Folklore And Mythology from The Owl at the Bridge

Illustrated by Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway, Arthur Rackham, Maxfield Parrish, and Early Historical Woodcuts. With Chapter Decorations by E. M. Simon. 350 pages, illus., bibliography, index; 28 cm. Bound in tan cloth; no dust jacket; edges & corners bumped, spine sunned; internally clean; Good. Stock#ofc0559.

Two catalogs on folklore and related subjects, no. 243 "including a collection on Witchcraft and Demonology". 500 & 280 items listed; stapled in pictorial wraps; Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0256.

London : Michael O'Mara, 1997. Soft Cover. 182p, [12]p of plates, illus., index, 24 cm. Fairy lore in Great Britain and Ireland. Bibliography: p163-164. Stock# 40,880. Vg/ paper.

Paris, Plon [1923]. Soft Cover. 264 p.; 19 cm. 'Les Romans de la Table Ronde Nouvellement Rédigés par Jacques Boulenger.' The third volume (of four) of Boulenger's edition of the Arthurian legends. Printed wraps, as issued; worming at top & bottom edges (margins only); unopened; good. stock#32556.

Berkeley, University of California Press for the Folklore Society, 1963. Periodical. offprint from Western Folklore vol.XXII, no. 1, January, 1963, p.19-45. includes a list of 457 proverbs. Inscribed by the author. Stock# 41,970. Vg / offprint.

Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1966.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed. xxiii, 256 p. 22 cm. Title continues: Selected and edited by Tristram P. Coffin and Hennig Cohen from the Journal of American Folklore. Includes 17 folk-songs and tunes. Inscribed to friend by Coffin. Dust-jacket typography & illustration by Edward Gorey.  Stock#102197. Vg/ dj good+, some wear.

Boston, Little Brown, 1906. Hard Cover. 203, [4] p., notes, glossary; 19.5 cm. Six stories from China on the supernatural: The Soul of the Great Bell (the story of Ko-Ngai); The Story of Ming-Y; The Legend of Tchi-Niu; The Return of Yen-Tchin-King; The Tradition of the Tea-Plant; The Tale of the Porcelain-God. First published in 1887 (Blanck 7916), this… Read more about this item

NY, Philosophical Library [1962].. Hard Cover. liv, 400 p., index, illus., plates; 21 cm. Translated by Jack Sage from Diccionario de símbolos tradicionales. Foreword by Herbert Read. Stock# 32,697. Vg/ dj good. Occult; reference.

"Read the actual letters of Bjorn of Bromme, a Viking who scrawled his notes on a piece of hide while pillaging Europe in the 9th century; the delicate calligraphy of Soong Mei Ying, who wrote to her father as she traveled the Silk Road in the 13th century; and, finally, the correspondence of Prussian cartographer Dr. E. F. Liebermann, who… Read more about this item

Paris, Plon [1923]. Soft Cover. 260 p.; 19 cm. 'Les Romans de la Table Ronde Nouvellement Rédigés par Jacques Boulenger.' The two medieval legends are followed by an Éclaircissement (pp. 219-255) which gives the history of the legends. Printed wraps, as issued, lightly foxed; some worming in top edge, 1" torn off bottom of backstrip; unopened; good. stock#32555.

University of Chicago Press, 1980. Hard Cover. xviii, 382 p. 8 pages of plates, 23.5 cm. A study of sexual metaphors and animal symbols used in Indian mythology to express religious concepts about the relationships between men and women, parents and children, gods and goddesses, and humans and dieties. Stock #28,355. Vg/ dj vg.

Bramhall House, NY [c1962]. Hard Cover. 512 p., 20.5 cm. A Rendition in Modern Idiom by Keith Baines with an Introduction by Robert Graves. Decorative Illustrations by Enrico Arno. Based on the Winchester Ms. edited by Eugène Vinaver. Color pictorial dj has small closed tears; VG. stock#32302.

London, Dent / NY, Dutton [May 1923]. Everyman's Library 46. Hard Cover. 411 p., glossary, 17.5 cm. Begins with Book X, Chapter XX, How it was told Sir Launcelot that Dagonet chased King Mark, and how a knight overthrew him and six knights. Maroon cloth stamped in gold, top edge gilt; printed grey dj has minor wear; VG+. stock#31982.

[Port-au-Prince] Bon Nouvel [1975]. Soft Cover. 71 p., illus.; 22 cm. 300 proverbs from Haiti. In Haitian. From the library of Raphael G. Urciolo. Stock#47189. Vg / soft covers.

London, Published for the Early English Text Society, by H. Milford, Oxford UP.. Hard Cover. lxxx, 322 p., 1 l., front. (facsim.) 22.5 cm. Legends comiled from the Legenda Aurea and other sources. Stock #29,869. Vg/ no dj.

Hard Cover. xx, 605 pages; 26 cm. Bibliography of Italian folklore; 6680 entries. Reprint of the 1894 edition; Burt Franklin Bibliography & Reference Series 453. New. Stock#34963/h.

Anchor Books/ Doubleday, Garden City, NY [1961]. Soft Cover. 480 p., index; paper; VG. 'With Contributions by Rudolf Anthes, Derk Bodde, W. Norman Brown, M. J. Dresden, Cyrus H. Gordon, Hans G. Güterbock, Michael H. Jameson, Miguel León-Portilla, E. Dale Saunders.' 'Cover design by Antonio Frasconi. Typography by Susan Sien.' Mythologies of ancient Egypt, Sumer & Akkad, Hittite, Canaanite,… Read more about this item

Paris, Flammarion, Coll. 'Symboles' [1958]. Soft Cover. 123 pages, plates; 18.5 cm. Good+, partially unopened/ paper. Stock#32696x.

Lausanne, Éditions 'SPES' [ca. 1923].. Soft Cover. Avec 24 illustrations de M. Crausaz. 129, [1], [2] pages, illus.; tan paper covers, grey cloth spine, color pictorial front-cover paste-on; covers scuffed, worn, watermark on front cover (only), ink inscription dated 1923; withal VG. Stories are Histoire d'un homme fort; Comment la fille du Tzar apprit à… Read more about this item

Snaebjörn Jönsson & Co., Reykjavik [1967?]. Two small handlists. The larger list includes Icelandic Sagas and Classics (various saga series; Early Icelandic Manuscripts in Facsimile; Corpus Codicum Islandicorum Medii Aevi; Rámnafélagid; Nordisk Filologi; Bibliotheca Arnamagníana); Folklore, Mythology; Icelandic Literature; Icelandic Language; Geology, Geography, Natural History; Art; History, Politics, Economics; Viking Stories; Translations of Foreign Works; Maps of Iceland;… Read more about this item