Reeves and Turner, January 1892. Hardcover. No jacket. Cover is suuned toward the spine and spine's gilt lettering is rubbed. Former owner's bookplate on front paste down endpaper. Starting after front endpapers, but pages are clean, foxing limited to front and back endpapers. More
Penguin Classics, July 2011. Paper Back. Compiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, and based on sources dating back centuries earlier, these mythological and heroic poems tell of gods and mortals from an ancient era: the giant-slaying Thor, the doomed Völsung family, the Hel-ride of Brynhild and the..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, July 1999. Trade Paperback. Apuleius's Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel--the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his..... More
Harper, 1962. Trade Paperback. More
University of Texas Press, 2003. Paper Back. The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology and heroic lore, embodying both the..... More
Abu Hasan, January 1995. First Edition. Paper Back. Folio. First edition; paperback original. More
American-Scandinavian Foundation, January 1959. Cloth. In dustjacket with darkened spine & margins with chipping at corners & especially (about 1/8th inch from edges) at top & bottom of spine. Blue boards with gold lettering along spine & upon front board. There is fading at edges of boards & bruising with..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), September 1970. Trade Paperback. More
N/A, September 1990. Trade Paperback. More
Bantam, October 1984. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Broadway, June 1988. Oversize Softcover. The Power Of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminient scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people. To him, mythology was the "song of the universe, the music of the..... More
Random House Inc, June 1994. Paper Back. A tale of chivalry and doomed, transcendent love, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult is one of the most resonant works of Western literature, as well as the basis for our enduring idea of romance. The story of the Cornish knight and the..... More
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Hardcover. More
Facts on File, January 1984. First Edition. Cloth. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Two very lightly bumped corners on the boards. More
Penguin USA, June 1965. Trade Paperback. These two Icelandic sagas tell of the discovery of America by Norsemen five centuries before Christopher Columbus. In spare and vigorous prose they record Europe's first surprise glimpse of the eastern shores of North America and the natives who inhabited them. More
Ballantine Books, December 1995. Trade Paperback. Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Though the gifts of wildish nature come to us at birth..... More
Modern Library, April 2001. Trade Paperback. Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story..... More
University Books, January 1961. Cloth. Orange cloth with black lettering on spine. Tanning & foxing to end pages. Heavy foxing to textblock edges. Price clipped jacket with heavy foxing & two inch tear at bottom of front fold. Two half inch tears at top edge. More
Indiana University Press, February 1993. Paper Back. [A]n eminently readable text, done clearly and accurately... it gives as good an idea as a translation can of the complexity and subtlety of Chrétien's originals.... The text is provided by a translator who understands the spirit as well as the letter of..... More
The Citadel Press, December 1973. Paper Back. Exterior user wear. Stains to textblock fore-edge. Red-marker remainder dot bottom edge. Interior text without markings, underlining or side-notes. Decent reading copy of classic study of Werewolfs by Augustus Montague Summers, an English clergyman, scholar and believer in Werewolfs and Vampires. Summers wrote..... More
Modern Library Giant, January 1942. Hardcover. In tattered jacket torn in two parts. Navy blue cloth with some mild discoloration. Tanning to end pages. More
Penguin Classics, February 2007. Trade Paperback. Warrior-prince Rama is about to be crowned Young King, when he hears the devastating news that his father, King of Ayodhya, has been tricked into banishing him to the forest. His devoted wife Sita insists on accompanying him in exile, but the evil ten-headed..... More
