The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa
Pantheon, December 2004. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Folklore
Way into Faerie
The Crowood Press, March 2017. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The spirituality of a fey person may be quite anarchic and entirely private, having no basis in any organised religion. So it can be a secret spirituality that informs the fey type and this may be largely experiential.....
Ozark Magic and Folklore
Dover Publications, June 1964. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The Ozark region of Missouri and Arkansas has long been an enclave of resistance to innovation and newfangled ideas. Many of the old-time superstitions and customs have been nurtured and kept alive through the area's relative isolation and the.....
The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies (New York Review Books Classics)
NYRB Classics, May 2019. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A classic, enchanting document of Scottish folklore about fairies, elves, and other supernatural creatures. Late in the seventeenth century, Robert Kirk, an Episcopalian minister in the Scottish Highlands, set out to collect his parishioners' many striking stories about elves.....
Waking the World: Classic Tales of Women and the Heroic Feminine
TarcherPerigee, June 1996. Hardcover. Notes on well-known myths and case studies from the author's therapy practice accompany a collection of folktales that reveal the complexity, and meaning of femininity.
Sagen, Gebrauche & Sprichworter des Allgaus aus dem Munde Ses Volkes gesamelt. I und II Band
n.p., n.d., ca. late 1890s. Hardcover. Band I: 567 pages. Frontispiece 'Die Sage.' Band II: 764 pages. Frontispiece 'Das Kinderfelt.' B/W illustrations both volumes. One of the standard works on the Allgau region. Text in German. Later printings. Near fine copies in marbled paper over boards and moroccan leather. Edge.....
Torias: Contes et Proverbes creoles
College Vertieres, 1945. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 50 pages followed by errata sheet with additions in ink. Text in French and creole. First edition (first printing). Very good in yellow wrappers (paperback). Wrappers are tanned and mildly soiled. Small chips missing from cover edges. Pages are browning. Bookplate of Lt.....
The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland, to which are added Dialect and other Poems; with Biographical Sketches, Notes, and Glossary
Geo. Routledge and Sons, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. xiv, 560 pages with glossary and index to first lines. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in green cloth with bright gilt titles on front cover and spine. Cover edges bevelled. Brown endpapers. Hinges cracked but binding tight. Pages 369-372.....
Observations on Popular Antiquities: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions. Vols. I and II bound together
Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, et al. 1813. First Edition. Hardcover. Vol. I: xxvi, 486; Vol. II: xi, 731 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy rebound in black cloth covers with title in gilt on spine. New endpapers. Slight scuffing to covers.
Sprichworter: Proverbs, Proverbes, Proverbi, Proverbios
Frommann's Verlag, n.d., ca 1935. Hardcover. 171 pages with 3 pages of book ads. Proverbs in German, with translations into English, French, Italian and Spanish. Inscribed by the author on title page: 'Lisbeth Ta'kle - spendiert vom Verfasser, 1930' and under author name 'gest. 1. Febr. 1935.' Near fine in.....
Lamba Folklore
American Folk-Lore Society, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 570 pages with 1-page list of publications of the American Folk-Lore Society. Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society, Vol. XX, 1927. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in dark brown cloth with ruling and title in gilt. No dust jacket.
Maharashtra Vaksampradaya Kosa. Vol. 1. (Marathi proverbs and idioms)
Maharashtra Kosamandala, 1942-7. First Edition. Hardcover. About 450-500 pages. Color illustrated frontispiece. 9 pages of ads in book. Text in Marathi. First edition presumed (first printing). A very good copy in paper over boards and green cloth covers with title in black in Marathi on front cover and spine. Covers.....
Kalila Wa Dimna: Fables from a Fourteenth-Century Arabic Manuscript
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. Trade Paperback. 95 pages. 9-3/4 by 9-3/4 inches. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap.
Gems of the Orient: Part I: Rabbinical Proverbs and Sentences. Part II: Arabic Proverbs and Sentences
Russell Borthers, Printers, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Pages: ii, 1 leaf, [7-138, [1]. Errata leaf at end. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in brown cloth covers with gilt lettering and illustration on front cover and spine. Mild edge and corner wear. AEG. Bookplate of de Guinzbourg, U.N. diplomat.....
The International Folk-Lore Congress of the World's Columbian Exposition. Chicago, July, 1893
Charles H. Sergel Company, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. 512 pages. B/W illustrations of authors. Limited edition. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in blue cloth and quater blue leather covers with gilt lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers. TEG. Leather worn along edges and at spine edges. Pages partially.....
Tauta par Baznicu un Macitajiem Folkloras Materialu Izlase
Latvijas Valsts Izdevnieciba, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. 294 pp plus index. Text in Latvian. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Bookplate of Lt. Col V. S. M. de Guinxbourg, UN diplomat and noted proverb and aphorism collector.
Proverbes du Pays de Bearn
Societe pour l'Etude Langues Romanes, 1876. First Edition. Trade Paperback. pp. vi, 7-107. Text in French First edition (first printing). Very good copy in tan wappers (paperback). Covers with mild soiling. Spine darkened. Bookplate of de Guinzbourg, UN diplomat and noted proverb and aphorism collector.
Forschungen zur Geschichte der Volsballade im Mittelalter
Acta Ethnographica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 1961. Trade Paperback. Acta Ethnographica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae Tomus X, Fasciculi 3-4, pp. 241-294, with folding map at rear. B/W illustrations. Text in German. Lajos Vargyas (1914-2007) was a prominent Hungarian researcher of folk music and folklore and a specialist in folk ballads. Inscribed by.....
And Other Neighborly Names: Social Process and Cultural Image in Texas Folklore
University of Texas Press, 1981. Hardcover. Clean inside. No highlighting or underlining. Very good in a very good dust jacket with color faded spine.
Faune Populaire de la France. Tome II: Les Oiseaux Sauvages; Tome IV: Les Mammiferes Domestiques, premiere partie; Tome V: Les Mammiferes Domestiques, deuxieme partie; Tome VI: Les Oiseaux Domestiques & la Fauconnerie (4 volumes)
Maisonneuve & cie. Libraires-Editeurs, 1879-1883. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Tome II: 421 pp.; Tome IV: 275 pp.; Tome V: 264 pp.; Tome VI: 243 pp. Text in French. First editions (first printings). Near fine copies in original wrappers (paperback). Tanning to covers. Scattered foxing on pages. Pages uncut. Volumes not.....
Flore Populaire ou Histoire Naturelle des Plantes dans Leurs Rapports avec la Linguitique et le Folklore. Tome XI
Les Libraires-Commissionnaires, 1914. First Edition. School & Library Binding. 261 pages. Text in French. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in tan wrappers (paperback). Pages uncut. Spine is tanned. Contents fine.
Negro and His Folklore in 19th Century Periodicals
University of Texas Press, 1969. Hardcover. 374 pages. Second printing, 1969. A very good copy in brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Mild edge and corner wear. Spine ends rolled. No dust jacket.
On the Union of Words and Music in the 'Child ' Ballads
Western Folklore, 1952. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. Offprint, pp. 233-249, of Western Folklore, Vol. XI, No. 4, October, 1952. Bertrand Bronson (1902-1986) was professor of English at University of California, Berkeley, and the expert on child ballads. Inscribed by the author in pencil: 'To George for distribution, Bert.'. First.....
Folktales Of Newfoundland: The Resilience of the Oral Tradition. Volume I
Breakwater, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 531 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in photographic illustrated paper over board and gray cloth covers with bright gilt lettering on spine. No dust jacket as issued. First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.....
Modern Arabic Storie, Ballads, Proverbs and Idioms. Part I
Clarendon Press, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. 115 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in red cloth covers with bright gilt lettering, insignia and ruling on spine. Minor edge wear. No dust jacket. Bookplate of Victor de Guinzbourg, UN staff member and collector of proverbs since childhood.