New York: Cheshire House, 1932. Hardcover. 138 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in slc. English text. #308 of 1200 copies. Printed by Richard Ellis for Cheshire House. Includes "The Life of Aesop" by Oliver Goldsmith. Illustrated w/ 68 engravings by Thomas Bewick. Slight sunning discoloration to boards & spine; moreso to spine.....
New York: Atheneum, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 120 pp., 8vo. Quarter-cloth hardcover in dj. First edition. Illustrated w/ b&w prints & photos. Boards fine. Binding tight. Textblock clean & crisp. Dj fine. Discussing some of the biggest questions in Arthurian legend & its relationship to reality.
Lexington: Museum of Our National Heritage, 1988. Cloth. 196 pp., 4to. Cloth hardcover in dj. Very light flexing & shelfwear to boards. Some shelfwear, cocking & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Pgs clean & crisp. Moderate scuffing & slight shelfwear to dj.
Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, 1976. Hard Cover. 8vo. 51 pp. Paste action to end pages. Corners slightly bumped and worn. Otherwise book is fresh and clean. "Set in a mental institution, this haunting drama of a psychiatrist on the day of his dismissal vividly portrays the dilemma of a man.....
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1994. Paperback. 254 pp, 8vo. Paperback. Inscribed by Kennedy on half-title. Shelfworn and faintly sunned, sl. soiled to covers, crease to lower corner of back cover. Lt soil to textblock, minor soil to fore-edge of last few pgs. Else clean, binding strong. Inscribed.
Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. 202 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. The Riverside Press. "Told by R. M. Ward & his kindred in the Beech Mountain section of Western North Carolina & by other descendants of Council Harmon (1803-1896) elsewhere in The Southern Mountains; w/.....
Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2006. Hard Cover. 450 pp. 4to. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife, Volume One: Topics and Themes, Africa, Australia and Oceania. Light edgewear to boards, small soil mark to rfep and rpd, minor scuffing to half-title. Interior otherwise clean. Includes b&w illustrations.....
NYC: Avon, 1974. Wraps. 4to. 128pp. Light staining to rear cover; pp. 113-128 detached but present. Explores the universal symbol of the tree of life & its function in world religions, mythology, & folklore. W/ 165 illustrations -- 31 in full color.
New York: St Martin's Press, 1977. Hardcover. 240 pp. 8vo. Hardcover in dj. Edgewear to dj, sunning to spine. Edgewear to book, lt bumping to sp. ends. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
London: Blandford, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 128 pp. 4to (small). Hardcover in dj. First edition. Dj scuffed, bumping to sp. ends and corners. Edgewear to book, bumping to sp. ends and upper corners. Faint soil/foxing to top edge. "Legends of the Round table and Holy Grail Retraced."
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 194 pp Sunning to bottom edge, spine and corners are bumped, wear to edges of dj, top edge has some tearing, sunning to dj. A study in literary mythology.
Bucharest: Publishing House of the Romanian Cultural Foundation, 1998. Paperback. 307 pp. 8vo. Paperback. Shelfwear and light soilling. Light bumping to spine head. Faint browning to spine, joints and cover edges. In Romanian and English.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 128 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. 11 tales from traditional Latvian folklore translated into English. Illustrated w/ fantastical drawings. W/ afterword offering insights into Latvian culture & traditions. Some faint shelfwear & soiling to boards & spine. Slight cocking.....
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. 234 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. "A study in human-animal relationships." An interdisciplinary study examining the British & European tradition(s) of the sacred traditional wren hunt. Boards fine. Cocking to spine but binding very sturdy. Textblock clean & crisp.....
New York and Tokyo: John Weatherhill, Inc., 1972. Cloth. 141 pp., 4to. Hardcover in dj. Japanese tales (in English text) illustrated w/ 17 calligraph-paintings. Boards & spine fine. Binding tight. Textblock quite clean. Light shelfwear to dj.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Cloth Hard Cover w/ Dustjacket. 8vo. 469 pp. Light rubbing and soil to dj. 2 inch closed chip to dj at foot of spine. Book itself in great condition. Light bumping to edges. Interior clean. B&w illustrations. Set of color plates. "Thousands of articles.......
Boston, MA: Merrymount Press, 1916. First edition. half cloth. 12mo. 95 pp. Some rubbing to boards, some very light foxing to endpapers, former owner's bookplate to fpd. Translated by Isabel Hapgood. Russian tale of a clockwork flea. Limited edition published by the Merrymount for the Company of Gentlemen Adventurers.
New York: HarperSanFransisco, 1993. First edition. Soft Cover. 4to. 248 pp. Light edgewear. Beautiful color illustrations to accomany prose about the gods and goddesses.
New York: McGraw Hill, 1976. First edition. Cloth Hardcover. Folio. 208 pp. Spine ends and corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, light rubbing along dj edges. Book is in excellent condition.
New York: DAW Books, Inc., 2003. 1/4 Cloth. 8vo. 535 pp. D.j. lightly rubbed. "Donovan Kirkwood has become a virtual prisoner, forbidden to leave the country by Queen Elizabeth's command. With him are both his own and his brother Griffin's children, three of whom are the new generation's heirs to.....
Urbana, Chicago and London: University of Illinois Press, 1976. Cloth. 153 pp., 8vo. Brown cloth hardcover in dj. Not signed in snow. Light flexing & shelfwear to boards. Light shelfwear & cocking to spine but binding very sturdy. Very light soiling to textblock edges. Textblock clean & crisp. Moderate scuffing.....
Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1973. Hardcover. 2929 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. 6 vols. English text. Siva-Purana & Linga-Purana. Boards & spine wrapped in clear plastic. Sunning to spines. Bindings holding sturdy. Some light soiling to textblock edges. Some faint creases scattered to very clean interiors; po pen signature to vol. I ffep.....
Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1978. Cloth. Folio. 1626 pp. Corners slightly bumped, slight soiling to covers, otherwise books are fresh and clean. 2 volumes.
Dutton, circa 1923. Hardcover. 202 pp., 12mo. Hardcover. Illustrated w/ b&w drawings. Celtic myths retold. Light shelfwear & soiling to boards & spine. Slight cocking to spine but binding very sturdy. Pencil marginalia & light soiling scattered to mostly clean interior, most pencil marginalia to contents pg.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1946. Cloth. 8vo. 248 pp. + 70 b/w illustrations. Bollingen Series VI. Cloth, gilt cover design and lettering bright. Endpapers heavily foxed, light foxing to edges. Text clean. Dj foxed, soiled, edges chipped, several closed 1 - 2" tears. Indian mythology: interpretation of legends, myths and.....
