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THE CULT OF DRAUPADI Mythologies: From Gingee to Kuruksetra. [Two Volumes]
Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Two volumes, large 8vo., pp. xxvii,487,xix,533, navy hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; foxing to edges of text block, some light marks to boards, lightly rubbed, else a very good set, no dust-jacket.
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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 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 SECRET OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER: A Chinese Book of Life.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962. 8vo.,pp. xvi,149, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; toned and foxed to edges of text block, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed and toned to extremities, overall very good.
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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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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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WITCHCRAFT.
The Statford-Upon-Avon Library, 6.
London: Edward Arnold, 1969. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xii,407, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; light toning to margins and edges text block, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.
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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.
More details Price: £75.00