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THE FOOL AND THE TRICKSTER.
Studies in Honour of Enid Welsford.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer. First edition, 8vo., pp.(vi),142, brown hardcover lettered in silver, b/w plates; light foxing to top edges, slight mustiness, else very good indeed, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly toned to spine and with a light marking to pale paper, else very good.
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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 FOOL: His Social and Literary History.
London: Faber and Faber, 1935. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xv,374, red cloth, b/w frontispiece and plates; very good indeed, in very slightly chipped price-clipped dust-jacket.
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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 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 PEAT-FIRE FLAME:
Folk-Tales and Traditions of the Highlands and Islands.
Edinburgh: The Moray Press, 1937. First edition, 8vo, pp.xix,339, blue cloth, gilt, 32 b/w photographic plates; foxing/toning to fore-edges (with just occasional foxing to margins), rubbing to extremities, spine lightly dulled, a good++ copy. No dust-jacket.
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TOLD IN THE MARKET PLACE.
Forty Tales.
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1954. First edition, 8vo., pp.207, brown cloth; slight mustiness, light sunning to spine, else very good, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed and worn to edges, with loss to rear upper margin and head of spine.
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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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TROUBLESOME CORPES: Vampires & Revenants From Antiquity to the Present.
Southend-on-Sea: Desert Island Books, 2007. 8vo.,pp. 320, hardcover, silver lettering; a fine copy, in a fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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WOGGHEEGUY.
Australian Aboriginal Legends.
Adelaide: F.W. Preece and Sons. First edition, pp,xi,98, quarter black cloth with printed paper title label, pictorial paper-covered boards, b/w frontispiece plus 7 further b/w plates, in-text illustrations, pictorial endpapers; foxing to leaves adjacent to plates (including title), light foxing to edges, else very good indeed, in very good price-clipped dust-jacket, which is just lightly chipped to head of spine, with toning to spine, and is now in a protective cover. An attractive copy.
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