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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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The Snow Queen

By: Anderson, Hans Christian & Nicky Raven & Vladyslav Yerko

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Dorking, Surrey, UK, Templar Publishing, in Association With A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA (Ukraine): 2005

Seller ID: 119998

ISBN: 1840111879

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

FIRST UK EDITION by Templar Publishing, 2000, in Association with A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA (Ukraine). In FINE pictorial laminated boards. In the original publisher's pictorial dust-jacket. NEW and Unused. Stated 'FIRST EDITION'. NO Inscriptions or Marks. Externally and Internally IMMACULATE. Hans Christian Andersen's timeless classic Retold by Nicky Raven and SUPERBLY ILLUSTRATED throughout in full colour, with full and double page plates and smaller vignette illustrations, in STUNNING DETAIL by the marvellous Vladyslav Yerko. GIFT QUALITY. See Images. ; Templar's Collectors Classics Series; 4to 1...
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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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Nineveh and the Tigris.

By: Anon (Religious Tract Society)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, The Religious Tract Society: 1842

Seller ID: 119951

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Undated, but can be dated by issue number. The first volume was issued in 1837 & the books were produced at a rate of 12 per year, and sold at sixpence for paper covered versions and tenpence for this cloth hardback - noted in the adverts for the series at the front of the book. Probably No 63 as the list in the front stops at No. 62. A former owner's initials and date 1851 on the top of the title page. In the Original brown blind stamped cloth covered hardback. Gilt titling to spine. Wear to the corners and some splitting of the cloth to the head/tail and edges of the spine, but sound. Presum...
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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 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 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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Fairies & Pixies (Fairies and Pixies) A MINT Mounted Beryl Cook HAND SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION, Full Colour Lithographic Print

By: Beryl Cook

Price: £395.00

Publisher: Bristol, Alexander Gallery Publications Ltd. ,: 1996

Seller ID: 120005

Binding: Soft

Condition: As New with no dust jacket

An As New, MINT mounted Beryl Cook HAND SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION, Full Colour Lithographic Print "Fairies and Pixies". Numbered 592/650. Image size 16" x 16". 25in x 24in inclusive of mount. This print is signed and numbered by the artist - the late and wonderful Beryl Cook. Double mounted with cream/russian green inner mount. The Mount needs some adjustment as it is not quite aligned properly - a quick gulillotine cut will cure that. You may wish to trim the mount further anyway if framing? Issued in 1996. Print Run Only 650 Copies Worldwide. Sold out at the publishers. Beryl said of this pict...
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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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Tales from the New Mabinogion

By: Collins, W. J. Townsend; Fred Richards

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, A. & C. Black, Ltd.: 1923

Seller ID: 112804

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Orange cloth boards with pictorial device and lettering in black, comprises tales, each with frontispiece and heavily decorative borders to opening page of text, plus many decorative Initial letters - very lovely 'a la Kelmscott Press' designs. No dustjacket. There is some negligible light creasing and bumping to the cloth of the front board, and there are light foxing (brown) spots to the top page fore-edge. There is a little light browning to the endpapers, Otherwise this is a Lovely Very Clean and Bright copy printed on good quality paper and there are NO inscriptions or other marks. 80 pp....
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