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The Arthurian Legends: An Illustrated Anthology

By: Barber, Richard

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Littlefield, Adams & Co: 1979

Seller ID: 2206206

ISBN: 0822606003

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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The Arthurian Legends: An Illustrated Anthology

By: Barber, Richard; Geoffrey of Monmouth; de France, Marie; de Troyes, Chretien; von Strassburg, Gottfried; von Eschenbach, Wolfram; Malory, Thomas; Vergil, Polydore; Leland, John; Tennyson, Alfred; Arnold, Matthew; Morris, William; Swinburne, Algernon; Wil

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Totowa, Littlefield, Adams & Company: 1979

Seller ID: 2304947

ISBN: 0822606003

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket lightly toned. 1979 Hard Cover. 224 pp. A great introduction to many of the epics written on Arthur, while incorporating most of the famous paintings inspired by the subject.
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The Art of Ancient Greece and Rome: From the Rise of Greece to the Fall of Rome

By: Becatti, Giovanni

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.: 1967

Seller ID: 2297705

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket and endpapers faintly toned. Jacket edges bumped. 1967 Large Hardcover. 441 pp. By a series of cross-sections of Classical civilization at different times, he clarifies the many currents and connections throughout the ancient world during its lengthy history, and expands the theme of Classical art as a unifying force. Greece and Greek influences, East and West; Etruscan and Italic; Rome and Roman influences, East and West--the whole world of Western art is displayed in his text and illustrations, making a vast yet unified picture of the Classical style. ...The work of major sculptors an...
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King Arthur's Death: The Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure

By: Benson, Larry D.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Western Michigan University: 1994

Seller ID: 2196790

ISBN: 1879288389

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Pencil marginalia. 1994 Soft Cover. 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 Morte Arthure belongs to the Alliterative Revival...
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The Crane Wife

By: Bodkin, Odds

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Gulliver Books / Harcourt Brace & Company: 1998

Seller ID: 2303011

ISBN: 0152014071

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by illustrator without inscription. An excellent copy. 1998 Large Hardcover. When Osamu, a lonely sail maker, nurses an injured crane one blustery night, he never suspects that this simple act of kindness will change his life forever. Weeks later a mysterious woman arrives on his doorstep, seeking shelter from a storm. Osamu again offers his help, and soon the sail maker and the stranger fall in love and marry. But when he learns of his wife's gift for making magic sails, ambition replaces compassion--and Osamu risks losing the great happiness he has found. With majestic ...
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One More Story: Contemporary Seneca Tales of the Supernatural (Bowman Books #5)

By: Bowen, DuWayne Leslie

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Greenfield Center, Bowman Books / The Greenfield Review Press: 1991

Seller ID: 2303899

ISBN: 091267878X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

1991 Trade Paperback. xiii, 48 pp. Black-and-white illustrations by Beth Clark. A collection of supernatural stories taken from Seneca folklore. Includes: The Skeleton in the Sky; The Lights; The Ghost on the Bridge; The Car Wreck; The Great Swamp; The Blind Man and the Deaf Man; The Giant Deer; The Devil; The Card Players; Talking to Animals; The Peeker; The Power Line; One More Story.
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable; The Age of Chivalry; The Legends of Charlemagne (Complete in One Volume)

By: Bulfinch, Thomas

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Avenel: 1978

Seller ID: 2292356

ISBN: 0517262770

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Pages faintly toned, edge wear to jacket. 1978 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 957 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.
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The Age of Fable; or, Stories of Gods and Heroes [Bulfinch's Mythology]

By: Bulfinch, Thomas

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Sanborn, Carter, Bazin & Co.: 1855

Seller ID: 2299769

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Third edition. Loss to spine head, tear to spine, hinges repaired with tape, ink notes on second flyleaf. 1855 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 488 pp. Author's first book. Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of general audience works by American Latinist and banker Thomas Bulfinch, named after him and published after his death in 1867. The work was a highly successful popularization of Greek mythology for English-speaking readers. Carl J. Richard comments that it was one of the most popular books ever published in the United States and the standard work on classical ...
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable; The Age of Chivalry; The Legends of Charlemagne (A Modern Library Giant, G14)

By: Bulfinch, Thomas

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Modern Library:

Seller ID: 2276970

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket, top corners of boards lightly bumped, pencil name on front endpaper, no publisher date. We have more books available by this author!. 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
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable; The Age of Chivalry; The Legends of Charlemagne (A Modern Library Giant, G14)

By: Bulfinch, Thomas

Price: $30.00

Publisher: The Modern Library: 1930

Seller ID: 2291646

Binding: Hard Cover

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. We have more books available by this author!. 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...
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The Age of Fable or Beauties of Mythology (Revised and Enlarged Edition)

By: Bulfinch, Thomas; Scott, J. Loughran

Price: $15.00

Publisher: David McKay: 1898

Seller ID: 2288719

Binding: Hard Cover

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 ...
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Symphony Iroquoian: A Symphonic Poem Based upon an Ancient Iroquois Indian Rite and Legend, and Augmented by Musical Folk Themes Directly Transcribed and Adapted by the Author.

By: Burke, Carleton; Parker, Arthur C.; Dah-tah-e-na; Hill, Cephas; Ha-yonh-wonh-ish; Cornplanter, Jesse J.; Noh-sohn-duah; Tahamont, Maisa Parker;

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences / The Henry Conolly Co.: 1937

Seller ID: 2303883

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Boards toned. 1937 Hard Cover. x, 70 pp. 8vo. Music, lyrics, and illustrations inspired by a traditional Iroquois rite and legend.
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Occidental Mythology: The Masks of God

By: Campbell, Joseph

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Penguin Compass: 1991

Seller ID: 2286281

ISBN: 014019441X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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.
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Myths to Live By: How We Re-Create Ancient Legends in Our Daily Lives to Release Human Potential

By: Campbell, Joseph

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Bantam: 1973

Seller ID: 2301658

ISBN: 0140194614

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

Pages faintly toned, light edge wear. 1973 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. The Impact of Science on Myth; The Emergenc of Mankind; The Importance of Rites; The Separation of East and West; The Confrontation of East and West in Religion; The Inspiration of Oriental Art; Zen; The Mythology of Love; Mythologies of War and Peace; Schizophrenia -- the Inward Journey; The Moon Walk -- the Outward Journey; Envoy: No More Horizons.
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Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire: Myths and Prophecies in the Aztec Tradition

By: Carrasco, David

Price: $5.00

Publisher: University of Chicago: 1984

Seller ID: 2273485

ISBN: 0226094898

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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.
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From Sea to Shining Sea: A Treasury of American Folklore and Folk Songs, Illustrated by Eleven Caldecott Medal and Four Caldecott Honor Book Artists

By: Cohn, Amy L.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Scholastic: 1993

Seller ID: 2303272

ISBN: 0590428683

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Half inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel. Name on front free endpaper redacted. 1993 Large Hardcover. xv, 399 pp. This is a wonderful of collection of 140 folktales, songs, poems, and essays features the words of Mark Twain, Virginia Hamilton, Walt Whitman, Stephen Foster, and Woody Guthrie and pays tribute to American folklore. All of the music is arranged for voice, piano, & guitar with lyrics. This sumptuous anthology gathers into its generous embrace a rich mix of cultural heritages, from Native American and African American to Hispanic, Pennsylvania Dutch, Cajun,...
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Olode the Hunter and Other Tales from Nigeria

By: Courlander, Harold

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World: 1968

Seller ID: 2119148

ISBN: 0152578269

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Robin Hood

By: Creswick, Paul

Price: $75.00

Publisher: David McKay, Publisher: 1917

Seller ID: 2267201

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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 part of his original character, since the beginning of the 19th century he has been known for robbing the rich and giving to ...
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Tall Tales and Legends (Publications of the Wilson Historical Society (Niagara County), No. 2)

By: Croop, Donald W.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Wilson Historical Society: 1974

Seller ID: 2299999

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

Author's signature on front wrapper and on foreword page. A few very minor spots on wrappers. 1974 Stapled Binding. 40 pp. ...a collection of unusual stories about the Town of Wilson.
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The Legend of Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak and Their Adventures Heroical, Joyous, and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere, in Two Volumes

By: De Coster, Charles; Atkinson, F.M.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company: 1922

Seller ID: 2272121

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Boards a bit rubbed, ink name and year on front endpaper of each volume. 1922 Hard Cover. 321, [5]; 353, [1] pp. 8vo. Black cloth over paper-covered boards, paper spine labels. Translated from the original French by F.M. Atkinson. First published in 1867, this is a series of allegorical adventures based on the Low German folk hero Till Eulenspiegel. Coster changes the setting to the Reformation era Netherlands.
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The Bedside Book of Irish Fables and Legends

By: Donegan, Maureen

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Mercier Press: 1993

Seller ID: 2300063

ISBN: 1856350630

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Faint sticker remnant to rear wrapper. 1993 Trade Paperback. A collection of Irish myths with a special focus on Cuchulainn, Fergus, Fionn, and Diarmuid.
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Siren Land

By: Douglas, Norman

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company: 1923

Seller ID: 2206721

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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, local ghosts, wine, and the wind.
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Heroes, Gods and Monsters of Greek Myths

By: Evslin, Bernard

Price: $3.00

Publisher: New York, Laurel Leaf Books: 1984

Seller ID: 2304887

ISBN: 0553259202

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Permabound small hardcover binding. Lightly rubbed. 1984 Small Hard Cover. Introduction; THE GODS: Zeus; Hera; Athene; Poseiden; Hades; Demeter; Birth of the Twins; Artemis; Apollo; Sones of Apollo; Hermes; Hephaestus; Aphrodite; NATURE MYTHS: Prometheus; Pandora; Phaethon; Orpheus; Narcissus and Echo; Eros and Psyche; Arion; DEMIGODS: Perseus; Daedalus; Theseus; Atalanta; FABLES: Midas; Pygmalion; Myhology Becomes Language; Recommended Reading.
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African Myths and Tales

By: Feldmann, Susan

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Laurel/Dell: 1973

Seller ID: 2294569

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Fourth printing. Ink stamp on blurb page, pages very faintly toned. 1973 Mass Market Paperback. 318 pp. An original collection of wonderful stories about men and animals and gods, about super-natural events and everyday happenings, of love, hate, jealousy, trickery, and magic. Long the special preserve of anthropologists, ethnologists, and folklorists, many intriguing rales and myths were not readily available. In this edition the general reader can meet the people of various African tribes as they attempt to explain a baffling and often hostile universe and to deal with problems basic to all ...
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The Children's Odyssey, with an Introductory Chapter on Greek Myths

By: Gale, Agnes Cook

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Public-School Publshing: 1914

Seller ID: 2294786

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

No jacket. Binding has been repaired. Boards lightly soiled, a few light spots on page ridges, ink name on front paste-down endpaper. 1914 Hard Cover. 267 pp. Illustrated by half tone cuts taken from photographs by Karl Schwier. CONTENTS: Odysseus and Penelope; Odysseus Plows the Seashore; Odysseus at Troy; The Wooden Horse; Odysseus Visits the Lotus Eaters; The Great Polyphemus; Aeolus and the Bag of Winds; The Man-Eaters; Circe and the Swine; The Shadow Land; The Sirens; The Dangerous Channel; The Sun-God's Cattle; Calypso and the Raft; The Sea-Bird's Gift; Nausicaa's Washing; At the Palace ...
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Roman Myths (The Legendary Past)

By: Gardner, Jane F.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: British Museum Press: 1993

Seller ID: 2273631

ISBN: 0714117412

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1st printing. An exceptional copy. 1993 Soft Cover. An overview of Roman myth, religion, and heroes.
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Ariadne's Death: Tales of Heroism and Tragedy on Lake Ontario

By: Gateley, Susan Peterson

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Susan Peterson Gateley: 2006

Seller ID: 2199305

ISBN: 0964614944

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Children of Hachiman

By: Guest, Lynn

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Bodley Head: 1980

Seller ID: 2199936

ISBN: 0370303113

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Pages lightly toned. Jacket toned, jacket flaps foxed. 1980 Hard Cover. 309 pp. Dramatizes the life of 12th-century Samurai warrior Minamoto Yoshitsune, a renowned hero from Japanese history. ...the story of three Minamoto brothers whose outstanding talents combined to make the eldest the ruler of Japan, but whose mutual antagonisms and rivalries eventually led in personal terms to death and ruin. Above all, it is the story of the meteoric career of the youngest, Yoshitsune, a military genius raised secretly by warlike Buddhist monks to be the brilliant leader of the Minamoto ar...
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Hermetic Definition

By: H.D. [Doolittle, Hilda]

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New Directions: 1972

Seller ID: 2297387

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Wrappers lightly rubbed, a few light stains on rear wrapper, a few light creases. 1972 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 117 pp. H. D.’s (Hilda Doolittle, 1884-1961) late poems of search and longing represent the mature achievement of a poet who has come increasingly to be recognized as one of the most important of her generation. The title poem and other long pieces in this collection (Sagesse and Winter Love) were written between 1957 and her death four years later, and are heretofore unpublished, except in fragments. We can see now in proper context her fine e...
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Asiatic Mythology: A Detailed Description and Explanation of the Mythologies of All the Great Nations of Asia

By: Hackin, J.; Huart, Clement; Linossier, Raymonde; De Wilman-Grabowska, H.; Marchal, Charles-Henri; Maspero, Henri; Eliseev, Serge; Couchoud, Paul-Louis

Price: $75.00

Publisher: George G. Harrap & Co., Limited: 1932

Seller ID: 2291182

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. No jacket. A near fine copy. 1932 Large Hardcover. 459, [1] pp. Blue cloth boards. Includes illustrations. CONTENTS: Introduction; The Mythology of Persia; The Mythology of the Kafirs; The Mythology of Buddhism in India; Brahmanic Mythology; The Mythology of Lamaism; The Mythology of Indo-China and Java; Buddhist-Mythology in Central Asia; The Mythology of Modern China; The Mythology of Japan; Index.
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