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By: N/A
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Cafe Crashers: 2013
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2201717
ISBN: 1500459720
Condition: Near Fine
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 SHORT STORIES FICTION FANTASY FAIRY TALES View more info
By: Allan, Tony; Maitland, Sara
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Time-Life Books: 1997
Seller ID: 2205623
Condition: Near Fine
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, god of wine and fertility, and of Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection.Keywords: FOLKLORE MYTHOLOGY HISTORY M... View more info
By: Allan, Tony; Phillips, Charles
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Time-Life Books: 1999
Seller ID: 2205626
Condition: Near Fine
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 Heavenly Mandate as the divinely appointed Son of Heaven, intermediary between the world of gods and mortals--Heaven and Earth--... View more info
By: Allen, Tony; Fleming, Fergus; Kerrigan, Michael
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Time-Life Books: 1999
Seller ID: 2205614
Condition: Near Fine
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 HISTORY OCEANIAN MYTH JOURNEYS THROUGH DREAMTIME AUSTRALIA NEW GUINEA POLUNESIAN View more info
By: Allen, Tony; Fleming, Fergus; Phillips, Charles
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Time-Life Books: 1999
Seller ID: 2205620
Condition: Near Fine
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 AFRICAN AFRICA View more info
By: Apollodorus; Simpson, Michael (translator)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Massachusetts: 1976
Seller ID: 2196874
Condition: Very Good
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: Barbeau, Marius
Price: $10.00
Publisher: National Museum of Canada: 1961
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276393
Condition: Good
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 Rhodes Scholar and advocate of the preservation and celebration of the traditions of native peoples. 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
Condition: Very Good
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 celebration of the traditions of native peoples. View more info
By: Barber, Richard
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Littlefield, Adams & Co: 1979
Seller ID: 2206206
Condition: Very Good
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
Condition: Good
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
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley: 1994
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2274182
ISBN: 1564584631
Condition: Near Fine
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 dragon that brings secret gifts to a kind young boy-are brought to life in Judith Moffatt's cheery cut-paper illustrations. Reader... View more info
By: Beck, Horace
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Mystic Seaport Museum: 2005
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 2286500
ISBN: 0913372366
Condition: Very Good
Second edition. Faint edge wear. 2005 Trade Paperback. Horace Beck, a former professor of American Literature at Middlebury College, has been gathering the sea's folklore for 70 years in Europe, North America, and the West Indies. This collection of legends, songs, superstitions, and stories, both true and apocryphal includes spectral ships, mermaids and mermen, pirates, sea language, sea monsters, navigation and weather lore, names on sea and shore, and much more. View more info
By: Benson, Larry D.
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Bobbs Merrill: 1974
Seller ID: 2195063
Condition: Good
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
ISBN: 1879288389
Condition: Good
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 significant Arthurian romances in Middle English, which complement each other in terms of style and content. While the Alliterative Mor... View more info
By: Botkin, B.A.; Freeman, Douglas Southall
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Crown Publishers: 1949
Seller ID: 2278343
Condition: Very Good
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 Blackbeard; poor whites, Crackers, slaves, Cajuns, Gullahs, Seminoles, Cherokees, raftsmen, pioneers and priests and hellfire-an... View more info
By: Bradford, Roark
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1931
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2283819
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Jacket spine lightly toned, minor chip to jacket spine head, minor tear along top edge of rear jacket panel. 1931 Hard Cover. vi, 225 pp. With 25 woodcuts by J.J. Lankes. Novel based on the African-American folk hero of the same name. View more info
By: Bright, Charles
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Bowling Green State University: 1991
Seller ID: 2287352
ISBN: 0879725397
Condition: Very Good
Tiny stain to last few pages. 1991 Hard Cover. The Loch Ness monster isn't the only sea serpent in the world! History is filled with actual reported sightings of gigantic snake-like monsters which can only be described as Sea Serpents. View more info
By: Bruchac, Joseph
Price: $5.00
Publisher: The Crossing Press: 1990
Seller ID: 2175622
Condition: Near Fine
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: $8.00
Publisher: Dover: 1967
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2287034
ISBN: 048621866X
Condition: Very Good
Spine faded. 1967 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. clv, [1], 377, [9] pp. 1967 reissue of the 1895 original. 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 the behaviors of the disembodied spirit in the Land of the Gods, it served as the most important repository of religious authority for some three thou... View more info
By: Bulfinch, Thomas
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Modern Library:
Seller ID: 2276970
Condition: Very Good
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 characters of ancient European mythology. - Wikipedia View more info
By: Bulfinch, Thomas
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Modern Library: 1930
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2291646
Condition: Very Good
1930s printing of Toledano G014.1. Very good in fair jacket. Small dealer plate on rear endpaper, jacket edges rubbed with large chip from top edge of rear panel and minor loss elsewhere. xi, [1] 778 pp. 8vo. 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 characters of ancient Europea... View more info
By: Bulfinch, Thomas; Fitts, Dudley
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1958
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2261281
Condition: Very Good
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, Massachusetts. Bulfinch belonged to a well educated Bostonian merchant family of modest means. His father was Charles Bulfinch, t... View more info
By: Bulfinch, Thomas; Scott, J. Loughran
Price: $15.00
Publisher: David McKay: 1898
Edition: Revised and Enlarged Edition
Seller ID: 2288719
Condition: Good
No jacket. Hinges starting, minor loss to spine base, ink stamp on bottom page ridge and on front paste-down endpaper. 1898 Hard Cover. xxiii, 501 pp. With a classical index and dictionary and nearly two hundred illustrations. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 – May 27, 1867[1]) was an American writer born in Newton, Massachusetts, best known for the book Bulfinch's Mythology. Bulfinch's Mythology is a classic work of popularized mythology, the standard for over a century and still in print 160 years after the first work, Age of Fable, was published in 1855. Bulfinch wrote in ... View more info
By: Burn, Lucilla
Price: $6.00
Publisher: British Museum Press: 1990
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2273630
ISBN: 0714120618
Condition: Near Fine
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
Condition: Near Fine
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, writing, and remembering, the gifted novelist and critic sorts the modish from the merely interesting and the truly good to arr... View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271602
ISBN: 0701162783
Condition: Near Fine
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 medieval and oriental settings. The title story, 'The Djinn and the Nightingale's Eye', a long story about an Englishwoman in Turkey... View more info
By: Campbell, Joseph
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Penguin Compass: 1991
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2286281
ISBN: 014019441X
Condition: Very Good
Spine creased. 1991 Trade Paperback. x, 564 pp. A systematic and fascinating comparison of the themes that underlie the art, worship, and literature of the Western world. View more info
By: Campbell, Joseph; Cousineau, Phil
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Element: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2288993
ISBN: 1862045984
Condition: Very Good
First edition. One inch tear along top edge of rear jacket panel, front jacket flap price-clipped. Owner's library stamp on front endpaper and half-title page and rear endpaper, ink gift note on half-title page, pages very faintly toned. 1999 Large Hardcover. xxvii, 258 pp. The author of Hero With a Thousand Faces, The Masks of God series, and The Power of Myth here turns his powers of observation and analysis on his own life's journey and conveys the excitement of his life-long exploration of mythic traditions, which he called the one great story of mankind. In conversations with poets, anthr... View more info
By: Campbell, Joseph; Moyers, Bill; Flowers, Betty Sue
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Doubleday: 1988
Seller ID: 2281336
ISBN: 0385247737
Condition: Near Fine
1988 Large Hardcover. xix, [1], 233, [3] pp. The Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people--including Star Wars creator George Lucas. To Campbell, mythology was the “song of the universe, the music of the spheres.” With Bill Moyers, one of America’s most prominent journalists, as his thoughtful and engaging interviewer, The Power of Myth touches on subjects from modern marriage to virgin births, from Jesus to John Lennon, offering a bri... View more info
By: Carlyle, Thomas; Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Dolphin Books: 1966
Seller ID: 2270177
Condition: Good
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 in the importance of Great Men. Eight years later, in 1841, On Heroes appeared, and its influence on Emerson is undoubted. W... View more info
