New York: Anchor Books, 1974. 14th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Fourteenth printing. Spine faded, corners dog-eared, laminate starting, pages toned.
xvi, 1101 pp. Unlike the Brothers Grimm, who collected and retold folklore, Andersen adopted the most ancient literary forms of the fairy tale and the folklore and distilled them into a......
Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1969. Wallwork, Richard. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges bumped with a few minor tears to jacket spine head.
513 pp. 16 color plates, black-and-white photographs and illustrations. "An account o the history, art, and mythology of the Polynesian races..."
New York: Scott, Foreman and Company, 1961. Large Hardcover.
Lacks jacket, boards rubbed.
Contains fables, myths, and fairy tales from many traditions.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey / New York: Prentice-Hall / Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1967. Large Hardcover.
Tear to jacket spine head, jacket corners bumped. Ink name on front free endpaper.
441 pp. "By a series of cross-sections of Classical civilization at different times, he clarifies the many currents and connections.....
New Delhi: Manohar, 1977. Second Edition, Revised. Hard Cover.
Second edition, revised and enlarged. Jacket edges rubbed with some small chips and small tears, price sticker on front jacket flap. Ink name.
xv, 319 pp. This study correlates the cult of the Indian Mother Goddess with similar cults found in.....
New York: Grove Press, 2000. Trade Paperback.
Spine faintly creased.
xiv, 370 pp. The three-thousand-year-old epic Ramayana chronicles Lord Rama's physical voyage from one end of the Indian subcontinent to the other and his spiritual voyage from Man to God. In Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God, anthropologist and journalist Jonah.....
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1895. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Spine slightly cocked, rear board creased, bookplate and ink stamp on front endpapers.
272 pp. 12 pages of publisher ads follow text. "In classical mythology, Scylla was a horrible six-headed monster who lived on a rock on.....
Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer, 2009. Trade Paperback.
A fine copy.
160 pp. Haunted Plantations of Virginia spotlights 20 historic homes and the author's explorations of the ghostly encounters reported at each. Find out why the tales of murder, suicide, hidden fortune, and heartbreak at these sites cause spirits to linger
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Boson: Lee and Shepard, 1874. Hard Cover.
Some loss to spine head and spine base, front board soiled, hinges broken, pencil name and some pencil notes throughout.
488 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 – May 27, 1867[1]) was an American writer born in Newton, Massachusetts, best.....
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Boston: Sanborn, Carter, Bazin & Co., 1855. Third Edition. Hard Cover.
Third edition. Loss to spine head, tear to spine, hinges repaired with tape, ink notes on second flyleaf.
488 pp. Author's first book. "Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of general audience works by American Latinist and banker Thomas Bulfinch.....
New York: Avenel Books, 1979. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. Front board slightly bowed, pages toned.
xvii, 957 pp. For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity; Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables.....
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1970. 5th Printing. Hard Cover.
5th printing. Jacket spine a bit faded, jacket price clipped.
980 pp. Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of the works of Thomas Bulfinch, renamed after him and published after his death. It is a classic work of mythology and is.....
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1977. Fiore, Quentin. Full-Leather.
Gilt edges a bit scuffed, otherwise a very nice copy.
769, [1] pp. Original red full leather, gilt titles, gold and blue decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Burton's translation of The Arabian Nights remains.....
Ipswich / Great Britain: The Limited Editions Club / W.S. Cowell, Ltd., 1954. Szyk, Arthur. Hard Cover.
Limited edition, #1160 of 1500 copies. Small surface tear on base panel of one slipcase. Boards of volume one lightly soiled. Gilt on spine of all volumes lightly rubbed.
Four volume set in.....
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Barefoot Books, 2012. Baker-Smith, Grahame. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
First printing. A fine copy.
176 pp. The champion of the destitute and downtrodden rides again. Meet young Robin Hood before he becomes the hero of Sherwood Forest, and follow along with his band of merry men as his.....
New York: Penguin Books, 1976. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Minor edge wear, pages faintly toned.
xvii, 730 pp. In this fourth volume of The Masks of God — Joseph Campbell's major work of comparative mythology — the pre-eminent mythologist looks at the birth of the modern, individualistic mythology as it.....
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1973. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback.
3rd printing. Spine faded. Text unmarked.
xxiii, 416 pp. The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis with the archetypes of world mythology, the book creates a roadmap for navigating the frustrating path.....
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1973. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Third printing. Front cover bumped.
xxiii, 416 pp. The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis with the archetypes of world mythology, the book creates a roadmap for navigating the frustrating path of.....
New York: Penguin Books, 1977. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprints. Ink name on Primitive Mythology and Oriental Mythology. All volumes: Spine creased, edge wear, pages toned.
Complete four volume set. "Written between 1962 and 1968, Campbell's four-volume work The Masks of God covers mythology from around the world, from ancient to.....
New York: Doubleday, 1988. 7th Printing. Large Softcover.
Seventh printing. Ink name.
xix, [1], 231, [5] pp. The Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people--including Star Wars.....
New York: Doubleday, 1988. 4th Printing. Large Softcover.
4th printing. Ink underlining and marginalia throughout.
xix, [1], 231, [5] pp. The Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of.....
New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1936. Baldridge, Cyrus LeRoy. Reprint. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Minor general wear.
xvii, 381 pp. 8vo. Sketches by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. A collection of stories and folklore related to New York State. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Carl Carmer (October 16, 1893 - September 1976) was an.....
Edinburgh: Lindisfarne Press, 1992. Review Copy. Trade Paperback.
Review copy with slip laid in. Edge wear, page corners lightly dog-eared, smudge on top page ridge.
684 pp. This is the most complete anthology of Celtic oral tradition ever assembled. During his travels, Alexander Carmichael spent hours with peasants in their.....
New York: Crescent Books, 1980. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Jacket spine faded, jacket edges rubbed. Ink name and address on front free endpaper.
303 pp. Examines all major mythological systems from the nonliterate societies to complex cultures to give a survey of the world's principal myths.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Large Hardcover.
No jacket. Cloth on rear board wrinkled, some pages wrinkled.
117 pp. 25 color plates (26 if you count the one mounted to the front board), comprising a frontispiece and 24 plates in the text, all on glossy sheets mounted.....