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EARLY IRISH HISTORY AND MYTHOLOGY.
Dublin: The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1976. 8vo., pp.x,568, black hardcover, gilt; a near-fine copy, no dust-jacket.
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FABLES AND PROVERBS FROM THE SANSKRIT BEING THE HITOPADESA
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1885. First edition. 8vo., pp.277, hardcover; toned, a few spots of foxing to prelims, rubbed to boards, some light surface soil, else a good+ copy.
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SOME REMINISCENCES AND FOLK LORE OF DANBY PARISH AND DISTRICT.
Whitby: M.T.D. RIGG PUBLICATIONS, 1990. 8vo., pp.192, paperback; lightly rubbed to extremities, sunned to spine, else a very good copy.
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IRISH KINGS AND HIGH-KINGS.
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001. 8vo.,pp. xlvii,341, paperback, b/w illustrations and maps; light creasing to extremities, two price labels to front and rear, otherwise a very good copy.
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MYSTERY ANIMALS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
London: Robert Hale, 1986. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 224, hardcover, silver lettering, b/w illustrations; toned and foxed to edges of text block, with light foxing to endpapers and margins, spine slightly rolled, with light toning to extremities, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities, with creased tears to head and foot of spine and to upper corners, light sunning to spine and extremities, overall a very good copy, now in a protective plastic dust-jacket covering.
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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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CELTIC MYTH AND LEGEND: Poetry and Romance.
London: The Gresham Publishing Company, 1914. 8vo., pp.xiv,450, highly ornamented decorative green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., colour frontispiece with guard leaf, three further colour plates and 20 monochrome plates; ink ownership autograph, dated 1914, to front free endpaper, foxing to prelims and edges, rubbing and slight wear to extremities, darkening and mottling to fore-margins of boards, with crease and stain to rear board, overall a very good copy indeed of this attractive and richly designed edition.
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POTTS’ DISCOVERY OF WITCHES IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER. [Remains Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Vol. VI.]
New York/London: The Chetham Society, Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1968. Reprint from the 1613 original, 8vo., pp.lxxix(introduction),main body of text unpaginated,51(notes),unpaginated list of Chetham Society’s members, red hardcover, gilt; very light foxing to endpapers and fore-edge of text block, text block coming away from lower spine, lightly rubbed, a few marks to boards, larger stain to lower margin of rear board, overall a very good copy.
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DRAGONS AND DRAGON LORE
New York: Payson & Clarke Ltd, 1928. 8vo., pp. xii,203, hardcover, quarter bound in black cloth with contrasting marbled paper boards, 20 b/w illustrations; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light staining to front free endpaper where red colouring of the top edge has leached, also affecting margins of several pages, light damp staining to title page, plates and endpapers, two lines of very light scoring where pencil underlining has been rubbed out to a few pages, boards rubbed, sunned to spine, lettering faded, light wear to corners, overall a good+ copy.
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MYTHS OF THE NORSEMEN. From the Eddas and the Sagas.
London: George G. Harrap and Company, 1908. First edition, 8vo., pp.xvi,397,(i), uncut, pictorial green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, pictorial spine, t.e.g., b/w frontispiece and plates; marking to p.207 and margin of adjacent plate, light partial toning to endpapers, foxing to prelims, edges and margins throughout, rubbing and light creasing to extremities, paper-cracking to rear inner hinge (joint fine), a very good, rather bright copy.
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STORYLAND. [Children’s edition] Discover the Magical Myths and Lost Legends of Britain.
London: Wren & Rook, 2021. 8vo., pp.239, pictorial blue hardcover, copper lettering, pictorial endpapers, b/w illustrations and decorations: new, in dust-jacket. [Please note: in order to make it possible to sell titles from our extensive remainder stock online, we have added the cost of postage to our shop prices. If you are ordering multiple remainders, any excess postage charged will be refunded.] RRP £14.99
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Scottish Folk & Fairy Tales. Antholoyg of Classic Tales Epic Tales
London: Flametree Publishing, 2023. 8vo., pp. 430, hardcover, silver lettering; new. RRP £20
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STORYLAND: A NEW MYTHOLOGY OF BRITAIN.
London: Riverrun, 2021. 8vo., pp.361, black hardcover, gilt, pictorial endpapers, b/w illustrations: new, in dust-jacket. [Please note: in order to make it possible to sell titles from our extensive remainder stock online, we have added the cost of postage to our shop prices. If you are ordering multiple remainders, any excess postage charged will be refunded.]
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SPECULUM MENTIS; Or The Map of Knowledge.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1963. 8vo.,pp.327, navy cloth, gilt; light pencilling, light toning and foxing to edges of text block and endpapers, rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy, in a good price-clipped dust-jacket, which is toned to spine, with some loss to head and foot of spine and corners. Now in a protective cover.
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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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TROUBLESOME CORPSES: 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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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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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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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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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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