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  • WELSFORD, Enid.
    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 FLAMING DOOR, by MERRY, Eleanor C.
    MERRY, Eleanor C.
    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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  • KEYWORTH, David.
    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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  • Translated from the Arabic by: BURTON, Captain Sir R.F. Reprinted from the original edition and edited by Leonard C. Smithers. Illustrated by Albert Letchford.
    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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  • PENZER, Norman M. Illustrated with Ten Miniatures by, ZENKER, P.
    NALA & DAMAYANTI.

    London: A.M. Philpot, 1926. Edition limited to 1000 copies for England and America, of which this is No.416, 8vo.,pp. xi,207, gold coloured boards, vellum spine, gilt lettering to spine, colour plates and colour frontispiece; light off setting to endpapers, rubbing to extremities, lightly worn at corners, light foxing to spine, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.

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  • ALFORD, Violet.
    SWORD DANCE AND DRAMA

    London: Merlin Press, 1962. First edition, 8vo., pp.222, red cloth lettered in silver, b/w frontispiece, b/w plates, folding map at rear of volume; light rubbing to extremities, slight mustiness, a very good copy, in lightly edge-worn pictorial dust-jacket.

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  • WILLIAMS, Paul V.A.
    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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  • BURNETT, Charles.
    MAGIC AND THE DIVINATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES. Texts and Techniques in the Islamic and Christian Worlds.

    Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum, 2001. 8vo.,pp. xii, 370; turquoise hardcover, gilt, b/w figures and tables; a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket.

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  • THE FOOL: His Social and Literary History. by WELSFORD, Enid.
    WELSFORD, Enid.
    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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  • O’GRADY, Standish. Illustrated by J.B. Yeats. [Jack B. Yeats]
    FINN AND HIS COMPANIONS.

    London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. 12mo., pp.xvi,182,8(adverts), decorative cloth, with matching endpapers and edges, b/w frontispiece with tissue guard, further b/w plates, decorative b/w headpieces, pictorial half title; foxing to prelims, spine lightly rolled, sunning to spine, with light wear at head- and tailbands, internally fresh, a good+ copy.

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  • Translated and set down by: CAMPBELL, C.G.
    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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  • CIKLAMINI, Marlene.
    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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  • WOOD-MARTIN, W.G.
    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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  • MEMOIRS OF BARTHOLOMEW FAIR. by MORLEY, Henry. Illustrated by The Brothers DALZIEL. Foreword by: BRAITHWAITE, David.
    MORLEY, Henry. Illustrated by The Brothers DALZIEL. Foreword by: BRAITHWAITE, David.
    MEMOIRS OF BARTHOLOMEW FAIR.

    London: Hugh Evelyn, 1973. Facsimile reprint of the 1859 edition, 8vo., pp.viii(Foreword),xx,506, red cloth, gilt, pictorial title and numerous b/w illustrations within; light crease to upper corner of front free endpaper, a fresh copy, very good indeed. No dust-jacket.

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  • WOGGHEEGUY. by Collected by: STOW, Catherine. Illustrated by: HEYSEN, Nora.
    Collected by: STOW, Catherine. Illustrated by: HEYSEN, Nora.
    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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  • TAYTAY’S TALES: by Collected by: DEHUFF, Elizabeth Willis. With illustrations by: KABOTIE, Fred; POLELONEMA, Otis.
    Collected by: DEHUFF, Elizabeth Willis. With illustrations by: KABOTIE, Fred; POLELONEMA, Otis.
    TAYTAY’S TALES: Folk-Lore of the Pueblo Indians.

    London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd, 1923. First UK edition, 8vo., pp.xiii,213, pictorial yellow cloth stamped and lettered in green, colour frontispiece and 7 further colour plates, b/w in-text illustrations; foxing to edges and endpapers, undulation to fore-margin of front free endpaper, a very good, bright copy of this scarce title.

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  • HAUGHTON, Rosemary.
    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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  • O’DONNELL, Elliott.
    GREAT THAMES MYSTERIES.

    London: Selwyn and Blount (1928) Ltd. First edition, 8vo., pp.288, cloth, gilt, 8 b/w plates; edges foxed, occasional foxing to margins of text throughout, light foxing, a very good copy. (No dust-jacket).

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  • (MABINOGION.) Loth, J
    LES MABINOGION DU LIVRE ROUGE DE HERGEST AVEC LES VARIANTES DU LIVRE BLANC DE RHYDDERCH. Traduits du gallios avec une introduction, un commentaire explicatif et des notes critiques par J. Loth.

    Paris: Fontemoing. Second edition, ‘edition entierement revue, corigee et augmentee’, 2 volumes, royal 8vo., pp.436; 478, title page in red and black, original printed wrappers at rear, attractively bound in green library buckram with morocco label to spines, a fine set.

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