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By: N/A
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Cafe Crashers: 2013
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2201717
First edition. Fine. 2013 Trade Paperback. 177 pp. Volume 1: This collection of eighteen reimagined fairytales features new takes on such classic stories as Cinderella and Rumpelstiltskin, and runs the genre spectrum from comedy and romance to horror and steampunk. Authors and artists include: Matt Anderson (aka Remi Anderson), Caleb Bouchard, Kathryn Ann Metzger, Laura Metzger, Ethan Monsour, Christina Lynn Pieretti, Sarh Wellman.Keywords: TWICE-TOLD TALES ANTHOLOGY SHO... View more info
By: Allan, Tony; Maitland, Sara
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Time-Life Books: 1997
Seller ID: 2205623
A very nice copy.Jacket lightly toned. 1997 Large Hardcover. 144 pp. Part of the Myth & Mankind series. A dramatic series that captures, culture by culture, the information that never makes it into the history books: strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests.The ancient Greeks and Romans created the most enduring cultures known to humanity and a pantheon of gods who live on in some of the greatest myths ever told: of Athena, goddess of battle, of Dionysus,... View more info
By: Allan, Tony; Phillips, Charles
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Time-Life Books: 1999
Seller ID: 2205626
A very nice copy.Jacket lightly toned. 1999 Large Hardcover. 144 pp. Part of the Myth & Mankind series. A dramatic series that captures, culture by culture, the information that never makes it into the history books: strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests.China is among the world's oldest civilizations and home to many of the earliest achievements in the history of humankind. Until the beginning of the twentieth century, the Chinese emperor ruled by Hea... View more info
By: Allen, Tony; Fleming, Fergus; Kerrigan, Michael
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Time-Life Books: 1999
Seller ID: 2205614
Pages faintly toned.Light stain to top edge of front jacket flap. 1999 Large Hardcover. 144 pp. Part of the Myth & Mankind series. A dramatic series that captures, culture by culture, the information that never makes it into the history books: strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests.CONTENTS: An Unseen World; A Timeless Land; The Rich Cycle of Life; The Myriad Beliefs of Melanesia; Polynesian Paradise; The Oceanian Legacy.Keywords: FOLKLORE MYTHOLOGY HIS... View more info
By: Allen, Tony; Fleming, Fergus; Phillips, Charles
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Time-Life Books: 1999
Seller ID: 2205620
Pages lightly toned.Jacket lightly toned. 1999 Large Hardcover. 144 pp. Part of the Myth & Mankind series. A dramatic series that captures, culture by culture, the information that never makes it into the history books: strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests.CONTENTS: Cradle of Humankind; Wonders of Creation; An Ordered World; Heroes and Tricksters; Kingdoms and Empires; The African Legacy.Keywords: FOLKLORE MYTHOLOGY HISTORY MYTH VOICES OF ANCESTORS AF... View more info
By: Apollodorus; Simpson, Michael (translator)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Massachusetts: 1976
Seller ID: 2196874
Light edge wear. 1976 Trade Paperback. This is one of several translations of an ancient (date disputed) compilation of summaries of stories of the gods and heroes of Greece. View more info
By: Asala, Joanne
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Penfield Press: 1995
Seller ID: 2261808
A nice copy. 1995 Trade Paperback. 127 pp. Collected from historic sources, such as the volumes of Norse folk legends by Peter Christian Asbornsen and Jogen Moe, these centuries-old stories of sorcery, monsters and demons come from the imaginations of the Scandinavian people. Nineteen stories reflect the fear of evil that haunts and fascinates the human soul. From Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Finland, these ancient tales can be read on many levels: as only stori... View more info
By: Barbeau, Marius
Price: $10.00
Publisher: National Museum of Canada: 1961
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276393
Inscribed to Hella Sachs, signed, and dated by author on title page, signed on front wrapper also. This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Edges rubbed with minor loss from spine head and foot, pages toned. 1961 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. v, [1], 97, [1] pp. A collection of native folklore, illustrated with woodcuts. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology, was a Rh... View more info
By: Barbeau, Marius; Melvin, Grace
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Caxton Printers, Ltd. / The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd.: 1943
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276387
First edition. Inscribed to 'Mme Hella Sachs', signed (in French), and dated (15 Mai 1943) by author on front flyleaf. This volume was acquired from the personal library of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Lacks jacket. Spine lightly toned, corners rubbed and slightly exposed. 117, [3] pp. 8vo. A collection of native folklore, illustrated with woodcuts. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology, was a Rhodes Scholar and advocate of the preservation and... View more info
By: Barber, Richard
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Littlefield, Adams & Co: 1979
Seller ID: 2206206
Faint edge wear. 1979 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. A great introduction to many of the epics written on Arthur, while incorporating most of the famous paintings inspired by the subject. View more info
By: Barry, Joseph
Price: $3.00
Publisher: The Woman's Club of Harper's Ferry District: 1974
Edition: 7th Printing
Seller ID: 1787318
Lightly toned, first gathering of pages just beginning to loosen. 1974 Trade Paperback. 200 pp. plus additional pages at the end with local ads and a Patron's list. The story of Harper's Ferry and legends of the surrounding area presented by Joseph Barry, a resident of the area for half a century. View more info
By: Barth, John
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202145
First edition. Ink stamp to front endpaper.Top edge of jacket spine lightly bumped, front jacket flap creased. 1972 Hard Cover. 308 pp. In Chimera, John Barth injects his signature wit into the tales of Scheherezade of the Thousand and One Nights, Perseus, the slayer of Medusa, and Bellerophon, who tamed the winged horse Pegasus. In a book that the Washington Post called stylishly maned, tragically songful, and serpentinely elegant, Barth retells these tales from varying... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley: 1994
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2274182
No jacket. Near fine. 1994 Large Hardcover. 45 pp. Engaging characters are brought to life in cheery cut-paper illustrations. This international collection of folk tales bring together six of Barbara Baumgartner's most successful performances on one volume. For the first time ever, this well-loved storyteller has written down her stories for school-age children to enjoy at home. Engaging characters-from the clever monkey who outwits a hungry crocodile, to a magical drago... View more info
By: Benson, Larry D.
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Bobbs Merrill: 1974
Seller ID: 2195063
Minor ink marginalia. 1974 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. The Stanzaic Morte Arthur engages with the tragic implications of the chivalric love between Lancelot, Arthur and Guinevere; the Alliterative Morte Arthur with those of the aspirations of militant chivalry espoused by Arthur and his knights. The texts have been edited for readers who have little or no training in Middle English. View more info
By: Benson, Larry D.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Western Michigan University: 1994
Seller ID: 2196790
Pencil marginalia. 1994 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Professor Benson's edition of the Stanzaic Morte Arthur and the Alliterative Morte Arthure has been long out of print. Benson's edition of these important Middle English poems is here revised and updated by Professor Edward E. Foster, taking into account recent scholarship, to once again be available and accessible to students. The romances included here are two of the best, most significan... View more info
By: Botkin, B.A.; Freeman, Douglas Southall
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Crown Publishers: 1949
Seller ID: 2278343
Multiple chips to jacket spine head, two half-inch tears to bottom edge of front jacket panel, a few minor chips to jacket edges. 1949 Hard Cover. xxiv, 776 pp. There are more than 500 stories and more than 75 folksongs, presenting for the first time the full cast of characters of the amazingly varied South--heroes like Patrick Henry, Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, Stonewall Jackson and the almost godlike Robert E. Lee; outlaws and pirates like Murrell, Jean Lafitte and Bla... View more info
By: Bruchac, Joseph
Price: $5.00
Publisher: The Crossing Press: 1990
Seller ID: 2175622
An exceptional copy. 1990 Trade Paperback. 206 pp. This is Joseph Bruchac's fourth collection of Native American folk tales. His first three have been widely praised. Joe is a poet who is part Abenaki Indian. As you would expect from a poet who is also part Native American, the stories are told with reverence and wit. Each story is also accompanied by a full-page drawing by Gary Carpenter. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Dover: 1967
Seller ID: 2278477
Sticker on rear wrapper, top page ridge lightly foxed, bookplate on front flyleaf. 1967 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. clv, 377 pp. Also known as the Papyrus of Ani, the Egyptian Book of the Dead relates the Egyptian beliefs concerning journey of soul after death. The Egyptian Book of the Dead is unquestionably one of the most influential books in all history. Embodying a ritual to be performed for the dead, with detailed instructions for ... View more info
By: Bulfinch, Thomas
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Modern Library:
Seller ID: 2276970
No jacket, top corners of boards lightly bumped, pencil name on front endpaper, no publisher date. xi, 778 pp. Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of the works of Thomas Bulfinch, renamed after him and published after his death. It is a classic work of mythology and is still being printed, even 150 years after the first work, Age of Fable, was published in 1855. The following is a table of contents of the work, which itself can serve as an interesting pantheon of the ch... View more info
By: Bulfinch, Thomas; Fitts, Dudley
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1958
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2261281
Includes publisher's slipcase, Sandglass Number XI:23 laid in. Spine toned, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1958 Hard Cover. xix, 230 pp. 8vo. Author's first book. One of the most enduring works on the subject of mythology, examining numerous myths and providing historical context and analysis. Introductory essay by Dudley Fitts, illustrations by Joe Mugnaini. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) was an American writer, born in Newton, Mass... View more info
By: Burn, Lucilla
Price: $6.00
Publisher: British Museum Press: 1990
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2273630
2nd printing. An exceptional copy. 1990 Soft Cover. An overview of Greek myths from Heracles to Oedipus. View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270823
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A nice copy. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 196 pp. As writers of English from Australia to India to Sri Lanka command our attention, Salman Rushdie can state confidently that English fiction was moribund until the Empire wrote back, and few, even among the British, demur. A. S. Byatt does, and her case is persuasive. In a series of essays on the complicated relations between reading, wr... View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271602
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 280 pp. A. S. Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable readers have asked for the two marvellous fairy tales in POSSESSION - 'The Glass Coffin' and 'Gode's Tale' of the Breton Naie des Trepasses - to be published separately. Here they take their place with three other stories with medieva... View more info
By: Carlyle, Thomas; Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Dolphin Books: 1966
Seller ID: 2270177
Spine creased, ink marks on front wrapper, edges lightly rubbed, no publisher date (circa 1960s). 1966 Mass Market Paperback. 389 pp. Two titles in one volume: On Heroes and Hero-Worship by Thomas Carlyle, and Representative Men, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. In 1833, when Emerson and Carlyle first met--at Carlyle's home on a remote Scottish moor--the meeting gave both men a sense of sympathetic recognition. Early in their conversation it was revealed that they shared a belief... View more info
By: Carrasco, David
Price: $7.00
Publisher: University of Chicago: 1984
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2273485
2nd printing. Light edge wear. 1984 Trade Paperback. David Carrasco draws from the perspectives of the history of religions, anthropology, and urban ecology to explore the nature of the complex symbolic form of Quetzalcoatl in the organization, legitimation, and subversion of a large segment of the Mexican urban tradition. His new Preface addresses this tradition in the light of the Columbian quincentennial. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2273131
First edition. A bit smoky, top page ridge lightly foxed, publisher's stamp on page base. 1984 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 296, [6] pp. 8vo. CONTENTS: Foreword; The New Seers; Petty Tyrants; The eagle's Emanations; The Glow of Awareness; The First Attention; Inorganic Beings; The Assemblage Point; The Position of the Assemblage Point; The Shift Below; Great Bamds of Emanations; Stalking, Intent, and the Dreaming Position; The Nagual Julian; ... View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers: 2009
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2272169
Second printing. No jacket. A very nice copy. 2009 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. On a warm spring day, the beautiful young goddess Persephone is snatched from her home by Hades, god of the Underworld, and taken away to live underground and become his bride. Persephone's mother, Demeter, goddess of Earth, is so brokenhearted that she curses the land so nothing can grow — a permanent winter. How will Persephone and her mother be reunited? Will spring ever come again? Thi... View more info
By: Climo, Shirley
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Clarion Books: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2272172
First edition. A nice copy. 1995 Large Hardcover. 31 pp. In ancient Greece, the gods control every life, from peasant to King. When newborn Princess Atalanta is left to die on a mountainside because her father wanted a son, the gods send a bear to care for her. Adopted by a woodsman, she grows into a great hunter and athlete, and is eventually reunited with her father, the King. But as she gets older, Atalanta has no use for the gods and gives them no credit. When she mu... View more info
By: Colum, Padraic
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Kilkenny Press: 1988
Seller ID: 2273365
An exceptional copy. 1988 Hard Cover. A collection of Irish tales focusing on the heroes and culture of Ireland. View more info
By: Connolly, Peter
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books: 1993
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2271977
A nice copy. 1993 Large Hardcover. 92 pp. In this re-telling of the old legends the stories are linked to the surviving archaeological evidence, bringing the stories vividly to life, with full-color illustrations on every page. View more info
