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Schmidkunz, Walter : De Swienegel als Wettrenner. Ein plattdeutsches M�rchen. M�nchen: M�nchner Buchverlag 1941. (M�nchner Lesebogen) stapled pamphlet, 16p, printed with illus and green ornaments, stapel rusted, original PKM 144097 £8
Briggs, Katharine : The Vanishing People. A Study of Traditional Fairy Beliefs. London: Batsford 1978. 218p hardback with silver dj, ex lib with label on spine, bookplate on pastesheet and usual stamps, a few minor ink marks on few pages, overall pages clean, binding firm, good condition PKM 144010 £14
Zhirmunsky, Victor [Ed]: Legenda o doktore Fauste. (RUSSIAN) Moscow: Izdatelstvo Academii Nauk SSSR 1958. 574p 14 illustrations, olive green cloth hardback with gold lettering to cover and spine, pages clean and bright, an excellent copy PKM 143980 £24
Hearne, Betsy : Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale. Chicago University Press 1989. 247p large hardback with dustjacket, minor ex library marking, nice fresh copy, colour plates, VG PKM 143849 £46
Craik, Mrs : John Dietrich and other Stories from The Fairy Book. London: Nelson 1920. 158p sm blue cloth with gilt lettering and colour illustration on front, fresh gilt lettering on spine, no date, pages nice and clean, lovely colour plates, binding firm, VG PKM 143426 £12
Spence, Lewis : Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria. With 8 Plates in Colour by Evelyn Paul and 32 other Illustrations. London: Harrap 1920. 412p orig green cloth fresh and clean, gilt lettering to spine and front board, VG PKM 143393 £16
Frazer, James George : The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Third Edition. Part 2: Taboos and the Perils of the Soul. London: Macmillan 1911. original green cloth with mistletoe pattern to front, a rather worn ex library copy with yielding binding, spine hinges entirely open, the text itself is clean and little used. Original, but binding poor PKM 143366 £14
Frazer, James George : The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Third Edition. Part 5: Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild. Part 1 and 2. London: Macmillan 1912. 2 vols in original green cloth with mistletoe pattern to front, a somewhat worn ex library set with yielding binding, tears to hinges, especially to the first vol, well worth some restorative effort. The text itself is clean and little used. Original PKM 143365 £24
Frazer, James George : The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Third Edition. Part 6: The Scapegoat. London: Macmillan 1913. 453p in original green cloth with mistletoe pattern to front, a somewhat worn ex library vol with yielding binding, tears to hinges, well worth some restorative effort. The text itself is clean and little used. Original PKM 143364 £18
Frere, M : Old Deccan Days; or, Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India. London: Murray 1868. xxxv 331p rebound in plain burgundy cloth, ex library with stamp to title page, colour frontisp and 2 addtl colour plates present, third plate (Fortune Tellers) missing, many b/w illus in the text, first edition from a Cambridge Student Library PKM 143353 £25
Wilson, Arnold ; Levy, Hermann : Burial Reform and Funeral Costs. Oxford University Press 1938. xv 248p large format black cloth, excellent copy with minimal library markings PKM 143294 £36
Rhys, Ernest : Fairy Gold. A Book of Old English Fairy Tales. Dent / Everyman 1929. light blue cloth, orig dustjacket present and almost complete, bookplate to endpaper, printed with ornaments to many pages PKM 143250 £12
Okpewho, Isidore : Myth in Africa. Cambridge University Press 1983. 309p cloth, dustjacket, large hardback, ex college library without any signs of use or wear, excellent fresh copy, with dustjacket PKM 143180 £24
Hartland, Edwin : The Science of Fairy Tales. An Inquiry Into Fairy Mythology. London: Scott 1891. viii 372p rebound in burgundy cloth ex library, pages clean and bright, ex library, very good copy looking for another round of library duty PKM 143179 £38
Armstrong, Edward : The Folklore of Birds. New York: Dover 1970. paperback with green cover, ex college library, clean copy, many illustration, nice clean copy, pages clean, binding tight, very good PKM 143177 £48
Bellamy, John : Robin Hood: An Historical Enquiry. London: Croom Helm 1985. 150p hardback with green dj, clean college library copy, hardly used, VG PKM 143176 £28
Meyer-Baer, Kathi : Music of the Spheres and the Dance of Death. Studies in Musical Iconology. Princeton University Press 1970. 376p orange cloth hardback, excellent condition, ex library, apparently never used, no flaws or faults PKM 143054 £58
Zhelenznova, Irina [Transl]: The Sun Princess and her Deliverer. A Lithuanian Folk Tale. Drawings by A Makunaite. Moscow: Progress 1973. 48p large format stapled, ex library, in colour, with pencil notes on inner cover PKM 142985 £12
Ioseliano, Ottia : Left in Charge. Designed by F Volski. Moscow: Progress 1973. 24p large format stapled, ex library, in colour PKM 142984 £12
Pushkin, Alexander : The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights, Drawings V Konashevich. Moscow: Progress 1973. 36p large format stapled, ex library, in colour PKM 142983 £12
Katayev, Valentin : Rainbow Flower. Drawings by V Losin. Moscow: Progress 1974?. 24p large format stapled, ex library, in colour PKM 142981 £10
Sakharnov, Svyatoslav : Wondrous Ships. Drawings by Vladimir Surikov. Moscow: Progress 1974. 24p large format stapled, ex library, in colour PKM 142980 £10
Halliwell, James Orchard : Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. 2 vols. London: Bodley Head 1970. 2 vols hardback with worn dustjacket, library markings, ex library , still very good set PKM 142193 £24
Newall, Venetia : An Egg at Easter. A Folklore Study. London: Routledge 1971. 423p ex library first edition hardcover with illustrated dustjacket chipped along top edge PKM 141462 £10
Judge, Roy : The Jack-in-the-Green. A May Day custom. Cambridge: Brewer 1979. (Mistletoe) 145p hardcover, green illustrated dustjacket only lightly worn, ex library with usual library markings otherwise excellent, appears little used PKM 141460 £12
Khayyat, Shimon : Relations Between Muslims, Jews and Christians, as Reflected in Arabic Proverbs. London: Folklore Society 1985. 18p essay in complete issue of the Journal of the Folklore Society 1985 Part ii, other articles on Yoruba twin beliefs, Sindhi folklore, cremation, etc PKM 140622 £13
Marriott, William : A Collection of English Miracle-Plays or Mysteries containing Ten Dramas from the Chester, Coventry, and Towneley Series, with Two of Latter Date to which is prefixed, an Historical View of this Description of Plays by William Marriott. Basel: Schweighauser 1838. 271p hard cover, grey boards quite soiled, tape repair to spine with title handwritten on the tape, previous owner's stamp to ffep, pages foxed particularly endpapers and preliminary pages, pages otherwise very clean and white, binding firm PKM 140606 £35
Leal, Luis [Ed]: Historia del Cuento Hispanoamericano. 2nd Edicion Ampliada. Mexico: Andrea 1971. (Historia Literaria de Hispanoamerica) 186p paperback, blue and white card cover with integral flaps, spine and edges sunned and slightly worn, interior excellent, clean and fresh, binding firm PKM 140580 £24
Eliade, Mircea : Mythes, R�ves et Myst�res. Paris: Gallimard 1957. (Les Essais) 305 original paperback, second edition, with marginalia (mostly pencil) to approx 10 pages PKM 140472 £14
Armistead, Samuel ; Silverman, Joseph : Diez Romances Hispanicos en un Manuscrito Sefardi de la Isla de Rodas. Pisa: Istituto 1962. (Istituto di Letteratura Spagnola e Ispano-Americana) 91p paperback with green cover, minor library marking and author inscription by both authors PKM 140011 £26
Maury, Alfred : Croyances ed L�gendes de l'Antiquit�. Paris: Didier 1863. 414p publisher's catalogue (28p) in back, orig half calf binding with marbeled boards crudely repaired with blue cloth tape, library stamp, binding firm, edges red, first edition PKM 139839 £38
(No Author) : Annuaire des Traditions Populaires. Deuxieme Annee. Paris: Leclerc 1887. xxx 183p orig paperback with crude blue cloth tape to spine, ex library, original edition, printed with ornaments and illus in the text, also contains list of members and instructions how to submit illustrations for the journal PKM 139838 £24
Velten, Carl : M�rchen und Erz�hlungen der Suaheli. Berlin: Spemann 1898. 264p small period paperback, tape along spine, library shelfmark, well preserved, first edition, minor faults PKM 139835 £24
Variot, Jean : L�gendes et traditions orales d'Alsace. Tome 2: Sundgau et Haute-Alsace. Paris: Cr�s 1919. 333p period paperback with orange paper cover, tape along spine and minor library markings, aged, original PKM 139834 £20
Variot, Jean : L�gendes et traditions orales d'Alsace. Tome 3: Basse Alsace. Paris: Cr�s 1920. 485p period paperback with orange paper cover, tape along spine and minor library markings, aged, origina PKM 139833 £20
Saintyves, P : Les Liturgies Populaires. Rondes Enfantines et Qu�tes Saisonni�res. Paris: Livre Mensuel 1919. 227p small paperback, transparent adhesive tape along spine, minor library markings, VG PKM 139830 £26
Millien, Achille : Les Chants Oraux du Peuple Russe. Paris: Champion 1893. 254p paperback sl worn, ex library with transparent tape to spine. cover detaching, paper browning, rare and original PKM 139829 £88
Kr�ger, Fritz : G�ographie des Traditions Populaires en France. Avec un Abum de 22 Figures. Mendoza: Universidad Nacional de Cuyo 1950. 255p paperback sl worn, ex library with minor markings and stamps, VG, but the album with illustrations is missing PKM 139828 £26
Larivaille, Paul [Ed]; Aretino, Pietro : Lettere di, a, su Pietro Aretino. Nanterre: Publidix 1989. 160p small format paperback, VG PKM 139826 £28
Robert, Maurice : Parler Limousin, parlar limousi. Limoges: SELM 1977. 84p plates, Special issue of the journal Ethnologia, minor library markings, VG+ PKM 139819 £24
Roug�, Jacques-Marie : Le Folklore de la Touraine. Pr�face de Ren� Boylesve. Tours: Arrault 1931. 377p orig paperback with private plain paper jacket, clean firm copy of the first edition, with minor library markings PKM 139817 £24
De Fourcaud [Introduction]: La Tradition au Pays Basque. Art Populaire, Ethnographie, Folk-Lore, Hagiographie, Histoire. Paris: Tradition Nationale 1899. 589p some plates, large format paperback with minor library markings and transparent tape along spine, and along bottom edge of cover, paper yellowing, still very useful and original, first edition PKM 139815 £240
Boucher, Gustave [Introduction]: La Tradition en Poitou et Charentes. Art Populaire, Ethnographie, Folk-Lore, Hagiographie, Histoire. Paris: Tradition Nationale 1897. xxi 479p, plates, large format paperback with minor library markings and transparent tape along spine, paper yellowing, still very useful and original PKM 139814 £110
Xokoyotsij, Jos� Antonio : Sempoalxochitl. Veinte Flores: Una Sola Flor. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma 1987. (Totlahtol - Nuestra Palabra) 61p slim paperback with red illus to cover, VG+, as new PKM 139802 £44
Silva Galena, Librado et al: In Yancuic Nahua Tlahtolli: Relatos y Cantos en Nahuatl. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma 1987. (Totlahtol - Nuestra Palabra) 59p slim paperback with red illus to cover, VG+, as new PKM 139801 £44
: Nastenniy Kalendar. Russian Language. Moscow: Ogiz Gospolitizdat 1948. 365p metal clasp, some pages detached, but all present, pages clean, browned PKM 139406 £30
Seuleanu, Ion : Dincoace di sacru, dincolo de profan. 2nd Edition. Targu-Mures: Tipomur 1995. 175p paperback, VG with author inscription PKM 139134 £34
Stegemeier, Henri : The Dance of Death in Folksong, with an Introduction on the History of the Dance of Death. Chicago 1939. 230p orig paper cover, reproduced from typescript, author dedication "to my esteemed teacher", VG+ with minor library markings, but back paper cover missing PKM 139064 £50
Drijver, F W : Historie en Legende. Vervolg op Mozaiek. Groningen: Noordhoff 1912. 250p orig cloth binding, a very good ex libray copy, hardly used PKM 139063 £20
Federation Folklorique : Bulletin Folklorique d'Ile-de-France. Vol 13 (1-4), Vol 14 (1-3), Vol 15 (1-4), Vol 17 (1-3) Paris 1951. Collection of 14 issues, all with library markings, each approx 40p, with illus, VG PKM 139057 £46
Barandiaran, Joseph-Michel : Eusko-Jakintza. Revue d'Etudes Basques. Vol 3, no 4-6, 1949. Bayonne: Darracq 1949. single issue of journal, paginated 299 - 530, orig paper cover ages, minor ex library markings, VG PKM 139056 £30
Combs, Josiah : Folk-Songs du Midi des Etats-Unis. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 1925. orig paperback, first edition, ex library with tape along paper spine, clean copy, name of Ralph Boggs on cover PKM 139055 £24
Keary, A ; Keary, E : The Heroes of Asgard: Tales from Scandinavian Mythology. London: Macmillan 1961. 120p small orange cloth, spine sl sunned, with frontispiece, pages unmarked with plates, binding firm, VG PKM 139033 £11
Hammerstein, Hans von : Trachten der Alpenl�nder. In Zehnfarbigen Wiedergaben von Vierhundert Vorbildlichen Trachtenst�cken aus Privaten und �ffentlichen Sammlungen�. Wien: Reichner 1937. 60p red paperback, book block detached from covers, covers tape repaired, some pages with foxing, some of the coloured plates show some foxing too others are very clean and fresh, overall acceptable condition PKM 138865 £16
Jonsson, Bengt ; Holzapfel, Otto : Sartryck ur. Sumlen - arsbok for vis - och folkmusikforskning 1978. Transactions of the Stockholm Conference on Ballad Formulas and Skandinavische Volksballadenformeln: Merkmal traditioneller Improvisation oder literarischer / verbaler Tradierung? Offprint 1978. 94 - 125pp, yellow card covers, two essays: Report on the Transactions of the Stockholm Conference on Ballad Formulas and Skandinavische Volksballadenformeln: Merkmal traditioneller Improvisation oder literarischer / verbaler Tradierung? PKM 138858 £15
Scott, Margaret : A Visual History of Costume. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. London: Batsford 1986. (Visual History of Costume) 143p with original illustrated dustjacket, a delightful book, pages clean and unmarked and dj in VG condition, a very good copy PKM 138662 £55
Robbins, Rossell Hope [Ed]: Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1952. 331p blue cloth, gilt titles, ex library with minimal old library stickers, boards lightly rubbed, binding excellent, pages very clean PKM 138419 £14
Iorga, N : La Roumanie Pittoresque. Paris: Gamber 1924. 220p lare format pb, covers missing, spine with fraying to head and foot, pages unmarked, few with sl foxing, one page with tear on long edge, with many b&w plates and 2 colour plates mounted on brown card, overall good condition PKM 136695 £100
Papahagi, Tache : Images d'Ethnographie Roumaine. Daco-Roumaine et Aroumaine. Tome Premier. Societatea Cultural-Nationala, Apostol Margarit 1928. 173p brown card cover, covers with foxing, sl warped towards spine, ex libris plate on inside of front cover, signature of Tache Papahagi on rear of title page, pages all very clean and with many b&w plates showing people in various traditional clothing, agriculture and architecture, overall good condition PKM 136693 £100
Iorga, N : L'Art Populaire en Roumanie. Son Caract�re, ses Rapports et son Origine. Paris: Gamber 1923. 135p brown card cover, covers heavily tattered off and front cover detached, title page towards edges affected by insect attac, few pages inside with similar traces but in general pages in good condition, text and plates not affected, most plates b&w but some plates colour printed, binding poor with some lose pages, rare copy PKM 136607 £50
Cruikshank, George [Illustr]; Collier, Payne : Punch and Judy. Books for the Bairns 42 with illustrations drawn by George Cruikshank. London: Review of Reviews 1899?. (Books for the Bairns) 60p, pink card cover missing, half of bookblock detached, pages very browned, good reading copy of a scarce text in poor condition, text based on the performance of an old Italian puppet-showman named Piccini (early 19thc?) PKM 135642 £7
Schur� : Les Grandes L�gendes de France. Les Legendes de l'Alsace, La Grande Chartreuse, Le Mont Saint-Michel et son histoire, Les L�gendes de la Bretagne et le G�nie celtique. Paris: Perrin 1924. 295p paperback, blue card covers, spine sunned, edgeworn, top edge dusty, many pages uncut, binding VG, pages clean, French language PKM 135213 £9
Kent, Cecily : Telling Fortunes by Tea-Leaves. Cecily Kent's New Method of Divination Clearly Explained. How to Read Your Fate in a Tea-cup with Twenty Illustrations. Fourth printing. London: Jenkins 1921?. 172p small faded green hardback with black titles, splashes to the boards (tea?) and spine missing, binding otherwise sound though back hinge weakening PKM 133987 £16
Societ� Filologica Friulana : Villotte e Canti Popolari Friulani a cura della Societ� Filologica Friulana G I Ascoli. Edizione sovvenuta dal Comune di Udine. Fascicolo 1. Firenze: Mignani 1920?. 69p undated grey paperback, card covers soiled, page edges tanned otherwise very good, 30 Italian folk songs arranged for Tenor and Bass voices PKM 133779 £14
Leberwurst, Gustav ; Hulme, John [Ed]: M�rder Guss Reims. Selected Poems of Gustav Leberwurst Transcribed and Annotated by John Hulme. London: Angus 1981. Small hardback with green and white dustcover, unpaginated, poems in German, notes and introduction in English, light wear to unclipped dustcover otherwise excellent PKM 133423 £16
Damaschke, Adolf : Volkst�mliche Redekunst: Erfahrungen und Ratschl�ge. Jena: Fischer 1911. 88p grey pb, pages unmarked, binding firm, VG PKM 133348 £9
Marett, R R : Psychology and Folk-Lore. London: Methuen 1920. 275p orig red cloth, ex library, a well preserved ex lib copy PKM 131826 £16
Eftaliotis, Argyris : Modern Tales of the Greek Islands. Transl W H D Rouse. London: Nelson 1942. 238p blue cloth fresh, dustjacket present, VG+ PKM 131754 £46
Barbulescu, Corneliu : Motifs Concordantes dans le Narrations Populaires de Peuples de la P�ninsule Balkanique (=Zeitschrift f�r Balkanologie, Jahrgang 9, Heft 1 und 2) M�nchen: Trofenik 1973. 5-10p green offprint (Sonderdruck), this is not the entire issue, pages unmarked, VG PKM 131678 £9
Wilson, Edward : Folk Traditions in Westmorland (Journal of the Folklore Institute, Vol 3, No 3) London: Mouton 1965. 276-293p green card cover, reprint, pages unmarked, binding firm, VG PKM 131617 £13
Brockett, John Trotter : A Glossary of North Country Words with their Etymology and Affinity to other Languages and occasional Notices of Local Customs and Popular Superstitions. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Emerson Charnley 1846. 254p 242p 2 vols bound in one, engraved frontisp, library donation bookplate, oversized "Do Not Remove" label to back board, half calf binding with some rubbing to hinges, VG PKM 131560 £300
Niessen, Manfred : M�rchenmotive und ihre Funktion f�r den Aufbau des H�fischen Romans, Dargestellt am "Iwein" Hartmanns von Aue. Self Published 1973. 422p card cover with grey cloth tape spine, dissertation, pages unmarked, binding firm, VG PKM 131209 £36
V�lker, Wolfram : M�rchenhafte Elemente bei Chr�tien de Troyes. Bonn: Universit�tsverlag 1972. (Romanistische Versuche und Vorarbeiten) 300p mint paperback, spine sunned, pages unmarked, binding firm, printed from typescript, nice fresh copy PKM 131193 £15
Leyen, Friedrich von der : Das M�rchen. Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer 1925. 164p blue cloth, boards sunned and with sl foxing, black letter print, pages unmarked, binding firm, VG PKM 130448 £12
Panzer, Friedrich : M�rchen, Sage und Dichtung. M�nchen: Beck 1905. 55p grey card cover, sunned, inner part almost detached from cover, pages unmarked, overall good condition, gut erhaltenes Exemplar, Einband fast vollstaendig abgetrennt von Seiten, diese jedoch sauber und unmarkiert PKM 130432 £16
Alibasah, Margarat Muth : Indonesian Folk Tales. Djakarta: Djambatan 1943. 101p small illustrated card cover, small tear on front cover, pages unmarked with b&w plates, binding firm, VG PKM 130080 £13
Williamson, Duncan ; Williamson, Linda : A Thorn in the King's Foot: Stories of the Scottish Travelling People. Harmondsworth: Penguin 1987. (Penguin Folklore Library) 304p illustrated pb, minor shelfwear, pages unmarked, binding firm, VG PKM 130032 £14
Propp, Vladimir : Le Radici Storiche dei Racconti di Fate. Torino: Boringhieri 1976. 578p black pb, text in Italian, pages unmarked, binding firm, VG PKM 130030 £14
Procter, Adelaide : Legends and Lyrics together with a Chaplet of Verses. London: Routledge. viii 298p blue cloth with sl faded gilt ornaments and lettering on spine, no date, previous owner's dedication from June 1906 on ffep, sl weak binding, pages clean, VG PKM 129829 £15
(No Author) : English Popular Ballads. Halifax: Milner & Sowerby 1860. ix 382p sm blindstamped brown cloth, 13 cm, boards worn, gilt lettering on spine faded, corners sl bumped, previous owner's signature on front inner board, sl weak inner hinges, frontisp, vignette on title page, pages clean, well preserved copy PKM 129819 £64
Philips, Ambrose : A Collection of Old Ballads: Corrected from the Best and Most Ancient Copies Extant; With Introductions Historical, Critical or Humorous. Volume 1-3. London: Roberts 1723. 287p 266p 263p beige cloth spine with gilt lettering, set of 3 Vols, library rebound from St Catherine's College Cambridge, ex lib with each label on spine, stamps on ffep, pages unmarked, illustrated with copper plates, binding firm, VG PKM 129527 £345
Holloway, John ; Black, Joan : Later English Broadside Ballads. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1975. 296p cloth with yellow dj, sl dusty, initials of prev owner on ffep, pages unmarked, binding firm, VG PKM 129509 £20
Hort, W Jillard : The New Pantheon or an Introduction to the Mythology of the Ancients. For the Use of Young Persons to which are added an accentuated Index, Questions for Exercises, and Poetical Illustrations of Grecian Mythology from Homer and Virgil. New Edition. London: Longmans, Green. viii 272p sm worn cloth, fold-out fontisp, pages clean, no date, early 1900s, binding firm, b&w plates, nice inside, good PKM 129493 £8
Cardenas, Isabel Laura : Faro de Jose Ignacio. Su historia y su gente. Buenos Aires: Ayllu 1992. 158p paperback, illus, VG+: A village in Uruguay PKM 128838 £48
Carranza, Ezequiel Almanza : Leyendas Guanajuatenses. Segunda Parte de Relatos y Sucedidos de Guanajuato. Leon: Lumen 1981. 120p large paperback, with illus, VG+ PKM 128837 £46
Donghi, Beatrice : La Fiaba come Racconto. Venezia: Marsilio 1976. 174p large orange pb, 1st ed, faint marginal ink notes on one or two pages and on back cover, otherwise nice and clean, VG PKM 128209 £12
L�thi, Max : M�rchen. Sechste Auflage. Stuttgart: Metzler 1976. (Sammlung Metzler) 145p pb, hardly used, clean pages, VG PKM 128208 £8
Propp, Vladimir : Edipo alla Luce del Folclore: Quattro studi di etnografia storico-strutturale. A cura di Clara Strada Janovic. Torino: Einaudi 1975. xviii 161p sm white pb, marginal ink notes on a few pages, heavy ink notes on back cover, otherwise clean, good reading copy PKM 128207 £12
L�thi, Max : Volksm�rchen und Volkssage: Zwei Grundformen erz�hlender Dichtung. Bern: Francke 1975. 208p large green pb, clean pages, hardly used, VG PKM 128205 £12
Arnim, Achim von : Von Volksliederen: Aus dem Wunderhorn. Heidelberg: Winter 1974. pp 435 - 484 blue card covers, nice and clean, hardly used copy, VG+ PKM 128203 £10
Grimm Brothers : Rumpelstilzchen. Illus Otto Schott. M�nchen: Josef M�ller 1957. small booklet with colour illus on cover and addtl colour illus in text, excellent condition, with glassine jacket, as new PKM 127991 £22
Roud, Stephen : Mumming Plays in Oxfordshire: An Interim Checklist. Sheffield: Traditional Drama Research Group 1984. 42p stapled booklet (blue), reproduced from typescript, library stamp, VG PKM 127974 £14
Millington, P T [Ed]: An Interim List of Nottinghamshire Folk Plays and Related Customs. Sheffield: Traditional Drama Research Group 1984. 42p stapled booklet (green), reproduced from typescript, library stamp, VG PKM 127973 £14
Isidoro, Antonio ; Saber : Muslim Philippines. Marawi City: Mindanao State University 1968. 108p stapled booklet with illus cover, b/w illustrations, ex library, inscribed by one author, VG PKM 127953 £64
Beliajus, V F [Ed]: Hope Viltis. A Folklore Magazine. Vol. 23, No. 6, 1964. Haiti and Voodoo History. Denver: Beliajus 1964. Single issue of large format journal, 30p, stapled, with many illus, minor wear to cover, VG PKM 127939 £12
Beliajus, V F [Ed]: Hope Viltis. A Folklore Magazine. Vol. 22, No. 4, 1963. Lithuanian Christmas Ornaments Contest. Denver: Beliajus 1963. Single issue of large format journal, 30p, stapled, with many illus, minor wear to cover, VG PKM 127938 £12
Beliajus, V F [Ed]: Hope Viltis. A Folklore Magazine. Vol. 22, No. 5, 1964. The Bavarians. Denver: Beliajus 1964. Single issue of large format journal, 30p, stapled, with many illus, minor wear to cover, VG PKM 127937 £12
Beliajus, V F [Ed]: Hope Viltis. A Folklore Magazine. Vol. 23, No. 1, 1964. Denver: Beliajus 1964. Single issue of large format journal, 30p, stapled, with many illus, minor wear to cover, VG PKM 127936 £12
Beliajus, V F [Ed]: Hope Viltis. A Folklore Magazine. Vol. 23, No. 3, 1964. Denver: Beliajus 1964. Single issue of large format journal, 30p, stapled, with many illus, minor wear to cover, VG PKM 127935 £12
Beliajus, V F [Ed]: Hope Viltis. A Folklore Magazine. Vol. 23, No. 4, 1964. Denver: Beliajus 1964. Single issue of large format journal, 30p, stapled, with many illus, minor wear to cover, VG PKM 127934 £12
Beliajus, V F [Ed]: Hope Viltis. A Folklore Magazine. Vol. 23, No. 2, 1963. The Amerindians. Denver: Beliajus 1963. Single issue of large format journal, 30p, stapled, with many illus, minor wear to cover, VG PKM 127933 £12
Beliajus, V F [Ed]: Hope Viltis. A Folklore Magazine. Vol. 22, No. 1, 1963. Denver: Beliajus 1963. Single issue of large format journal, 30p, stapled, with many illus, minor wear to cover, VG PKM 127932 £12
Beliajus, V F [Ed]: Hope Viltis. A Folklore Magazine. Vol. 22 No. 3, 1963. Special Scotland Number. Denver: Beliajus 1963. Single issue of large format journal, 30p, stapled, with many illus, minor wear to cover, VG PKM 127908 £12
Briner, E ; Elzingre, Ed : Swiss Dress. Gen�ve 1931. large format paperback with library markings, includes period advertisement, English Language element of adverts with minor errors PKM 127907 £15
Giaccherini, Enrico : Il meraviglioso e il sogno nella narrativa inglese del Medioevo. Pisa: ETS 1992. (Ricerche) 158p blue pb, author's handwritten dedication on half title, pages clean, hardly used, VG PKM 127879 £18
Banerji, Projesh : The Folk-Dance of India. Allahabad: Kitabistan 1944. 128p orig cloth with black lettering, many illus, a slim booklet well preserved, library stamp, and stamp of "Modern Book Stall / Poona 1" PKM 127523 £15
Magalhaes, Josa : Medicina Folclorica. Ceara: Imprensa Universitaria 1966. 246p paperback with red wrapper, VG+, clean bright copy PKM 127520 £44
Stoddard, Florence Jackson : As Old as the Moon. Cuban Legends: Folklore of the Antillas. New York: Doubleday 1909. 205p orig blue cloth with lettering, 2 plates detached, library stamp, VG PKM 127515 £14
Gray, Alexander : Arrows: A Book of German Ballads and Folk Songs Attempted in Scots. Edinburgh: Grant & Murray 1932. 133p hardback with brown cloth spine, lib stamp, signed by author on endpaper, VG+ PKM 127510 £18
Keightley, Thomas : The Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy. Fourth Edition. London: Bell & Sons 1896. 508p in orig blue cloth, bookplate C R Dawes, frontisp w/ tissueguard, 12 plates in the back, VG, nice tight copy PKM 127508 £17
Taylor, John : The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut 1647 - 1697. New York: Grafton 1908. (Grafton Historical Series) green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, frontisp & many illus, nice copy PKM 127506 £14
English Folk Dance Society : The Journal of the English Folk Dance Society. 2nd Series, Number 1 - 4, 1927 - 1931. Oxford University Press 1927. 4 complete issues bound in plain cloth volume, VG PKM 127444 £36
Hines, Donald : Index of Archived Resources for a Folklife and Cultural History of the Inland Pacific Northwest Frontier. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International 1976. (Monograph Publishing on Demand Sponsor Series) 191p very well preserved ex-library copy with stamp and shelfmark, excellent copy PKM 127438 £40
Kanner, Leo : Born with a Caul; Superstitions Connected with Sneezing. New York: Medical Life 1931. [70]p issue of Medical Life journal ("Medical Folklore Number"), with plates and advertisement, VG PKM 127161 £16
: Folklore Studies in Honor of Arthur Palmer Hudson. Chapel Hill: Folklore Society 1965. (North Carolina Folklore) 157p card cover, frontiosp, illus, VG+ PKM 127160 £12
Schmidt, Leopold : Gestaltheiligkeit im b�uerlichen Arbeitsmythos. Studien zu den Ernteschnittger�ten und ihrer Stellung im europ�ischen Volksglauben und Volksbrauch. Wien: Museum 1952. 240p card cover with red lettering, library markings, VG+ PKM 127158 £25
Almeida, Renato : Intelig�ncia do Folclore. Rio de Janeiro: Livros de Portugal 1957. 316p large paperback 4to size in VG condition, signed by the author, library stamp with tape along spine PKM 127150 £30
Butler, Victor : Little Nord Easter: Reminiscences of a Placentia Bayman. St Johns Newfoundland 1975. (Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive) 262p white pb with seruies editor signed slip inserted, excellent copy, many illus PKM 127149 £18
Hojrup, Ole : Landbokvinden: Rok og Kaerne, Grovbrod og Vadmel. Illustrationer af Povl Abrahamsen. Copenhagen: National Museet 1967. 277p large A4 sized hb, covers soiled, pages clean with b&w illustrations throughout, VG PKM 127112 £25
Hartland, Edwin : The Science of Fairy Tales. An Inquiry Into Fairy Mythology. London: Scott 1891. (Contemporary Science Series) viii 372p original brown cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, previous owner's name on ffep, pages clean and bright, very good condition, binding slightly stretched PKM 126871 £46
Macleod Banks, M : British Calendar Customs. Orkney and Shetland. London: Glaisher 1946. (Folklore Society) xii 100p brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt emblem on cover, ex lib with a few small library stamps, pages clean, tight binding, very good condition PKM 126870 £60
Zipes : Breaking the Magic Spell. Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales. London: Heinemann 1979. xxii 210p illustrated paperback, pages clean and bright, binding firm, spine creased, used copy in very good condition PKM 126868 £15
Burne, Charlotte : The Handbook of Folklore. New edition, Revised and Enlarged. London: Sidgwick & Jackson 1914. (Folklore Society) x 364p brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, appears hardly used, clean and bright pages, tight binding, VG+ PKM 126866 £40
Wyatt : Beowulf. Edited with Textual Foot-Notes, Index of Proper Names, and Alphabetical Glossary. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press 1898. xv 242p brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, weak hinges, previous owner's name on front end paper, some pencil markings on pages, pages clean and bright, good+ PKM 126080 £20
Bacon, Francis : Fables of the Ancients, in Philosophy, Morality, and Civil Policy. Illustrated and Explained. With Notes Critical and Explanatory by Dr Shaw. London: Jones 1803. 136p marbled boards with gilt decoration, marbled end papers, marbled edges, frontispiece, many woodcuts, inscription and water stain on front end papers, front board detached, rear board missing, rare, poor condition PKM 125575 £24
Craik, Mrs : John Dietrich and other Stories from The Fairy Book. London: Nelson 1920. 158p sm blue cloth with gilt lettering and colour illustration on front, fresh gilt lettering on spine, some discolouration to blue cover due to previous exposure to moisture (back mostly), corners sl bumped, sl musty odour, no date, pages nice and clean, lovely colour plates, binding firm, still VG PKM 124605 £10
Hooke, S H [Ed]: Myth, Ritual, and Kingship: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Kingship in the Ancient Near East and in Israel. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1958. xi 308p plain navy cloth with gilt lettering on spine, library bookplate and shelfmark, pages nice and clean, firm binding, hardly used, VG+ PKM 122584 £26
Mackenzie, Norah : History. First Series. Book 1: Children of Athens, London and Rome. London: Ginn & Co 1951. 160p white/red cloth, ex library, pages unmarked, very good condition PKM 122571 £18
Ryan, J S [Ed]: Lore and Language Volume 15 Number 1-2 1997. Special Issue. Folklore Studies: Past, Present - and Future? Sheffield University Press 1997. 218p purple paperback, near fine condition PKM 120235 £10
Kingsley, Charles : The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children. London: Blackie 1900?. (Blackie's Library of Famous Books) 320p blue cloth, slightly rubbed corners, b/w plates, foxing to pages and edges, pencil markings, signature to front end paper, very good condition PKM 119514 £9
Barker, Cicely [Illustr]: The Children's Book of Hymns. First Edition. London: Blackie 1929. 84p cloth with cream illustrated jacket, jacket torn and rubbed with a hint of a cup ring to front cover, child's name written to front end paper, otherwise unmarked, with colour plates and music notes, very good condition PKM 119364 £15
Collins, V H [Collected By]; James, Montague Rhodes [Introduction]: Ghosts and Marvels: A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon Blackwood. Oxford University Press 1926. 506p small format green cloth, minor shelfwear, inscription to front endpaper, binding firm, very good condition PKM 118434 £16
Motte Fouque, Friedrich de la : Ritter und Geister: Romantische Erz�hlungen. Herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort von G�nter de Bruyn. Frankfurt: Fischer 1981. (M�rkischer Dichtergarten) 308p sm green paperback, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, VG, Buch in sehr gutem Zustand, Seiten sauber und unmarkiert PKM 118317 £8
Harte, Bret : Tales, Poems and Sketches. London: Cassell 1908. (People's Library) 322p red/brown cloth, sunned spine and worn boards, hinges cracked, yellowing to pages, some pages lose, acceptable condition PKM 118264 £10
Bischoff, Friedrich : R�bezahls Grab: Erz�hlungen, mit einem Nachwort von Wilfrid Bade. Leipzig: Reclam 1937. 73p small cream paperback, sl foxing to covers, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, VG, sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar, Einband leicht Stockfleckig, Seiten unmarkiert PKM 118116 £9
Franck, Hans : Machtnix: M�rchenerz�hlungen. Leipzig: Reclam 1921. (Reclams Universal Bibliothek) 94p small cream paperback, fronstispiece, fraying to head and foot of spine, signature of prev owner to front endpaper, pages clean and unmarked, binding good, good condition, gut erhaltenes Exemplar, R�cken leicht eingerissen, Seiten unmarkiert, Bindung etwas lose PKM 118057 £7
Suppan, Wolfgang : Volkslied. 2., durchgesehene und erg�nzte Auflage. Stuttgart: Metzler 1978. (Sammlung Metzler: Realien zur Literatur) 66p white paperback, minor shelfwear, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, VG+, sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar, Seiten unmarkiert PKM 118000 £17
Dithmar, Reinhard [Ed]: Fabeln, Parabeln und Gleichnisse. Herausgegeben, eingeleitet und kommentiert von R Dithmar. Paderborn: Sch�ningh 1995. (UTB) 370p red paperback, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, minor shelfwear, VG+, sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar, Seiten unmarkiert, wie neu PKM 117950 £20
Carrick, J D [Ed]: The Laird of Logan. Anecdotes and Tales illustrative of the Wit and Humour of Scotland. Glasgow: Robertson 1889. 608p marble boards with red leather spine, worn copy, spine cracked and detached, hinges cracked, gilt edges, ink marking to front end paper, acceptable condition PKM 117525 £10
Wolf, A : Heldensage und Epos: Zur Konstituierung einer mittelalterlichen volkssprachlichen Gattung im Spannungsfeld von M�ndlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit. T�bingen: Narr 1995. (ScriptOralia) 461p green hardback, corners slightly bumped, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, VG, sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar, Kanten etwas abgestossen, Seiten einwandfrei und unmarkiert PKM 117505 £20
Mathers, Powys : Arabian Love Tales Being Romances From The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night. London: Folio Society 1949. 245p green/brown cloth, corners rubbed, stain to boards, spine sunned, pencil marks to pages, b&w illustrations, very good condition PKM 117150 £18
Quiller-Couch, Arthur : The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales. London: Dent 1928. (Tales and Romance Duchy Edition) 248p blue cloth with gilt lettering, minor shelfwear, front end paper browned, very good condition PKM 117050 £17
Tenison, E M : The Legend of Saint Christopher. Self Published 1933?. 28p small hardcover, undated, decorated capitals, stain to lower corner of front board, signed by the Author with a long note about the book, dated 1933 PKM 116259 £15
Blackwood, Fay : Prediction. London: Collins 1990. 144p white paperback, some shelfwear, very good condition PKM 115928 £4
Campbell, J J : Legends Of Ireland. First Edition. London: Batsford 1955. 211p green cloth, ex library, spine slightly rubbed, pages clean and unmarked, very good condition PKM 115606 £30
: Der Hamburger Musikant, Teil A - B. Vom 3 - 6. Schuljahr; vom 7. Schuljahr ab. Wolfenb�ttel: M�seler 1952. 160p 192p set of 2 vols, blue and red hard covers with cloth spine, previous owner's signature on ffep, illustrations, musical scores, pages clean, VG PKM 114964 £15
Manasek, Ludek [Illustr]: Contes Persans. Illustr�s par L Manasek. Paris: Gr�nd 1985. 187p large quarto cloth with illustrated dj, clean pages, many b&w and colour illustrations throughout, great stories to read to children, text in French, sl musty smell, otherwise VG PKM 114875 £28
Various : Folk-Lore: Being the Quarterly Transactions of the Folk-Lore Society. Volume 62. September 1951. London: Glaisher 1951. approx 110p orange paperback, rubbed cover, including "Folklore Studies in the United States Today" by Richard M. Dorson, very good conditin PKM 114848 £9
Dornseiff, Franz : Antike und Alter Orient: Interpretationen. Leipzig: Koehler & Amelang 1956. (Kleine Schriften) 444p hb dj sl rubbed, previous oner's signature on ffep, pages clean, 2 or 3 b&w plates, index, VG PKM 114786 £16
Curtis, Dora [Illustr]; Tilney, F C [Ed]: Tales from the Arabian Nights. London: Dent 1920?. (Tales for Children from Many Lands) 128p brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, undated, illustrated label, soiled and worn boards, pages unmarked, name plate glued to back of front board, hinges cracked, good condition PKM 114664 £10
Arberry, A J [Transl]: Scheherezade. Tales from the Thousand and One Nights. London: Unwin 1953. 221p red cloth, corners slightly bumped, many b&w illustrations, very good condition PKM 114455 £23
Stendel, Wolfgang [Ed]: Erz�hl noch was: 300 kleine Geschichten. Gesammelt von W Stendel. Leipzig: Rohmkopf 1937. 243p sm yellow cloth, illustrated cover sl dusty, selection of stories from Niedersachsen, deutsche Mitte, Osten, Frankenland, Alemannenland and Donauraum, clean pages, binding firm, VG PKM 114129 £18
Hassall, John [Illustr]: Blackie's Popular Fairy Tales. London: Blackie 1951. 150p illustrated card boards with red cloth spine, spine show white water stain, corners rubbed, boards slightly buckled, pages unmarked with many colour illustrations, binding weak, good condition PKM 114069 £11
Basset, Ren� : Mille et un contes, r�cits & l�gendes Arabes, Vol 1: Contes merveilleux, contes plaisantes. Paris: Librairie Orientale et Am�ricaine 1924. 552p sm quarto hardback with cloth spine and corners, covers and spine rubbed and sl musty, previous owner's signature in neat ink on ffep, sl weak inner hinges, pages clean, firm binding, roughcut pages, VG PKM 113708 £36
Lemmer, Manfred [Ed]: Mutter der Barmherzigkeit: Mittelalterliche deutsche Mirakelerz�hlungen von der Gottesmutter. Ausgew�hlt und aus dem Altdeutschen �bertragen von Manfred Lemmer. Leipzig: Koehler & Amelang 1986. 271p cloth dj, colour illustrations, VG PKM 112939 £10
Schulte-W�lwer, Ulrich : Das Niebelungenlied in der deutschen Kunst des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Giessen: Anabas 1980. (Kunstwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen des Ulmer Vereins, Verband f�r Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften) 238p illustrated hardback, 1st ed, extensive bibliography, b&w illsutrations throughout, pages clean, VG+ PKM 112929 £22
Peele, Cecily : Encyclopaedia of British Bogies. Oxford: Holdan 1977. 56p blue paperback, minor shelfwear to cover, otherwise near fine condition PKM 112833 £6
Widman, G R : Fausts Leben: Das �rgerliche und schreckliche Leben des viel-ber�chtigten Erz-Schwarzk�nstlers D Johannis Fausti. Erstlich vor vielen Jahren fleissig beschrieben etc von G R Widman, jetzo aufs neue �bersehen durch Joh Nicolaum Pfitzerum. Berlin: Spemann 1900. (Collection Spemann, Deutsche Hand- und Hausbibliothek) 236p blue blindstamped cloth, title ctd: 'mit neuen Erinnerungen, als nachdenklichen Fragen und Geschichten der heutigen b�sen Welt zur Warnung vermehret', marbled edges, gilt lettering on spine, pages sl yellowed, binding firm, very well preserved copy, VG PKM 112753 £16
Kingsley, Charles : The Heroes. Or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children. London: Macmillan 1885. 296p green cloth pictorial boards, corners slightly rubbed, inscription to front endpaper, unmarked with minor stain marking to some pages, spine worn with tear near front hinge, many b&w illustrations, good condition PKM 112728 £22
Havell, H L : Stories from Herodotus. London: Harrap 1911. 238p green cloth boards with brown leather spine, gilt lettering and decoration on cover, corners bumped, pages clean and unmarked, many b&w plates, fraying to top/bottom of spine, overall, very good condition PKM 112701 £10
Fyleman, Rose ; Mittelmann, Gertrude [Illustr]: A Book of Saints. First Edition. London: Methuen 1939. 124p light blue cloth first edition, slightly rubbed corners, spine sunned, pages clean and unmarked with many b/w illustrations, very good condition, front end paper torn in half PKM 112688 £180
Turville-Petre, G : The Heroic Age of Scandinavia. First Edition. London: Hutchinson 1951. (Hutchinson University Library) 196p cloth with green dustjacket, minor shelfwear, light foxing to endpapers, endpapers display maps of Scandinavia and Iceland, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, index, VG+ PKM 112384 £14
Svensson, Borje ; Strejan, John et al: The Faeries Pop-Up Book. London: Kestrel Books 1980. Unpaginated laminated hardcover, 12 pages with several pop-up mechanisms on each page, all pop-up parts present and working, slight rubbing on one corner, VG+ PKM 111900 £23
Ecker, Hans-Peter [Ed]: Legenden: Heiligengeschichten vom Altertum bis zur Gegenwart. Stuttgart: Reclam 1999. (Reihe Reclam) 519p neat little cloth with blue illustrated dj, page ribbon, illustrations, hardly used, VG+ PKM 111249 £10
Page, R I : Nordische Mythen. Aus dem Englischen �bersetzt von Ingrid rein. Mit 26 Abbildungen und 1 Karte. Stuttgart: Reclam 1993. (Mythen alter Kulturen) 152p sm hb, illustrations, pages clean, VG PKM 111243 £36
Karakash, C : Mythe et Science. Lausanne: Polytechniques 2002. 218p blue/black paperback, some pages highlighted, near fine condition PKM 110601 £22
Giusti, Giuseppe [Ed]: Proverbi Toscani. Raccolti ed illustrati da G Giusti, ampliati e pubblicati da Gino Capponi. Firenze: Capponi 1873. 448p sm 48mo dark green cloth, gilt lettering with bands and sm library shelf label on spine, corners sl bent inwards, Cambridge College bookplate with cancellation stamp in red ink 'Lady Goldsmid's bequest 1909' on front inner board, barcode on ffep, cancellation stamp in red ink on title page, sl weak back inner hinge, binding firm, clean pages with clear printing, very well preserved ex library copy PKM 109514 £40
Ranger, T O : Historical Study of African Religion. London: Heinemann 1972. 307p cloth with yellow/brown jacket, ex lib, spine slightly sunned, near fine condition PKM 109375 £30
Wittenwiler, Heinrich : Der Ring. Nach der Ausgabe Edmund Wiessners �bertragen und mit einer Einleitung versehen von Helmut Birkhan. Wien: Braum�ller 1983. (Fabulae mediaevales) 311p illustrated hardcover, lovely book, two illustrations, table and map, hardly used, VG+ PKM 108598 £20
Kaiser, Gert : Textauslegung und gesellschaftliche Selbstdeutung: Aspekte einer sozialgeschichtlichen Interpretation von Hartmanns Artusepen. Frankfurt: Athen�um 1973. (Wissenschaftliche Paperbacks Literaturwissenschaft) 144p large white pb, pages sl yellowed, hardly used, VG PKM 108546 £20
Peeters, Leopold et al; Langbroek, Erika [Ed]: The Franks' Casket: A Judeo-Christian Interpretation. (= Amsterdamer Beitr�ge zur �lteren Germanistik, Vol 46, 1996) Amsterdam: Rodopi 1996. (Amsterdamer Beitr�ge zur �lteren Germanistik) 295p large blue card covers, fresh & hardly used copy, various contributors, also includes Erika Langbroek: N�here Betrachtungen zu den Griffelglossen in der Handschrift Salzburg St Peter; R W Fischer: The courtly hero comes to Germany - Hartmann's Erec and the concept of shame; Frederik Kortlandt: The High German Consonant Shift; etc, some contributions in English, hardly used, VG+ PKM 107976 £38
Classen, Albrecht et al; Langbroek, Erika [Ed]: J�disch-deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters und der Fr�hneuzeit als Dokumente des Kulturaustauschs: Mit besonderer Beachtung j�disch-deutscher Volkslieder des 16. Jahrhunderts. (= Amsterdamer Beitr�ge zur �lteren Germanistik, Vol 50, 1998) Amsterdam: Rodopi 1998. (Amsterdamer Beitr�ge zur �lteren Germanistik) 264p large blue pb, fresh & hardly used copy, various contributors, also includes Neil Thomas: The ecumenical idea in Wolfram von Eschenbach revisited; Maria Molinari: Hildebrandslied, neue Perspektiven in der textgeschichtlichen Forschung; Ute Schwab: Archaische Kampfformeln im Rolandslied; etc, some contributions in English, hardly used, VG+ PKM 107970 £36
Peeters, Leopold : Historische und literarische Studien zum dritten Teil des Kudrunepos. Meppel: Boom en Zoon 1968. viii 257p cloth purple dustjacket worn along the edges, pages clean, very little used, VG PKM 106917 £32
Priesner, Claus ; Figala, Karin [Eds]: Alchemie: Lexikon einer hermetischen Wissenschaft. M�nchen: Beck 1998. 412p cloth illustrated dj, illustrations, hardly used, VG+ PKM 106913 £32
Zipes [Transl]; Gozenbach, Laura [Collected By]: Robber with the Witch's Head: More Stories from the Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach. London: Routledge 2004. 272p hardback with blue dj, as new, still in plastic wrapping PKM 105808 £16
Newell, William : Games and Songs of American Children. New York: Dover 1963. paperback with white cover, sl used ex lib copy but no faults, VG PKM 105785 £10
Baring-Gould, Sabine : Curious Myths of the Middle Ages. Ed. Edward Hardy. London: Jupiter 1977. hardback with dustjacket, minimal library markings, VG+ PKM 105784 £10
Fletcher, Alice : Indian Story and Song from North America. New York: Johnson Reprint 1970. 126p terracotta cloth, ex lib, reprint of 1900 edition, nice copy, small smuydg to bottom corner PKM 105777 £12
Spicer, Dorothy : Yearbook of English Festivals. Westport: Greenwood 1972. green cloth, VG+, unused ex lib PKM 105776 £16
Maddock, Llywelyn : West Country Folk Tales. Bath: James Brodie 1965. 109p blue hardback, ex lib, nice clean copy PKM 105774 £20
Muncey, R W : Our Old English Fairs. London: Sheldon Press 1935. 175p small format light cloth, a well worn ex lib copy with binding challenged but a still very useful copy PKM 105483 £12
Barber, Richard ; Riches, Anne : Dictionary of Fabulous Beasts. London: Macmillan 1971. 168p hardback with purple dj, VG PKM 104854 £10
Keary, A E ; Winbolt, S E [Ed]: Heroes of Asgard. London: Bell & Sons 1926. (Bell's Short English Texts) 118p green decorated limp cloth, good condition, pages clean, edges slightly soiled, large school sticker to front endpaper and stamp on title page. PKM 104695 £8
Jones, Eirwen : Folk Tales of Wales. London: Nelson 1950. 135p small hardcover, illustrated dustjacket in good condition although worn to edges and stained on back, light foxing to page ends but text clean, inscription to front endpaper. PKM 104566 £6
Thompson, Francis : A Scottish Bestiary. The Lore and Literature of Scottish Beasts. Glasgow: Molendinar Press. 92p hardcover, excellent condition, dustjacket slightly worn at edges with small tears front and back, pages clean and fresh. PKM 104511 £6
Magnusson, Magnus : Beowulf. Gloucester: Sutton 1995. 133p black paperback, fine condition, beautiful photo illustrations, decorative haeder and footer to text, as new PKM 104308 £8
Hallam, Jack : The Ghost Tour. London: Wolfe Publishing 1967. 96p pareback, excellent condition, binding a little loose PKM 104239 £6
Jones, Gayl [Ed]: Liberating Voices. Oral Tradition in African American Literature. Harvard University Press 1991. 228p hardback w/ blue dustjacket, as new, notes, index, VG+ PKM 102333 £30
Gomme, Alice : The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland. London: Thames & Hudson 1984. 433p & 531p bound in one volume, ex library with minor signs of use, still white very good condition PKM 102108 £24
Beard, Charles : Lucks and Talismans: A Chapter of Popular Superstitions. London: Sampson Low 1928. hardback, ex library, first edition, both outer spine hinges opening PKM 101756 £8
Wheeler, Gerald : Mono-Alu Folklore (Bougainville Strait, Western Solomon Islands) London: Routledge 1926. 394p green hardback, ex-lib, first edition, cover in good condition, wear to extremities, light scuffing to front and rear, gilt titles to spine, binding tight, minor sporadic foxing to a minority of pages will not impede reading, pages otherwise clean, subtle browning to edges, a good copy only (sadly). PKM 101483 £30
Roberts, J M : The Mythology of the Secret Societies. London: Secker & Warburg 1972. 370p hardback, ex-lib, first edition, cover in very good condition, slight bumps to head/foot of spine, bright gilt titles, binding tight, internally clean and bright, no sign of previous use, VG. PKM 100909 £60
Vogeler, Ingolf : The Myth of the Family Farm: Agribusiness Dominance of U.S. Agriculture. Boulder: Westview 1981. (Westview Special Study) 352p green hardback, ex-lib, excellent all round condition, slight bumps to extremities of an otherwise untouched cover, pages bright and clean, no sign of use, VG+. PKM 100087 £24
Wilbert, Johannes : Folk Literature of the Ge Indians. Vol 1 only. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center 1978. (UCLA Latin American Studies) 653p cloth with dustjacket (worn with tear), else an unused fresh and clean copy PKM 99448 £40
Lacerda, Regina : Goias. Rio de Janeiro: Funarte 1977. (Folclore Brasileiro) 88p slim booklet with illus & musical notation, VG PKM 98218 £22
Soares, Doralecio : Santa Catarina. Rio de Janeiro: Funarte 1979. (Folclore Brasileiro) 88p slim booklet with illus & musical notation, VG PKM 98217 £12
Weston, Jessie : King Arthur and his Knights. A Survey of Arthurian Romance. Second Ed. London: Nutt 1905. (Popular Studies in Mythology Romance and Folklore) 45p slim booklet with paper cover, nice original copy PKM 97581 £12
R�lleke, Heinz : Westf�lische Sagen. K�ln: Diederichs 1981. 366p hardback with red dj, as new, excellent copy PKM 96483 £12
Hinze, Christa [Ed]: Fr�nkische Sagen. K�ln: Diederichs 1980. 366p hardback with green dj, as new, excellent copy PKM 96482 £10
Schlundt, Rainer [Ed]: Sagen aus Rheinland-Pfalz. K�ln: Diederichs 1983. 272p hardback with brown dj, as new, excellent copy PKM 96481 £12
Cormeau, Christoph [Ed]: Mystik. Sonderheft: Zeitschrift f�r deutsche Philologie. Band 113. Berlin: Schmidt 1994. 248p black card cover, VG, nice fresh copy PKM 96464 £20
Reiss, Edmund ; Taylor, Beverly : Arthurian legend and literature: An annotated bibliography. New York: Garland 1984. (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) 467p black cloth,as new, fine copy PKM 96120 £33
Carnes, Pack : Fable Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland 1985. (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) 382p green cloth, as new PKM 96119 £50
Lewis, Gertrud : Bibliographie zur deutschen Frauenmystik des Mittelalters. Berlin: Schmidt 1989. (Bibliographien zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters) 444p blue paperback, as new, never used, VG+ mit einem Anhang zu Beatrijs con Nazareth und Hadewijch PKM 96050 £54
Donaldson, Terry : The Dragon Tarot. Stamford: US Games 1996. paperback, new, with dragon to cover, excellent copy PKM 95896 £5
Barr�re, Jean-Bertrand : Le Regard d'Orph�e ou de Fantome et de Po�sie. An Inaugural Lecture. Cambridge University Press 1956. 37p sewn booklet with wrapper, VG+, nice clean copy PKM 95543 £12
Quiller-Couch, Arthur [Ed]: The Oxford Book of Ballads. First Edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1910. 871p blue cloth, gilt titles, ex library copy with minimal library markings and scattered foxing, otherwise VG condition, binding excellent PKM 95336 £14
Brazaitis, Kristina : Die Hildeerz�hlung in der Thidrekssaga sowie im Dukus Horant und in der Erz�hlung von Arrighetto und Lena des Giovanni Fiorentino: Ein Beitrag zur n�heren Bestimmung der sagengeschichtlichen Tradition. Frankfurt: Peter Lang 1977. (Europ�ische Hochschulschriften: Deutsche Literatur und Germanistk) 189p white paperback with blue flag design, VG+, unused copy, printed from typescript PKM 95105 £36
Herles, Helmut : Von Geheimnissen und Wundern des Caesarius von Heisterbach. Ein Lesebuch. Bonn: Bouvier 1990. 310p hardback, dustjacket, as new, excellent fresh copy unused PKM 94921 £36
Kern, Manfred : Edle Tropfen Vom Helikon. Zur Anspielungsrezeption der antiken Mythologie in der deutschen h�fischen Lyrik und Epik von 1180-1300. Amsterdam: Rodopi 1998. (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur) 566p green paperback, as new PKM 94916 £48
Murdoch, Brian : Hans Folz and the Adam Legends. Text and Studies. Amsterdam: Rodopi 1977. (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur) 184p orange paperback, fresh clean copy, unused PKM 94899 £24
Moder, Dietz-R�diger : Die Tannh�user-Legende. Berlin: de Gruyter 1976. (Fabula Supplemente) 157p blue cloth nice fresh copy PKM 94849 £38
Demats, Paule : Fabula. Trois �tudes de mythographie antique et m�di�vale. Gen�ve: Droz 1973. (Publications Romanes et Fran�aises) 194p card cover, VG+ PKM 94285 £46
Franke, Else : Sagen vom deutschen Rhein. Erste Auflage. Oldenburg: Stalling 1922. 133p paper covered boards with floral design, remains of dustjacket (with whole to reveal title) present but not complete, VG PKM 93603 £12
Adam, Wolfgang : Die "Wandelunge". Studien zum Jahreszeitentopos in der mittelhochdeutschen Literatur. Heidelberg: Winter 1979. (Beihefte zum Euphorion) 170p blue grey paper cover, plates, VG+, unused copy, PKM 93430 £36
Frensch, Elke : Westwind als lyrisches Motiv. Heidelberg: Winter 1978. (Heidelberger Forschungen) 144p red jacket, VG+ copy, as new PKM 93372 £14
James, Stephen ; Swezey, Sean : The Energetics of Subsistence-Assurance Ritual in Native California; California Indian Warfare (Ethnographic Interpretations 12/13) Berkeley: UC Dept Anthopology 1975. (Contributions of University of California Archaeological Research Facility) 110p A4 format, paper cover and cloth tape spine, plates, illus, maps, ex lib, VG+ PKM 92726 £46
Ciugudean, Horia : Cercetari privind epoca bronzului si prima v�rsta a fierului �n Transilvania. Alba Iulia: Bibliotheca Musei Apulensis 1997. 240p large paperback with black and white cover illus, as new, library stamp, bronze age finds in Transsylvania (?) PKM 92043 £20
Robertson, Archibald : Jesus: Myth or History? London: Watts 1946. (Thinker's Library) 112p small volume red boards, sl dusty, VG and firm PKM 91172 £10
Aldwinckle, Russell : Death in the Secular City: A Study of the Notion of Life After Death in Contemporary Theology and Philosophy. London: Allen & Unwin 1972. 192p blue hardback, ex lib, a nice and clean and very little used copy PKM 90982 £8
: Anuarul Arhivei de Folclor 15 - 17 (1994 - 1996) Bucharest: Editura Academiei Romane 1996. 832p thick paperback, library stamp, unused Romanian Academy proceedings PKM 90867 £20
Inge, William Ralph : Christian Mysticism - Considered in Eight Lectures Delivered Before The University of Oxford. (Bampton Lecture 1899) London: Methuen 1925. 379p petrol cloth fresh, gilt lettering, VG ex lib PKM 90594 £12
Capek, Karel : Spisy Bratri Capku. Marsyas. / Marsyas cili na okraj [okraji] literatury (1919 - 1931) Prague: Aventinum 1931. 259p orig grey cloth with red lettering, spine absent, stamp "Haytor Stratford", ex lib bookplate, signature or inscription on title page (photogr available on request) PKM 89877 £33.75
Bjornstad, James : Jeane Dixon, Edgar Cayce: Twentieth Century Prophecy. Minneapolis: Dimension Books 1970. paperback, sl aged, VG PKM 89606 £6.75
Charles, M : The Story of Faust. London: Theosophical Publishing Society 1907. 342p simple brown boards with black lettering, front endpaper removed, else hardly used and very good PKM 89111 £19.8
Ohunuki-Tierney, Emiko : The Monkey as Mirror. Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual. Princeton University Press 1987. 269p paperback, unused, with an inscription from the author, excellent condition PKM 89017 £12.6
Wildermut, Ottilie : Von Berg und Thal. Mit sechs Stahlstichen nach Originalzeichnungen von Rothbart. Stuttgart: Krabbe 1880. vi 242p square green cloth, privately rebound and sl repaired, dritte durchgesehene Auflage, paper looks very clean, perhaps even washed, 1 plate missing, a few minor stains, last story (Peterli von Emmenthal) incomplete, fresh plates, one coloured in, VG PKM 87314 £34.2
Bondi, Hermann : Assumption and Myth in Physical Theory. Cambridge University Press 1967. 87p hardback with original red paper jacket, school copy with stamps, pages clean with further reading and index, VG PKM 86838 £16.2
Jung, C G ; Wilhelm, Richard : Das Geheimnis der Goldenen Bl�te. Ein Chinesisches Lebensbuch. Aus dem Chinesischen und mit Erl�uterungen von Richard Wilhelm. Kommentar: C G Jung. Mit 11 Tafeln. Z�rich: Rascher 1957. xxvi 161p blue cloth with chinese sign, dustjacket present, but sl worn, clean firm copy PKM 86024 £15
Mallarm�, St�phane : Les Dieux Antiques. Novelle Mythologie. Paris: Gallimard 1925. 314p white paperback with card cover, roughcut edges and pages clean, nice copy, French language, VG PKM 82300 £28
Orbeliani, Sulkhan Saba : A Book of Wisdom and Lies. Translated from the Georgian by Katherine Vivian. London: Octagon 1982. 174p hardback with beoge illustrated jacket, ex-lib first edition with plastic wrapper, stamps and bookplate, unused, pages clean, excellent copy, VG PKM 81596 £58.5
Speed Norton, Eloise [Ed]: Folk Literature of the British Isles. Readings for Librarians, Teachers and Those Who Work With Children and Young Adults. New York: Scarecrow 1978. 263p green hardback with white lettering to cover and spine, ex-lib first edition, pages clean with plates, printed from typescript, VG PKM 81543 £21.6
Butler, E M : The Myth of the Magus. Cambridge University Press 1993. (Canto) 281p white paperback with illustrated laminated cover, cover and spine a little sunned, pages clean with plates, selected bibliography and index, VG PKM 80911 £12.6
Clement, Nemours : The Influence of the Arthurian Romances on the Five Books of Rabelais. New York: Phaeton 1970. 257p green hardback with gilt lettering on spine, hardly used, pages clean with footnotes and index, VG PKM 79709 £12
Sainz Rodrigues, Pedro : Introducci�n a la historia de la literatura m�stica en Espa�a. Madrid: Voluntad 1927. 310p, plates, bound in plain cloth, ex lib, VG PKM 79308 £25.2
Bulfinch : Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fabel. New York: Mentor 1962. 404p paperback, a few neat ink marks, VG PKM 79280 £6.3
Tolkien, J R R : The Lord of the Rings Complete in Three Vols (The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King (Second Revised Edition, First Printing) London: Allen & Unwin 1966. 3 Vols in the original dustjacket, all jackets not price clipped (2 tiny specks on spine of dj could probably be removed easily), folding tables untouched, the only signs of slight wear appear on the rear panel of the third volume, more precisely on the fold towards the rear flap, were some very minor finger traces are visible. A perfectly uniform set in excellent condition PKM 78988 £540
Wallace, Edgar : Big Foot. London: Leisure Library 1910. 224p small blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, spine very sunned, cover detached, pages browned but clean with publisher's catalogue, VG PKM 76812 £7.2
[Steele, A J]; Aspley, Keith [Ed]: Myth and Legend in French Literature. London: Modern Humanities Research Association 1982. 252p blue hardback with gilt lettering on spine, hardly used first edition, pages clean with index of names, includes an essay by the owner (I D McFarlane) and a letter of thanks to him from A J Steele, VG PKM 74617 £18
Schulte Kemminghausen, K et al; [Grimm, Jacob]: Die Br�der Grimm in Bildern ihrer Zeit. Kassel: R�th 1963. (Kasseler Quellen und Studien) 128p green cloth first edition with gilt lettering on spine and facsimile signatures on cover, frontisp, hardly used ex-lib copy, index, dates, many plates throughout, VG PKM 74074 £10.8
Veysey, Laurence : The Communal Experience: Anarchist and Mystical Communitites in Twentieth-Century America. With a New Preface. Chicago University Press 1978. 495p burgundy paperback with sunned blue spine, ex-lib, pages clean with index, VG PKM 74065 £13.5
Stevens, James : Pauls Bunyan. Woodcuts by Allen Lewis. New York: Alfred Knopf 1925. 245p brown cloth with black lettering on cover and spine, a little dusty, pages clean with roughcut edges andf illustrations throughout, nice copy, VG second printing PKM 73580 £18
Smith, Lawrence : The Map of Who We Are. Norman: Oklahoma University Press 1997. 320p hardback with blue illustrated jacket, as new, wrapped in sealed plastic so completely untouched, VG PKM 72657 £10
Formoso, Bernard [Ed]: The Link with Nature and Divine Meditations in Asia. Oxford: Berghahn 1996. (Diogenes Library) 169p black / grey / white paperback with laminated cover, as new, pages clean with notes, VG PKM 71896 £7.2
Imeson, K R : The Magic of Number. New York: Mathematical Association of America 1989. 96p paperback with lime green cover, a little yellowed but pages clean with diagrams, VG PKM 70535 £12
Moncrieff, A R Hope : Romance and Legend of Chivalry. London: Gresham 1900. 439pp green cloth volume with black lettering and illustrations, edges a little foxed but pages clean and unmarked with colour illustrations throughout, VG PKM 69842 £6.3
Squire, Charles : Celtric Myth and Legend. London: Gresham 1900. 450p green cloth volume with black lettering and illustrations, edges a little foxed but pages clean and unmarked with colour illustrations throughout, VG+ PKM 69841 £6.3
Grigson, Geoffrey : The Goddess of Love. The Birth, Triumph, Death and Return of Aphrodite. London: Quartet 1978. 236p paperback with pictorial cover, hardly used, edges a little yellowed but pages clean and unmarked with photographs throughout, VG PKM 67975 £7.2
Morris, William : Stories from the Earthly Paradise. Retold from W Morris by Madalen Edgar. London: Harrap 1909. (Told Through The Ages) xvi 239p half calf with green cloth, fresh gilt ornaments on front cover, top end of leather spine detaching, frontisp, photogr plates, VG, very decorative PKM 67429 £9
Blanchard, Pierre : Mythologie de la Jeunesse; Ouvrage Elementaire par Demandes et par Reponses. Paris: Le Prieur 1812. viii 460p index, 127 illustrations, full leather with gilt lettering and ornaments on spine, frontis, sl edgewear and some rubbing to cover but really in nearly excellent condition, beautiful copy, VG PKM 66971 £57.6
(No Author) : Master Your Future. The Easy Way With Tarot Cards. London: International Rights 2001. 31p stapled paperback with yellow illustrated cover, pages clean and unmarked with illustrations throughout, VG PKM 66014 £5.4
Lowell, James : The Vision of Sir Launfal. New York: Putnam 1910. 63p + Ariel Booklets catalogue, full flexible red morocco, with gilt lettering and decoration, ex lib, wear to corners and edges, gilt top edging, pages clean, b/w frontispiece with tissue guard, pages clean and unmarked, VG PKM 64717 £12
Pushkin, Alexander : Tales of Bielkin. London: Drummond 1947. (Russian Literature Library) 84p red cloth with gilt title and picture and illustrated purple dust jacket, illustrated in black and white by D Nachsen, translated by Schimanskaya and Gow, clean unmarked pages, VG PKM 64546 £10
Kole, Andre ; Holley, Terry : Astrology and Psychic Phenomena. Grand Rapids: Zondervan 1998. (Cults and Religious Movements) 90p stapled paperback with glossy pictorial cover, unused, pages clean and unmarked, excellent condition PKM 64262 £7.2
White, T H : The Bestiary. A Book of Beasts. A Translation from A Bestiary of the Twelfth Century. With more than 125 Marvelous [sic] Illustrations. New York: Putnam 1980. 296p paperback, first publisher's edition, library markings, pages clean and illustrated throughout, VG PKM 63751 £12.6
Widman, G R : Fausts Leben: Das �rgerliche und schreckliche Leben des viel-ber�chtigten Erz-Schwarzk�nstlers D Johannis Fausti. Erstlich vor vielen Jahren fleissig beschrieben etc von G R Widman, jetzo aufs neue �bersehen durch Joh Nicolaum Pfitzerum. Berlin: Spemann 1900. (Collection Spemann, Deutsche Hand- und Hausbibliothek) 236p blue blindstamped cloth, title ctd: 'mit neuen Erinnerungen, als nachdenklichen Fragen und Geschichten der heutigen b�sen Welt zur Warnung vermehret', marbled edges, gilt on spine, very well preserved copy, VG PKM 62585 £16
Williams, Margaret : The Ghosts of Conway. Scarborough: Dennis 1980. 30p sm stapled pb, illustrations, spuky short stories about Conway, VG PKM 61283 £5.4
Hamburger, K�te : Von Sophokles zu Sartre. Griechische Dramenfiguren antik und modern. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1962. 222p rebound in plain clith, VG ex lib PKM 60606 £9
Lowe, Barbara : Robin Hood in the Light of History. Offprint 1954. 11p stapled offprint from Folk Lore Society w/ paper wrappers, signed by author PKM 59823 £8
Mitchell, W R : Haunted Yorkshire. Lancaster: Dalesman 1969. 71p pb, illustrated, VG PKM 59240 £9
Patsch, Sylvia : The Countess Cathleen. Saga - Drama - Oper - Illustration. Innsbruck: �sterreichische Kommissionsbuchhandlung 1974. (Ver�ffentlichungen der Universit�t Innsbruck) 193p large pb, notes, bibliography, photogr plates, author inscription on title page, weak inner hinges, VG PKM 59120 £22
Ridley, M R : The Story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in Modern English by M R Ridley. London: Ward 1950. 95p cloth, dj, illustrated, VG+ PKM 58068 £6.3
Westermarck, Edward : The Goodness of Gods. London: Watts 1926. (Forum Series) v 58p sm red cloth, VG PKM 57892 £9
Fort, Charles : The Book of the Damned. London: Abacus 1974. paperback, VG 317p, VG PKM 57347 £7.2
Jacobs, Michael : Mythological Painting. London: Phaidon 1979. ex lib copy with stiff plastic wrapper, clean copy, colour plates, VG PKM 57271 £6.75
Gardner, Martin : The Ambidextrous Universe. London: Penguin 1970. 272p paperback, illus, index, the breakdown of parity PKM 57192 £5
Wolff, Julius : Der Fliegende Holl�nder. Eine Seemannsage. Berlin: Grote 1922. 191p red cloth, gilt lettering on cover, 41. Tausend, the book has been fitted with a unique self-reflexive bookplate: embedded in the front board is a (steel) mirror with a gilt frame, surrounded by blindstamped paper, curious ex libris indeed, steel a bit spotty with time, a very well preserved copy, VG PKM 56421 £18
Swannell, A [Ed]: Fifty German Folk-Songs with Airs. London: Harrap 1952. 104p sm red cloth, songs in German, VG PKM 56395 £14.4
Kemmerich, Max : Gespenster und Spuk. Ludwigshafen: Lhotzky 1921. 510p large pb, orig paper covers sl rubbed, weak inner hinges, first section detaching, clean pages, VG PKM 56351 £12.6
Eyth, Max : Der Schneider von Ulm: Geschichte eines zweihundert Jahre zu fr�h Geborenen. Volksausgabe, Vols 1 - 2. Stuttgart: DVA 1932. 320p 363p 2 vols bound in one, cloth with illustration on cover, first edition?, in excellent condition PKM 55679 £12
[Mann, Thomas]; Ker�nyi, Karl : Romandichtung und Mythologie: Ein Briefwechsel mit Thomas Mann. Herausgegeben zum siebzigsten Geburtstag des Dichters 6 Juni 1945. Z�rich: Rhein-Verlag 1945. (Albae Vigiliae, Neue Folge) 95p large pb dj sl torn, index, one or two neat marginal ink markings, VG PKM 55615 £12
Immermann, Karl : M�nchhausen. Eine Geschichte in Arabesken. Zweite Ausgabe. Zweiter Theil. D�sseldorf: Schaub 1841. iv 189p, plain gren cloth (sl soiled but firm) contains Acta Schnickschnackschnurriana etc PKM 53850 £21.6
Immermann, Karl : M�nchhausen: Eine Geschichte in Arabesken. Zweite Ausgabe, vierter Theil. D�sseldorf: Schaub 1841. v 168p sm green cloth, cover a little dirty, sl foxing, firm binding, still very well preserved copy PKM 53049 £18
Seemann, Otto : Mythologie der Griechen und R�mer unter stetem Hinweis auf die k�nstlerische Darstellung der Gottheiten. Mit 135 Abbildungen. Leipzig: Kr�ner 1924. xiv 371p hb with cloth spine, frontisp, index, photogr plates, VG+, excellent copy, 6th edition PKM 53018 £12.6
Carne-Tate, Agnes [Ed]: Tales from the Longhouse. By Indian Children of British Columbia. Sydney: Gray 1975. 112p pb, illustrations, various contributors, VG PKM 49674 £9
Weedon, L L [Transl]: Hop O' My Thumb's Wanderings, and Other Fairy Tales from "Grimm". London: Nister 1910. (Printed in Bavaria) 104p hb, red cloth spine, colour frontisp, engraved illustrations, colour plates, stories incl "Snow-White and Rose-Red", "The Three Feathers", "The King of the Golden Mountain" and other lesser-known fairy-tales, binding a bit loose, front hinge weak, cover dulled & worn, VG- PKM 45998 £32.4
Lloyd, G E R : Science, Folklore and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece. Cambridge University Press 1983. xi 260p hb, green & gilt title panel to spine, bibliogr, indices, VG ex lib copy: Zoological Taxonomy, Female Sex, Pharmacology PKM 41926 £16.2
Guirand, Felix : Greek Mythology. London: Hamlyn 1963. 153p brown cloth, dj, colour plates, many figures in text, index, dj sl torn & creased, VG PKM 39911 £6.3
Hauff, Wilhelm : M�rchen. (Wilhelm Hauffs s�mtliche Werke in sechs B�nden, mit biographischer Einleitung von Hermann Fischer, Vol 6 only) Stuttgart: Cotta 1903. (Cotta's Bibliothek der Weltliteratur) 330p cloth, sl weak hinges, otherwise VG PKM 39473 £9
Frazer, James George : Folk-Lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend and Law. Abridged Edition. London: Macmillan 1923. xxx 476p blue cloth bright, gilt lettering to spine, dustjacket present, index, many pages uncut, VG+ copy, first printing PKM 36821 £24
L�thi, Max : So leben sie noch heute: Betrachtungen zum Volksm�rchen. G�ttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1969. 130p pb, dj, 7 essays, VG+ PKM 30858 £7.2
Kauffman, Henry J : Pennsylvania Dutch American Folk Art. (revised and enlarged edition) New York: Dover 1964. 146p large paperback, halftone plates throughout, spine cracked in places, otherwise VG PKM 30098 £12.6
Le Strange, Guy [Ed]: Spanish Ballads. Cambridge University Press 1920. xvi 218p 19cm red cloth, collection of Spanish ballads and verse romances including selection of Moorish and Arab works, indices, sl soiled but otherwise VG, spine fraying, has been repaired, ex library with usual library markings, Spanish language text, intro and notes in English PKM 27730 £28
Wendt, Herbert : Out of Noah's Ark: The Story of Man's Discovery of the Animal Kingdom, transl Michael Bullock. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1956. xii 464p red cloth, plates, illus, index, VG PKM 27216 £10.8
Ions, Veronica : Egyptian Mythology. London: Newnes 1986. (Library of the World's Myths and Legends) 144p 4to pb, colour frontisp, numerous half-tone and colour plates, chronological table, bibliogr, index, a colourful introduction to the subject, sl bumps to corners otherwise VG PKM 25090 £7.2
Hole, Christina [Ed]: Folklore. Vol 85. Published 1974. [72]p stapled, orange card wrapper, 6 articles incl "Folklore and History" by H R Ellis Davidson and "Gawain against Arthur" by Raymond Thompson, reviews, as issued, sl wear to edges of covers, VG PKM 23628 £6
Adams, Marion : Fairy Tales From China. Ed. W T Stead. Books for the Bairns 52. London: Review of Reviews 1903. (Stead's Books for the Bairns) 58p 17cm stapled, pink paper wrapper, 4 stories with plentiful illus, front cover detached and both covers chipped, fep lacking, foxing to covers, edges browned but text clean PKM 23476 £7.2
Jenssen, Christian [Ed]: Von K�nigen, Hexen und allerlei Spuk. M�rchen aus Schleswig-Holstein und dem Unterelbe-Raum. Schloss Bentlage: Pflege des M�rchenguts 1958. 159p cloth, VG+: Mundarttexte PKM 18999 £16
Diel, Paul : Le Symbolisme dans la mythologie grecque. �tude psychoanalytique. Paris: Payot 1952. 310p paper cover, front cover sl creased, VG+ PKM 18242 £12
Dorson, Richard [Ed]: Peasant Customs and Savage Myths. Selections from the British Folklorists. London: Routledge 1968. 2 Vols, xii 751p red cloth, index, a fresh set PKM 16517 £16.2
Harding, Glen : The Theory of Accumulations. A Proposal for a Unified Explanation of Universe, Life, Environment and Behavior. The Derivation of a Universal Index. Privately Published 1944. 52p cloth, author inscr, VG, out of the ordinary PKM 14981 £7.2
Wright, Thomas : Essays on the Literature, Popular Superstitions and History of England in the Middle Ages. London: Russell Smith 1846. Vol 2 (of 2) only. 306p orig cloth fresh, essays on Friar Rush and the Elves, Dunlop's History of Fiction, Popular Stories, Hereward the Saxon, Eustace the Monk, Fulke Fitz Warine, Robin Hood, Dunbar, etc PKM 12330 £18
Burland, Tottie : [North American Indian Mythology. (1965)]. Japan 1990. Japanese translation, 1990, new PKM 10008 £20
Capron, F Hugh : The Conflict of Truth. London: Hodder & Stoughton 1904?. 513p cloth, index, strong copy: Inter-Relations; The Physical; The Spiritual PKM 9065 £8.1
Shakespear, Fred ; Ballantyne : Ungava. A Tale of Esquimau Land. London: Nelson 1901. 272p illus cloth (sl wear), inscribed "Fred Shakespear with my love, 1902" PKM 7998 £12
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