Books - "mythology"
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Popul Vuh: The Book of the Ancient Maya
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
Dragons
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
The Faber Book of Northern Legends
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
The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief
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
In The Beginning: Creation Myths from Ancient Mesopotamia, Israel and Greece
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
The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife
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
Osiris: A Study in Myths, Mysteries and Religion
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
The Folktale
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
Isis in the Graeco-Roman World
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
Introducing New Gods: The Politics of Athenian Religion
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
Indonesian Folk Tales
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
A Mountain in Tibet: The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of India
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
Myths of the Norsemen
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
Hermes the Thief: The Evolution of a Myth
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
Voices from the Snow: Tsugaru in Legend, Literature, and Fact
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
Cybele and Attis: The Myth and the Cult
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
The Invention of Jane Harrison
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
The Well at the World's End: Folk Tales of Scotland
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
The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
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
A Woman Scorn'd: Responses to the Dido Myth
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