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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: 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
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Roberts Brothers: 1867
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2260758
First edition. Owner bookplate on front endpaper, embossed bookseller stamp on title page. 1867 Hard Cover. 255 pp. 8vo. A collection of myths and folk tales, including: The Wandering Jew; Prester John; The Divining Rod; The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus; William Tell; The Dog Gellert; Tailed Men; Antichrist and Pope Joan; The Man in the Moon; The Mountain of Venus; Fatality of Numbers; The Terrestrial Paradise. Frontispiece of Pope Joan reproduced from a late 16th century e... 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
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: Bierhorst, John
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press: 2002
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2195093
First printing. Cover lightly toned, ink name on front endpaper. 2002 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, 249 pp. In this expansive volume, John Bierhorst brings to light the gods and heroes of pre-Columbian times--and demonstrates that they are very much alive today. The book provides translations of twenty basic myths, showing how these have influenced the artistic, literary, and political life of modern Mexico and Central America. Origi... View more info
By: Bierhorst, John
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Indian Head Books: 1992
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2265829
Ink name on front endpaper. 1992 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. A survey of the myths of over forty different Native American tribes. 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
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: Campbell, Joseph
Price: $7.00
Publisher: HarperPerennial: 1990
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2268745
First printing. Rear wrapper lightly bumped, pages faintly toned. 1990 Trade Paperback. viii, 248 pp. Focuses on the nature of myths and the significant of symbolic images to the human psyche. In Flight of the Wild Gander, renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell -- in his first collection of essays, written between 1944 and 1968 -- explores the individual and geographical origins of myth, outlining the full range of mythology from Grimm's fairy tales to American Indian lege... 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: Conlee, John
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Western Michigan University: 1998
Seller ID: 2196791
An exceptional copy. 1998 Soft Cover. With its contextualizing introduction, notes, and gloss, this edition makes the Prose Merlin available to any student of Arthurian legend, no matter their level of proficiency in Middle English. Written in the latter half of the fifteenth century, the Prose Merlin is the first work of Arthurian literature written in English prose. The highly original poem, though based upon the French Vulgate cycle tradition of Arthurian legends, is ... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World: 1968
Seller ID: 2119148
Light edge wear to jacket.Very Good. 1968 Hard Cover. Tales mostly taken from the Yoruba people of Western Nigeria, though some of the Ibo and Hausa people are included as well. View more info
By: Creswick, Paul
Price: $75.00
Publisher: David McKay, Publisher: 1917
Seller ID: 2267201
All color plates included. A few light spots on boards, some scuffs to front picture plate, spine toned, pencil name and date on front endpaper. 1917 Hard Cover. 362 pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt spine titles, blue-grey titles & borders on front board, color plate mounted on front board. Illustrated endpapers. Color title page & plates by N.C. Wyeth. Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English Folklore, a highly skilled archer and swordsman. Although such behavior was was not ... View more info
By: Detienne, M; Gernet, L; Vernant, J.-P.; Vidal-Naquet, P.; Gordon, R.L. (Editor)
Price: $18.50
Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1986
Seller ID: 2194991
Sticker on rear wrapper, underlining & marginalia on a few pages. 1986 Trade Paperback. xvii, 306 pp. The essays in this volume explore different aspects of the relation between Greek myth and Greek thought between the Archaic period (Homer and Hesiod) and the Hellenistic period, highlighting both the continuities and the contrasts in the Greek interpretations and 'uses' of myth. With the exception of the essay by Louis Gernet, all bear traces of the authors; attempts to... View more info
By: Douglas, Norman
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company: 1923
Seller ID: 2206721
No jacket, pages faintly toned. 1923 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 337 pp. Norman Douglas’s first travel book, Siren Land is an homage to a part of the world that captivated the author more than any other. Weaving the myths of the Sirens into the landscape and history of the region, Douglas writes with knowledge and an irrepressible exuberance of the past and the present, of legends and archaeology, folklore and daily life, patron saints, lo... View more info
By: Dowson, John
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Trubner & Co.: 1879
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200535
First edition. Professionally rebound with gilt titles and new end sheets. A few stray pencil marks to text, bookplate on front endpaper. 1879 Hard Cover. 411 pp. 8 x 5 1/2. A comprehensive dictionary of Hinduism. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Dowson M.R.A.S. (1820 -1882) was a British orientalist. A noted scholar of Hinduism he taught in India for much of his life. His book Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology remains one of the most comprehensive and authoritative works on... View more info
By: Eliot, Alexander
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Meridian: 1994
Seller ID: 2175600
Light rubbing to wrappers. 1994 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Myth is universal - a common heritage to all humanity. But it is by no means confined to primitive and pagan lore, and this work proves it to be a vital part of contemporary life. The myths and legends in this book, gathered during a lifetime's travels, are re-imagined on the ground where they originally occurred, providing a sense of place for each tale. The volume demonstrate... View more info
By: Ennis, Merlin; Lord, Albert
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Beacon Press: 1962
Seller ID: 2203603
Very GoodJacket rubbed, quarter-inch chip to top edge of jacket front. 1962 Hard Cover. xxix, 316 pp. In the middle of the wild bush country of West Africa live the Ovimbundu of Angola. For generations the transmission of their culture has been by word-of-mouth through the art of tribal storytellers. Now for the first time an American who lived among them for almost 40 years has translated and written down these tales and legends from the Umbundu, without altering their ... View more info
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By: Evans, Sebastian
Price: $25.00
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons LTD / E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1936
Edition: 4th Printing
Seller ID: 2260183
4th printing. One-inch tear along back top corner of jacket rear, jacket edges rubbed, a few faint smudges to jacket. Ink name and date on front endpaper, page ridges very faintly foxed. 1936 Hard Cover. xx, 379 pp. Fold-out map follows text. Perlesvaus, also called Li Hauz Livres du Graal (The High History of the Holy Grail), is an Old French Arthurian romance dating to the first decade of the 13th century. It purports to be a continuation of Chrétien de Troyes unfinis... View more info
By: Fleming, Fergus; Lothian, Alan
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Time-Life Books: 1997
Seller ID: 2205625
A very nice copy.Jacket lightly toned, small smudge to jacket front. 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.According to ancient Egyptian myth, the sun god, who brings light to the world, is born anew every morning, travels through the heavens by boat during the day, and enters ... View more info
Price: $9.50
Publisher: Susan Peterson Gateley: 2006
Seller ID: 2199305
Faint crease to front cover, pencil name on front endpaper. 2006 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 95 pp. From the tragic ends of several family owned cargo shooners of the nineteenth century to the improbable outcome of a fishing trip on Lake Ontario taken in 2002, Sailor/writer Peterson Gateley chronicles maritime disasters, acts of heroism, and some close calls on Lake Ontario. View more info
