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  • THE GREEN STONE. by PHILLIPS, Graham; KEATMAN, Martin.
    PHILLIPS, Graham; KEATMAN, Martin.
    THE GREEN STONE.

    Jersey: Neville Spearman, 1983. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xv,224, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; toned to edges of text block and to margins throughout, light toning to edges of boards, otherwise a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities with light wear to corners and creasing to head and foot of spine and extremities, with light soiling and a price label to rear.

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  • THE KING'S MIRROR. by Translated by LARSON, Laurence Marcellus.
    Translated by LARSON, Laurence Marcellus.
    THE KING'S MIRROR. Speculum Regale- Konungs Skuggsja. Scandinavian Monographs Volume III.

    New York & London: The American Scandinavian Foundation and Oxford University Press, 1917. First edition, 8vo., pp.xvi,388, navy cloth, gilt; slight pencilling to endpapers, blind stamp to title reading “presentation copy”, slight ink mark to half title, slightly foxed, light toning to edges and slightly throughout, light bruising to extremities and light rubbing to boards, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.

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  • MAC CANA, Proinsias.
    THE LEARNED TALES OF MEDIEVAL IRELAND.

    Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1980. 8vo., pp.ix,159, green cloth, gilt; light toning to margins, slight rubbing to cloth, a very good copy. No 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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  • THE MABINOGION, by GUEST, Lady Charlotte.
    GUEST, Lady Charlotte.
    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 MAGICAL REVIVAL. by GRANT, Kenneth.
    GRANT, Kenneth.
    THE MAGICAL REVIVAL.

    London: Skoob Books, 1991. First edition thus, with corrections, 8vo., pp.244, black hardcover, silver lettering, b/w illustrations; toning to edges of text block and lightly to margins, light foxing to upper edge of text block, otherwise a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.

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  • DOYLE, Arthur Conan.
    THE NEW REVELATION.

    London: Hodder and Stoughton. First edition, 12mo., pp.170, black cloth, gilt; offsetting to endpapers, toning to page margins, light rubbing to extremities, a very good bright copy.

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  • DEE, John. Edited by: HALLIWELL, James Orchard.
    THE PRIVATE DIARY OF DR. JOHN DEE, And the Catalogue of his Library of Manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and Trinity College Library, Cambridge.

    London: printed for the Camden Society by John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1842. First edition, small 4to., pp.viii,102,35 (Camden Society Members List and notes), uncut, decoratively blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; light toning to margins, wear at headband, with bruising to corners and lower edge of front board, light marking to cloth, a very good copy of this scarce volume.

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  • NARAYAN, R.K. (Suggested by the Tamil Version of Kamban).
    THE RAMAYANA. A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic.

    London: Chatto and Windus, 1973. First edition, 8vo., pp.xv,171, purple hardcover, gilt, pictorial endpapers, pictorial headpieces to chapters; slight mustiness, an otherwise very good, clean copy, in vg price-clipped dust-jacket, which is lightly toned to pale paper.

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  • THE SECRET OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER: A Chinese Book of Life. by Translated and explained by, WILHELM, Richard. With a Foreword and Commentary by, JUNG, C.G. And part of the Chinese meditation text THE BOOK OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND LIFE. With a Foreword by, WILHELM, Salome.
    Translated and explained by, WILHELM, Richard. With a Foreword and Commentary by, JUNG, C.G. And part of the Chinese meditation text THE BOOK OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND LIFE. With a Foreword by, WILHELM, Salome.
    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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  • DONALDSON, Bess Allen.
    THE WILD RUE. A Study of Muhammadan Magic and Folklore in Iran.

    London: Luzac and Co. First edition, 8vo., pp.216, brown cloth lettered in dark green, 6 b/w plates (including frontispiece); light partial foxing to free endpapers, small area of sunning to head and foot of spine, light rubbing to extremities, with rubbing to upper margin of front board, in patches, and staining to upper corner of rear board for apx.4x3cms, internally fresh and very good, a good(+) copy overall, in price-clipped dust-jacket, which has chipping to extremities, with light loss at head and foot of spine, two small closed tears with light creasing to margins, good+, and now in protective cover.

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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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  • GAINSFORD, Thomas.
    VOX SPIRITUS. Or, Sir Walter Rawleigh`s Ghost.

    The Rota, University of Exeter. Facsimile reprint, 8vo., pp.(4),32, printed wrappers; small knock + light creasing to wrapper at head of spine, an o/w fine copy.

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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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  • YEATS'S GOLDEN DAWN. by MILLS HARPER, George.
    MILLS HARPER, George.
    YEATS'S GOLDEN DAWN.

    London: Macmillan Press, 1974. First edition, 8vo., pp.322, black hardcover, gilt; boards lightly dampstained, otherwise very good, in a very good price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.

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