FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY from Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Ladies; Retold Stories of Goddesses and Heroines
by Vallejo, Doris (Illustrations by Boris Vallejo.)
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- 0451452070
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Harmondsworth: Roc [0-451-45207-0] 1992, 1st printing. (4to) 186pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Black and white and color illustrations. Illustrations by Boris Vallejo. (Mythology). Item Price
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Gabriel's Palace; Jewish Mystical Tales
by Schwartz, Howard (editor)
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- 0195062922
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New York: Oxford University Press [0-19-506292-2] 1993, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 414pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Notes, glossary, appendix, bibliography, index. (Folklore, Folklore--Jewish). Item Price
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Magyar Neprajz
by Balassa, Ivan (With Gyula Ortutay.)
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Budapest: Corvina Kiado [963-13-1505-3] 1979. (4to) 748pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Black & white and color photographs and illustrations, bibliography, index. Minor staining to the fore-edges, and the dust jacket has minor edgewear and is reinforced with tape on the inside spine and edges. Text in Hungarian Language. (Folklore,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ukrainian Folk Stories
by Vovchok, Marko
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Western Producer Prairie Books [no date]. (Trade paperback) Very good. Frontispiece, illustrations, notes. Lightly edgeworn. Locale: Ukraine. (Folklore, Folklore, Ukrainians). Item Price
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Aesop; Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables
by Aesop
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New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1964, 3rd printing. (Small 4to) 95pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrations. The dust jacket is price-clipped. Selected with introduction by John J. McKendry. (Folklore, Fables--Aesop). Item Price
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Select Tales from the Gesta Romanorum, etc. (Publisher series: Evenings with the Old Story Tellers.)
by Gesta Romanorum
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New York: Wiley and Putnam 1845. (Hardcover) 155pp. Good, no dust jacket. Marbled boards over leather spine and corners. Marbled endpapers, marbled edges. A previous owner's name on first blank page scribbled over, a small scribble on p.3, some spotting to pages, a small peeling scar the the front endpaper, the hinges are cracked and… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Immortals
by Parker, Derek (With Julia Parker.)
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- 0214202836
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London: Barrie & Jenkins [0-214-20283-6] 1976. (4to) 208pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers, illustrations, photographs, further reading, index. (Folklore, Devils, Faeries, Fairy Tales, Gods). Item Price
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Burl Ives' Tales of America
by Ives, Burl (Illustrations by Helen Borten.)
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Cleveland: World Publishing Company 1954, 1st edition. (Hardcover) 305pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Illustrated title page, illustrations. The dust jacket is lightly edgeworn, chipped, and faded on the spine. Illustrations by Helen Borten. Locale: United States. (Folklore). Item Price
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Will o' the Wisp; Folk Tales and Legends of New Brunswick
by Spray, Carole
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- 0887901069
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Fredericton: Brunswick Press [0-88790-106-9] 1979, 3rd printing. (Trade paperback) 132pp. Very good plus. Illustrations, photographs, glossary. The spine has a few reading creases. Locale: Atlantic Provinces; Canada; New Brunswick. (Folklore, Folk Tales--New Brunswick, Legends--New Brunswick). Item Price
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Egyptian Mythology
by [Author not named]
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London: Paul Hamlyn [1965], 2nd printing. (4to) 153pp. Very good in good to very good dust jacket. Illustrations, color plates, decorated endpapers, decorated cloth cover, index. Previous owner's inscription, closed tears on dust jacket, and the dust jacket is price-clipped. Translated by Delano Ames. Locale:. (Mythology, Legends, Religion). Item Price
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Blackfoot Lodge Tales; The Story of a Prairie People
by Grinnell, George Bird
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- 0803250797
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Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press [0-8032-5079-7] [no date]. (Trade paperback) 310pp. Very good. Notes, musical notation, diagrams, index. Lightly soiled on the edges and there is a previous owner's name on the inside front cover. "First published in 1892, Blackfoot Lodge Tales is based on George Bird Grinnell's extensive personal knowledge of the three… Read more about this item Item Price
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Living the Moment; A Sacred Journey
by Secretan, Lance H.K.
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- 0969456115
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Alton: Thaler Corp, Inc. [0-9694561-1-5] 1992. (Hardcover) 56pp. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Orange cloth with gilt lettering and cover decoration. Color illustrations. "Various traditions, Native and non-Native, are blended in this tale of a search for a life recipe. Blend and search are both successful - this is a charming, even elegant,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Shingling the Fog and Other Plains Lies
by Welsch, Roger
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- 0804005451
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Chicago: Sage Books [0-8040-0545-1] 1972, 1st edition. (Hardcover) 160pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed with an inscription by the author. Illustrations, notes, appendices. "By themselves the Great Plains are an exaggeration in geography - freezing cold, blisteringly hot, dust dry, wallowing in mud, windy, still, infinitely flat to the eye, ceaselessly… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Romance of King Arthur
by Author not named] (Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.)
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- 1858911125
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London: Studio Editions [1-85891-112-5] 1994. (Hardcover) 517pp. Very good in very good plus dust jacket. Black and white and color illustrations, glossary. A slight twist in the spine. "Of all the heroes of Celtic myth, King Arthur has remained the favourite. From the moment he pulls the sword Excalibur from its stone, his story… Read more about this item Item Price
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Le Morte d'Arthur; King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
by Malory, Thomas
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New York: Bramhall House [copyright date 1962], later printing. (Hardcover) 512pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Appendix. Lightly edgeworn. A rendition in modern idiom. Book about King Arthur. Introduction by Robert Graves. Translated by Keith Baines. (Mythology, Arthurian Romances, Chivalry, Knights of the Round Table). Item Price
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The Golden Bough; A Study in Magic and Religion
by Frazer, James George
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New York: Macmillan Company 1951, book club edition. (Hardcover) 864pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Notes. Lightly edgeworn and the dust jacket has a small piece missing from the center of the spine. One-volume abridged edition. (Mythology, Magic, Mythology, Nature, Religion). Item Price
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Tales from the Igloo
by Metayer, Maurice (editor) (Illustrations by Agnes Nanogak.)
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- 088830062X
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Edmonton: Hurtig [0-88830-062-X] 1972. (Trade paperback) 127pp. Very good. Color illustrations. Covers are lightly toned. Illustrations by Agnes Nanogak. Foreword by Al Purdy. Translated by Maurice Metayer. Locale: Arctic / Polar. (Folklore, Copper Eskimos, Eskimos, Inuit, Legends, Indian, Short Stories). Item Price
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Bulfinch's Mythology (Includes Age of Chivalry; Age of Fable; Legends of Charlemagne.)
by Bulfinch, Thomas
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- 0517274159
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New York: Gramercy Books [0-517-27415-9] 1979. (Hardcover) 957pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrations, maps, charts, dictionary, index. Illustrated edition. Includes The Age of Chivalry, The Age of Fable & Legends of Charlemagne. (Mythology, Folklore, Legends). Item Price
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The Golden Fleece
by Graves, Robert (Illustrations by Grahame Baker.)
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London: Folio Society 2003. (Hardcover in slipcase) 433pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Turquoise cloth with black and gilt decorations in a fine teal slipcase. Map endpapers, color frontispiece and illustrations. "Robert Graves wrote the fictional prose narrative ('novel' might be too confining a term) of the Golden Fleece between November 1943 and July… Read more about this item Item Price
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Arthur and the Grail
by Lampo, Hubert (With Pieter Paul Koster.)
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- 0283997052
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Bury St. Edmunds--England: Sidgwick & Jackson [0-283-99705-2] 1985. (Oblong 4to hardcover) 160pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Black and white and color photographs. "Hubert Lampo, one of the most distinguished authors in Europe, has written a marvellously readable and compelling book on the eternally fascinating subject of King Arthur". … Read more about this item Item Price
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