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The Three Kingdoms Russian Folk Tales from Alexander Afanasiev's Collection

By: Afanasiev; Alexander

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Moscow, Raduga Publisher: 1998

Seller ID: 110672

ISBN: 5050043905

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Pictorial green boards. No dustjacket. The covers have slightly bumped corners and smudges which can only be seen if held up to the light. The rear free endpaper has a Russian price sticker. Otherwise No Inscriptions or other Marks. 166 pp. Superbly illustrated in colour by Alexander Kurkin; reminiscent of Dulac, Harry Clarke and Kay Nielson. Endpapers are also beautifully illustrated. Overall, apart from the very minor 'faults', as detailed above, this is an Excellent, Very Clean, Tight and Bright, Near 'Fine' copy. " Here is a collection of Folk Tales from the Russian version of the Grim...
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Russian Folk Tales. Folk Tales of the Peoples of the U.S.S.R

By: Anon

Price: £22.00

Publisher: Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House: (1950)

Seller ID: 113055

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

No Date given - but likely 1940s / early 1950? . In red-orange boards with blue decorative titling to the spine and decorated title stamped in blue and white to the front cover. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket which has some closed tears (internally repaired with clear archival tape) , some chipping and surface scrapes to the edges but is otherwise complete and now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks VG. Internally some browning to the endpapers o/w FINE. NO Inscriptions or Marks. 243 pp. Illustrated throughout in b/w by T. A. Mavrina and K...
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A Field Guide to the Little People.

By: Arrowsmith, Nancy and Moorse, George, Illustrated by Coelmann Heinz.

Price: £8.50

Publisher: London, MacMillan & Co Ltd: 1977

Seller ID: 000358

ISBN: 0333213076

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good dust jacket

Cloth Bound Boards. Good to Very Good/Good. First Edition. 8vo. Calligraphy by Kevin Reilly. 296 pp. index. Black and white illustrations. Light foxing to edges of pages. 1 closed tear to top of dust wrap. Pictorial dustwrap. Gilt titling to spine. A comprehensive and stylish guide to the Little People - the psychic fauna of Europe.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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The Echo-Maid and Other Stories

By: Aspinwall Alicia

Price: £59.00

Publisher: London, John F. Shaw and Co.,: 1899

Seller ID: 119799

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

NO DATE shown but according to WorldCat there were 7 editions published between 1897 and 1899. The 1897 1st would have been American. This copy is in red pictorial cloth and has bright gilt titling to the spine and front board and All edges are gilt. Usually the copy of the book with gilt tends to be a 1st - but in this case I do not know. There is a School prize label on the front pastedown inside - dated 1905. So probably a 1st UK Edition c. 1897 - 1905? . I've guessed at 1899. The covers are bright and clean - just the slightest of shelf wear to the very corners/extremities - negligible. An...
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King Arthur. Hero and Legend

By: Barber, Richard

Price: £9.50

Publisher: London, Guild Publishing: 1986

Seller ID: 000131

ISBN: 0312454279

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Cloth Bound Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. 3rd Edition Revised & Extended. 8vo. Guild Publishing Club Edition 1986. Dust wrap very slightly chipped to head of spine. Profusely illustrated in black/white and colour. Great tour through Arthurian literature. From the beginning until recent novels. Account of the development of the King Arthur and the Grail legends. King Arthur, history & development of Arthurian legends. The author gives a clear and readable outline of the development of the medieval stories about Arthur and his court in French, German and English, and how the stories were revived ...
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The Figure of Arthur

By: Barber, Richard

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Longman Group Ltd: 1972

Seller ID: 000215

ISBN: 0582125839

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Cloth Bound Boards. Very Good+. First Edition. 8vo. Dust wrap has been price clipped and is slightly chipped. 160 pp. Bibliography, references, and index. Very good in the pictorial jacket. Arthur of Dalraida, a late sixth century prince from Galloway with a heroic reputation, may well have been the historical figure on whom the Arthurian legend is based. barber traces the development of the legend through early texts. This Study Based On The Evidence Accumulated By Leading Scholars Over recent Years Suggests Another Clearcut Identity For The Historical Arthur, Which Has Nothing To Do With Sou...
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The Arthurian Legends . An Illustrated Anthology

By: Barber, Richard

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Book Club Associates: 1979

Seller ID: 112154

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Dark brown boards with bright silver gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket, which is not price-clipped. The former owner has written their name in pen onto the front free-endpaper, otherwise there are NO other inscriptions or marks. 224 pp. Illustrated with b/w and colour plates. Bibliography; Illustrations. Overall, this is an Excellent, Very Clean, Tight and Bright, Near 'As New' copy. "More then eight centuries, poets and writers have been telling stories about King Arthur. From lost legends and scraps of history, from facts and folklore, has been f...
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The Key To The True Kabbalah. Volume III Of The Holy Mysteries. The Kabbalist as a Perfected Sovereign in the Microcosm and the Macrocosm

By: Bardon, Franz ( First English translation by Gerhard Hanswille )

Price: £175.00

Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah, U. S. A., Merkur Publishing, Inc.: 1996

Seller ID: 119763

ISBN: 188592805X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Blue boards with bright gilt titling to the spine, with bright gilt titling and a gilt facsimile signature to the front board. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket. Slightly rubbed to the bottom edge. Small gold former booksellers name & address label to the bottom of the rear d/j. Now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks Fine. Internally NO Inscriptions. The book is excellent - clean, tight, bright and unmarked. 279 pp + (1 blank) + 6pp (Advert* pp) . Black and White portrait frontispiece of Bardon. One full colour plate. First English Translati...
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Initiation Into Hermetics. Volume 1 Of The Holy Mysteries. The Path of the True Adept

By: Bardon, Franz ( Second English translation by Gerhard Hanswille and Franca Gallo)

Price: £165.00

Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah, U. S. A., Merkur Publishing, Inc.: 1999

Seller ID: 119762

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Blue boards with bright gilt titling to the spine, with bright gilt titling and a gilt facsimile signature to the front board. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket. Small gold former booksellers name & address label to the bottom of the rear d/j. Rubbed to the bottom edge of the d/j and creased to the rear flap, but now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks Fine. Internally NO Inscriptions but there is a half circular (1.5 cm) pale yellow stain to the top blank edge of the last 8 pages = the Epilogue and an Advert for 'The Works of Franz Bardon' *...
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The Fairy-Tale Omnibus

By: Baxter, Doreen

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Collins: 1954

Seller ID: 110737

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Fair dust jacket

Charmingly illustrated boards with black titling on a red cloth spine. In the original publisher's illustrated and price-clipped dustjacket which has some edge wear to the extremities and a few closed tears which are now neatly repaired to the inside of the dustjacket with clear archive tape. The dustjacket has some internal foxing (brown spots) and some light smudging to the covers. The first few front and rear pages are sunned, the page fore-edges are uniformly tanned and the pages are lightly tanned, otherwise No Inscriptions or other Marks. 128 pp. Lovingly illustrated in b/w and colour by...
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Aladin . et la Lampe Merveilleuse

By: Behounek, Jiri

Price: £16.00

Publisher: Paris, Grund: 1977

Seller ID: 111881

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

French Language Book. Laminated pictorial boards. No dustjacket, presumed as issued. There are smudge marks to the boards, otherwise there are NO inscriptions or other marks. 56 pp. Illustrated with colour drawings. Overall, apart from the smudges, this is an Excellent, Very Clean, Tight and Bright, Near 'Fine' copy. "This French language edition tells the marvelous story of Aladdin and his lamp. "; 4to 11" - 13" tall
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Native North American Art

By: Berlo, Janet Catherine & Ruth B. Phillips

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1998

Seller ID: 111243

ISBN: 0192842668

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in Fine dust jacket

Black boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket which is not price-clipped. The dustjacket has very slight edge wear, otherwise there are NO Inscriptions or other Marks. (ix) + 291 pp. Illustrated with colour and b/w plates and maps. Notes; List of Illustrations; Bibliographical Essay; Timeline; Index. Overall, this is an Excellent, Clean, Tight and Bright Near 'As New' copy. "Ranging from the early pre-contact period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over many centuries and across a vast number o...
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King Arthur's Round Table: An Archaeological Investigation.

By: Biddle Martin

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk , UK, The Boydell Press.: 2000

Seller ID: M010733

ISBN: 0851156266

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

A Near Fine hardback book. Could pass for new - may be unread - but a large former owner's label on front endpaper. No other inscription or markings. Red cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dust-jacket. The d/j is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks Fine. (xxxvi) + 533 pp. Illustrated in b/w and colour with 14 chapters, 2 appendices, index, 28 plates, 169 figures, 20 tables, index. Looks at the Round Table in literature & legend; Its construction & dating; The painting; And it's symbolism in the historic...
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Märchengarten. Ein Kinderbuch Mit Bildern Von Fernande Biegler.

By: Biegler, Fernande

Price: £99.00

Publisher: Leipzig, A. Anton & Co. ,: 1921

Seller ID: 113925

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Märchengarten. Ein Kinderbuch Mit Bildern Von Fernande Biegler. A Most Attractive 1920s Childrens book in German. Copyright date is 1921 and this is the Second Edition, but undated. Pictorial paper-covered boards with a maroon cloth spine. A Lovely front cover colour illustration by Biegler. NO dustjacket. Covers have a little edge-wear and the front tips of the corners are scuffed through to the board. Plain Back. A couple of spots to the front cover, and a former owner has drawn 2 ink 'flowers' in the inner paper margin - quite neatly - in fact I thought it was part of the cover until I loo...
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S'nellie's Welsh Fairy Tales

By: Boniface, Eleanor;

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Newtown, Welsh Outlook Press: 1929

Seller ID: 108349

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Blue cloth covered boards with illus of Welsh woman fishing/black titling to front cover, black titling to spine. No Dustjacket. Some 'speckling'/mottling/Stains to front/rear covers and the spine, corners and head/tail of spine bumped. Foxing to endpapers. Inner hinges split. Previous owners name/dedication written to front endpaper, and some biro prices and school name on the half title. A later owners' owners name/dedication written to the top and bottom blank areas of the frontispiece. Some light Thumbing. 108pp. Black and white illustrations. 22 short stories including; Bones and buttermi...
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin

By: Browning, Robert (edited by Anne Nightingale)

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, A & C Black,Ltd: 1927

Seller ID: 112778

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

An Interesting and educational illustrated edition In the Visual Literature Series. Pictorial beige card covers with black titling/decoration to the front cover and string binding to the spine. No dustjacket, as issued. There is slight rubbing/chipping to the spine and creasing to the card cover corners. There are a few grey stain marks to the covers and the former owner has written their name in blue ink to the top of the front cover. Quite a few of the pages have been coloured in by a child, otherwise there are NO other inscriptions or marks. 48 pp. Illustrated with b/w line drawings by Eile...
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Bulfinch's Mythology. The Age of Fable. The Age of Chivalry. Legends of Charlemagne

By: Bulfinch, Thomas

Price: £4.50

Publisher: London, The Bodley Head Ltd: N.D.

Seller ID: 000794

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Pencil note on e/p. Cloth bound boards, spine faded, extremities worn. A classic volume of mythology- immortal stories of Jupiter and Juno, Apollo and Daphne, Cupid, many more. 778 pp. Black and white illustrations. INTERNALLY CLEAN; 000794; 8vo
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Some Ballad Legends of Somerset . The Somerset Folk Series Number 14. (Slightly At Fault)

By: Cary, D M (compiled by)

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, Somerset Folk Press: 1924

Seller ID: 107995

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

The Somerset Folk Series Number 14. At Fault - there is a large corner tear with loss to the text on pages 43/44. BLack/white tissue guarded frontispiece, small tear to front endpaper. NO INSCRIPTIONS. Clean blue card covers with clear black titling/illus to front cover, spine a little sunned, head/tail of spine chipped. 121pp. Apart from a little foxing to endpapers and the Fault noted above, internally excellent, CLEAN BRIGHT AND TIGHT. ; The Somerset Folk Series; 8vo
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Everyman's Book of Ancient Customs

By: Chaundler, Christine

Price: £4.50

Publisher: London, A. R. Mowbray: 1968

Seller ID: 47346

ISBN: 0264655362

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Orange boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's decorated dustjacket. Ex Reference library usual stamps, marks, etc, protected in the usual clear plastic library jacket. In two main sections: 'From the Cradle to the Grave' and 'A Calendar of Customs'. 208pp. Overall a Clean, Tight and Bright copy. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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Chinese Humanism A Religion Beyond Religion

By: Chih Andrew

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Taiwan, Fu Jen Catholic University Press: 1981

Seller ID: 108825

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Aqua Blue textured cloth boards with bright gilt titling to the spine and front board. In the original publisher's decorated dustjacket. The dustjacket has some edge tears/chips but is 99% complete and clean. 8 + 548 pp. Some light foxing spots to the endpapers and page edges. Top edge 'dusty'. Quite a scarce volume on the subject of 'Humanism' and Chinese Humanism specifically. Overall a Clean, Tight and Bright copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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