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$20.00
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Popul Vuh: The Book of the Ancient Maya


GOETZ, DELIA (trans) & MORLEY, SYLVANUS GRISWOLD (trans) & JACKSON, EVERETT GEE (illus)

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Dover 2003

KEYWORDS: Popul Vuh book of ancient Maya Mayan civilization history texts in translation Quicha mythology religion Americas black and white illustrations

$32.50
xxkrh218974

Dragons


HOGARTH, PETER & CLERY, VAL

quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Allen Lane / Penguin 1979

KEYWORDS: dragons mythology folklore art history illustrations in colour and black and white

$19.50
xxkuh219257

The Faber Book of Northern Legends


CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, KEVIN & HOWARD, ALAN (illus)

Ex-library super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1977

KEYWORDS: Norse legends mythology folktales Kevin Crossley-Holland literature

$25.00
xxyge219492

The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief


BARBER, RICHARD

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Allen Lane / Penguin Books

KEYWORDS: holy grail cultural literary history mythology religion Chretien de Troyes

$14.00
xxsgc219717

In The Beginning: Creation Myths from Ancient Mesopotamia, Israel and Greece


O'BRIEN, JOAN & MAJOR, WILFRED

PREVIOUS OWNERS' TAPE REPAIRS super octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Scholars Press 1982

KEYWORDS: creation myth mythology mesopotamia greece israel

$16.50
xxsgc219718

The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife


HORNUNG, ERIK & LORTON, DAVID (trans)

Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: ancient egypt egyptian mythology

$22.50
xxsgc219721

Osiris: A Study in Myths, Mysteries and Religion


COOKE, HAROLD P

Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Ares Publishers 1979

KEYWORDS: osiris egypt mythology myth

$32.50
xxsgc219722

The Folktale


THOMSPON, STITH

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: University of California Press

KEYWORDS: folktale folk tale mythology anthropology literary thought

$22.50
xxsgu219742

Isis in the Graeco-Roman World


WITT, R E

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 1971

KEYWORDS: r e witt isis graeco roman greco classical world history religion mythology

$35.00
xxshp219750

Introducing New Gods: The Politics of Athenian Religion


GARLAND, ROBERT

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Duckworth

KEYWORDS: athenian religion greek mythology athens robert garland

$22.50
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Indonesian Folk Tales


ALIBASAH, MARGARET MUTH [ALI BASHA]

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Penerbit Djambatan 1981

KEYWORDS: Indonesian folk tales mythology literature Indonesia

$22.50
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A Mountain in Tibet: The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of India


ALLEN, CHARLES

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Andre Deutsch 1982

KEYWORDS: Tibetian mountains history travel mythology Tibet Kailas mountain lake folklore myth

$15.00
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Myths of the Norsemen


GREEN, ROGER LANCELYN & WILDSMITH, BRIAN (illus)

EX LIBRARY octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Bodley Head 1965

KEYWORDS: roger lancelyn green norse mythology norseman myth

$10.00
xxkcd220078

Hermes the Thief: The Evolution of a Myth


BROWN, NORMAN O

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Vintage Books 1969

KEYWORDS: greek myth mythology hermes history norman o brown

$15.00
xxame220372

Voices from the Snow: Tsugaru in Legend, Literature, and Fact


WESTERHOVER, JAMES N. (ed.) & SASAMORI, TAKEFUSA & RAUSCH, ANTHONY S. & JOHNSON, HENRY & HATAKEYAMA, ATSUSHI & OSABE, HIDEO & TAGAKI, KYOZO

Octavo softcover (near FINE); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Hirosaki University Press (n/d)

KEYWORDS: Tsugaru region Honshu Japan short fiction literary essays cultural history folklore mythology anthology

$47.50
3b1/6

Cybele and Attis: The Myth and the Cult


VERMASEREN, MAARTEN J

Imperial ocatvo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt publisher's motif to front board, 224pp, illus/photos, VG (minor scuffing & bruising to extrems, minor fading to top edge of rear board, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's ink markings to ffep) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, moderate fading to spine & rear cover, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1977

KEYWORDS: ancient mythology Cybele literature art antiquity Greece Greek

$40.00
3b1/19

The Invention of Jane Harrison


BEARD, MARY

Octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt face illus to front board, xiii + 229pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board corners, sl soiling to page edges, moderate pencil annotaiton to terminals) in d/w, VG+ (light fading & creasing to spine, light creasing to edges, sl soiling)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2000

KEYWORDS: classical philology literature anthropology classicists mythology history historiography

$85.00
3c2/41

The Well at the World's End: Folk Tales of Scotland


MONTGOMERIE, NORAH and WILLIAM

FIRST EDITION, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, illus title page, xiii + 152pp, illus, VG (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning to spine, light to moderate general tanning & foxing/soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Hogarth Press 1956

KEYWORDS: first editions mythology myths folk tales lore folklore Scotland highlands Scottish fantasy

$15.00
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The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore


YEATS, W. B.

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Dover 2004

KEYWORDS: Irish folklore mythology fairytales fairies W B Yeats

$15.00
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A Woman Scorn'd: Responses to the Dido Myth


BURDEN, MICHAEL (ed.) et al.

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1998

KEYWORDS: Dido and Aeneas myth mythology historical cultural literary commentary essays anthology

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