Fables & Folklore

Hsaio Ch'ien
£150.00

A Harp With a Thousand Strings (signed copy)

Non-Fiction
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PUBLISHERPilot Press Ltd, London.
BINDINGLight blue cloth boards. Produced to war economy standards.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are worn at the edges, spine faded. A little browning and foxing mostly affecting outer leaves. Text remains largely clear and little marked. The fold out time line is intact but tattered at...

Diane Purkiss
£95.00

At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, and Other Troublesome Things

Non-Fiction
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PUBLISHERNew York University Press.
BINDINGGreen cloth boards. Illustrated endpapers.
BOOK CONDITIONVery good, clean and unmarked, little handled. 
DUST JACKETA little very slight creasing to edges and a few faint scratches to gloss surface.
EDITION2000.
DESCRIPTIONA hard to find copy of this history of fairies, from...

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
£20.00

Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas

Non-Fiction
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PUBLISHEROxford University Press.
BINDINGBlue cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONVery good, just some slight shelf wear to very edges of boards. A couple of small spots on block edges, but text and images remain clear and unmarked.
DUST JACKETA little wear to edges, preserved in removable book wrap.
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Dr Ignacz Kunos
£100.00

Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales

Children
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PUBLISHERGeorge G. Harrrap & Co. London.
BINDINGTan cloth boards with black, yellow and blue lettering and decoration. Illustrated endpapers.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are generally worn and discoloured, especially at spine. Foxing to block edges and outer leaves, but text and images are largely clear and little marked. Hinges a...

Robert Miles
£30.00

Gothic Writing 1750-1820, A Genealogy

Non-Fiction
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Drawing on the ideas of Foucault, the author places the Gothic at the centre of the debate about Romanticism.

Lyle Saxon, Edward Dreyer, Robert Tallant, Editors
£20.00

Gumbo Ya Ya, A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales

Fiction
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PUBLISHERBonanza Books, New York.
BINDINGNavy blue cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards have some general wear, with scuffing, small marks and scratches. Printed pages and images are...

Waldo S. Lanchester
£40.00

Hand Puppets and String Puppets

Non-Fiction
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PUBLISHERThe Dryad Press, Leicester.
BINDINGLight blue cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are generally worn and faded at edges. Binding secure. Slight browning and foxing to outer...

Snorre Sturlason
£40.00

Heimskringla, or, The Lives of the Kings

Non-Fiction
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PUBLISHERW. Heffer & Sons, Ltd. Cambridge.
BINDINGBlue cloth boards with gilt design.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are generally worn and faded, especially spine. Some scuffing and marking...

Woislav M. Petrovitch
£18.00

Hero Tales and Legends of The Serbians

Fiction
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PUBLISHERGeorge G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. London.
BINDINGGreen cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration and embossed border pattern.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are generally scuffed and...

Walter Scott
£150.00

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, Addressed to J.G. Lockhart, Esq. by Sir Walter Scott, Bart.

Non-Fiction
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PUBLISHERJohn Murray, London.
BINDINGHalf bound with leather spine and corners and marbled boards. gilt lettering and decoration to banded spine. Marbled block edges and endpapers.
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William Morris
£18.00

Old French Romances

Fiction
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PUBLISHERGeorge Allen, London.
BINDINGBurgundy cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are generally worn, scuffed at edges, corners bumped. Some marking. Hinges weak with a few splits, but...

Violet Alford
£35.00

Pyrenean Festivals: Calendar Customs, Music & Magic, Drama & Dance

Non-Fiction
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A most interesting and detailed description of customs in the Pyrenees mountains of Northern Spain.

Henry Gilbert
£30.00

Robin Hood and the Men of the Greenwood

Fiction
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PUBLISHERT.C. and E.C. Jack, Edinburgh and London.
BINDINGTan Cloth boards with green lettering and decoration and pasted on roundel coloured image.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are worn,...

Udai Narain Roy
£40.00

Salabhanjika: In Art, Philosophy and Literature (signed copy)

Non-Fiction
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PUBLISHERLokbharti Publications, Allahabad.
BINDINGBlack cloth boards with gilt lettering.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards have some general shelf wear. Hinges a little weak but binding secure. Slight discolouration to outer leaves, but printed pages and images remain clear and little marked.
DUST JACKETIn worn condition with creasing and some tearing...

W.B. Whall
£25.00

Sea Songs and Shanties

Non-Fiction
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PUBLISHERJames Brown & Son, Ltd. Glasgow.
BINDINGGreen cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are worn at edges, with what looks like some water damage and fading. Binding secure. Traces of water mark to bottom edges of first few pages, but text and manuscripts remain largely clear and little marked. Booksellers...

Giambattista Basile
£80.00

Stories from the Pentamerone

Fiction
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This collection of folk tales was first published in Naples, in the Neapolitan dialect, by Giambattista Basile (died C. 1637) They are believed to have been collected mainly in Venice and Crete.

J.R.R. Tolkien
£50.00

The Father Christmas Letters

Children
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PUBLISHERGeorge Allen & Unwin Ltd.
BINDINGPictorial boards.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards have some general wear around edges, the ends of the spine spine are bumped. Some faint scratching to gloss surface. There are some faint foxing spots throughout the book, although mostly confined to outer leaves. Four bottom corners on...

Helen Jacobson
£30.00

The First Book of Mythical Beasts

Children
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PUBLISHERFranklin Watts, London and New York.
BINDINGYellow cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated endpapers.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are slightly faded, with some foxing and wear at edges. Binding tight. Some foxing affecting outer leaves, but text and illustrations are largely clear and little marked. 
DUST JACKETIntact,...

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