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THE DESTINY OF THE WARRIOR

By Dumezil, Georges (translated by Alf Hiltebeitel)

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1970. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover) PENCIL - SEE NOTE. ISBN 0226169707 LIGHT PENCIL MARKS/NOTATIONS THROUGHOUT, but not offensive, and easy to erase. I just did not take the time, thus the lower price. 168pp.

THE POPOL VUH: THE MYTHIC AND HEROIC SAGAS OF THE KICHES OF CENTRAL AMERICA - POPULAR STUDIES IN MYTHOLOGY NO. 16

By Spence, Lewis

New York: AMS Press, 1972. HC. very good, green cloth (hardcover). ISBN 040453516X Reprint of the 1908 London edition. 63pp.

WOMEN IN GREEK MYTH

By Lefkowitz, Mary R.

Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Pr, 1986. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0801833671 158pp.

MOTIF-INDEX OF FOLK LITERATURE: VOLUME ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX - [Vols 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] - SIX VOLUME SET COMPLETE

By Thompson, Stith (revised and enlarged edition by)

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1966. HC. good+, green cloth (hardcover). A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books and Local Legends" Six Volume Set Complete, including: Volume One A-C, 554pp; Volume Two D-E, 517pp; Volume Three F-H, 519pp; Volume Four J-K, 499pp; Volume Five L-Z, 567pp; and Volume Six INDEX, 892pp. Slight cant to a couple book blocks.

THE STAKES OF THE WARRIOR

By Dumezil, Georges (translated by David Weeks) (edited, with an introduction by Jaan Puhvel)

Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 1983. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0520048342 154pp.

MYTH, CULT AND SYMBOLS IN SAKTA HINDUISM - A STUDY OF THE INDIAN MOTHER GODDESS

By Beane, Wendell Charles

Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1977. HC. good, brown cloth (hardcover). ISBN 9004048146 288pp.

IN PRAISE OF THE BAAL SHEM TOV [SHIVHEI HA-BESHT] - THE EARLIEST COLLECTION OF LEGENDS ABOUT THE FOUNDER OF HASIDISM

By Ben-Amos, Dan and Mintz, Jerome R. (translated and edited by)

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1972. PB. good, wraps (softcover). ISBN 0253140501 352pp.

THE OXFORD GUIDE TO CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY IN THE ARTS, 1300-1990S - VOLUME I and VOLUME II - TWO VOLUME SET COMPLETE

By Reid, Jane Davidson (with the assistance of Chris Rohmann)

New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. HC. good+, blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjackets. ISBN 0195049985 Volume I: ACHELOUS-LEANDER; and, Volume II: LEDA-ZEUS. No dustjackets. 2 vols, 1310pp.

WOMEN, ANDROGYNES, AND OTHER MYTHICAL BEASTS

By O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1980. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0226618498 382pp.

MITHRAIC STUDIES - PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MITHRAIC STUDIES - VOLUME I and II - Two Volume Set

By Hinnells, John R. (editor)

Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1975. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0874715571 DUST TOP EDGE OF BOOK BLOCKS - The worship of Mithra constitutes a highly unusual religious phenomenon. He has been venerated in three different religions - Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and Roman Mithraism - and has the longest recorded history of any god. The is the first scholarly collaboration in order to elucidate the many problems both in the East and the West in the study of his worship. 2 vols, 560pp.

THE ORACLE OF BAALBEK: THE TIBURTINE SIBYL IN GREEK DRESS - DUMBARTON OAKS STUDIES X.

By Alexander, Paul J.

Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1967. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). 151pp.

THE LOVERS OF THE WORLD - VOLUME THREE ONLY - [Volume III ONLY]

By Saltus, Edgar (compiled from the best authorities by)

New York: Peter Fenelon Collier Pub, 1900. HC. good, brown cloth (hardcover). A Chronicle of The Sensational Dramas, Enchanting Romances, Tragical Histories, Pathetic Trials, Fierce Passions and Pure Hearts of All Who Have Lived and Loved From the Earliest Times to the Present Day with Faithful Descriptions of the Virtues and Charms Which Inspired Them and The Joys and Disasters Which They Caused." 381pp.

SITTING ON THE BLUE-EYED BEAR: NAVAJO MYTHS AND LEGENDS

By Hausman, Gerald

Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill & Co, 1975. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 088208061X 130pp.

TALES OF EARLY POLAND

By Uminski, Sigmund H.

Detroit, MI: Endurance Press, 1968. HC. very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ill. by Alice Wadowski. 100pp.

KING HARALD AND THE ICELANDERS

By Lowe, Pardee (translated from the Icelandic by) (with original wood engravings by Michael McCurdy)

Lincoln, MA: Penmaen Press, Limited, 1979. HC. fine, 3/4 vellum, paper covered boards (hardcover) acetate cover. B&W illustrations. ISBN 019577822X One of one hundred numbered copies signed by the translator and the artist. 45pp.

KING HARALD AND THE ICELANDERS

By Lowe, Pardee (translated from the Icelandic by) (with original wood engravings by Michael McCurdy)

Lincoln, MA: Penmaen Press, Limited, 1979. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0195778211 One of one thousand copies. 45pp.

THE WOE SHIRT - CARIBBEAN FOLK TALES

By Barton, Paule (as translated by Howard A. Norman) (drawings by Norman Laliberte

Lincoln, MA: Penmaen Press, Ltd, 1980. HC. fine, green cloth spine (hardcover) no dustjacket. B&W illustrations. ISBN 091577836X Out of sequence unnumbered copy signed by the translator and illustrator. 62pp.

SEASIDE AND FIRESIDE FAIRIES

By Wister, A. L. (translated from the German of George Blum and Louis Wahl)

Philadelphia, PA: Ashmead & Evans, 1864. HC. very good, rebound in blue buckram cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB. B&W illustrations. Nice clean and tight copy with minimal EX-LIB markings. An uncommon collection of fairy stories. 292pp.

PENDRAGON: ARTHUR AND HIS BRITAIN

By Clancy, Joseph P.

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. HC. good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover) owner's inscription. B&W illustrations. The author treats Arthur as historical fiction and poetic fact. 136pp.

THE BRITISH: MYTHS AND LEGENDS SERIES

By Ebbutt, M. I.

New York: Avenel Books, 1986. HC. very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). 64 B&W illustrations. ISBN 0517604418 Reprint of the 1910 edition. Sixteen stories dating from the eighth century onward, depicting the ideal hero as pictured in the mind of early medieval Britons. 375pp.