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THE BATTLE GOD OF THE VIKINGS. The First G. N. Garmonsway Memorial Lecture, delivered 29 October 1971 in the University of York. University of York Medieval Monograph Series.
York: William Sessions Ltd, 1972. 8vo., pp.33, paperback (stapled wrappers), b/w frontispiece, 14 b/w plates; very light shelf-wear, a near fine copy.
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THE FAIRY TRADITION IN BRITAIN.
London: Rider and Company, 1948. First edition, 8vo., pp.374, black hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece; very light foxing to early leaves, occasionally affecting margins of later pages in text, light foxing to edges, light rubbed, with a few surface marks, light bruises to corners of boards, gilt lettering completely faded/rubbed away, overall still a very good copy, without dust-jacket.
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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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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 GODDESSES AND GODS OF OLD EUROPE: 6500-3500 BC. Myths and Cult Images.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1996. New and updated reprint edition, 8vo.,pp. 304, paperback, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; ownership autograph to half title page, slight pencilling, slight cracking to inner hinge, all contents firm, creasing to spine and corners, overall a very good copy.
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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 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.
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