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Scottish Folk & Fairy Tales. Antholoyg of Classic Tales Epic Tales
London: Flametree Publishing, 2023. 8vo., pp. 430, hardcover, silver lettering; new. RRP £20
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SNORRI STURLUSON.
Boston: Twayne Publishers, A Division of G.K. Hall & Co, 1978. 8vo., pp.188, green cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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SORCERY.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. First edition, 8vo., pp.232, black hardcover, gilt, a fine copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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SPECULUM MENTIS; Or The Map of Knowledge.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1963. 8vo.,pp.327, navy cloth, gilt; light pencilling, light toning and foxing to edges of text block and endpapers, rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy, in a good price-clipped dust-jacket, which is toned to spine, with some loss to head and foot of spine and corners. Now in a protective cover.
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STORYLAND: A NEW MYTHOLOGY OF BRITAIN.
London: Riverrun, 2021. 8vo., pp.361, black hardcover, gilt, pictorial endpapers, b/w illustrations: new, in dust-jacket. [Please note: in order to make it possible to sell titles from our extensive remainder stock online, we have added the cost of postage to our shop prices. If you are ordering multiple remainders, any excess postage charged will be refunded.]
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STORYLAND. [Children’s edition] Discover the Magical Myths and Lost Legends of Britain.
London: Wren & Rook, 2021. 8vo., pp.239, pictorial blue hardcover, copper lettering, pictorial endpapers, b/w illustrations and decorations: new, in dust-jacket. [Please note: in order to make it possible to sell titles from our extensive remainder stock online, we have added the cost of postage to our shop prices. If you are ordering multiple remainders, any excess postage charged will be refunded.] RRP £14.99
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TALES FROM ETERNITY.
The World of Faerie and the Spiritual Search.
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1973. First edition, 8vo., pp.191, hardcover lettered in silver; a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE BATTLE GOD OF THE VIKINGS. The First G. N. Garmonsway Memorial Lecture, delivered 29 October 1971 in the University of York. University of York Medieval Monograph Series.
York: William Sessions Ltd, 1972. 8vo., pp.33, paperback (stapled wrappers), b/w frontispiece, 14 b/w plates; very light shelf-wear, a near fine copy.
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THE FAIRY TRADITION IN BRITAIN.
London: Rider and Company, 1948. First edition, 8vo., pp.374, black hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece; very light foxing to early leaves, occasionally affecting margins of later pages in text, light foxing to edges, light rubbed, with a few surface marks, light bruises to corners of boards, gilt lettering completely faded/rubbed away, overall still a very good copy, without dust-jacket.
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THE FLAMING DOOR, A Preliminary Study of the Mission of the Celtic Folk-Soul by means of Legends and Myth.
London: Rider & Co, 1936. First edition, 8vo., pp.64,288,7(adverts), red cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, further b/w plates; a very good copy in lightly worn and marked dust-jacket, which has small area of loss to spine.
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THE FOOL: His Social and Literary History.
London: Faber and Faber, 1935. First edition, 8vo., pp.xv,374, uncut, marbled cloth boards, pictorial spine stamped in gilt and black, b/w frontispiece and plates; sunning and light rubbing to spine, else clean and very good.
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THE GHOSTS OF YORK.
York: The Yorkshire Gazette, 1899. 12mo., pp.41, printed, stapled wrappers; foxing to edges, wrappers fragile - largely torn along fold for spine, with further closed tears and small areas of loss, contents clean, a good copy of this scarce pamphlet.
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THE GODDESSES AND GODS OF OLD EUROPE: 6500-3500 BC. Myths and Cult Images.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1996. New and updated reprint edition, 8vo.,pp. 304, paperback, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; ownership autograph to half title page, slight pencilling, slight cracking to inner hinge, all contents firm, creasing to spine and corners, overall a very good copy.
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THE GOLDEN DAWN.
An Account of the Teachings, Rites and Ceremonies of the Order of the Golden Dawn.
St. Paul, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications. Reprint of the fourth, revised and enlarged edition, complete in one volume, 8vo., pp.227,300,276,368, pictorial boards, b/w and colour illustrations; a very good, clean copy, with some rubbing to extremities. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE LIBRARY EDITION OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS, ILLUSTRATED. [Set of Twelve Volumes]
London: H.S. Nichols Ltd, 1897. Limited Library edition, one of 570 sets, and one of only a few sets issued in the publisher’s full morocco bindings, set of twelve volumes, full brown bevelled morocco with lavishly decorated boards in gilt, gilt decorations to spine, five raised bands, inner dentelles gilt, t.e.g., patterned endpapers, b/w frontispiece portrait to first volume, b/w plates with caption-sheets; neat ink ownership autograph to front paste-down endpaper and to front free endpaper verso, light wear to leather at extremities, a very good set.
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THE MABINOGION, From the Llyfr Coch o Hergest [Red Book of Hergest], and other Ancient Welsh Manuscripts, With an English Translation and Notes. [Set of Three Volumes]
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans/Llandovery: W. Rees, 1849. Three volumes, royal 8vo., pp.xxiii,412;vi,444;iii,400, half blue morocco, five raised bands, gilt, with gilt decoration to compartments, marbled boards and endpapers, t.e.g., b/w frontispiece, b/w plates; foxing to prelims and ultimate leaves, occasional foxing within, spines uniformly discoloured to dark green, a bright and near-fine set.
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THE TRIUMPH OF THE MOON.
A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft.
Oxford University Press, 1999. First edition, 8vo., pp.,xv,486, black hardcover, gilt; a very good copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket in clear protective cover.
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THE VERMILION BIRD: T’ang Images of the South.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. 8vo.,pp. viii,380, paperback; slight creasing to lower edge, a very good copy.
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TOPSELL’S HISTORIES OF BEASTS.
Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1981. 8vo., pp.xiii,185, brown hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; foxing to upper edge of text block, rubbing to extremities of boards, otherwise very good, in a good+ unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed and toned to spine and extremities, adhesive stain to front where label has been removed, small areas of loss to head and foot of spine and to corners.
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TRACES OF THE ELDER FAITHS OF IRELAND: A FOLKLORE SKETCH.
A Handbook of Irish Pre-Christian Traditions.
London: Longmans, Green and Co. First edition, two volumes, 8vo., pp.xx,405:xvi,438, uncut, textured blue cloth, gilt, b/w frontispieces and 192 further b/w plates and figures; ownership inkstamp and gift inscription to front free endpaper verso of volume I, ownership name stamp to half titles of both volumes, light foxing to prelims, rubbing to extremities, with small nicks to cloth at headbands, a very good set of this scarce work.
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