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DIGGING FOR DRACULA.
Dublin: Dracula Transylvannian Club, 1997. Limited edition, of 1000 copies, 8vo.,pp. 211, paperback, in a cased box; author’s presentation copy with inscription to title page, a near-fine copy, in a very good cased box with rubbing to extremities and slightly coming unstuck at inner hinge.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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THE ‘SOUL’ OF THE PRIMITIVE.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1965. 8vo.,pp. 351, hardcover, gilt; light toning to edges of boards, light toning to margins, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned to spine and extremities, with light rubbing and creasing to extremities.
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THE VOYAGE OF BRAN, SON OF FEBAL, TO THE LAND OF THE LIVING. An Old Irish Saga. [In Two Volumes:]
Section I. The Happy Otherworld. With an Essay upon the Irish Vision of the Happy Otherworld and the Celtic Doctrine of Rebirth (Grimm Library No.4); Section II. The Celtic Doctrine of Rebirth. With Appendices: the Transformations of Tuan Mac Cairill, the Dinnshenchas of Mag Slecht (Grimm Library No. 6).
London: David Nutt, 1898. First edition, two volumes, small 8vo., pp.xvii,331;xii,352, uncut, quarter green cloth, gilt, green paper-covered boards; toning to endpapers, ink ownership inscription (dated 1898) to half title of Volume I, spines uniformly sunned, with wear to paper covering at extremities of boards, light marking/surface soil to boards, light scuffs to spines, internally clean, a good+ set of this scarce title.
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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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