The Mythology of South America
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1988. Hardcover. 8vo (medium). x, 269 p.p. [27] illustrations incl. frontispiece. Light wear to jacket. Boards stiff. Interior pages clean. As new. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1988. Hardcover. 8vo (medium). x, 269 p.p. [27] illustrations incl. frontispiece. Light wear to jacket. Boards stiff. Interior pages clean. As new. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1990. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiv, 239 p.p., [35] p.p. illustrations incl. frontispiece. As new. More
London: David Nutt, 1900. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 18mo. Pamphlet. 37 p.p., plus [2] p.p. ads. Covers browned. Spine ends and corners of covers bumped. Sporadic marks. Miniature tear to spine tail. Interior clean. A very good copy. Discusses the songs, poetry and folklore of Finland including the Kalevala, Loitsurunja..... More
Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1971. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Reprinted. ix, 79 p.p. plus colophon. Original price stamped on half-title. Spine slightly cracked, sunned, worn at tail. Wear and rubbing to edges, extremities. Small stain on rear cover. Pages yellowed, but otherwise..... More
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediavel Studies, 1978. Soft cover. 8vo. Text in Latin, notes and introduction in English. Soft cover. 94 pp. Light edge wear, some creasing to rear cover, else fine. Edited from University of Chicago Ms.100. More
Baltimore: American Literary Press, 2005. Boos, Tony. Soft cover. 8vo. SIGNED by author to title page. Soft cover. 124 p.p. Fine condition. In this little book - an historical fantasy using real facts as a foundation, together with a sprinkling from great works of Faith - the unicorn is seen..... More
[Paris]: Moliere, 2005. Hardcover. 4to. 123 p.p. Illustrated throughout with high resolution images. Pictorial endpapers. Light rubbing to jacket edges, extremities. Inner flaps sunned. Boards tight. Pages crisp and clean. As new. Myths and Gods of Ireland, The Legend of King Arthur and the quest for the Holy Grail, Germanic..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1967. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xiv, 63 pp. Slight tanning to spine and rear cover and a faded price stamp to half-title, else a fine, bright copy with no annotations. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. Hardcover. 8vo. Revealing Antiquity Series, #16. vii, 146 p.p. Bugundy cloth boards with gilt titling and device to front board. Dust jacket has light bumping to extremities, else fine. Over the past century, exploration and serendipity have uncovered mosaic after..... More
New York: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo (large). xiv, 257 p.p. Light rubbing and wear to jacket edges. Previous owner name on bottom inner edge of front jacket cover. Some scuffing to covers. Closed tear to jacket spine previously repaired with tape. Inner flap price clipped..... More
Blauvelt, New York: Rudolf Steiner Publications, 1976. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. viii, 331 pp. Some creasing and bumping to covers, bubbling to spine. Slight age toning to edges of some pages. Title page loose at head, This book, written in 1868, is still regarded as a landmark in "the..... More
London: Collins, 1957. Hardcover. 8vo. Origina red cloth. 319 pp. Spine tilted, ends lightly bumped, else fine. Dust jacket has some light edge wear, else fine. Everybody has heard of Helen of Troy, Sappho of Lesbos, Cleopatra of Egypt, and Shakespeare's Dark Lady of the Sonnets. Plays, films, romances, which..... More
Washintong, D.C. American Folklore Society, 1979. Soft cover. 8vo. January-March, 1979. Soft cover. 142 pp. Covers are age toned, some damp staining, bumping and creasing to corners. More
New York: Gramercy Books, 1979. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter brown cloth, tan paper boards. xvii, [3], 957 pp. With 42 illustrations plus maps, charts, and an 80-page dictionary. Some bumping and creasing to spine foot of dust jacket, and some indentations to front flap, else fine. Includes the complete texts of..... More
New York: Avenel Books, 1978. Hardcover. 8vo (medium). Beautiful dark blue publisher's binding. Title in gilt with decorative face of mythological creature and fountain designs on spine. xvii, 957 p.p., [42] illustrations, [5] maps, [5] charts. Stiff boards. Light wear to edges. Some scratches on rear board and small bump..... More
Boston: J.E. Tilton and Company, 1872. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Green cloth binding with gilt stamp of man riding a gryphon. Title in gilt on spine. xx, 373 p.p. Bookplates of C.B. Farrar on front free endpaper and Albert E. Chase on front pastedown. Wear and..... More
Boston: J.E. Tilton and Co., 1863. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 18mo. Beautifully rebound in navy blue buckram, with title in gilt on spine. T.e.g. viii, 251 p.p. [4] p.p. ads. b/w frontispiece with tissue guard. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar on front pastedown endpaper. Previous owner signature inscribed at head of title..... More
Boston: S.W. Tilton & Co. Publishers, 1881. Hardcover. 12mo (large). Green cloth binding. xxi, 472 p.p. Bookplate of Clarence B. Farrar on front pastedown endpaper, followed by second bookplate on free endpaper, C.B. Farrar. Perforation to top of front board at joint, protruding to inner hinge. Front inner hinge starting..... More
London: Paul Hamlyn, 1965. Hardcover. 8vo (imperial). 153 p.p. [26] colour plates including frontispiece. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar on front pastedown endpaper. Heavy wear to jacket, with chips to edges, extremities. Small tear to bottom right corner of front jacket with small some loss. Tape visible from previous repairs. Inner..... More
New York: Arkana, 1991. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Volume I of The Masks of God. Soft cover. xv, 504 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Fine. More
London: Thames and Hudson, 1991. Soft cover. 8vo. World of Art series. Soft cover. 256 pp. With 370 B&W illustrations. Light bumping and wear to corners, a few spots of neat pencil underlining and annotation. The Greek myths are so much a part of our visual and literary culture that..... More
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth boards with red lettering to spine, red endpapers. viii, 136 p.p. B&W illustrations, incl. frontis. The illustrations accompanying this text are from a manuscript of Lancelot du Lac, written and illuminated in northeastern France at the beginning of the fourteenth century..... More
London: Printed for William Bowyer, 1753. Second Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. ...To Which are Added Remarks on the Origin of Hieroglyphics, and the Mythology of Ancient Heathens. Dedicated to the Society of Antiquaries, London. 168 p.p. With 2 plates [folding]. Bookworm holes partially affecting [4] leaves at index. Quarter bound with..... More
Felinfach: Llanerch Publishers, 1995. Robertson, Lawrie. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xi, 201 pp. Spine sunned, else fine. More
New York: Garland Publishing, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. The Renaissance and the Gods Series. Orig. navy cloth. [8], 340 pp. Light chafing to spine ends. Ink smudge to title page. Highlighted paragraph to p. 92 with show-through to p. 91. Else a fine facsimile edition of the 1567 edition of Comes'..... More