Songs on Bronze (THE GREEK MYTHS MADE REAL)
FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, January 2005. Trade Paperback. More
Mythology
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The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare. Translated from the Original arabic by Lady Anne Blunt. Done into Verse by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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
Tales of Ancient India
University of Chicago Press, January 1959. Cloth. In mildly edgeworn dustjacket with some rubbing. Not price clipped. Original price of $4.50 on flap. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine & gold illustration front board. Textblock black topstain slightly faded. First U.S. edition. (260 pages). More
Isis and Osiris
Doubleday, January 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Some minor dust staining in the edges of the print block. More
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
Harper, 1962. Trade Paperback. More
The Waving Rye
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
Creative Mythology (The Masks of God, Volume IV)
Penguin (Non-Classics), September 1970. Trade Paperback. More
The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension
N/A, September 1990. Trade Paperback. More
Romance of Tristan and Iseult
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
The Arabian Night
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Hardcover. More
The Bull of Minos: The Discoveries of Schliemann and Evans
Facts on File, January 1984. First Edition. Cloth. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Two very lightly bumped corners on the boards. More
The Hitopadesa (Penguin Classics S.)
Penguin Classics, July 2007. Paper Back. Widely read and beloved for more than a thousand years, the Hitopadesa (Book of Good Counsels) is an anthology of folk wisdom that offers humorous and profound reflections on human lives and loves, philosophies and follies. Drawing on traditional sources, Narayana presents classic tales..... More
Fantasy: The Golden Age of Fantastic Illustration
Watson-Guptill, January 1975. First Edition. Cloth. Nine-inch x Twelve & 1/2-inch. First U.S. edition in price-clipped dustjacket. Biege colored boards with gold lettering stamped on spine. Dark brown end pages. (192 pages). More
The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics)
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
The Pancatantra (Penguin Classics S.)
Penguin Classics, July 2007. Paper Back. Enduring and profound, among the earliest and most popular of all books of fables First recorded 1500 years ago, but taking its origins from a far earlier oral tradition, the Pancatantra is ascribed by legend to the celebrated, half-mythical teacher Visnu Sarma. Asked by..... More
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Chelsea Publishing Co. Leather. No date, but was possibly printed in 1930s. Author not listed, but Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736 – 1794) was German writer credited with this classic adventure tale, and Rapse is discussed at length in Thomas Seccombe's introduction. The translator is unnamed. Navy blue leather cover deeply..... More
Morte D'Arthur Hardcover Caxton
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
The Five-and-Twenty Tales of the Genie (Penguin Classics S.)
Penguin Classics, July 2007. Trade Paperback. Half-mythical, heroic and sagacious, the emperor VikramOaditya is widely regarded as India's greatest monarch. This collection of stories tells of the ruler's fabled encounter with a vetOala, a genie who inhabits the body of a corpse." Clean, sound, gently read. More
The Werewolf (C-373)
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
Bulfinch's Mythology
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
Rama the Steadfast: An Early Form of the Ramayana (Penguin Classics)
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
Outlines of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motives (3rd Revised Edition, with 402 illustrations) An alphabetical compendium of antique legends and beliefs, as reflected in the manners and customs of the Chinese.
Dover Publications, June 1976. Paper Back. This is the first paperbound edition of a standard reference volume long familiar to students of China and Chinese culture. The work of a scholarly English resident of China, it is an illustrated encyclopedia with hundreds of concise, clear, and authoritative articles outlining the..... More
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