer and musician); minor shelfwear; nicks along fore-edge of leaves; very light stain on bottom edge of a couple of leaves; o/w in good condition. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Legare Street Press. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Cambridge, MA: American Folk-Lore Society, 1923. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Tall Octavo. 9.5 x 6.5". Part I: 375pp. plus ads; Part II: 267pp. Burgundy cloth with gilt titles. T.e.g. Untrimmed and uncut. Lightly faded spines are rubbed at ends with small frayed spot. Spine lettering dulled and hard to read. Spotting to fore-edge. "These tales and riddles were collected during the summers of 1916 and 1917 from Portuguese Negro immigrants from the Cape Verde Islands. Scatterd through eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island and the seaports of Connecticut, there are small colonies of Cape Verde Islanders..." from the preface.

Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2

From the museum Del Prado, a monograph dedicated to this Dutch master of fantasy images. Bosch illustrated both the joys of heaven and imaginative tortures of hell. Softcover has minor scuffing to back cover, interior bright and tight, Very Good condtion.

Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."

No dust jacket, O'Keefe frontispiece in color with bottom corner crease to page, not affecting frontis image. Pages are age toned and exterior board edges have minor shelf wear. Index and b/w plates on glossy paper among 531 pages. Northrop, a Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, presents a very good analysis of the philosophical foundations of world cultures.

Andrew E. Lang , a rare book of his poetry. Ban and Arriere Ban USED. 1st Edition, 1894, Longman's Green and Co. Deckle edge, tanning. Beveled green boards with gold gilt ornamentation. The Author's name appears in gold at the front lower right.board. . 118 pages. Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford. illustrator of the Fairy Books. Per wiki "Arrière-ban, in French customs, is a general proclamation whereby the king summons to war all his vassals and their vassals. To the Provost of Paris belongs the convoking and commanding of the arrière-ban. In the Medieval usage, arrière-ban denoted a general levy, where all able-bodied males were summoned into arms. List of contents available upon request.: ."Many of the verses of this collection appeared in magazines prior to appearing here". INCLUDES ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION PUBLISHERS STATEMENT, 4 3/8 x 2 3/8: "Messrs Longmans intend this book to be sold to the Public at the advertised price and supply it to the Trade on terms which will not allow discount."… Read More

Conan Doyle Uniform Edition (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.) THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. July, 1955. John Murray, London. USED. Good-/Good- original price-clipped dust jacket. Partial front flap only. Front flap: has been cut at odd angle. Red boards with black titling. 5 1/8 X 7 ½. 248 pages. Synopsis: Detectives "Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate as following his uncle's death, Sir Henry Baskerville returns from abroad and opens up the ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire." Please see our stock photo.

771HigginsJuggler Higgins, Violet Moore. THE LITTLE JUGGLER and Other French Tales Retold. Story-Time Tales. 1917, Whitman Publishing Company Racine and Chicago. USED. VG CONDITION/ No DJ included if issued. 70 pages 6 ½ X 8 5/8. A nice copy.

Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 2001. xiii, (3), 226 pages. The book is divided into 4 sections: Gods, Demons, and Ogres; Animals and Monsters; Witches and Deceivers; and Abductors and Pursuers. Each section includes scholarly studies (sixteen in all) ranging from "beliefs of the Ancient World and the lore of the Middle Ages in Europe to modern traditions about Killer Clowns among Scottish children, sightings of the Black Dof in East Anglia and beliefs in supernatural abduction." The book is as-new condition in an as-new dust jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Russell, Bertrand. Satan in the Suburbs, and Other Stories. Bertrand Russell's First Book Of Fiction. Copyright 1953, Simon and Schuster Stated Second Printing Thus. Illustrated by Asgeir Scott. Used. Very good/ Good price-clipped original grey and yellow DJ. Short Story Anthology. Stories Included Here: Satan in the suburbs or horrors manufactured here, The Corsican ordeal of Miss X, The Infra-Redioscope; The guardians of Parnassus, and Benefit of Clergy. 148 pages plus author bio. RARE IN THIS NICE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET.

. Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind In The Willows. Copyight 1940. Heritage Press. USED. VG+ Condition/ VG+ Original Canary yellow cart Slipcase. Blue boards with drawing of Toad dressed as the washerwoman on the Front Cover. February, 1966 Printing Thus of 20,000 copies. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 190 pages. 6 1/2 X 10. Please see stock photos. Our copy is crisp and clean with a clean spine, appearing almost unread. Quite charming.