Books - "mythology"
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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
Symbolism in Greek Mythology: Human Desire and Its Transformations
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: Shambhala 1980
KEYWORDS: greek mythology symbolism classical literature
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
Gods of the North
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: Thames and Hudson 1955
KEYWORDS: anglo saxon norse mythology history brian branston
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
Barbarian Rites: The Spiritual World of the Vikings and the Germanic Tribes
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: Inner Traditions 2011
KEYWORDS: barbarian rite spiritual viking norse germanic mythology
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
Maori Religion and Mythology; being an Account of the Cosmogony, Anthropogeny, Religious Beliefs and Rites, Magic and Folk Lore of the Maori Folk of New Zealand (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, vol 1- 424pp, vol 2- 682pp, VG (minor bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate fading to spine & rear board of vol 1, minor fading to spine of vol 2, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep of both vols) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading & soiling, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover of vol 1)
PUBLISHER: Ta Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand 1995
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Maori religion mythology Elsdon Best anthropology anthropogeny culture
The Lore of the Unicorn
SECOND IMPRESSION, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained red, frontispiece, 312pp, illus, VG+ (sl rubbig/bruising to extrems, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light to moderate foxing to prelims, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate tanning/fading & scuffing to spine, other light general tanning & chafing/soiling,
PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1967
KEYWORDS: fantasy fantastical creatures unicorns myths mythology folklore lore history Odell Shepard
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